it no longer enough to have just a website, no matter how informative it may be. Today, companies are fielding their own mobile apps
so that customers can have constant connection. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2016, use of mobile apps will exceed Internet access to domain names.
Unlike complex on-premise systems that are costly and disruptive to upgrade, cloud solutions are updated typically on a frequent basis. As report formats change
Plants monitor production in real time using sensors that feed quality and performance data to dashboards in real time.
New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire
That people-centric radar has to be recalibrated to work across an interconnected range of social media channels and multiple platforms,
which makes software for human resources departments. The system delivers notifications about when employees might be getting ready to quit,
VMWARE senior director for worldwide human resources information systems, said at a Workday conference in September. The tool gave VMWARE"a very high percentage"of accurate predictions for
because the technology underpinning it is based on machine learning bag of advanced statistical techniques that lets companies lay out complex problems,
Machine learning has been available in one form or another for decades, but its commercial uses have traditionally been the exclusive domain of the richest,
data-stuffed companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix. Finally, younger tech companies, including Airbnb,
"In the past five years, because of the steady advance of computers and storage and so on, everybody has sufficient data,
we all have the same magic that Google has.""Box, a file storage provider that's expected to go public next year,
Box has been testing this with the company's own legal department to figure out which files may contain confidential information that would require extra precautions with how they're stored and shared.
Similar to the Workday system, Box legal team had to train the DLOOP software to improve the recommendations.
Computer predictions aren just about making office life a little more pleasant. Airbnb uses a variation of these algorithms to predict which renters
and guests would be the best fit. The room-rental site says the technology has improved matches by 4 percent.
Airbnb is currently developing a system to look at the photos of homes uploaded to the site
and figure out how ttractivethey are to customers. e are trying to promote listings with more attractive images,
had joined the startup from Netflix and Facebook. Sabah had discovered that the same techniques Netflix uses to recommend movies with the familiarity you'd expect from a clued-in friend could be used to determine what going on inside of a company."
but the techniques and the algorithms and the tools are general, Sabah says. By combining company data on employee hiring, promotions, relocations, compensation, employee satisfaction surveys, managerial decisions and job cuts with public data sets like the standard of living in the region and workforce demand for certain skills,
To train the software companies must look back on worker-retention predictions and give the software an electronic pat on the head for ones it got it right
and a virtual swat with a newspaper for those it got wrong. The system learns over time how each company works and,
Bob Pasker, a technologist who helped define how the computer industry architects the modern cloud, expects these kinds of machine-learning applications to soon become ubiquitous.
"This is what the computer industry does, "Pasker says.""We take hard problems that have been solved by scientists and turn them into tools for regular human beings. t
algorithms. The U k. government has overhauled the way it teaches computing to the country's children by adding mandatory programming classes.
After taking advice from the likes of Microsoft and Google, officials were convinced that the state-school curriculum was out of step with modern-day technical standards.
The old system emphasized word processing and spreadsheets, but not much else. The government now wants the nation's kids to not only consume technology
but to build it instead of just playing computer games, they might create them one day. To prevent the youngest pupils from turning into zombies in front of screens
much of the initial learning takes place outside of the computer lab. Five-year-olds will play abstract games
and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,
teachers will guide them on how to use two or more programming languages. All of this is compulsory.
That makes the U k. the first G20 nation to put computer science at the heart of its curriculum."
"These are certainly the biggest changes that have been made to the way the subject has been taught, says John Partridge, a computing teacher in Nottinghamshire, U k. specially for the younger children."
"The U s. has managed to cultivate a tech mecca in Silicon valley in spite of its public-school system. Because the country invented many of the technologies that are the foundation for today's hottest industry,
it's a magnet for the world's sharpest and most ambitious. But the popularity of computing at U s. high schools has been on the slide in recent years.
In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.
Like many developed nations the U k. is facing a tech-talent crunch, and the radical retooling of its educational system is a recognition that the problem is likely to persist for many years.
Custom websites and mobile apps are now a must-have for companies in virtually every sector,
while research firm Gartner projects there will be 30 times as many physical devices connected to the Internet by 2020."
"Programming is infiltrating loads of different traditional areas, says Rachel Swidenbank, Codecademy's head of U k. operations."
which, following a review of computing in its schools around the turn of the century, developed one of the world most rigorous computer-science curricula for high schoolers.
