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#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Kenya Forest Services workers use branches to put out a fire at Karura forest in Nairobi.
said Samuel Tokole, an official of the Kenya Wildlife Service, a government agency that protects and conserves the countrys biodiversity,
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15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services The banks and credit card companies have spent 50 years building a proprietary, locked-down system that handles roughly $2 trillion in credit card transactions and another $1. 3 trillion in debit card transactions
Today, the service has almost 15,000 users. That may not sound like much, but it sends a message:
15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services, sending $15 million through the companys pipes.
anybody who wanted to create a service like this would have had to navigate a morass of state and federal regulations
Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services.
Now Paypal has brought this same spirit of innovation and experimentation to the world of payments.
In the earliest days of credit cards, those fees paid for an important service. Until the late 1950s, each card was tied usually to a single bank
and a banks services to process it.)Not that the store owner is ever quite sure how much a credit card transaction will cost.
And yet the service provided has grown hardly any better, faster, or easier to access. oeit seems really odd that credit card companies can continue to charge a tax on the economy,
Suddenly the service, always a favored payment method on the site became almost entirely focused on making auctions easier.
Scott Thompson, then Paypals CTO, started meeting with Osama Bedier, vice president of merchant services technology
But building out any one of those services would take years, and the timing wasnt right.
and turned its service into a platform? What if Paypal asked its users to create the tools
Already, the service has signed up two regions in Northern europe and one of the biggest cities in Brazil,
Today, the service has almost 15,000 users. That may not sound like much, but it sends a message:
15,000 developers had used it to create new payment services, sending $15 million through the companys pipes.
anybody who wanted to create a service like this would have had to navigate a morass of state and federal regulations
Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services.
Now Paypal has brought this same spirit of innovation and experimentation to the world of payments.
In the earliest days of credit cards, those fees paid for an important service. Until the late 1950s, each card was tied usually to a single bank
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If you re going to do the Netjet thing##his is a service offering fractional aircraft ownership#for those who do not wish to buy outright
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Another example is the geolocation service Foursquare provides which encourages people to use its check in technology by giving them an incentive,
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey s latest venture, Square, is an electronic payments service which enables users to accept credit card payments by using a portable card-reader device that plugs in to iphone, ipad or Android devices.
or money transferred using this service. Google CEO Larry page sees himself as the next great visionary, following in the footsteps of Steve jobs, Nikola Tesla,
For this reason, Los angeles-based QLESS Inc. has devised a text messaging service to help eliminate the wait.
With this type of service, people don t have to be present as the grueling minutes click away.
Look for wait-less systems to spring to life in doctor offices, auto service shops, pharmacies, Disneyland,
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Personality Services Talking back and forth to a computer that has a machinelike voice is boring. But being able to download specific personality packages#will add an entirely new level of engagement for basement-dwellers everywhere.
Octogenarian Service Providers As the population continues the age we will have record numbers of people living into their 80s, 90s, and 100s.
and services currently not being addressed in today s marketplace. 26. Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human
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On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries#ithout the need to invest in new infrastructure and train
Todays largest video service by number of subscribers is a software company: Netflix. How Netflix eviscerated Blockbuster is an old story,
Centurylinks revenue from these legacy services declined by more than 11%.%Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies,
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Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
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product manager for Wells fargos card services and consumer lending, adding that the banking industrys past conversations with mobile carriers had not been fruitful
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use e-mail or have Internet service. Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons.
or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark. One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.
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Now service and even white-collar jobs, like file clerks and data entry specialists or office support staff
Echobase markets its service to medical records software providers and hospitals, whose doctors download the app free.
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a retail phenomenon renowned for impeccable design, deft service and spectacular revenues. Last year, the company s 327 global stores took in more money per square foot than any other United states retailer#wireless
as members of the service economy, and many of them earn about $25, 000 a year.
