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:
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
How might this kind of technology relate to ipad and iphone maker Apple? The patent application is not a huge indicator,
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.
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.
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.
We are looking at computer generated content. We got to a point where we were generating from existing text online,
Whatever document you needed it was most likely that Jason had it in a folder on his hard drive.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected, and the information is displayed as requested by the customer.
personal digital assistant or PC. Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients. The solution was developed by Bulut Ersavas,
a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
But the equally colossal pieces of Styrofoam that protected the computer in shipping more than two decades ago are gone long,
which could even be your computer or TV. Steelcase one of the largest office furniture makers in the world--they ve been really happy with Ecocradle,
We re launching Ecocradle in the computer market. There s one big client that will be using it (we will be releasing the name in a couple weeks.
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
"the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
Since tablet adoption is about to experience exponential accelerated growth, with tablets eclipsing lap top sales by 2015.
And tablets function with Wi-fi. From Salmon post: So far, no one really cracked the problem of the mobile web wee still in a world where connecting to the internet
when on the move is far too difficult, and needs to be configured (and often paid for) on a device-by-device basis
Collective-Evolution notes that the solar panels embedded in the concrete bike path are not as efficient as panels installed on homes
I was drawn soon to continuous glucose monitors (CGMS. These report blood glucose levels every 5 minutes, thanks to a small radio transmitter attached to a fine sensor wire that runs under the skin (the wire is replaced weekly, the transmitter every six months.
but I knew that the Dexcom G4 receiver could furnish glucose data via its USB port.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
It took about 3 hours to code A c#program that polled the receiver and uploaded the data to a Google spreadsheet.
We sent Evan to day care with a small laptop equipped with the receiver. While he was in his classroom,
we could see his blood glucose via either a simple website or an ios app I threw together.
It was life changing, as it allowed Evan some freedom from the typical type 1 diabetes regimen at day care.
or long walks, putting him out of range of the laptop receiver, we were blind again.
Thus began my work on a truly ambulatory solution, based on a smartphone rather than a laptop.
My family primarily uses ios devices, but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
I got a Motorola Droid Razr M phone and once I had the basic USB enumeration downo my phone could eethe receiver
when it was plugged in started decoding the G4 communication protocol. Using the same C# program as before,
and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver. With this data,
I wrote an Android app to extract glucose data and upload it to our Google spreadsheet via the cellular network.
In my excitement, I tweeted my discovery. What happened next was incredible. Another iabetes dad, Lane Desborough, contacted me.
and continued to refine the Android app over the summer, in preparation for Evan return to school.
While Dexcom has released subsequently Share, a proprietary remote-monitoring system, it works only with ios devices.
I had written software that lets me see Evan glucose level at a glance. Lane and I (along with Ross Naylor) continued to collaborate,
and in early 2014, we made the C# uploader, Android app, Pebble watch, and Nightscout code open source. Subsequently,
better software engineers than I have improved the code and made it easier to use; a Facebook group for Nightscout, set up by Jason Adams,
now has nearly 12,000 members, and our code made the semifinal round for the 2014 Hackaday Prize.
it will send information about the time of the event and the magnitude of the shaking to a cloud-based server;
like the faint clatter of fingers on a keyboard. And the powerful coding-decoding (codec) software can run as a smartphone app. e want to bring telephony into the 21st century,
just as HD television has done for video, says H p. Baumeister, director of Fraunhofer IIS U s. branch, in San jose,
The broader bandwidth of the Internet allowed Skype and some other Voip services to carry 7, 000-Hz HD Voice,
or as apps running on a smartphone applications processor. The EVS codec s not complex compared to the apps in a smartphone,
like a Skype-to-Skype call between computers or smartphones. Fraunhofer Mobile World demonstration did that using apps on Google Nexus 5 phones.
