25% increase in the use of mobile phones in retail stores.
More shoppers are using their mobiles for ‘showrooming’, checking prices and product information while shopping in stores. There has been a 25% increase in the use of mobiles in retail stores, which has significant implications for retailers, according to JiWire’s Mobile Audience Insights Report for Q2 2013.
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Once the retailer has a phone number, they have an identity.
We all feel violated when companies dig deeper into your pockets than you want. New technology is letting brick-and-mortar stores invade shoppers’ pockets for personal information more than ever before. Retailers have unprecedented access to shoppers’ habits with the stores ability to track customers cell phones. They can track how frequently a customer visits a store to how long he stands at a window display before deciding whether or not to enter the shop.
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The retirement financial guys think we have a retirement saving crisis. A study recently released by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that we are in bad shape. Retirement saving is dangerously low especially for folks without retirement accounts. Let’s take a look at the data.
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Around 20% of American adults who do not use the Internet at home, work and school, or by mobile device.
There has been a $7 billion effort by the Obama administration to increase internet access throughout the country. Perhaps most staggering, though, is that almost 20 percent of American adults still don’t use the internet at home, work, school, or through a mobile device — a statistic that has generally remained the same since 2009.
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PHP is a very accessible language, and it makes sense that casual / younger / lower paid programmers can easily contribute.
Ben Podgursky, a Software Engineer at Liveramp, a few weeks ago, described how he used Git commit metadata plus the Rapleaf API to build aggregate demographic profiles for popular GitHub organizations.
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Tech startups want loft or converted manufacturing space with big windows, high ceilings, wood or concrete floors and lots of open air.
There’s a tech revolution happening in New York. Hundreds if not thousands of new tech companies have hatched in NYC in the past two years. And many of them are growing rapidly and gobbling up office space.
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The solar industry employs nearly 120,000 Americans.
Solar energy is hot. With a foundation of consistent, long-term deployment policies at both the federal and state levels, solar PV in the U.S. is leading an unparalleled price decline on the strength of enduring high demand from U.S. consumers.
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Until all pieces of the cloud — and the internet — are known secure, it’s hard to trust that any level of server-side encryption will completely do the job.
You would probably think that the NSA and other shadowy government agencies are the world’s biggest cloud proponents: all your data, all the time, in the cloud, where Prism and XKeyscore can, apparently, access it.
Continue reading… “Google now triple-encrypts all data in Google Cloud Storage”
The growing popularity of video streaming and the emergence of more and more connected devices means that our need for bandwidth is going to grow.
Thanks to a slew of new technologies, optical networks are getting bigger, beefier and faster. It has now become commonplace to hear about optical networks, mostly in the Internet’s backbone, supporting speeds of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). And to add some context, in 1990 the state of the art was 2.5 Gbps.
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Game-based learning focuses on teaching knowledge to kids or general consumers.
A new research report by Ambient Insight finds that educational games, also known as “serious games,” are going through a renaissance in part because of the acceptance of learning apps on mobile devices.
Continue reading… “Mobile learning game market will grow from $1.5 billion to $2.3 billion by 2017”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Consider the following scenario.
In 2035 a heinous criminal escapes in the city of Dallas, Texas and the local police department acquires a court order to conduct a thorough search of the metro area. Within 15 minutes a fleet of twelve surveillance drones is deployed to begin an ultra high-res flyover.
Younger generations have been exposed longer to risk factors for obesity.
A new report reveals that the number of deaths caused by obesity in the United States has been vastly underestimated by researchers. Obesity accounts for 18 percent of deaths among black and white Americans between the ages of 40 and 85, according to the study published online Aug. 15 in the American Journal of Public Health. Previous estimates had placed obesity-related deaths at only 5 percent of all U.S. deaths.
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