Videogame maker Sega developed a mass-market head-tracking VR system and showed it to reporters and industry representatives with great fanfare at the 1993 winter Consumer electronics Show.
Unfortunately, among other issues, testers reportedly developed headaches and motion sickness using the headset and the system was shelved quietly.
watching movies or television, texting and working while on autopilot should suffer the most motion sickness,
and orienting seats and displays so that riders are facing forward. Mercedes-benz recently showed a prototype driverless car that featured deeply tinted windows
Those who run electricity systems can now apply algorithms to tell operators which units to run
and Midwest regions says that it has approved hundreds of upgrades and additions that will entail $24 billion of new capital in the coming years.
which is joint venture among NRG ENERGY, Google and Brightsource energy. That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
Traditional software implementations are just not capable of pushing seamless updates in near real-time like cloud-based EHRS can.
Further, some cloud-based EHR providers also wrap ancillary business-and information-services around the software,
and attention to ongoing quantifiable personal data, such as fitness, diet, and sleep-quality. Imagine a diabetics biochip detecting blood glucose levels within personalized parameters,
Patient-centric devices beyond just smartphones or even watches will help not only awarenes, but more importantly personal control of health.
For providers, the Holy grail of big data analytics will be at the point of care through data-enrichment,
whereby algorithms and other powerful digital technologies become an essential tool in the doctor's toolkit.
#Nokia Buys Alcatel-lucent For $16. 6 Billion Nokia has pushed boldly ahead with its ambition to become one of the world leading network equipment makers after buying French peer Alcatel-lucent for $16. 6 billion (15.6 billion euros),
The combined company will be called Nokia Corporation and be headquartered in Finland, maintaining research and development centers in the U s.,France, Germany and China.
Nokia offer price represents a fully-diluted premium of 34%on Alcatel share price. The two companies expect the deal to close in the first half of 2016
Having sold its mobile handset division to Microsoft last year for $7. 2 billion, Nokia has focused since primarily itself on network equipment manufacturing,
mapping-and-location services and patent licensing. By picking up Alcatel-lucent, with its 52,000-strong workforce, Nokia said its new addressable market was 50%larger,
increasing to 130 billion euros from 84 billion euros. ith more than 40 000 R&d employees and spend of 4. 7 billion euros in R&d in 2014,
the combined company will be in a position to accelerate development of future technologies including 5g,
IP and software-defined networking, cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging, Nokia said in a press release Wednesday. lcatel-Lucent
and Nokia have highly complementary portfolios and geographies, with particular strength in the United states, China, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
In addition to using some of the proceeds from its mobile-handset business sale for the deal,
Nokia confirmed today that it was reviewing strategic options including the divestment of its HERE business, worth 2 billion euros according to Bloomberg B
#EU Formally Accuses Google Of Market Abuse, Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
accusing it of market dominance in web searches, particularly around online shopping. It also opened a formal investigation into
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
said Margarethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. he Statement of Objection is not the end.
Wel take in the response of Google and decide how to proceed. Wee not here to take the side of rivals.
Google wrangle with the EU over search results has been going on for five years, but the formal Statement of Objections is a landmark step.
who was criticized by some for not taking a stronger stance with Google. Almunia was replaced by Vestager late last year.
The design of the screen that meets you is an innovative process. I think it would be better to find something based on principle.
The next step is for Google to formally answer the EU Statement of Objection, which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
who filed their complaints with the EU back in 2010. If Google and the Commission cannot reach a settlement
and the case reaches the European High court, it could not only drag on for several more years
but see Google fined 10%of its annual revenues. At 2014 levels that would be $6. 6 billion.
Some might argue that Google as a private company should have the freedom to organize search results how it wants
to favor it in your algorithm by not giving it the same treatment as other services,
who added that she considered Google to be lose to a monopoly. Google sent a memo to its employees yesterday showing charts from Comscore and its own internet analytics
saying the Statement of Objections was isappointing news. But, it added, e have a very strong case. t
#EU v. Google: What Each Side Is Saying The European union on Wednesday formally accused Google of abusing its dominant power in web search in violation of antitrust laws.