"a small computer that records data and communicates to a user's smartphone or other systems.
using an area of about 3000 cm2 (about the size of the center back panel of a shirt) it is possible to store the equivalent energy of a 4 cm2,
It links data from an implanted blood-sugar sensor to a computer, which then controls how a pump worn on the hip dribbles insulin under the skin through a pipette.
it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
Once the data is in the servers, there a lot we can do to affect disease management.
it combined a pump with a large, complex continuous glucose monitor. In recent years, pumps have become smaller, more reliable, more programmable,
Continuous glucose monitors were approved first a decade ago, and they are beginning to replace the finger-prick method,
and also in displays because they have better light-transmission properties than glass, says Ma.
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. n work published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology researchers suspended graphene above a silicon substrate by attaching it to two metal electrodes
While a handful of paralyzed people have used previously brain-computer interfaces (BCIS) to control robotic limbs, those subjectsimplants recorded signals from the primary motor cortex,
a brain region involved in planning movements. human os iconlead researcher Richard Andersen, a neuroscience professor at Caltech,
The researchers connected cables to the pedestals, bringing the neural signals to a computer that analyzed them and sent commands to the robot arm.
in a pattern devised by their computer. The different heights change the phase of the light bouncing off different parts of the cloak to mimic the phase it would have
This particular cloak exists only in computer simulation, though the team is working on building a physical version,
a dimension easily achievable by the photolithography processes used for making computer chips. But Kante points out that microwave cloaks could be useful for the military,
#Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? Currently, the world most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second,
or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past.
On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
There are a number of technical aspects and economic factors that interfere with supercomputing improvements. Experts disagree on the cause,
Computing hardware development projections are based on Moore Law which predicts that the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double about every two years, causing an exponential growth in performance.
Supercomputer power is expected, for the most part to follow the same curve. In the past, that was exactly the case.
The rate of performance developmenthe change in aggregate number of petaflops between Top500 listsad doubled each year.
One reason, says IBM senior manager of Data Centric Systems, John Gunnels, is that the pace of Moore Law has slowed. f you can shrink these chips at the rate you were shrinking them before,
IBM researchers are trying to prop up Moore law using silicon-germanium transistor channels in effort to create a 7-nanometer chip within the next four years.
The cost of the electricity to power these behemoths has played also a role in slowing the speed of supercomputer development. an somebody make a computer that has higher performance?
Other laboratories could reach the performance of the number one supercomputer, Tianhe-2 if they want to pay US $390 million for the same technology,
Dongarra predicts that the China Tianhe-2 will remain at the top of the supercomputer pyramid for at least two more lists because of the lack of funding for new systems.
Though computer scientists in the United states say 2023 is a more feasible timeline to construct an exascale supercomputer
(and the U s. government is planning out an exascale supercomputer that would cost $200 million),
such as weather projection. he National Weather Service uses supercomputers to run physical models to predict what will happen in three to five days,
and faster computers will make those predictions better. r
#Diesel-Powered Fuel cell Produces Clean electricity Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated,
asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, aims to test critical electronic systems and software during its 90-day mission.
and the others that we manufacture using 3-D printers. t
#Nanowires Boost Hydrogen Production from Sunlight Tenfold Using the energy of the sun to split water into hydrogen
The device inventors suggest the laser could find use in video displays, solid-state lighting, and a laser-based version of Wi-fi. Although previous research has created red, blue, green and other lasers,
In addition, he says that white lasers could also lead to video displays with more vivid colors and higher contrast than conventional displays.
