Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones and satellites to provide internet connectivity to remote corners of the world where installing internet cables is especially difficult.
The same types of systems would be useful in disaster situations to get large areas back online quickly.
#Why the Internet of things just became very interesting The Internet of things (Iot) computing phase is the next industrial revolution, according to experts.
a focus on shareholder positioning will help us better understand where we are in the Iot cycle
and how positioning Iot into a company s story just became that much more pressing. Early and trending higher inviting companies to talk about Iot Technologists have predicted long a Jetsons-like connected world
but their conjectures have been proven premature. To better understand why, we decided to analyze the timing of the current Iot trend, focusing on growth manager positioning,
to glean clues as to when long-term tech investors place their respective bets. By integrating a basket of public Iot semiconductor companies (highlighted by Goldman sachs;
note: Making S-E-N-s-E of the next mega-trend) with Google Trends data containing the phraseiot,
we see that an obvious inflection point does not occur until Q4 13 (see Exhibit 1 below).
After six consecutive quarters of net asset outflows by growth managers, those firms have started finally to buy into the Iot theme.
During the Q4 13 inflection point, Google Trends data traversed from a prolonged period of stagnation to rapid ascension.
For the first time in two years, companies looking to explore Iot now have the wind at their backs.
Public Market Not Ready for Iot Though still in its early stages, Iot remains a tough space for public investors to gain exposure, especially to
Further highlighting the early-cycle Iot thesis, Goldman sachs describes it well in their Internet of things Volume 2 note:
Like the mobile revolution, Iot will create new companies and new categories. The importance of Iot expands beyondpure play enablers as the market begins to take shape
{and} continues to evolve; we expect a similar ecosystem of software vendors to develop. Despite the limited public pure-play Iot options, firms are exhibiting their bullishness towards publicly available layers.
To classify a firm s bullishness, we analyzed recent buying trends, net capital allocation to Iot plays,
and portfolio concentration towards the Iot basket. Of the firms we deem to be increasingly bullish,
a total of $3. 9b has been poured into select Iot names over the trailing three quarters,
demonstrating that these investors see potential in Iot. What Iot says about broader technology market trends The Iot market is young in two senses of the word:
managers are just beginning to allocate capital, and Iot is undeveloped in that it has downfalls, specifically due to its investable limitations.
These limits to gaining exposure drive a broader shift in technology investing. We believe that Iot acts as a microcosm for a larger market themetraditional investors are now looking beyond the public markets to play technology trends.
Looking at private market funding for Gartner s high value layers, we see that investors are flooding into the Iot private company ecosystem with $1. 1b deployed into relevant startups in 2013.
It is with this understanding that we arrive at our original point: public investors are venturing beyond the confines of public markets.
As we have seen in recent late stage funding rounds by Uber, Snapchat, and Dropbox, private companies are able to stay private longer.
Effects on Communication with Investors By examining the Internet of things investment landscape, we collide directly with a market phenomenon currently under way traditional, public capital crossing over from public to private markets.
The number of competitors for Iot investable dollars just grew exponentially, and as such, getting ahead of the pack just became ever more important.
Teacherless classroom Frey says he was approached once by Google to collaborate on a project to deliver educational resources to Africa.
For example, in the wake of Facebook s purchase of Oculus Rift, the amount of job postings for virtual reality designers skyrocketed,
and all sorts of Google earth overlays. GM, meanwhile, is revamping their previously 2g Onstar system to take advantage of the new data possibilities.
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
The smartshoes sync up with a smartphone#app#that uses Google maps and vibrate to tell users
as well as AME Cloud Ventures, the venture fund of Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, to further develop its proprietary chemistry and finance the batteries commercial launch.
Mcor s Director of Marketing tells 3dprint. com. Staples, Gunma Internet, Vincennes University, WH Williams/Williams 3d,
More details on Mcor can be found on their#website where they have made available a free#White paper,
About ten years after the commercial debut of the Internet, America s newspapers posted record high advertising sales of $49. 4 billion in 2005.