The action is potentially the most significant antitrust case in the tech industry since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
and could lead to years of legal wrangling. It could force Google to pay billions in fines
or to alter the way it presents search results. Specifically, the European commission said that Google's GOOGL+0. 35%promotion of its own comparison shopping search function may rtificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services
and hinder their ability to compete on the market. The commission which has been investigating Google search practices for about 5 years, detailed its concerns, known as a Statement of Objections,
on Google comparison shopping service here. The accusations did not extend to other areas of search,
like reviews and travel that Google rivals like Yelp YELP+3. 14 %and Tripadvisor TRIP+0. 57%had complained about.
But the EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, also opened a formal investigation into whether Google has violated European antitrust laws with its Android operating system and related mobile services.
The commission said it is concerned that Google may have hindered market access to rival mobile apps by pushing Android phone makers to pre-install its suite of mobile services
which include search, maps, Google Drive and the Play store. It also said it is concerned Google may have hindered market access to makers of modified versions of Android.
The commission full concerns on Android are detailed here. Google put out a vigorous defense. In a blog post, Google search chief Amit Singhal said that people have more search choices today than ever before,
and that competition among shopping search engines is thriving. ndeed if you look at shoppingn area where we have seen a lot of complaints
and where the European commission has focused in its Statement of Objectionst clear that (a) there a ton of competition (including from Amazon and ebay EBAY+0. 58%,
%two of the biggest shopping sites in the world) and (b) Google shopping results have not the harmed the competition,
Singhal wrote. In a separate blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, an engineering vice president for Android, rebutted the commission concerns regarding Google mobile operating system. ndroid has been a key player in spurring this competition and choice, lowering
prices and increasing choice for everyone, Lockheimer wrote. Google will now has 10 weeks to respond to the commissions charges.
The commission will then evaluate those responses and potentially recommend remedies e
#Tencent Scores#1 On China Brand Ranking, Next Global? Chinese tech companies are becoming more adept at marketing
and brand image, and will become better known in the West as their products and services go global.
An annual survey of brand value has Chinese companies outpacing global counterparts when it comes to improvements in getting their messages out into the marketplace
and creating a positive buzz. Social messaging company Tencent takes the lead in this year survey of top 100 most valuable Chinese brands by ad agency WPP
What interesting is to see Tencent and Alibaba overtaking long-time leader and state-owned China Mobile.
This year, three of this year top five are oriented consumer Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. The brand rankings are compiled by analysis of financial data of publicly traded companies and interviews with consumers.
How long will it be before Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi makes this list? As Chinese companies improve their marketing strategies,
the gap between Chinese brands and multinational brands in China is also narrowing. The survey finds that consumers increasingly see little difference between the two,
#IKEA Releases New Furniture Collection, Promises Better Living Through Wireless Power It tempting to dismiss IKEA new embrace of furniture that will charge your phone as a gimmick.
In fact, thousands of hours of observational research argues that it will. e know that people are attached at the hip to their smartphones,
The hallmark of the Wireless Charging Collection is built-in wireless charging. The line includes a bed-loft combo
IKEA transmitters will work with the Samsung galaxy S6, and are compatible with any phone that includes Qi wireless charging technology.
You may need to activate it in the settings. iphones can be used with a special case that IKEA sells.
And if IKEA furniture doesn appeal to you, but the idea of embedded wireless charging does,
IKEA sells both an embeddable charger ($29. 99) and a special circular saw ($4. 99) you need to install it yourself.
while her smartphone lies cradled on a small shelf attached to a reading lamp in easy reach.
IKEA may be wrong about the benefits of wireless charging, and its new furniture line could be a flop.
the retailer is positioned uniquely to bring wireless charging to as many people as possible at the lowest possible price.
#Can Apple And IBM Change Health care? Five Big Questions Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM new Watson headquarters in Manhattan swank Silicon Alley, IBM IBM and Apple Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post,
which is among other things the largest health-and life-insurance company in Japan, to start a project that will provide ipads to millions of senior citizens with the aim of improving their health and their lives.
The project will help Japan Post, which already has a massive Big data-style collection of health care information,
and convenience that come with iphone and ipad. It my vision to enrich their lives. Apple and IBM chief executives Tim cook and Ginni Rometty were both present at the press conference,
emphasizing its importance to both firms. ombined with Japan post we are going to build a service that not only can all be proud of
said Cook, looking down occasionally at an ipad on his lap. Added Rometty: oday is about re-imagining life for what is the largest generation that has been in human history.
These workers will bring the senior citizen an ipad, and sit with them and teach them how to use a suite of IBM-designed applications focused around the areas of health, family, and community.