Job growth has for decades been led by service-related work, and any recovery with real legs, labor experts say,
And as the service sector has grown, the definition of a career has been reframed for millions of American workers.
In the service sector companies provide a little bit of training and hope their employees leave after a few years,
Managers often tell new workers that they hope to get six years of service, former employees say.
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At one point the conversation turned to social networking services like Facebook Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp, and Buzz that encourage users to log in
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Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek,
and services have become cheaper. As economics writer Paul Mason put it decades ago, #oeinformation goods will be more prevalent than real goods,
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multitasking with different media all in service of one project. A joint project between two American and Canadian universities has been dubbed creatively the Paperphone.
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working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,
#oei think there s going to be diminished quite a demand for the service.##James Powell co-invented maglev technology while at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the 1960s.
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The True Cost of Forest fires In 2012 the U s. Forest Service had a budget of $948 million for fire suppression, a decrease of nearly $500 million from 2011.
After a thorough investigation of the fire by the U s. Forestry Service, the true costs were recalculated as follows:
In 2012 the U s. Forest Service, which manages over 35 million acres of forests, made a major policy shift,
and the National park service so far have not followed the Forest Service s lead. So if we have the capability of spotting fires very early
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The US Forest Service over in Globe, Arizona, is interested in possibly using virtual fencing. Some of the mining companies over there have leases that say that before they extract the ore,
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but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer #and what they say they would use in the future.
including online#oeask a librarian#-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community,
But we also wanted to include illustrations of some of these more innovative services, to see what they look like on the ground.
To that end, we ve collected examples of many of the types of services mentioned in the report,
as well as some#oefun and funky#services that we ve seen pop up at libraries across the county.
Examples of services discussed in the report Technology#oepetting Zoo#The Kent Free Library in Ohio#oehas hosted Technology Petting Zoos to give patrons
##oeredbox#-style library kiosks and outreach services#oein 2008, the Contra Costa County Library in California launched Library-a-Go-Go,
the American Library Association recognized the library for offering cutting-edge technologies in library services.##The Cuyahoga County Public library of Parma, Ohio#oecreated CCPL Mobile, an exciting new mobile app that enhances the library patron experience by giving patrons access to the unprecedented convenience of checking out
& Go#project that allows users with mobile phone to access various library services via scanned QR codes.#
Gimme combines library catalog MARC data, content enrichment service images and descriptions, and library staff book reviews on Goodreads. com to create a unique experience.
#Online research assistance According to the American Library Association, 70%of U s. public libraries offer digital or virtual reference services.
The service is one of the busiest of its kind in the United states. Ohio residents can log on from 7 a m. to 1 a m.,for an online chat session.
#The New york Public library s#oeask a librarian#texting service,#oeask NYPL,##oeis a virtual reference service of the New york Public library that allows patrons to submit research questions to trained information specialists
#Other programs and services Unique Library Collections Musical instrument Checkout Program#opez Island (Wash. Library#oethe Lopez Island Library offers a collection of musical instruments available for patron checkout.
#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web
Family Services#oefun & Funky#Library Services, by State Alabama Korean Discussion Group#orean women improving their English.
Chambers County Library, AL) Alaska Children s fishing tackle available for checkout (Kenai Community Library, Kenai, AK) Arizona Services offered at Pima County Public library
#Hillsboro Public library, Hillsboro, Oregon) From the Ashland Branch Library of the Jackson County Library Services:
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They re also physically small, have a long service life, lower power consumption, generate less heat,
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and services as he simultaneously readies the marketplace for them. Musk s vision completely aligns with a principle that scientists have known for over half a century:
Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design. Tesla identified their innovator customer segment
and had their service technicians visit owners for maintenance appointments rather than forcing them to sit waiting in a garage.
and fail to understand the importance of building a market rather than just a product or service.
and other social changes like sustainability, same-sex marriage, andin my casepro bono services. Based on this theory, market movers build markets intuitively and with great discipline.