While newspaper publishers are continuing to gain audience at their web and mobile sites, their interactive efforts typically trail the level of engagement achieved by many native digital media.
By contrast, Facebook alone attracts 166.5 million uniques per month. Here is the big difference:
While the typical visitor spends#1. 1 minutes#at a newspaper site, the average dwell time at Facebook,
the super-sticky social network, is nearly half an hour. Weekday print circulation dropped 47%from an average of 54.6 million papers a day in 2004 to an average of 29.1 million papers per day in 2014,
according to my analysis of a random sample of data from the Alliance for Audited Media. Sunday circulation in the same period fared somewhat better,
I compiled the current data at Yahoo Finance. One major consequence of the industry-wide contraction is that newsroom staffing dived by 31%from 54,700 journalists in 2002 to 38,000 in 2012,
because corrupt politicians threaten innovation and a fair Internet. We have no protection for network neutrality because of the enormous influence of cable company s money in the political system
The Internet of things is growing larger. Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones,
and will also wirelessly connect to the internet to provide location-based information, like air quality data.
and designed by three female engineers working with the MIT Media Lab spinoff startup Changing environments, according to Yahoo Tech.
one of the three inventors of the Soofa, told Yahoo Tech. One trait we have is we run around with our phones all the time,
and New york too, Yahoo Tech says. Via Business Insider Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat t
#Banking with startups a growing trend Majority of the people in the U s. could bebanking with startups in the next three to five years.
(and other startups) by adopting a model that has been used by many other successful tech companies, like#ebay#and#Amazon, for example.
Companies like Intuit, ebay/Paypal, Mint. com started the ball rolling when it comes to disintermediation,
and even Amazon and Groupon are playing thedisintermediator and are putting credit card processing in the hands of SMBS (small and medium businesses) and consumers.
Rather than consumers being forced to go to their banks websites, their utility company s website and so on,
and a digital currency of record could become the micropayment system for the web, allowing publications, for example,
As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
#Google announces Google Drive for Work with unlimited storage for businesses Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month
Google just announced a new product that will offer business users unlimited storage for a set monthly fee per user.#
##Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month and come with unlimited storage, as well as a full license for Gmail and Google Apps.
It s a huge change for Google, which previously had a maximum storage limit of 30gb per user for Google Apps,
with extra storage tiers starting at $1. 99 per month for 100gb and going up to 30tb for $300(!)
per month. No more. Now every user will have unlimited storage, with no catches. Google is also increasing the maximum file size to 5tb larger than the largest hard drive on any PC available today.
I asked Google Drive product manager Scott Johnston what type of file could possibly run into the previous 1tb limit,
and he suggested high-defintion video (like 4k from a Gopro camera) or exceptionally large data files the kind of files usually stored on servers.
The move to unlimited storage was inevitable Box CEO Aaron Levie predicted this day on Twitter#back in March
Johnston told me that Google absolutely intends to offer feature parity between mobile and web,
and web close significantly, Johnston told me. We ll march in lockstop with Android and ios
Johnston also emphasized that Drive is not exclusively for Google Apps customers, but will be catered to all companies,
Google is also addressing some longstanding complaints with Google Apps and Office file compatibility by integrating Quickoffice, acquired more than a year ago, into the suite.
Now, users will be able to edit Microsoft-formatted files directly within Google Apps without converting them to Google s file formats.
but Google Apps director of product management Ryan Tabone promises that round-tripping will be more reliable in these cases.
Google Apps is also getting revision tracking and commenting, another long-overdue feature inherited from Quickoffice.