The U k. commitment to teaching the basics of programming from a young age is bold,
Or perhaps the nine years of force-fed algorithms and coding will scare them away forever."
whether the changes to the curriculum will enhance the attractiveness of a career in computing to children,
and discrimination but that isn the reason the Israeli Arabs aren trying out entrepreneurship in high tech,
Arab-speaking Internet market, Peres said in an e-mailed statement. Takwin's investments will focus on mobile, Internet and media technologies,
where t is easy to accelerate a startup from zero to impressive in a year to a year
Arabic-language users are the sixth largest community on the Internet and could move into fourth place as early as next year,
There are more than 350 million Arabic-speaking mobile users and more than 120 million Internet users in 22 countries
#Bloomberg the Company Daniela Perdomo credits the absence of basic communication services after superstorm Sandy for inspiring Gotenna Inc. a do-it-yourself wireless network that can carry text
messages to Androids and Apple iphones. Perdomo 29 a Sao paulo native and Tufts University grad started Gotenna in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her brother Jorge in March 2013.
She spent the months after the storm bouncing her idea for a low-fi communications network off telecom
That led to a prototype cigar-sized antenna that connects phones via public unlicensed airwaves.
and the service operates independently from cellular or Wi-fi networks. The signal range is anywhere from 50 miles to several blocks depending on interference.``
Some of the uses for the point-to-point communication include outdoor adventurers who travel beyond the reach of cellular networks concertgoers who want to coordinate locations
``If you put enough of those niche users together you could get to a critical mass in a city''O'Donnell said.``
According to a study listed in the Federal reserve website, at the end of 2011, roughly 62 percent of U s. hundred dollar bills were in circulation outside the United states
The panel allocated 49 million shekels ($14 million) a year to execute the program.""China is Israel largest trading partner in Asia,
Samsung Electronics sent out a press release last week saying its gadgets had been chosen for a technology buildout at Swiss Federal Railways.
Starting this month the South korean giant will begin to supply 30000 mobile devices to Switzerland's state-owned rail company.
Shortly after Apple introduced ios 6 in September 2012 with a redesigned clock app on the ipad SBB said the software infringed a trademarked design created in 1944.
By the time ios 7 came out in 2013 The swiss clock was gone. The history wasn't mentioned in Samsung's press release
A new trial kicked off on March 31 in Silicon valley where Apple is accusing Samsung of copying its designs for the iphone and ipad.
Swiss Railways will use a smattering of Samsung gadgets#the Galaxy Note 3 Galaxy S4 Galaxy S4 Mini
Designed for use on PCS or mobile devices, 4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."
"4ltr Press Online uses a two-pathway approach to learning to include the pedagogy of a printed textbook and the concept mapping and functionality of an Internet search engine,"according to a news release."
"The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines, which can point them to inaccurate resources,
and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results, allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals.
#UCLA Researchers Develop Device To Turn Smartphones into Fluorescence Microscopes Researchers at the University of California,
lightweight device that allows users to turn a smartphone into a fluorescence microscope capable of imaging objects 1, 000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
a miniature dovetail stage and a laser diode that excites the fluorescently labeled DNA molecules"for the demonstration.
An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled
The results can be seen on both the smartphone and external computers connected to the UCLA servers.
The device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."
#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.
in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users,"according to a news release. As a result of the integration, single sign-on will be easier for institutions using both Moodle
The integration will also allow"instructors to easily embed interactive online lessons created in Powerpoint with Office Mix through an open format standard,"according to information released by the companies."
""We are thrilled to be able to work with Microsoft to integrate Moodle with the Office 365 platform.
With the Office 365 plugins for Moodle, Microsoft continues to demonstrate its commitment to open source software
Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community
and Analytics Center, is teaming up with IBM and Brocade to add computing capabilities in its Software Defined Networking Innovation Lab. The lab works on projects that enable data center operators to control operations more efficiently between the physical and virtual networks.
The college is bringing in IBM's Cloud Orchestrator an interface that reduces the work involved in managing public, private and hybrid clouds in the areas of configuration, provisioning and deployment of services.
IBM is a sponsor for the SDN lab at Marist. The institution is also adding Brocade's Vyatta 5400 vrouter,
a virtual router that provides routing and security functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments."