The app will remind patients to take their medicines (the fictional anecdote used by IBM executives to explain that used a woman who kept forgetting her blood pressure medicine
which would put her at risk for a stroke), but also allow them to Facetime with family
but the Japan Post effort differs in its scale Nishimuro said that the plan was to roll this out to millions and in its reliance on Apple and IBM technology.
The customers won pay for the ipad, although there may be a nominal fee for the service,
an IBM spokesman said. There will be a limited roll out, and testing for functionality, before the project can move full tilt.
That depends on whether patients can really be sure that a company they trust (like Apple) can protect their data from one they probably don (any company in U s. health care.
The data will be in a secure cloud. Rometty said that customers will opt in or out of having their personal details known,
or providing data in an anonymized fashion. believe that discussion of privacy and convenience is a tradeoff individuals make all the time,
Can you prove that ipads actually help people stay healthy? The idea behind this project is that it will help senior citizens remain independent and healthy for longer,
In the fictional case study IBM used to explain this effort to the press, the patient high blood pressure would mean that getting her to take her medicine more often would improve her life.
Obviously, Japan Post will be collecting huge amounts of data that, with IBM analytics, it will use to try to learn about how to keep people healthy.
But will these companies be able to prove that giving a grandmother an ipad can save her life?
It wasn clear what kind of data collection IBM, Apple, and Japan Post will be doing to prove that this works.
Studies taken from insurance databases are considered generally less reliable than experiments where people are randomly getting an invention,
Hopefully, Japan Post will be able to compare people who got ipads at different times to see
Apple and IBM say they are trying out a huge number of pilot studies, including one related to home health care that is being done by Express Scripts Express Scripts.
IBM and Apple deserve huge congratulations for the way they are taking on the problem of improving health care for seniors especially
a tendency to talk a lot about how great the gadgets and apps they were developing are without much data about
whether or not they actually improve health. It very possible, maybe even likely, that an ipad giveaway program, paired with the right apps, could make senior citizens with chronic health problems healthier and more independent.
But it not a foregone conclusion, and it deserves a more reasoned approach. Apple and IBM are moving into new territory here,
and theye going to have to do something that is always hard for anyone, but that both companies have excelled at over the years.
#Long term Investors Should Prefer Facebook to Google Last week saw another slew of quarterly earnings releases.
which support owning Google or Facebook. Google prices keep dropping, even as growth slows in oremarket Google once again reported higher sales and profits.
And that is a good thing. But, once again, the price of Google primary product declined. Revenues increased because volume gains exceeded the price decline
which indicates that the market for internet ads keeps growing. But this makes 15 straight quarters of price declines for Google.
Due to this long series of small declines, the average price of Google ads (cost per click) has declined 70%*since Q3 2011!
While this is a miraculous example of what economists call demand elasticity, one has to wonder how long growth will continue to outpace price degradation.
At some point the marginal growth in demand may not equal the marginal decline in pricing. Should that happen, revenues will start going down rather than up.
which allows Google to place more ads in more specific locations for advertisers via such automated products as Admob, Adexchange and Doubleclick Bid Manager.
But such computerized ad buying relies on ever more content going onto the web as well as ever more consumption by internet users.
Further, Google revenues are almost entirely search-based advertising, a category Google dominates. But this is largely a PC-related sale.
Today 67.5%of Google ad revenue is from PC searches, while only 32.5%is from mobile searches.
Due to this revenue skew, and the fact that people do more mobile interaction via apps, messaging apps and social media than browser,
search ad growth has fallen considerably. What was a 24%year over year growth rate in Q1 2012 has dropped to more like 15%for the last 8 quarters.
So while the market today is growing and Google is making more money, it is possible to see that growth is slowing.
And Google efforts to create mobile ad sales outside of search have failed largely, as witnessed by the recent death of Google+as competition for Twitter or Facebook.
It is the market shift to mobile which creates the greatest threat to Google ability to grow;
certainly at historical rates. Simultaneously, Facebook announcements showed just how strongly it is continuing to dominate both social media and mobile,
and thus generate higher revenues and profits with outstanding growth. The#1 site for social media and messenger apps is Facebook, by quite a large margin.
But, Facebook 2014 acquisition of Whatapp is now#2. Whatsapp has doubled its monthly active users (MAUS) just since the acquisition,
and now reaches 800million. Growth is clearly accelerating, as this is from a standing start in 2011.
