#Samsung to launch fingerprint mobile payment service Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Group, has announced that it is launching a new fingerprint mobile payment service with local payment gateway firms KG
Mobilians and KG Inicis within South korea, with global expansion planned for later. The South korean tech giant has signed also a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA), a government-backed certificate licenser,
and will later launch other authentication services based on biometrics, the company said.""Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones,
including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
which it will start test running on its in-house intranet. It will later expand it to Samsung affiliates and clients,
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activists and hackers often target a website or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt.
#Google's Bigtable goes public as a cloud managed Nosql database Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings,
Google analytics and Google search and is described by the company as designed for large ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads.
which Google's schema-less Nosql Cloud Datastore is built. Now available in beta Google Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the open-source Apache HBASE API,
making it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem, the company said.
Cloud Bigtable integrates with other Google big data products, such as messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software Bigquery."
Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."
For Bigtable you're literally going to pop into a website and the UI and you're going to say,
Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable. We know very well how to manage it."
whether it's web data or sensor data. They have these instances, they have these databases
"The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.
the same price as Google Cloud platform object storage.""That's amazing because what you have is a very hot high-performance database running on a storage tier that's the same price as slower, colder, blob-based storage,
O'connor said the role of the HBASE API in Cloud Bigtable will help reassure companies over potential fears about finding themselves locked into Google."
"For security, Google is providing replicated storage and encryption of all data in flight and at rest.
The beta is available initially in Google's central US region, Europe and APAC, with others geographies to follow."
But even after general availability, this is something that Google believes is tremendously valuable and the features will not stop before GA
#Yahoo launches password-free logins Yahoo If remembering passwords is too much of a chore, Yahoo will make them for you.
During a session at the South by Southwest festival hosted in Austin, Texas, as reported by sister site CNET,
the tech giant launched"on-demand"passwords, which takes remembering your security password to access accounts of the equation.
Yahoo's vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said during the event that the service is the"first step to eliminating passwords."
"Available now in the US, on-demand passwords work by users first logging into their Yahoo accounts normally.
While Casey said the service was designed after Yahoo put itself"in the shoes of the people using our products"
which is slowly being adopted by web services worldwide. Two-step verification services rely not only on the traditional password--which is often easily crackable,
or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,
Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
developed by Yahoo and Google after the Edward Snowden US National security agency (NSA) revelations. While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,
the tech giant has been forced to backtrack on its decision across the board due to compatibility and performance issues in older devices.
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."
TRU-D's system analyzes the variables of the room and floods the space (both line-of-site and shadowed spaces) with the proper dose of UV LIGHT energy.
and simultaneously uploads the information to the hospital's web portal, meaning it integrates well into a new health care paradigm centering around data collection and analysis."With rising issues around health care-associated infections,
#Google shuffles leadership structure with new CEO, Alphabet company Google made waves on Monday afternoon with the surprise announcement of a new CEO and leadership structure.
First, Google's product chief Sundar Pichai has been promoted to the top gig at the Internet giant, replacing cofounder Larry page as CEO.
or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
"We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations,
and is the core of how we index with Google search, "Page exclaimed.""We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark),
"Google crafted Alphabet to both consolidate and scale its multiple businesses, according to the 8-K form.
Basically, the top leaders of Google have shifted over to the new Alphabet leadership structure, with some overlaps.
For example, the 8-K noted Porat will also be CFO at Google. Other product leadership roles will remain the same, such as Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity. All Google shares will automatically convert into the same number of shares for Alphabet with all of the same rights.
However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Pichai is slated to takeover the company when the deal goes through. Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.
But the decision to promote Pichai is perhaps the least surprising bit of news in all of this as his status at the tech behemoth has risen dramatically in the last two years.
Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,
who then moved elsewhere within Google to work on more innovative, moonshot-like projects. He was promoted eventually to oversee Google's entire product portfolio, encompassing Google maps, research, search, commerce and ads and infrastructure on top of his prior existing duties.
Page highlighted the recent launches of Google Now and Google Photos as examples of Pichai's success during his tenure thus far."
"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google
and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations, "Page wrote.