"Partnering with Brocade and IBM gives students an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research and learn how the rise of cloud computing is changing
what is happening on the network, "said Robert Cannistra, a Marist lecturer of computer science and IT."
"The network is critical to the cloud. We are ensuring the proficiency of students by providing them access to the latest networking technology skills due to the rise of cloud models,
"IBM noted that as clients"embrace cloud computing, "they're using software defined networking and virtualization of network functions to"lower their networking costs,
improve agility and offer differentiated services.""By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures,
"said Marisa Viveros, vice president in IBM's global telecommunications industry division. The collaboration, she said in a prepared statement,
For this application Elbit Systems adapted a commercial sensor developed by Lifebeam, an Israeli start-up company that developed such a sensor to monitor peak performance for extreme sportsathletes such as marathon runners, bicyclists and mountain climbers.
Printing Missiles Researchers at Raytheon Missile Systems say they have created already nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.
With commercially available high-end equipment and specially modified versions of low-cost 3-D printers, company researchers have created nearly every component of a guided weapon using 3-D printing,
The user could print on demand. That the vision. he progress is part of a company wide push into additive manufacturing and 3-D printing
including projects meant to supplement traditional manufacturing processes. Engineers are exploring the use of 3-D printing to lay down conductive materials for electrical circuits,
who is researching future uses of additive manufacturing and 3-D printing. ee trying new designs for thermal improvements and lightweight structures,
printed energetics and other materials, layered onto substrates into the components that comprise an nitiation trainin explosive warheads. ou can vastly simplify the manufacturing of energetic materials by printing them,
and wash away everything we don need. ircuits can already be printed with inkjet printers. The goal is to print more complicated circuits in three dimensions, with the very high resolution and performance of silicon. here currently a hierarchy in our manufacturing.
said Mccarroll. hat we see in the near future is printing the electronics and printing the structures,
and the plastic connectors, the semiconductors for processors, and the energetics and propulsion systems. The hard part is then making the connections between these components,
and interconnect them with printing. Or, in the future, maybe youl just print them.?We are printing demos of many of the seeker components.
and created the internet can figure out how to integrate alternative power sources into the power grid?
The site is seeded already with nearly 300,000 places across the United states. The platform asks as little as a petition people just click upportto participate.
Musk made the unprecedented announcement Thursday on his company blog. esla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport,
and checkout the video above and visit their site for more information about their technology:
#Adaptive Crossfirepro Tablet Energizes Customized Mobility PLANO, TX May 13, 2014 entegra technologies Inc.,a leader in customizable tablets, today announced Crossfirepro#a truly modular platform for mobile tablet
enterprise users. Crossfirepro revolutionizes the traditional tablet, built for change with modular components that can incrementally adapt to keep pace with new and ever-changing business requirements and technologies.
Crossfirepro supports both ARM and x86 processors running Microsoft windows, Android, and Linux operating ecosystems. The Crossfirepro tablet is engineered to perform in all environments, indoors or out, hot or cold,
wet or dry can be can be upgraded easily by swapping out individual pieces to incorporate new technology options.
Crossfirepro will be especially useful for commercial and military customers that require performance security, and longevity.
Customers across a number of industries including restaurants, retail, energy, and military have expressed their interest
Crossfire-bg mg 2472 ith Crossfirepro, wee built a modular tablet that offers our customers choices today and tomorrow between operating systems, processor ecosystems,
while including a daylight-readable, multi-input display, and a rugged IP65 design, said Steve Carpenter, CEO,
and users alike as it delivers a tailored solution for exacting daily activities, resulting in greater efficiencies, improved response times,
productivity and customer service levels. rossfirepro is a dynamically different approach to the current tablet landscape,
and field project teams the need to support different users and use cases with a common, secure platform.
