Over a period of 25 years, between 1955 and 1980, more than 50 corporations left New york city, including IBM, Gulf Oil, Texaco, Union carbide, General Telephone, Xerox, Pepsico and U s. Tobacco.
Corporate giants like Motorola, Coca-cola and Yahoo have made well-publicized moves toward downtown Chicago, Atlanta and San francisco (respectively) to attract
is a design element in everything from Android phones to car steering wheels. Because the technology is currently relatively primitive in the mass market,
it mainly used for more day-to-day purposes like simulating the feel of a tactile keyboard on a smartphone
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#Tesla motors#Destination Charging#:#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.
The Destination Charging network Youl find these charging locations on Tesla website listed as Charging Partners.
and even mobile phone stores. In the U s.,Wall Connectors are showing up at well-known names like Costco, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Best western, and Westin.
the company sells the contraption on its website for $650. And the installation of a 240-volt circuit isn expensive probably no more than $3, 000 and as little as $500.
I do with my phone? It in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. ave you seen someone like that?
She said an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture and rewind when they do not understand something.
then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
That immediately triggered a call to his mobile phone. his is how the system is expected to work,
#Wave and Paymobile Phone Payment system Launched in the UK Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new uick Tappayment technology.
Like the abolition of the £1 note or the introduction of the £2 coin, yesterday was a historic day for British money.
Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.
That not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything, from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
It down to the fact that this new mobile-based method is quick simpler and crucially, more secure than anything wee got available at the moment.
Barclaycard has quietly been rolling out so-called ontactlesspayment systems across the UK for several years
With a mobile phone data connection, however, all transactions can be authorised and completed instantly. In due course, transactions over £15 will be permitted
if a pin is entered on the mobile phone. That, too, is more secure than the traditional keypad.
however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
Even though the ear-field communicationstechnology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food children meals.
Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a group that focuses on Internet marketing to children, said the F. T. C. proposal had broader implications. he youth obesity issue has placed all
who in some stores can wave a smartphone above an apple or orange and learn instantly where it was grown,
consumers could tap into through their computers or cellphones. The ne step forward, one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food
Shoppers can scan the sticker with a smartphone or go to the Harvestmark website and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken
and other information the farmer chooses to share, such as the harvest date. here been a very rapid sea change in consumer behavior,
said Elliott Grant, the chief marketing officer for Harvestmark. ith very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones,
use e-mail or have Internet service. Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons.
or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark. One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.
The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting
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#Edible batteries could power smart medicine pills A flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.
Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10k, so who needs an investor? Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.
Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product
build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.
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#Scientists create robotic muscle that is 1, 000 times more powerful than human muscles A robotic muscle 1,
as researchers at the US Department of energy s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found, the Lab s website#reported.
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#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.
#The cyborg future of telemarketing While a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
it may not be a conversation between two humans. In the future humans will interact with each other, and machines,
His phone rings. It s a telemarketer for a home security service.####This is Richard, how are you today?##
#Because while a human is picking up the phone, and a human is dialing the phone,
this is not,#strictly speaking, a conversation between two humans. Instead, a call-center worker in Utah or the Philippines is pressing buttons on a computer, playing through a marketing pitch without actually speaking.
Here are two samples Avatar provides on its website,##Dale Harris##from the US and##Samantha##from Australia:
On the Internet, no one may know you re a dog, but on the phone? It just#seems#wrong.
What good could spring from a bunch of conversations in which one member is ventriloquizing through a machine?
Then I checked my Twitter account and favorited several tweets. I retweeted a couple, too.
In an email, Ugarte ticked off the reasons for using voice technology. 1. Accent##some of our agents though can speak English really well have problems with their accents
and maintains several other prominent social media presences. He likes to post photos from his childhood on Facebook,
along with portraits of himself in drag. I asked him, over email, to tell me what the experience of working at a soundboard call center is like.