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
as well as incubators tied to Google Ventures and Capital. Acknowledging that the entire shift overall--let alone the new name--might be asserted puzzling,
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
IBM will also create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVS) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing,
With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but, like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use.
and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits cracks open
#Computerized surveillance system quickly detects disease outbreaks among preschoolers A web-based system that allows preschools
To assess the durability of this intervention the researchers followed antibiotic prescribing across intervention and control sites after termination of audit and feedback.
We've already learned that the histone proteins found at the sites of genes can be modified chemically with a variety of small chemical tags that either promote
The research team carefully selected 30 different grassland sites--three of which are used already for small-scale bioenergy production--and 11 cornfields in southern Wisconsin.
The team found that the presence of grasslands within one kilometer of the study sites also helped boost bird species diversity and bird density in the area.
But the rash persisted and a few years later a rare form of skin cancer known as Marjolin's ulcer developed at the surgical site.
The researchers showed that contact allergy brings inflammatory cells and molecules to the site of the allergic reaction.
and molecules become active at the site of the reaction. The new mix of cells and molecules promotes the development of skin tumors.
Using a technique known as Chia-PET the researchers focused on how these proteins interact. y knowing which of the Cohesin/CTCF bound sites are coming together in physical proximity we started to go from a linear view of the genome to sets of looping interactions
Guan notes that the site-specific analytical capabilities of this technique should give researchers finer control over selective surface vaporization of alloying elements for enhanced, high-tech applications."
Researchers noted that stricter guidelines for exit site management wound care and antibiotic therapy could reduce that risk in future studies.
and divide and could reveal binding sites for future cancer drugs. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research London and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge produced the first detailed images of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C). The APC/C
The new study could identify binding sites for potential cancer drugs. Each of the APC/C's subunits bond
His group sampled the waters in dozens of sites from New york to northwestern Minnesota; they found 83 sites that were infested.
The scientists checked out Lakes Michigan Superior and many interior lakes and lingered two years in Voyageurs national park on Minnesota's border with Canada to examine Bythotrephes'long-term effect on the native zooplankton.
and that excites the quartz tuning fork.""The tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
and Google Inc. for support of this work through a Google research grant. The University of California has filed a patent on the method and applications of frequency-referenced carriers for compensation of nonlinear impairments in transmission.
A travel website article that provides step-by-step instructions for using the buses there is longer than most blog posts.
Nanjing, China implemented a social media program that engaged more than two-million people for the 2014 Youth Olympic games.
###Kevin Ebi is a staff writer and social media coordinator for the Council. Follow@smartccouncil on Twitter.
More resources issecting ISO 37120: Gimme shelter, please! The homeless challenge cities facehow technology is helping cities help their homelessdata sharing helps NYC improve health and human services deliver d
use social media, work with police and get help from the general public. The digital guide is the outcome of O'Keeffe's collaboration with Studio Thick
The MPAN guide has proven so effective that the police are now directing the public to the site.
This action-oriented site helps apartment owners and renters implement energy efficiency in their shared property with templates
Before creating the site, the Melbourne studio conducted design research among the user group which included in depth interviews and mapping the user journey,
Tech brings project filing mentality to email For now, at least, email remains one of the most widely methods of business collaboration and communication--for sharing business intelligence in its truest form.
But, oh, the pain of keeping it organized over time and over multiple projects. Addition of search tools and folders,
Enter Recommind's Decisiv Email, an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that manages messages from a collaborative perspective.
Decisiv Email offers more than a carbon-copy of what's going on it works behind-the-scenes to analyze
That's what makes Decisiv email different from the rules that you can add to your individual email system.
whether or not you were copied on the email. How automatic that tagging process winds up being is up to your individual organization:
to make sure that critical emails are accessible to all important personnel, mainly for operational purposes but also useful from a compliance standpoint.
said the idea behind Decisiv Email is to help make it simpler for organizations to find
A tool like Decisiv Email will definitely make you think twice about what you write in an email or about
"Everything that you send in corporate email will be available for people to see if it is relevant for the business,
Nearly a quarter-million KI doses (pictured) have been amassed by evacuation centers near the site. But while those guard against the long-term risks of thyroid cancer linked with chronic radiation exposure
GE's trailer-mounted gas turbine delivers on-site power using field gas at a well site in Alberta s
and what still needs to be done Can the social networking wave that is emerging help bring about more responsive government organizations?