The Crossfirepro modularity allows the tablet to be tailored uniquely to meet the specific needs of each user group
while making life simpler for IT with a single platform to manage. his is a significant shift that helps an enterprise to move beyond the days of built-in hardware obsolescence
and disposing of mobile devices, said Toni Portmann, CEO at Lockin. orporate budgets are getting tighter
Key Features, Benefits and Support Computer On Module Incorporates the processor and operating systems of choice today with the option to change tomorrow Modular
I/O Crossfirepro supports all I/O connectors in service today and those to be invented tomorrow Integrated entegra
and 3rd party designed modules Crossfirepro supports connection to an ever increasing ecosystem of plug-in accessories including smart card readers,
NFC Reader, bar code scanners and more IP65 ruggedized platform with shock resistant bumpers and a hardened glass (HL7) display ith tablet use growing, enterprises demand innovative
Crossfirepro represents a significant enhancement over existing tablets with high performance, security and a design engineered for incremental change wherever
and military customers to deliver a single open hardware and software tablet platform to provision,
deploy and maintain across a diverse user base. The company technology is based on industry standards
The federal government estimates that by catalyzing private sector investments in commercial and industrial building energy upgrades,
#IBM technology underpins project to make British columbia the martest coast on the planetmarkham ON & VICTORIA BC#14 april 2014:
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) on a three-year multi-million dollar project to equip British columbia with a monitoring
and prediction system to respond to offshore accidents tsunamis and other natural disasters. The new mart Oceans BCPROGRAM will use marine sensors
and data analysis to enhance environmental stewardship and public and marine safety along Canada West coast.
IBM is investing $12 million in cloud computing infrastructure analytics software services and skills training to support this next phase of the system
NC has a world-leading marine sensor network and associated expertisesays IBM President Dan Fortin.
NC will use an IBM on-premise cloud to run simulations on earthquakes and tsunamis with a goal of predicting their behaviour and potential impact on coastal areas.
Researchers will also employ a suite of IBM visual analytics data streams processing machine learning and data exploration software to develop test
and run decision-support systems with commercial viability that could aid industrial and governmental agencies in sea state pollution monitoring spill response and other aspects of ocean management.
Part of IBM commitment will go toward internships for over a dozen students from BC universities to build subject matter expertise and practical experience in this emerging industry.
The students will represent a broad cross-section of disciplines including MBAS researchers programmers and biologists.
IBM and ONC will also establish a Virtual Compute Lab for remote First Nations communities.
and university curriculum in their own community via the Internet allowing them to attend university without having to physically relocate to a campus. hrough IBM contribution wee able to draw insights
Through a series of investments totaling more than $200 million in the past two years alone IBM has made it a mandate in Canada to collaborate with academia
IBM is currently working in collaboration with more than 16 Canadian post-secondary institutions coast to coast to help advance research curriculum
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#Green crowdfunding success: Solartab a new breed of solar charger is the latest hit on Kickstarter Three-Man London Tech Start-up Scores A major Hit On Kickstarter. com With OLARTAB A Solar
Charger for Tablets and Phones Combine Efficient Green energy with Appealing Design for Unique Product (Currentmess LLC;
London, UK April 7, 2014) Small London tech startup Currentmess unveiled their brainchild gadget, the olartab on kickstarter. com on Wednesday evening (April 2nd.
The trio were hoping to raise 30 000 US dollars over the course of a month via the popular American crowdfunding website just enough to start production of their eco-friendly device.
and an efficient solar panel which lets it users charge smartphones, and even tablets, on the go. Featuring a solar panel the size of an ipad,
the Solartab lets its users charge any mobile device using green, sun-fueled energy. And even more impressively, ipad enthusiasts can charge their beloved touch-screen gadget even
while theye listening to their favorite summer tune, or browsing the Internet. e wanted to create a really powerful charger that people would actually want to use,
all the time says Einberger. olar power should never be a mere gimmick on the contrary, we believe it the future of power consumption!
The enthusiastic young team may very well be on to something. Forward-thinking corporations are currently investing heavily in green energy alternatives,
and Google alone have made recently wind and solar investments totaling more than $1 billion. Using Methi, Vestre and Einberger new breed of solar charger,
keeping energy-hungry smartphones or tablets going all day at the beach, music festivals or picnics in the park is easier than ever.
The smart-looking device is equipped also with a high capacity internal battery, which means you can store solar power for later
and give any tablet another full charge after sunset. According to the team as long as the sun is out,
which lets users angle the solar panel in three different positions. After adjusting the angle to the sun current position,
all that left to do is plug in any smartphone or tablet and let nature take care of the rest.