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and sell services like training and hardware right next to the big green tractors and combines displayed in their showrooms.
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Theorists Every new product, service, and industry begins with a theory. 14. Legacists Those who are skilled passionate
Octogenarian Service Providers As the population continues the age we will have record numbers of people living into their 80s, 90s, and 100s.
and services currently not being addressed in today s marketplace. Future Agriculture When people think of farming
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The National Weather Service pegged the tornado as an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale meaning winds reached more than 200 mph (322 km h).
On Monday the National Weather Service office in Norman Okla. gave residents 16 minutes of warning before the tornado even formed based on radar indicators that the storm clouds were circulating in such a way that a tornado was likely.
In Joplin Miss. a 2011 tornado killed 158 according to the National Weather Service (the city of Joplin pegs the death toll at 161.
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Inside Science News Service is supported by the American Institute of Physics. Ker Than is a freelance writer based in Southern California i
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and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Inside Science News Service is supported by the American Institute of Physics i
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and Wildlife Service who was involved not in the research. The first is to address the growing demand
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In developing countries human-powered vehicles can provide affordable basic transportation for personal transport deliveries and even ambulance services.
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This story was provided by Inside Science News Service. A former science editor of Newsweek Peter Gwynne is a freelance science writer based in Sandwich Massachusetts i
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At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
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Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
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They re also physically small have a long service life lower power consumption generate less heat
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on 22 october to designate around 500,000 square kilometres of critical habitat 96%of which is sea ice for the polar bear.
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Cheap sequencing Research-services giant Life Technologies of Carlsbad, California, announced on 14 december that it is now selling benchtop DNA sequencers to labs for less than US$50,
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and Wildlife Service has set aside roughly 484,000 square kilometres in Alaska and the surrounding seas as a'critical habitat'for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus),
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and determined how consumers will receive access to tomorrow s new applications and services. The Obama Administration s overreaching has replaced innovators and investors with Washington bureaucrats.
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and she was unable to sell the idea of a federal agency for climate services.
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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,
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this service sounds great for padding out your bookshelves but might it have a more negative effect on the environment?
this is a nice service from the consumer perspective. I personally prefer reading on my Kindle;
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By the 1920s Palau had grown into a thriving Japanese port for goods and services en route across the Pacific.
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and health services always have 3d printed materials as their reference. Without this perhaps we still have manual stuff and procedure today.
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A 2012 Congressional Research Service report attributes much of the rise to an increase in extreme weather events.
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medical and surgical service was skilled and prompt and the hospital attention was second to none.
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Steel when it burns it s like spaghetti says B. J. Yeh the technical services director for APA he Engineered Wood Association.
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and sheep at present and the figure is expected to increase to 1 million by 2015 a growth rate of 12.1%as projected by the Veterinary Services Department.
GMP@Biotech (or FTU) a service centre under the Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science of UPM.
The FTU services centre which cost RM14 million to develop is now serving a horde of local companies like Malaysia Agriculture Hightech Stella Gen Johor Biomicrobe Pascal Biotech MVP One
and FTU were currently developing the standard operating procedure (SOP) for the mass production of the STVAC 7 vaccine using the GMP facilities of the service centre as well as product registration before marketing.
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The team of scientists--comprising researchers from Harvard SEAS the National park service the USDA Forest Service the U s. Environmental protection agency
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In addition to designing products that can be profitable for consumers the team advises designers to consider designing for reliability and service as well as multifunctionality.
Nokia also provided reliability via dedicated service vans that traveled to rural Indian villages to fix broken phones.
along with a service plan that established a continuing relationship with the company likely swayed customers toward Nokia's phones.
Yang and Austin-Breneman found that service and reliability were also big factors for small farmers in choosing a system for drip irrigation--an efficient means of delivering small amounts of water directly to the base of each plant.
Farmers tended to choose systems that came with service plans along with extras beyond the irrigation system itself.