Google January 2012 decision to combine the privacy policies of some 60 different products in order for it to be able to gather more intel on webs users for targeting ads quickly triggered a data protection review in October 2012
but must be done ia a clear permission screen Google must also clearly explain what personal data is being obtained by which of its services and for what purpose,
#Baidu Maker Of China s Largest Search engine Confirms Its Strategic Investment In Uber It s official:
because Baidu operates China s largest search engine and will help it compete against its rivals##Didi Dache and rival##Kuaidi Dache
As mobile devices become magic wands for marketplaces, matching supply and demand and making goods and services more accessible than ever before,
Rather than relying on a combination of different banks and other payments processors for individual markets,
as well as local payment processors around the world. Its platform works in nearly 200 countries, allowing partners to get paid in virtually any currency and through a wide variety of payment methods.
through its platform payments can be accepted either online, via mobile devices, or even in store for businesses that have operations in multiple countries.
and you can even run the sound through an ios device to use software filters and effects.
and beef up its own servers and security infrastructure. Sony Tries Silencing Reporters Sony hack was made worse by its poor security infrastructure,
Large companies like Adobe and ebay have seen emails and other personal account information stolen. And whistleblowers like Snowden have revealed the most private and devastating aspects of government spying agendas.
if youe choosing to record Social security numbers, birth dates and salaries in Excel spreadsheets, you should protect them with at least a minimum amount of security,
#Skype Translator Preview Going Live Today Skype has been talking about and demoing its new real-time translation software for Skype for a while now
but users will begin getting firsthand experience with the tool as of today. The Skype Translator preview program begins welcoming its first participants into the fold based on sign ups to the Translator preview page we told you about in early November.
The Skype Translator project offers on the fly-fly translation of both spoken and written languages for participants in Skype conversations making it possible for two people who speak completely different languages to communicate with virtually no barriers to understanding.
The preview program starts with support for English and Spanish spoken translation as well as over 40 languages for real-time text chat.
At launch tis also limited to users of Windows 8. 1 software (either desktop or mobile) so Microsoft is playing platform favorites with this early beta program.
They ve also already been testing it out with schools in the U s . and Mexico as you can see in the video above.
The tech behind the translation involves advanced machine learning which also means that it ll get smarter with time
but everything we ve seen so far has been from Skype direct and likely involved a lot of control.
But while Android appears to have onthe so-called platform war, the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
who started selling low-cost Android-based handsets to these markets early, are doing so well.
Gartner predicts that Apple momentum will continue unabated with its iggest ever fourth-quarter salesof both models of large-screen phones,
has essentially now been won by Android. Its share is now at 83.1%on sales of 250 million units.
while Windows, Blackberry and ther OS? s all continue their declines. In real terms, Windows sales were nearly flat over a year ago on 9 million units.
It very hard to think of how Microsoft will manage to turn this around, and you do have to wonder
when Windows phone-based devices grew quarter-on-quarter thanks to the introduction of more mid-range devices,
The big picture for feature phones is not unlike that of Microsoft legacy smartphone maker Blackberry:
Here will power both desktop as well as Android and ios apps starting with Taiwan first and then adding other territories at a later stage.
Here has announced just an update that will make its mapping apps available across all Google Play markets and Android devices,
and is finally republishing a new ios app in early 2015, after pulling it in 2013.
Baidu inked a deal with France telecom to load its mobile browser on to Android devices that were getting sold in Africa.
Adobe, AIG, Akamai, AOL, Appnexus, AT&T, BSA, ebay, Electronic arts, Expedia, Facebook, GE, Goldman sachs, Google, Groupon, IAC, IBM, Lockheed martin, Massmutual, Microsoft
, Moody, Pixar Animation Studios, Square, The Honest Company, Twitter, Viacom, Intel, Intuit and Verizon in order to reach its goal.
a fake Occupy Central app that spread phishing malware in Hong kong poked a few more holes in the perceived security of ios closed system.
Even a closed behemoth like Microsoft is now recognizing the value of open-sourced collaboration,
recently announcing its decision to open source its server-side. NET Framework and also take it to Mac and Linux.