Facebook Messenger is#3, just behind Whatsapp. And#5 is Instagram another Facebook acquisition. Altogether 4 of the top 5 sites,
and the ones with greatest growth on mobile, are Facebook. And they total over 3billion MAUS,
growing at over 300million new MAUS/month. Thus Facebook has emerged already as the dominant force, with the most users, in the fast-growing, accelerating, mobile and app sectors.
Just as Google did in internet search a decade ago, beating out companies like Yahoo, Ask jeeves, etc.
Facebook is monetizing its market leadership position Google is moving rapidly to monetize this user base.
From nothing in early 2012, Facebook mobile revenue is now $2. 5b/quarter and represents 67%of global revenue (the inverse of Google revenues.)
Further, Facebook is now taking its own programmatic ad buying tool, Atlas, to advertisers in direct competition with Google.
Only Atlas places ads on both social media and internet browser pages a one-two marketing punch Google has cracked not yet.
Google $17. 3b Q1 2015 revenue is 30 times the revenue of Facebook. There is no doubt Google is growing,
and generating enormous profits. But, for long-term investors, growth is slowing and there is reason to be concerned about the long term growth prospects of Google as the market shifts toward both social and mobile.
Google has failed to build any substantial revenues outside of search and has had some notable failures recently outside its core markets (Google+and Google glass.
Just how long Google will continue growing, and just how fast the market will shift is unclear.
Technology markets have shown the ability to shift a lot faster than many people expected, leaving some painful losers in their wake (Dell, HP, Sun microsystems, Yahoo, etc.
Meanwhile, Facebook is positioned squarely as the leader, without much competition, in the next wave of market growth.
Facebook is monetizing all things social and mobile at a rapid clip, and wisely using acquisitions to increase its strength.
As these markets continue on their well established trends it is hard to be anything other than significantly optimistic for Facebook long-term.*
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#Court Rules Cops Don't need A Warrant To Get Your Cellphone Records A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the public has no reasonable expectation of privacy
when it comes to their cell phone location records. Cops don need a search warrant to get access to cell tower location records
when investigating criminal cases because this information belongs to a third party, according to the ruling. The case centered on Miami resident Quartavious Davis,
who was convicted of robbery, possession of a firearm, and conspiracy in 2012 after investigators obtained 67 days of Daviscell phone records from Metropcs1,
606 records in total. Davis was sentenced to 162 years in prison. The case was appealed to the 11th U s. Circuit court of appeals on the grounds that Davisfourth Amendment rights were violated.
On Wednesday, the court ruled with a 9-2 vote that the overnment obtaining of a court order for the product of Metropcs business records did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
The ruling stated that even though the cell tower records concerned Davis, they did not belong to him
because they were created by a third party. Therefore, Davis did not have a right to privacy around that information.
The ruling also argued that the public knows that cell towers are used to onnect calls
Because the public is aware that they can be tracked through their cell phones, the ruling argues that people should have no reasonable right to expect privacy around those records.
The ruling also compared cell phone location data to surveillance tapes in stores, saying that hose surveillance camera images show Davis location at the precise location of the robbery,
Using the example of information Google GOOGL-1. 71%collects from its usershich includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, credit card data, online history, devices used,
and locationhe dissent argued that all of this information could be considered third-party data in the future, meaning that Google users wouldn have a right to privacy around that data.
The dissent continued, nd why stop there? Nearly every website collects information about what we do
when we visit. So now, under the majority rule, the Fourth Amendment allows the government to know from Youtube. com what we watch,
or Facebook. com what we post or whom we riend, or Amazon com AMZN-0. 38%what we buy,
or Wikipedia. com what we research, or Match. com whom we datell without a warrant.
A few concurring judges also offered caution about the implications of the case. his case is certainly about the present,
but it is also potentially about the future, Judge Jordan wrote. have some concerns about the government being able to conduct 24/7 electronic tracking (live
Rosembaum described the idea that the government could collect a wide range of third-party data without a warrant as othing less than chilling.
In a statement on Tuesday, ACLU staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler noted that other courts of appeal are grappling with the question of cell phone location tracking
hile individual customers would be able to capture backup-power benefits of storage, they are not likely to directly monetize the larger grid-wide and wholesale power market benefits.
