Guan notes that the site-specific analytical capabilities of this technique should give researchers finer control over selective surface vaporization of alloying elements for enhanced, high-tech applications."
Together with telecommunications businessman Kaj Juul-Pedersen, he established the company Dencrypt, which sells dynamic encryption to businesses
so they can safely exchange confidential information over the telephone.""Today, all telephone conversations are encrypted --i e. converted into gibberish
--but they are encrypted not all the way from phone to phone, and if a third party has access to one of the telephone masts through which the call passes,
they can listen in, "explains Lars Ramkilde Knudsen.""And even if the conversation is encrypted--in principle--it is still possible to decrypt it provided you have sufficient computer power,
This is in no small part due to the fact that the vast majority of telecommunications operators use the same encryption algorithm--the so-called AES,
The clever thing about it is that your phone can decrypt the information without knowing which system you have chosen.
and encryption method--and both are thrown away by the phone after each call and replaced by a new combination--the conversation is extremely difficult to decrypt
budgets and secret plans using phone tapping, for example. In the USA alone, the phenomenon costs businesses around USD 100 billion every year according to a 2014 report on the subject by security firm Mcafee.
Researchers noted that stricter guidelines for exit site management wound care and antibiotic therapy could reduce that risk in future studies.
It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
and divide and could reveal binding sites for future cancer drugs. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research London and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge produced the first detailed images of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C). The APC/C
The new study could identify binding sites for potential cancer drugs. Each of the APC/C's subunits bond
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
His group sampled the waters in dozens of sites from New york to northwestern Minnesota; they found 83 sites that were infested.
The scientists checked out Lakes Michigan Superior and many interior lakes and lingered two years in Voyageurs national park on Minnesota's border with Canada to examine Bythotrephes'long-term effect on the native zooplankton.
offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
and that excites the quartz tuning fork.""The tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
Rus group has shown an important step forward in multirobot cooperation by demonstrating how three mobile arms can figure out how to assemble a chair,
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
and Google Inc. for support of this work through a Google research grant. The University of California has filed a patent on the method and applications of frequency-referenced carriers for compensation of nonlinear impairments in transmission.
#MIT Chemists Develop a Quantum dot Spectrometer Researchers from MIT have designed a quantum dot spectrometer that is small enough to function within a smartphone, enabling portable light analysis. Instruments that measure the properties of light,
but MIT scientists have shown now they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera,
and placed on top of a photodetector such as the charge-coupled devices (CCDS) found in cellphone cameras. The researchers created an algorithm that analyzes the percentage of photons absorbed by each filter,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
#How 3g technology is improving HIV patient care in Kenya Kenya has an extensive population that infected with HIV and until very recently,
3g wireless technology. And it appears to be working. ART treatment is very laborious with a tremendous administrative burden.
The 3g technology has allowed clinics to computerize much of their administrative work, streamlining the submission process and saving time.
since patients need close supervision to ensure they are taking their medications on schedule. 3g technology is making a difference People in developed countries may think that 3g is outdated technology for smartphones,
Masabi is known for its comprehensive mobile ticketing platform already in use by 22 transit agencies worldwide.
A travel website article that provides step-by-step instructions for using the buses there is longer than most blog posts.
The Mastercard/Masabi partnership allows riders to buy their tickets with a quick tap on their smartphone.
With the Mastercard/Masabi partnership, the smartphone is the common platform. The rechargeable contactless cards used by many transit systems also create two lines:
their smartphone is the kiosk. So far, the partners have announced only their joint work in Athens. On its own,
Nanjing, China implemented a social media program that engaged more than two-million people for the 2014 Youth Olympic games.
###Kevin Ebi is a staff writer and social media coordinator for the Council. Follow@smartccouncil on Twitter.
More resources issecting ISO 37120: Gimme shelter, please! The homeless challenge cities facehow technology is helping cities help their homelessdata sharing helps NYC improve health and human services deliver d
use social media, work with police and get help from the general public. The digital guide is the outcome of O'Keeffe's collaboration with Studio Thick
The MPAN guide has proven so effective that the police are now directing the public to the site.
This action-oriented site helps apartment owners and renters implement energy efficiency in their shared property with templates
Before creating the site, the Melbourne studio conducted design research among the user group which included in depth interviews and mapping the user journey,
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
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
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,
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.
I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
#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
#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:
Matt Galligan via Wikimedi i
#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,
#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.
price comparisons and other mobile application usage. By 2016, that influence will grow to 19 percent of sales,
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
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,
and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
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,
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
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.
#Why people need robot journalism in the Google era Kristian Hammond quit artificial intelligence 10 years ago,
who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
it enriches their websites without taking people away from more traditional tasks. People are hungry for genuine content.
and launched, Docstoc. com. Docstoc has quickly become the web s largest destination for sharing
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.
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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,
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
but also Google, AT&T and others. It's still early to consider this a platform war,
that's like downloading an HD movie in less than one second or 2400 times faster than a DSL internet connection.
In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places
or her field using a mobile phone, personal digital assistant or PC. Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients.
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
The radiation levels near the Fukushima site are spiking to record levels, but that hasn't stopped Google's Streetview from entering one area of the forbidden'zone.
The images are from 17 cities within Japan's Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, which were damaged heavily by the 2011 tsunami,
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Google says that it has a higher social purpose. Our digital archiving project aims not only to make a record of the disaster's wreckage,
and Miyagi Prefectures for the first time since we#published the first panoramas back in 2011, Google's group product manager,
Kei Kawai, wrote on the team's#blog. By releasing this new imagery on Google maps
we hope people in Japan and from all around the world can virtually explore what these towns currently look like
Google is not the first nongovernmental entity to enter the exclusion zone. Organizations including#Animal Friends Niigata
Google maps, David Worthington) Related on Smartplanet: What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?
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