Social networking provides governments with a new paradigm: knowledge release rather than knowledge control. This Government 2. 0 approach can harness government knowledge to improve results.#(PDF white paper available from Freebalance.
Government 2. 0 enabled through social networking tools provides benefits such as reduced cost of engagement through more productive tools and processes, simplified knowledge creation and retention though usable applications, easier knowledge sharing,
To help government better take advantage of social networking technologies, Grant Thornton suggests that government organizations better incorporate design thinking#(Government 2. 0 mindset) as a supplement to management thinking#(Government 1. 0 mindset).
#Change Management in the Web 2. 0 era is more peer-to-peer, viral#change is pulled by participating constituents, employees, customers.#
and now there's a website to find nearby 3d printers for quick turnaround on printing jobs. makexyz. com is a simple website that allows anyone with a 3d printer to rent out their services to anyone with printing needs.
The site shows all the 3d printing options nearby with the cheapest showing up first with all the details of the printer.
I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
#Which city is getting Google's ultrafast Internet? Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
After some speculation, Google officially announced today that Austin would indeed become the second metropolitan area to get the service after the company first built up the infrastructure in Kansas city and surrounding communities,
where homes are already enjoying Internet speeds that are 100 times faster than the average broadband service.
Google will offer the same service to Austin as it does for Kansas city residents. They have the option for gigabit Internet
or a combination package that includes Google Fiber TV. Slower Internet service is also available with no monthly fees
only a onetime installation charge. Google plans to begin installing the service in Austin homes next year.
Public institutions will also get connected to the super-fast Internet free of charge. And while it is developed only fully in one city
and planned for another, the Wall street journal says cable companies have reason to be worried. By offering Google Fiber,
which costs $120 a month for high-speed Internet and TV and $70 a month for just Internet, the company may show cable operators it can work around them, if needed.
It could also get Google greater say in future industry regulation including issues of net neutrality,
or the idea Internet providers should treat all data equally. Also among Google Fiber's offerings is slower Internet access that is free after a $300 fee.
With an aspirational service, Google could be trying to demonstrate how the Internet would look in an ideal, consumer-focused, world.
At least one other company is up for Google's challenge. Not long after the Google announcement, AT&T also announced an investment in a gigabit network in Austin.
Why are drawn these companies to Austin? It s a mecca for creativity and entrepreneurialism, with thriving artistic and tech communities,
as well as the University of Texas and its new medical research hospital, Google said in a statement.
We re sure these folks will do amazing things with gigabit access. Google Prepares for Fiber Warfare Wall street journal Photo:
Flickr/atmtx Related on Smartplanet: Silicon Prairie: Google broadband spurs Kansas city startup village Silicon Prairie now prime startup territory Can Kansas city transform into#Silicon Prairie?
Google Fiber: the big gigabit reveal and what it means New theory on Google s fiber experiment-a utility revolutio t
#White house launches nationwide broadband testbed The White house made two big announcements yesterday in an effort to boost broadband development in the United states. The first was an executive order by President Barak Obama calling
on federal agencies to simplify the process for allowing private companies to lay new network infrastructure.
With a dig once approach, the executive order also aims to help carriers conduct broadband deployments in conjunction with other road construction projects.
This strategy will purportedly reduce deployment costs by up to 90 percent. The second White house announcement was the launch of U s. Ignite.
U s. Ignite is a new nonprofit public/private partnership convened to help bring together network providers
software developers, and Internet users to create next-generation broadband applications. The partnership includes 25 cities around the country,
Not surprisingly, among the regions hoping to pilot U s. Ignite efforts are some of our favorite gigabit sites,
However, long-time broadband reporter and analyst Om Malik says he's feeling a little blase about the news. He notes out that many of the best inventions (Youtube
Facebook, Twitter) come from turning resources over to everyday users, rather than directing them toward big, possibly unwieldy partnerships.
#Who will control the Internet?(Who will pay for it? And you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad.