How do people feel about it?####Based on feedbacks and observations, working on a Non-Voice company such as Perfect pitch is fun not to mention that there is less stress on the part of the reps,
##Their Youtube channel shows them#holding an#American Idol-style competition to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
and the southern paper-mill plant managers that I managed to get on the phone were swayed not by my lispy, northwestern English.#
when they hear a voice on the phone, it matches up exactly with a person in the world,
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#Hawaii s solar boom is so successful it s been blocked from further expansion Rooftop solar on a house in Hawaii.
The new HECO policy was included deep in the text of emails the Walkers solar contractor had sent,
We, the searchable In Mid-january,#Facebook introduced Graph Search, a way for the average user to tap into the social network s web of interconnected human intelligence.
Instead, Facebook automated the process of querying its users relationships with one another, their tastes and everything else with a##public##setting.
In April Facebook#introduced##partner categories, ###letting advertisers target users not only on the basis of their##likes##on the site,
but also by correlating that with data about what they buy through other web services.####OK, now I m convinced Facebook is#trying#to be creepy,
##my colleague Derrick Harris#wrote. Limited glimpses Publicly posted information is one thing, but what about private posts and communications?
Most people were aware that law enforcement agencies and governments ordered web companies to give up data on individuals of interest,
but the scale of this trend has always been difficult to nail down. On this front, Google has led always the way,
and the January 2013 edition of its semiannual Transparency Report showed the numbers of such requests had increased 70 percent between 2009 and 2012.
Facebook said at the time that it had#no plans#to release such information to the public
However, while Google covered itself with more glory than most on this aspect of transparency,
The company was fined by a German privacy regulator#for the 2010 siphoning of people s passwords and communications by Google s Street view cars.
the unification of Google s disparate services represented an attempt to do new and serious things with people s information without true permission,
A lot of people were unhappy about Google search and Maps##and Google+##knowing about their Youtube commenting habits.
However, although European privacy laws are significantly stronger than those in the U s a February survey showed that#Americans are nearly as keen as Europeans on protecting their online privacy.
The Ovum study also demonstrated an overwhelming lack of trust in internet companies honesty about data protection;
Google said Glass would gain the same functionality, which also became a feature of the#Moto X#smartphone.
Apps#got in on the act. All listening, all the time. Glass wasn t the only wearable computer with eavesdropping potential.
Britain s#Guardian newspaper#ran a story alleging that the U s. carrier Verizon was handing over call records to the National security agency, America s signals intelligence operation.
Many don t recognize that our digital data##from cell phones, connected devices and our social media profiles##combined with powerful computing
and analytics can create detailed histories of our lives, our habits and our actions.####The next story was even more explosive.
It alleged that the NSA had#direct access to the servers#of the big U s. tech firms, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.
and transmitted through American web services. As well they might. While Snowden had ignited a#debate in the U s.#about the constitutional protections that U s. citizens were supposed to be enjoying in their home country,
With the advent of the web, that data-gathering activity took on new dimensions. And now we knew about it.#
Slow clarity Early surveys#showed most Americans#weren bothered t that#about the NSA recording their cellphone metadata.
It can also involve knocking on the door of Google or Facebook. Even without the firepower that can be brought to a targeted investigation
A U s. federal judge has taken this view#in relation to the Verizon metadata. There are at least a few recorded cases of NSA employees using their power tostalk crushes
but the trust system that governs web security has#integral flaws that need addressing. As the closures of#Lavabit and the Silent Mail service#showed,
Google, Microsoft, Apple and others appeared utterly complicit with the NSA, as though they were happily inviting them into their data centers for a look around,
Knowing that, many of the big web companies were scarcely encrypting the data they held in storage, let alone the connections between their data centers.
the likes of Facebook and#Apple#are now a whole lot more keen about#transparency when it comes to government data requests, perhaps in order torescue their public image.
and Germany s big telcos to consider the merits of keeping local-to-local internet traffic#within their borders.
This has led to fears of a##balkanization##of the web, with unpleasant censorship potential. However, the web s globally interconnected nature makes this a tall order at best.