In addition to making storage size irrelevant, Google is also offering features designed to reassure IT managers who might be nervous about moving files to the cloud,
On the security front, Google will offer encryption at rest on its servers. In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers,
Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise. The Apps suite has been pretty static for the last couple of years,
and it seemed that Larry page was satisfied to keep the product around as a decent side business (advertising still makes up 90%of Google s more than $40 billion in annual revenue) and a thorn in Microsoft s side,
but didn t think of it as a core part of Google s larger strategy. Today s announcements,
show in fact that Google won t cede any part of its enterprise cloud business to newcomers. You shouldn t expect Google to get into verticals like CRM or HR management,
but as far as broad-based infrastructure and horizontal Saas offerings go, Google is in the enterprise game to stay.
Photo credit: Cruxial CIO Via Cite World Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat d
#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers
The site also reported that Oak ridge is considering processing 3d printed objects after they are printed
highly customized modules that will go into Google s Project Ara phones, 3d Systems turned to an old concept:
but even the largest units would have trouble keeping up with the volume of phones Google expects to need.
Blinding lasers Desert Wolf s website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets
the Defence Web news site has published a photo of the drone after it was unveiled at a security trade show near Johannesburg in May.
Guy Martin, the editor of Defence Web, said he believed the drone was unique. The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the#Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes in a#Youtube#video#how patient-focused technology improves medicine.
and many websites provide free medical advice; and even TV ads often disclose critical data.
Futurist Marshall Brain in his#Robotic Freedom Blog#agrees with the idea. America should create a $25, 000 annual stipend for every U s. adult,
since the Internet exploded into our lives in the mid-1990##s. We now go into a store to figure out what we want to buy only to go home
which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.
and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma. We need to take
and experience, wrote#Linkedin cofounder Reid Hoffman. Last year, on stage with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun#announced#a new consortium of businesses, the Open education Alliance,
Continuing, the blog explains, Our early nanodegrees will prepare you for a job as a front-end web developer,
back-end web developer, ios mobile developer, Android mobile developer, or data analyst. The first nanodegree will start this fall.
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
#Google buys startup Skybox Imaging for $500 million Google#will use Skybox s satellite-photo tech to improve Google maps.
Google is buying the startup, Skybox Imaging, a company that specializes in photos taken by satellites, for $500 million.#
Google#said#the buyout will help bolster Google maps by keeping the service accurate with up-to-date images.
The acquisition will give Google the ability to design and build its own fleet of satellites.
and disaster relief areas Google has long been interested in, Google said in a statement. The deal comes as big tech companies have become more interested in aerial technology including satellites
and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
In March, the company#announced#a new lab dedicated to developing that technology. The effort is in line with the mission of CEO Mark Zuckerberg s Internet. org
which aims to bring the Web to everyone in the world. Skybox and Google share more than just a ZIP CODE,
reads a#blog post#by Skybox, which, like Google, is based in Mountain view, Calif. We both believe in making information (especially accurate geospatial information) accessible and useful.
Google maps itself got its start after Google#acquired#another satellite imaging company, Keyhole, a decade ago.
Skybox in November#launched#Skysat-1, a satellite capable of taking 90-second videos at 30 frames per second.
The satellite was to be the first of a fleet of 24 launched to capture views of Tokyo;
Bangkok; Baltimore; Las vegas; and Aleppo, Syria. Google hasn indicated t if the rest of the launches will remain on schedule after the startup joins the company.
We ve asked Skybox for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
Though people have for some time been speculating about Google s interest in Skybox, Tuesday s announcement pegged the deal at half the price of the#rumored $1 billion#that had originally been reported.
Google also warned that the price tag could be adjusted and that the deal is subject to approval by regulators.
But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
Via Dvice Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/itdwwvannx4& rel=0&
showinfo=0, vvq-118846-youtube-1, 425,355, 9, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes) v
#Denver crime rate falls over 10%after pot legalization despite dire predictions The most dramatic decrease was in the number of homicides.
for backing up renewable power sites, for electronic devices and for industry and defense. Via World Future Society Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat o
Via Singularity Hub Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/Vblaznxchfg&
showinfo=0, vvq-118647-youtube-1, 425,355, 9, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes) s
#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts. If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
which was quickly moving to a web-based approach, business software was sold still in boxes.
and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
there are millions of social media posts, customers filling out comment cards, mentions in mass media and on blog posts.
