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
and tag messages --and then to file them and archive them appropriately. After making an assessment about the content,
the software either files that message in a folder that it believes relevant on its own
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
that you have to use Outlook for the categorization to happen. Recommind is working on tablet and smartphone integration.
What about privacy, you ask? A tool like Decisiv Email will definitely make you think twice about what you write in an email or about
what you decide to exclude.""Everything that you send in corporate email will be available for people to see
if it is relevant for the business, "Schueren said d
#When KI isn't enough, biotechs race to develop acute radiation drugs Since the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power station,
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,
and enhanced information discovery through transparency and data mashups. It all sounds like good mom-and-apple-pie stuff,
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.
Need to print with full color sandstone? This is your place. The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
The price: 50 cents per cubic centimeter. If this worked for my design, I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
I pay right there (no money is exchanged between printer owner and designer). Then, once the printing is complete
I can pick it up or have shipped it to me. Zak Stone reports for Fast Company that people with 3d printers have been eager to sign up:
Already, more than 500 printers around the United states have signed up--with everything from homemade printers, to Makerbots, to $30, 000 professional machines.
It's a fantastic resource. Stone calls it a Kinko's for 3d printing. And he could be on to something.
(or other printing service chains) become the Kinko's of 3d printing? With widespread stores already in place, a forward-thinking chain could make 3d printers available and more accessible.
but 3d printers in big cities and college towns, at least to start, could really help evolve their printing chain's brand.
#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,
and major companies such as Verizon, Comcast, Juniper Networks, and Cisco. While the executive order is fairly simple to parse,
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.
he would likely be dazzled by the smartphone, high definition video, and digital storage for music and movies--all#decedents#of technologies that he pioneered
Use information technology to infuse intelligence and visibility into the power grid. This will enable utilities to better monitor
and recycling electronic products such as televisions, refrigerators and computers. A tax will be added to the price tags of electronic products to help pay for e waste disposal.
In California, there is a $10 fee added to the price of electronic products with viewable screens,
#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:
The global Internet, 2012. Telegeography r
#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,
The Personal Genome Machine vs Miseq videos played off the Mac vs PC ads. People are crying out for independent analysis,
#Why (and how) retailers should embrace'showrooming'More evidence emerged this week suggesting the power of smartphones to reshape how retailers stock,
New research from Deloitte suggests that more than 5 percent of store sales during 2012 will be influenced by smartphones.
For the purposes of the survey, Deloitte defined influence to include activities such as product research conducted by shoppers with their mobile device,
price comparisons and other mobile application usage. By 2016, that influence will grow to 19 percent of sales,
and some retailers have banned actually Wi-fi in their stores in an effort to prevent the activity
and our research indicates that smartphone shoppers are 14 percent more likely to convert and make a purchase in the store than non-smartphone users.
This means that mobile is an important tool for retailers to incrementally drive traditional in store sales,
strengthening the relationship between retailer and consumer to increase engagement and loyalty. Smartphone Users Are More Frequent Shoppers Deloitte's research suggests that smartphone users aren't only becoming more common,
they are more likely to make a purchase than those who aren't using them.
48 percent of smartphone users said what they saw on a mobile application affected an in store purchase decision.
The other thing to consider is that smartphones aren't just influential in store. More than half of the smartphone users surveyed by Deloitte said they started doing research on the way to the store.
I'm hoping they weren't driving while they were doing that, but that's a whole other story.)
Retailers that do not engage shoppers through specialized mobile applications or targeted smartphone-based promotions leave the door open for competitors to reach a customer who is standing in the retailer's store and at the point of purchase.
To make the connection with consumers, retailers need to understand how mobile shoppers are willing to interact with their specific store category, format and merchandise, both inside and outside the store,
No Shortage of Emerging Technologies Last week, Motorola announced a major mobile technology push intended to help retailers become more savvy about showrooming
Microsoft is also hoping to benefit from the phenomenon. Its Microsoft Tag mobile scanning technology supports both 2d barcode formats (including QR Codes and the Tag format) as well as Near Field Communications.
This month, Procter & gamble are running a month-long test in the Chicago and New york areas of pop-up stores,
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,
if someone decides to price shop with their smartphone while shopping in a store. The company allows retailers to attach technical support and service offerings, like installation,
One example is Goodzer, a local shopping search engine that covers inventory from more than 500,000 stores in the United states s
The fact that a firm that produces mobile devices is now more valuable than an oil company is the most powerful repudiation of the sprawling, exurban, oil-dependent old economy
mobile devices are suited uniquely to the urban environment. They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
so to their mobile devices and always-on connectivity that they would sooner give up driving. Pendleton continues:
A recent survey of college students in Colorado (where sending messages from smartphones while driving is not illegal) found that
while 75 per cent of users said they often used their phones while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car,
Gen Y housing preferences are the subject of at least two panels at this week s convention.
who are making decisions every day to buy an ipad instead of a new car, or to move closer to work
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
How might this kind of technology relate to ipad and iphone maker Apple? The patent application is not a huge indicator,
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
innovative businesses are being built around application programming interfaces (APIS) --which provide pre-built cloud resources for the underlying forms and functions for new businesses and concepts.
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.
Producing APIS will not be the exclusive domain of software companies or large enterprises. The key thing about the API economy is you can't just consume APIS.