For example while Nokia was able to invest millions of dollars in developing a service network a startup may not have such resources.
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and repair and to help plan sustainable service centers. The goal is to enable the community gardeners to maintain
and South african partners to plan different types of government-supported service centers that could provide advice spare parts
and evaluate two of the proposed service centers in South africa. The students'long-range goal is to create a model sustainability program that could be used to enable farmers
A co-investigator for Phase II is Dipankar Chakravarti a Johns Hopkins Carey Business school professor who will advise a business school graduate student assigned to assist with the setup and evaluation of the service centers.
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and provide critical environmental services such as nitrogen cycling. The convergence of nanotechnology with environmental microbiology could expand the limits of technology enhance global health through safer water reuse
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N00014-04-1-0313)( T. K. B. K.)and the U s. Department of agriculture-Forest Service (Grant No. 12-JV-11111122-098.
Funding for CNC substrate processing was provided by USDA-Forest Service (Grant No. 11-JV-11111129-118)( R. J. M. J. P. Y. J. L
.).The authors thank Rick Reiner and Alan Rudie from the U s. Forest Service-Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) for providing CNC materials.
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The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to hold another public comment period this spring before voting on the issue Sept. 30.
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what the U s. Department of agriculture Forest Service claims to be the most destructive forest pest ever seen in North america said Michael Domingue postdoctoral fellow in entomology Penn State.
According to the Forest Service the emerald ash borer was introduced to the United states from China in 2002.
Our laboratory has ongoing research with the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service into remote-reporting Internet-based technologies
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and also the average size of each fire ballooning the number of on-call U s. Forest Service firefighters
With funding from the U s. Department of agriculture's U s. Forest Service Division Dr. Mahalingam and his collaborator UAH Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty member Dr. Babak Shotorban are currently supervising four doctoral
Dr. Mahalingam studied that more closely in association with the U s. Forest Service while at the University of California Riverside.
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when it comes to replacing personal service with that of a computer. We survive without a ticket agent at the airport, a cashier at the grocery store and a teller at the bank.
The right place for robotic coffee Terry Mahlum, regional director for Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services,
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These companies, Cyber-Rain and ET Water, have released both recently cloud services that provide guidance about
The company lets you connect with the service, which integrates weather forecasts, via a computer or a free Apple iphone application.
The weather information comes the Weatherbug service which is interesting considering the investments that parent company Earth Networks is making in its predictive technologies.
GNOME is a free service (although you have to give up some personal information). The company figures that people using the application will save an average of 20 percent to 50 percent depending on their current watering habits.
but these cloud-based services will probably become more ubiquitous. I wouldn't be surprised to see more water utilities consider layering such applications into their web sites
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It goes without saying that Mulligan's idea also ignores the actual services that various ecosystems render to us humans refreshing the air, cleaning water, reducing pests, and so on.
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Biofuels are growing rapidly thanks to a large service economy. 2010 was a $50 billion marke. 2015 prediction:
à  Retail gas stations can be taken into and out of butanol service without problem. It's much easier to distribute
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It turned to its longtime IT services partner, N2n Global, to help it evaluate different solutions.
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but in the meantime, perhaps rival firm Google's mapping service or a traditional A to Z would be a better option.
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how long before they re delivering our goods and services automatically? Check out clips: oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
or who are affected by natural disasters. oeninety-five percent of the world designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10%of the world customers, notes advisory council member Paul Polak,
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And young corporate stars seeking to cash in for billions by selling shares to the public are consumer services the online game company Zynga last week,
but evidence shows that the vision is beginning to be realized on the ground, in recent investments, products and services, coming from large industrial and technology corporations and some ambitious start-ups.
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food production will fall far short of the needs by 2050, Clay colleague, IHS global insight managing director of agricultural services John Kruse,
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enhancing efficiecies by providing the capability of completing service and information-based tasks from wherever they choose.
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