For a large enterprise, a keyword search would turn up thousands of hits per day. It simply not possible for a human to read it all but now machines can.
So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover.
but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That a real game changer. One thing is clear.
that will grow exponentially over the coming decades much like an Internet of things in space. It has the potential not only to continuously deliver limitless amounts of solar energy to markets On earth,
as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
there is an easy-to-use app or web-based money transfer service. Here in the UK, our challenger bank Virgin Money are disrupting that idea with stunning free lounges,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
Video) efore today, you had to go to our website or app to give us your flight information.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later. After that, you have to give Airhelp the rights to handle the claims,
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
Some details about the evolution of the project over the last few years can be seen on our Glove Project Blog.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
According to THECB website, students arriving ith no prior college credits should be able to complete the degree program in three years at a total cost of $13, 000 to $15, 000.
#Facebook and Google are drooling over drone companies Last month it seemed as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace
and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world. It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,
rather than Facebook, would connect the ext billioninternet users. Today that picture is opaque at best.
Google not Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta.
And an answer to the question of how exactly the two Silicon valley giants will leverage their new technology?
Still elusive. What is clear is that while delivering connectivity to far-flung parts of the globe is advantageous for both Facebook and Google,
the race to acquire unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, technology is about much more. Exactly what, well, that more difficult to discern. ou definitely have to look at it as part of a broader business strategy,
says Mark Bünger, research director at Lux Research. he two of them are shooting for the strategic high ground here Amazon is obviously doing this, too.
For Facebook, the incentive is simple: catch up. Rival Google has been developing a means to provide Internet connectivity to remote regions of the world for years now through Project Loon,
which uses Internet hubs suspended from high-flying balloons to provide bandwidth to areas of New zealand that are wired off the grid.
Facebook isn breaking new ground by getting into commercialized drone technology, Bünger says, just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition,
and a bunch of other stuff that surprising if you think of them as a search engine company which hopefully nobody does anymore,
Facebook knows that if it wants to remain a major presence in the emerging Internet of things, it will need to extend beyond software and into hardware.
Drones are one means of doing so. UAS are also a means of bypassing mobile carriers,
which have given Facebook some trouble in parts of the developing world, particularly where the company has attempted to negotiate ero-ratedeals that allow customers to use some of Facebook offerings without it counting against their data plans.
If Facebook does follow through with its ambitious plans to connect the next billion people through Facebook-owned Internet drones
Facebook can not only bypass mobile carriers that don want to play ball, but also push those new users toward Facebook offerings like its recently acquired messaging app Whatapp.
But one oft-overlooked area where UAS technology could really be a boon for Facebook is in data moving the other direction.
Right now, Facebook owns mountains of data on its users, but relatively little on the parts of the world that aren connected already to Facebook.
Comparatively, Google acquisitions and exclusive deals with third parties provide it with everything from the rich trove of geospatial data that powers Google maps to the energy use
and living habits of those using its Nest smart home technology, providing a far more robust picture of the world
and a wider range of services it can provide. With a fleet of UAS in the sky, Facebook could begin gathering its own proprietary geospatial data, aerial imagery, traffic data,
meteorological data information that it could then integrate into new products or sell to companies that need it,
much like Google does and other companies threaten to do, at least with regard to drones. or Facebook and Google and those guys,
they know they need a toehold in this space, Bünger says. here are a hundred other areas like that where theye having to compete now to get a toehold in the technology,
and they can really know right now what theye going to use it for. Nobody really knows.
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
The terms of Google purchase of Titan haven yet been disclosed, but whatever the final figure, it will likely be worth it.
both of these drone acquisitions by Facebook and Google; a lot of this technology that has to do with wearables;
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011