Representatives of more than 190 governments, telecommunications companies and Internet groups will gather in Dubai next week for the 12-day World Conference on International Telecommunications,
the future of the largely free and open Internet we enjoy today. The last time this group assembled was 1988,
when the consumer Internet was nascent at best. Today, the Internet is the backbone for economies, connected technologies of all kinds and free speech.
The many stakeholders that will be in attendance are scheduled to discuss the future of Internet services, specifically around how they are paid for.
Who will pay to maintain the Internet as traffic continues to surge? What about razor-thin margins in Europe?
And what of network neutrality, when many U s. companies enjoy monopolies in their markets?)But the elephant in the room is the potential for one major player--Russia,
some suggest--to insist on changing the fundamental oversight of the Internet, thus possibly threatening its unfettered, decentralized, apolitical growth with censorship and regulation.
Member states,#Russia proposed, shall have equal rights to manage the Internet, including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of Internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources.#
#It's no different than China or Iran, both of whom limit Internet access in their countries.
Fundamentally, the Internet is the world's first global infrastructure problem, no different than a city's public transit system or a nation's network of highways:
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#Who will fill the Google Reader vacuum? Google Reader retires next week, and the Great RSS Gold rush of 2013 is reaching fever pitch.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports. An RSS reader pulls in feeds of articles from various websites. Created six years ago,
Google Reader had taken over the market. When the company announced the decision to power down Reader,
they gave two reasons: usage has declined, and they want to pour all their energy into fewer products.
For Google, RSS was small beans. Reader had several million followers, but the company is focused on obvious markets that serve hundreds of millions of people,#according to Reader creator Chris Wetherell.
This is a perfect way to avoid the risk of creating entirely new markets which often go through a painful not yet-serving-hundreds-of-millions period and
#Some might interpret the fact that one of the Internet s largest, richest companies abandoned this idea as a red flag.
which are quickly developing their own readers to fill the Google Reader vacuum. It s not that they believe everyone wants to immerse themselves in an endless sea of headlines.
and distilling down any pile of Internet content, big or small, into the things that are most interesting or important to you.#
Social sites like Linkedin and Facebook are building news products. And for an increasingly large portion of internet users, Twitter is personalized a news wire.
With Google out of the way, RSS might finally develop to its full potential. Via Businessweek Image:
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#Who wins in the battle of genome sequencers? Desktop sequencers promise to democratize genomics, but it s difficult for researchers who aren t experts in sequencing technology to sort through the overheated marketing claims made in this fiercely competitive industry.
people looking for comparisons have had to depend on blog posts, which can be useful but hard to find,
Mirror image Internet is using geolocation to help retailers get smarter with mobile advertising, allowing them to serve up coupons for items that customers might be near in an aisle,
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
880m euros'worth of wind power orders since July Google invests $75 million in U s. wind far r
#Why more U s. companies are generating their own power From technology companies like Google and Apple powering their data centers with solar panels
Ross Mason, founder and vice president of Mulesoft, outlined in a recent webcast how the rise of the API economy can be considered to be second digital revolution.
#Why people need robot journalism in the Google era Kristian Hammond quit artificial intelligence 10 years ago,
who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
it enriches their websites without taking people away from more traditional tasks. People are hungry for genuine content.
and launched, Docstoc. com. Docstoc has quickly become the web s largest destination for sharing
I love this site. In fact when setting up my own LLC I followed the post on Jason s blog entitled 10 Incredibly Awesome Docs to help you Start a Company.
So with some success under his belt and new innovations in the world of Docstoc,
and is likely one of the fastest growing sites on the web. Over 11mm unique visitors a month use the site
and we recently launched our Docstore, the premier marketplace to buy and sell documents online. How can we participate?
In addition we work with partners like Legalzoom who sell their content through our site. What has taught Docstoc you about consumers and their needs?
On the publishing side, there are so many potential contributors that need a platform to share their documents both on our site
and to embed on their own websites and blogs. On the other hand, we get hundreds of thousands of downloads each month,
so obviously there is a very compelling need to find valuable professional documents fast and easy.
The huge advantage of launching businesses on the web is that you can get instant feedback
and spend way too much money before they get their web product online. As a rule of thumb, don t spend more than 3-6 months building your web product before you put some version of it online,
even if it s just a beta of a private demo. Let your users guide where the product development needs to come from.
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