What does look set to happen is a legal and technical reinforcement of online privacy. The United nations is#working on a resolution#affirming that human rights apply online as well as offline,
and on the technical side the web may soon beencrypted by default. But what of the tech firms
whose services have been hijacked so successfully by the NSA and its partners? Facebook is still quietly doing
what it can to#stop users from protecting their privacy. And Google, which delighted privacy advocates in July by releasing an Android feature called#App Ops#that made it possible to turn off specific tracking functionalities in individual apps,
pulled that feature in a later Android update, claiming it had been included by accident. The online ad industry is also doing its best to ensure everyone remains trackable.
a browser feature that s supposed to dissuade websites from tracking internet use with cookies.
whereby#smart trashcans scoop up identifying information#from passing smartphone users, and retail chain Tesco started#scanning customers faces#as they stand in line to pay.
Sure, many suspected and some knew that the internet is a giant monitoring system, but anyone paying the slightest bit of attention must now realize that everything they do online
##and increasingly offline too##is enabled open to tech surveillance. Anyone carrying a mobile device should now understand that they are being tracked constantly.
Can we create popular internet business models that don t make the user a well-described product?
The innovations will bring the power of the Web right to where the shopper can touch it.
The Web can make sales associates smarter, and augmented reality can deliver more information to the store shelves.
where IBM researchers are working with#a crowdsourcing toolthat people can use to report accessibility problems, via their mobile phones,
We could access the Internet control electronics, and make phone calls, with just our thoughts. In addition, we would understand complicated subjects;
#Will the Internet of Thing replace the web? Apple stores can already pinpoint your location with unprecedented accuracy. 2014 will be the year that the##internet of things###that effort to remotely control every object on earth##becomes visible in our everyday lives.
In this way, the internet of things will become more central to society than the internet#as we know it today.#
#The web will#survive, just as email survived the arrival of the web. But its role will be reduced to that of a language for displaying content on screens,
which are likely to be more ubiquitous but less necessary. Here s a closer look at the internet of things that s already here,
The internet of things will create a world of##invisible buttons##The#pioneer species#of the internet of things is the smartphone.
For example,#every time we take a smartphone with us in a car, it beams information on our location and speed to Google.
That smartphones gather traffic data without their users ever being aware that they re doing
so shows how the internet of things replaces the internet-related actions we already know##click a button,
and whatever other data Google and other companies have about us, leads to what#Amber Case, a researcher for mapping company Esri,#calls##invisible buttons.##
a smartphone##moves into that physical space. It could be as small as a two-inch square on top of a conventional credit card reader,
such as the time of day, our previous actions, the actions of others or what Google knows about our calendar,
That we currently need a cell phone to act as a proximity sensor is just an artifact of where the technology is at present.
The same can be accomplished with any number of other internet-connected sensors. GE and Quirky s motion, sound, light, temperature and humidity sensor#
internet-connected smart energy systems can figure out you re home the moment you switch on a light.
which allows any newer iphone or Android phone to#know its position in space with centimeter precision.
which shows that Apple is trying to dominate a technology that could become ubiquitous across phones.
This means invisible spatial buttons that could be so small that touching your smartphone smartwatch or other equipped device to a surface will allow you to press that##button.##
once the internet knows that we re present and what our intentions might be. For example, a smart home might know
##Invisible buttons and other contextual information about you will allow the internet to do more than facilitate your needs.
#Google Now#is a good example of the potential of this technology. As long as you opt in, Google has access to every meaningful store of explicit data about yourself you create##email, contacts, calendars,
social media##and plenty of implicit ones as well, like your web-browsing history.##Adding location and other physical inputs#to that data allows Google Now to do everything from sending youhyperlocal news items targeted to the precise neighborhood in
which you live#to offering information about the television show#you re watching at that exact moment.
So what s required for more companies to tap into anticipatory computing? There are companies that specialize in reality mining,
Wearable computers will connected keep us at all times The next layer of the internet of things will require combining disparate streams of data##mined##from reality##everything from your location to the members of your social network.