Launching a startup with rtificial wallsin place, such as exclusive partnerships or extensive restrictions, in all likelihood means signing your own death sentence.
it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
as Makerbot learned after it suddenly clamped down on its open-source 3d printing hardware after a community of early supporters spent years contributing to Makerbot design (it worth watching rint the Legend, a new documentary that chronicles the whole ordeal, available
The software then alerts a healthcare provider that something is off. Utah Smartcare partners with three local mental health authorities and 2 community health clinics in Utah.
#TV s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes More proof that good television doesn have to be developed by traditional industry players:
#Schmidt also added that Google s first priority in Myanmar is to improve access to information with its search engine and tools such as Google translate and Maps.
#Amazon s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An ios App When Amazon launched its $199 connected speaker Amazon Echo last month,
The app was initially available only for Amazon Fire OS and Android, but not ios. Instead, iphone and ipad users had to use Safari or a desktop browser instead.
Today, that changes as Amazon has released now Amazon Echo for ios. Like its Android counterpart
the new ios app allows you to use your ios device as a remote control of sorts for interacting with Echo.
To get started, the app guides you through a simple set up process, after which you can use the app to control the output to Echo as an alternative to using voice commands.
Additionally, the main screen of the application shows you weather and other recent queries, including those Echo has looked up on Wikipedia on your behalf,
which is one of the hardware device more interesting functions. Amazon Echo, as a reminder, is not yet broadly available.
whether or not Amazon can manage to produce enough hardware to fulfill demand but rather whether there will actually be demand.
As with its other hardware-based shopping assistant Amazon Dash, the company is basically running its hardware consumer trials in the open to see how people respond.
Amazon Echo for ios is a free download here
#Update Lending Club IPO Shows The Profit Potential For Financial Technology Investments Lending Club $5. 4 billion initial public offering on the New york stock exchange is more than just the largest IPO
Workflow is a new app for ios that lets you create shortcuts for the things you do all the time on your phone or tablet.
You can create action extensions (a new feature in ios 8 that you can bring up by tapping the share button) that save the URL of the page youe on to Evernote
You can access your shortcuts within Workflow or turn them into semi-apps in themselves via bookmarks on the home screen (with a customizable icon.
#What s really special about Kinsa and the thermometer in general is that it is the first device the first piece of hardware that actually verifies that you re sick#said founder and CEO Inder Singh.#
And when you add in social functionality parents can start to differentiate between a common cold (that may not require an immediate doctor visit) and strep throat.
The Kinsa costs $29. 99 and alongside hardware sales the company is considering how they can be a communications layer for other companies working on telemedicine prescription delivery and other startups in the health ecosystem.
#We need marketers engineers operations people who can handle the hardware and supply chain side of our business.
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
Members of Reddit bitcoin subred noted that Microsoft appears to be working with payments firm Bitpay to make this happen.
Neither Microsoft nor Bitpay have announced formally the partnership or details but the former does have a series of instructions related to bitcoin payments within its illing helppages.
Microsoft has confirmed now that it is indeed working with Bitpay. It described its adoption of Bitcoin as being bout giving people options
Customers can use bitcoin to load money into a Microsoft wallet or to create digital gift cards,
million registered accounts on iphone, launches on Android April 4th, 2012: Instagram sees 1 million Android signups in the first 24 hours April 9th, 2012:
Instagram hits 5 million Android users, is acquired by Facebook April 30th, 2012: 50 million users February 2013: 100 million users September 2013: 150 million users March 2014: 200 million users Considering Twitter
has added only around 38 million users since March while Instagram has added 100 million, you can expect the gap to expand
Measuring the energy consumption of a Macbook Air compared to that of a Dell Desktop PC, for example, will prove to be difficult.
While some organizations already have the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in place allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems,
SCCM lacks the capability to provide the accuracy the ESOS audits will require. Utilizing power-management solutions,
Though the U k. has been relatively slow to implement PC power-management technology, mostly due to tax incentives, perhaps by example,
taking into consideration that the U s. wastes an approximate $2. 8 billion in PC energy every year, the U k. may need to take a more effective approach to energy security.
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