#Why open source may win the electronic health record market Electronic Health Records (EHRS) are the trend of the day.
and was not a real EHR through a group it funded called the Certification Commission for Health Information technology (CCHIT).
first developed in the 1980s and released in this decade as open source, was falling. The Bush administration starved Vista of development funds, preferring a system of contracts and contractors who used HIMSS-approved gear.
At the peak of the fight the VA even lost control of its own lab software system to Cerner
and its open source approach. Suddenly, it seems, Vista has the advantage. This was proven for me today, through an interview with Paul Hensler (above), CEO of the Kern Medical center in Bakersfield, California.
Plus millions of dollars for the software. Enter Medsphere a commercial supporter of Vista software.
Their Openvista is open source. Kern could download it, call it free, and then sign a professional services contract with Medsphere for support.
Suddenly, a two-year contracting process could be squeezed into six months. And with the first deadlines for getting stimulus money coming in 2011,
thanks to open source. It was an incredibly short decision time frame for a county. A lot of our doctors did their training at the VA. We knew we could download it
and other issues the VA software doesn't support. I think we came across Medsphere in late April.
We decided to talk to other users in September, looking for a fatal flaw, ansd at the same time started working on a contract.
This is the way open source is supposed to work. The software is free, but you need help,
and the support contract also gives you control of the final result. You also get help from all the other users of the same software.
But this is an advantage I had not been aware of. Since you don't buy open source, you can sign a professional services contract with an open source consultant
and clear through several bureaucratic processes at a stroke. If the Obama Administration has done nothing else
it seems, it has transformed the market for EHR software. Open source, which had been left for dead a year ago,
is suddenly in the lead d
#Why people need robot journalism in the Google era Kristian Hammond quit artificial intelligence 10 years ago,
but that is exactly when he created an intelligent machine. Hammond is a professor at the Intelligent information Laboratory at Northwestern University,
who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
The machine can also produce original sports stories from data. And what's surprising is that the sports stories aren't actually that bad.
Our lab works on personalized information systems. They take the form of whatever the task is
We are looking at computer generated content. We got to a point where we were generating from existing text online,
what people are striving for in artificial intelligence. We were able to create experiences that are compelling and every once in a while, a little amusing.
Artificial intelligence has rested on the foundation of vary deep representations of events and the control of inferences.
it enriches their websites without taking people away from more traditional tasks. People are hungry for genuine content.
Whatever document you needed it was most likely that Jason had it in a folder on his hard drive.
and launched, Docstoc. com. Docstoc has quickly become the web s largest destination for sharing
As a frequent user, 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.
What s next for Docstoc? Docstoc is building out the largest repository in the world of professional documents
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Inventors and designers bring their ideas to the site, but they aren't actually brought to life until there is enough interest,
Information technology is at the heart of successful share models, and sensors are a critical part of that mix
Technically more of microfinance organization than a sharing model, this site supports the creation of artistic projects.
A site where people can rent designer dresses, gowns and clothing for events, rather than buy them outright.
says Mandarin is the most popular first-learned language in the world and the second most popular language on the Internet.
And it s the second most popular language used on the Internet. So it s no surprise that parents will want their children to learn This is Mandarin harder for children to learn than other languages?
Relative to 10 years ago, Americans have changed completely their outlook about learning a language. We ve seen a shift about the age that parents want their children to start learning.
#Why wireless charging is bigger than you think The idea of powering up mobile gadgets with no cords is tantalizing,
The idea of wireless charging is tantalizing--a vision of electronic devices that stay powered up without wall sockets,
and gadget bags minus the eternal spill of bulky cords and cables. The reality, however, is that wireless charging options today are still relatively expensive
and support few of the real-world devices that consumers actually own. Still, prices are falling,
Market research firm IHS predicts that almost 100 million devices that support wireless charging could be on the market by 2015
Some mobile phone manufacturers are even distinguishing certain high-end models with wireless charging options. A few examples include the Lumia smartphone from Nokia, the Nexus 4 from LG Electronics,
and the Droid DNA from Verizon Wireless and HTC. And in the future, wireless charging technology won't be limited just to powering more mobile devices.
It could have applications for large-scale appliances and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) is the largest technology alliance in the wireless charging industry dedicated to advancing that vision
although there are several other efforts brewing. Established in late 2008 WPC has nearly 150 member companies including major mobile phone manufacturers and semiconductor companies.
The consortium introduced the Qi inductive power standard in late 2010, and it is working to drive adoption-along with a healthy market for wireless power.
more than 30 companies have shipped mobile phones using its embedded wireless charging capabilities. Those phones are designed to power up on compatible charging mats and cradles, alarm clocks and music players,
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
But an upcoming revision in the second quarter of 2013 will see Qi extended to support wireless charging up to a level of 15 watts, enough power to charge consumer tablets.
The ability to charge laptop computers wirelessly isn't yet supported, but plans are on the near-term roadmap.
wireless charging will become an evermore common device feature for mobile gadgets, like Bluetooth, or embedded cameras.
As the commercialization of early applications for mobile gadgets accelerates, some engineers are focused on the longer-term potential for wireless power.
Inductive charging, which is used the technology in the Qi standard, works with any material except for metal,
A marble countertop, for example, could be rigged to charge a wireless coffeemaker and a blender along with a variety of phones, tablets and computers as needed.
As wireless charging develops, the technology might even help reduce production costs for large appliances like kitchen refrigerators,
but also Google, AT&T and others. It's still early to consider this a platform war,
and its open platform theoretically offers the easiest path for companies planning new product development that supports wireless charging options.
and the promise of wireless charging for the future e
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