GMP corporate spokesperson, told me in an email. Schnure couldn say how big or small those promised savings will be:
a Southern California Edison spokesman told me via email, ut as prices decline for energy storage,
Some lithium-ion batteries used to back up data servers are designed to cycle up to 10,000 times.
¢he me via Twitter. Even at twice that price, he said, grid-level batteries offer utilities a return on investment now:
Existing software companies are adapting and news ones are being born to address the specific needs of this new sector.
The low hanging fruit was the copy cat web design for internet cannabis sites based on already popular traditional internet sites.
there isn a one size fits all software program on the market. Plus, the most unique challenge that faced many software designers was seed the to sale tracking that several states require.
Franwell didn start out as a marijuana software company. It had 20 years of fresh fruit and berry tracking experience.
Another customer told them that Colorado was taking bids on supply chain tracking for marijuana
She said the state made 14 software changes in the first six months. As they look to working with more states,
adjusting the software to each state particular regulations becomes a challenge. t would be great to have standardized tracking,
and Microsoft have not decided to jump in as of yet. MJ Freeway was created out of necessity.
and was tasked with choosing the software. That when she and cofounder Amy Poinsett decided they needed to create a platform that tracked every gram of marijuana and every dollar.
They both came from the computer space. Now they have 1 000 licenses in 19 states.
so we built our own software for seed to sale tracking, said Bierman. He said the problem with the cannabis tech companies is a lack of access to institutional money.
either get bought out for their databases or fail. not being negative, just realistic. When Yelp decides to get in, it over for Weedmaps.
The banking transaction works in coordination with the seed to sale software so that the product and purchase match up.
if Microsoft wants to play and will kiosks be needed if Bank of america decides cannabis won get them in trouble with the Feds.
#Goodbye iphone Bulge: This Technology Reduces Lenses To The Thickness Of A Credit card A team of scientists at the Harvard School of engineering
Taking the iphone 6 as an example, the rear isight camera uses five individual lens elements stacked on top of each other,
resulting in a thick lens module which creates the familiar protruding lens bulge at the back of the phone t
#Whatsapp For ios Will Receive Voice Calling Feature In A few Weeks Whatsapp the instant messaging app that Facebook acquired for $19 billion last year hit 700 million monthly active users
At the Facebook f8 conference this week, Whatsapp cofounder Brian Acton said that the ios version of the messaging app will gain the highly anticipated free voice calling feature within the next few weeks, according to Venturebeat.
Whatsapp spent the last year refining the voice calling feature before it launched on Android last month.
Whatsapp voice calling feature on Android is limited on an invite-only basis as of right now
and holding the microphone icon above the keyboard. The new voice calling feature will let you make phone calls to your contacts,
meaning Whatsapp will become more competitive against Skype. Whatsapp revealed it will be adding voice calling to its app over a year ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Whatsapp cofounder Jan Koum also said at the Mobile World Congress event that mobile phones will be sold in Germany with the Whatsapp brand.
Whatsapp launched a desktop client service called Whatsapp Web. The desktop version of Whatsapp only works for Android, Windows phone, Blackberry and Nokia S60 devices right now though.
Hopefully, Whatsapp Web will support ios devices soon. If you have a jailbroken iphone, then you can already access the voice calling feature on Whatsapp.
To use the voice calling feature on Whatsapp with a jailbroken iphone, you can follow these instructions that Thefusejoplin. com provided:
1.)You will need to install Appsyn and download the latest Whatsapp BETA version. Then you have to add the cydia. angelxwind. net and apt. imokhles. com repository on the Cydia sources. 2.)Download the latest version of the Whatsapp beta application and Whatsapp Call Enabler.
You have to make sure that Whatsapp Call Enabler is activated in the settings. 3.)After voice calls are activated,
you will need to have someone call you through Whatsapp and restart your iphone. Why did Facebook acquire Whatsapp?
During a keynote at Mobile World Congress last year, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg said that the acquisition was linked to his vision for Internet. org.
Internet. org is an initiative to bring the Internet people who do not have access
since two-thirds of the world is connected not. The amount that Facebook paid for Whatsapp was particularly interesting
because the messaging app is far from profitable. Whatsapp lost $230 million in the first half of last year on revenues of approximately $15 million, reported The Wall street journal
. While Facebook generates most of its revenues from advertising, Whatsapp charges 99 cents per year for a subscription after one year of free service.
However, Koum acknowledged that Whatsapp scaled back efforts to generate revenue following the acquisition i
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