##Esri s#Case said at last year s Le Web conference.####If you have to be a data scientist to do it, then it s totally wrong.##
the internet of things will replace the internet, but not by giving us another way to explicitly tell computers what we want.
the internet-connected devices around us will react automatically, and their representations in the cloud will be updated accordingly.
And maybe we ve recently posted on social media about a tragedy that befell us. Text alerts are sent out to friends,
and body with the internet, this is good news . But if you were hoping that in the future,
getting away from it all would be as simple as#switching off your mobile phone, you re in for a rude surprise.
#Google s new robot army Wildcat Google has purchased Boston Dynamics, the#lab of scientists#behind some of the most awesomely scary robots you have seen ever.
The deal gave Google an army of jaw-droppingly capable robots that can walk, run,
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#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,
wanted to test his#solar-powered, sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do.
So he shipped the 200-plus-pound contraption to Cairo, Egypt, flew there himself, and haggled with officials for two days to get it out of customs.
A few small##tips##and 11 hours of driving later, he finally made it to the Sahara.
But soon the mercury hit 104 degrees his components nearly overheated, and he was forced to improvise.##
but Norway has taken the extra step of making agreements with many publishers to allow anyone with a Norway IP ADDRESS to access copyrighted material.
is wading into the wearable computing market, revealing a new#developer#kit that, unlike#Google s Glass, offers full augmented reality support.
but where Google s headset has a small display-block suspended in the corner, the entire right lens of the Lumus wearable is in fact a 640 x 480 display.
That means developers building apps for the Android-powered headset can overlay graphics directly on top of the real-world view
##Lumus might not be the household name that Google is, but it has some history in#wearable#displays.
##It is possible that there will be a cyber attack on a site supplying the daily needs of Israeli citizens;
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#UPS researching drones to compete with Amazon Prime Air UPS researching delivery drones. Amazon made headlines
By wearing Google glass or other Internet-connected goggles with cameras, they could get clues to the reactions of the people with
#Powerup 3. 0 A paper airplane controlled by your smartphone Powerup 3. 0 Scientists have spent so much time making amazing airplanes,
Basically, Powerup 3. 0 allows you to control a paper airplane with your smartphone. Exactly what we ve all been waiting for ever
so turn on your iphone and go nuts controlling your paper airplane. The battery charges via mini USB and lasts for 10 minutes of continuous flight.
tilt your iphone in the direction you d like the paper plane to head. Real talk for a moment:
It s somewhat depressing that we re now controlling our paper airplanes with iphones. I feel like
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#Volocopter VC200 18-rotor electric helicopter takes flight Volocopter VC200 Greener transportation options have become a priority in the modern world.
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#Computer analyzes images to teach itself common sense At Carnegie mellon University computers are running a program that analyze images to learn common sense.
##The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie mellon University in the United states. The work is being funded by the US Department of defense s Office of Naval Research and Google.
##CEO Travis Kalanick said in a blog post#that Uber is experiencing increased demand in existing markets,
Half of the mass is the motor, a commercially available component about the size of the vibrator in a phone.
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#Scientists create electrode that lets you taste virtual food on your tongue The same research team is also working on a digital lollipop.
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#Project Ara: Motorola And 3d Systems will 3d-print modular cell phones 3d printed modular cell phone.
Motorola announced last month a plan for a modular smartphone.##Project Ara will be a simple way for users to individualize their phones,
swapping out parts like the battery and camera until users have#a phone that s#just for them.
They plan on doing that with 3-D printing.####The company has inked a deal#with 3d Systems, a global 3-D printing manufacturing company,
to help produce parts of the phone. Assuming the projectstill officially in developmenttakes off, 3d Systems would be#a##multi-year###production partner, making smartphone##enclosures and modules##for the Google-owned phone company.
There s#reason to be skeptical#of modular phone technology, but Project Ara does get a pedigree boost#from former DARPA director and now-Google exec Regina Dugan,
and having the weight of a big tech company behind it doesn t hurt. Motorola says they ll be releasing more details on the project in the coming months.
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