Oh and the cover will also protect the Solartab while it tucked away in bags, on the way between beaches and parks.
enabling travellers to check emails and browse the Internet whilst travelling. Collaborators for the project include engineering firm Arup,
reading emails, reading papers whilst they go to the city centre itselfo they don have to concentrate in the long term in how they drive these things Beasley further stated that the technology used to design
*In Texas, Nest Labs, acquired by Google on Feb 7, announced 140 technical support and customer service jobs.
including water quality projects, energy-efficiency upgrades for state buildings, river revitalization, and habitat restoration projects. In June 2013, the state sold $100 million worth of green bonds as part of a larger bond sale, attracting some new investors specifically because of the green label.
the same types of systems can be implemented in skin-mounted configurations for health/wellness monitors or nonbiomedical devices.
and Ram Truck 3. 0-liter Ecodiesel engine D
#New Sensor Easily Detects Greenhouse gases Scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.
and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering. ethane is emitted by natural sources, such as wetlands,
and that excites the quartz tuning fork. he tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
We haven seen a bigger one than the 4400-panel-covered Blackfriars rail bridge that spans the Thames in central London.
The PV panels over the rail bridge have been in place for a while now but this week Britain rail infrastructure company Network Rail officially unveiled them in a fashion only The british could come up with:
Blackfriars Bridge London (image via Network Rail) The panels on the bridge which connects north and south London in the center of the city cover some 6000 square meters Network Rail said about 1. 5 acres.
and the 900000 kilowatt-hours of annual generation forecast for the bridge means that the array of Sanyo panels will deliver a modest 9. 3 percent capacity factor.
which is available for ios and Android devices. Once a driver locates and selects the Blink EV charging station on the Blink App,
The updated version of the Blink App is currently available on Google Play for Android device
In addition, we also plan to continue our efforts with other EV charging hardware and network providers to integrate their systems with the Blink Network.
Along with the Blink App, EV drivers will continue to have the ability to initiate charging sessions through the touch screen of the Blink EV charging stations or by contacting Blink Customer Support.
and on that count there are now 32 buildings and one istrict (a group of buildings) that meet the ZNE mark, according to the New Buildings Institute PDF.
My favorite fact from the NBI 2014 report PDF: ZNE buildings use only a quarter of the energy of average buildings.
and China regarding lessons learned. e have been working with China on air and climate issues under a unique MOU signed by Gov. Jerry brown
placing turbines safely covered at ground level allowing installation close to the end user. This could be the beginning of transforming wind power into the baseload power source that coal has been since the early 1900s.
#First GREENGUARD Certified Television UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories), and LG Electronics USA today announced the landmark achievement of GREENGUARD Certification for LG newest OLED TV, model 55ec9300.
This certification is the first of its kind and sets a new precedent for television manufacturers to help create healthier indoor environments.
Televisions amass considerably more surface area in homes and built environments today than they have in decades past.
Complex components, plastics and other substances in TV products can create significant potential to contribute to high chemical and formaldehyde exposures, according to UL Environment.
UL Environment performed rigorous tests against the GREENGUARD Certification standard in its Marietta Ga. laboratory, to confirm low emissions from the LG 55ec9300.
LG taking the leadership role in obtaining GREENGUARD Certification for its new OLED TV demonstrates the company ongoing commitment to bringing safer and healthier products to market.
and its recognition as the first and only television to have achieved GREENGUARD Certification, worldwide, further enhances its standing as a groundbreaking new product.
In energy saving modes, display brightness adjusts automatically to the viewing environment. According to the Federal trade commission nergy Guidelabel, the LG 55ec9300 has estimated an yearly energy cost of only $17.*
Find more about the LG OLED TV and other UL Environment Certified and Validated LG Electronics products at this link on UL Environment online Sustainable Product Guide (www. ul. com/SPG), used by purchasers, specifiers,
The new 55-inch class LG OLED TV, on sale now at a suggested price of $3, 499, is amazingly thin 4. 5 millimeters at its thinnest point (11/64ths
Its gentle curved screen makes quite a design statement and thanks to its frameless, bezel-less inema Screendesign, the picture goes virtually from edge to edge.
In the United states, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG ife Goodmarketing theme.
Air conditioning & Energy solutions and Vehicle Components and is one of the world leading producers of flat panel TVS, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators.
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