Your LinkedIn profile is much more than just your online CV.
The job search is something that everyone over 18 has pulled their hair out over at one point or another in their life. What ways can you improve your credibility and the opportunities that are out there?
Continue reading… “Don’t let LinkedIn ruin your chance of getting that job you want”
Fraunhofer’s Millilink chip, with III-V transistors capable of switching at 300GHz.
Researchers in Germany have combined photonics and electronics to create a world-record-breaking wireless network that can send and receive data at a heady 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). This beats the same team’s previous world record of 40Gbps. At 100Gbps, or a transfer rate of 12.5 gigabytes per second — ten times faster than Google Fiber — you could copy a complete Blu-ray disc in a couple of seconds.
Harvard Business School
The hallowed halls of Harvard Business School are about to open up to the world virtually. The elite institution is reportedly working on an online learning initiative, called HBX, that would mark its first foray into the world of massive open online classes (MOOCs).
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Your home will start thinking and be able to detect the presence of people, pets, cars, smoke, humidity, moisture, lighting, temperature, vibration, angle, and movement.
It will be possible to communicate with nearly every device in your home sometime in the near future. The value people will get from communicating with these previously dumb, lifeless things will far outweigh the costs of learning their language. They will be able to capture data, communicate vital information to us that we wouldn’t otherwise know and even act when different events take place.
Continue reading… “The programmable world begins in our homes”
Web marketing has been completely turned upside down.
Google announced back in October 2011 that it was going to start blocking valuable data about which keywords consumers use to discover your content. By encrypting all searches, Google would instead dump visits from natural search into the nebulous “not provided” category in web analytics software.
Continue reading… “Google is killing off the keyword, unless you pay for it”
Is everyone leaving rural Scotland because of a very sluggish internet?
Population shifts are driven by all sorts of social factors, but the Scottish government appears to have pinpointed a new population shift: direly sluggish Internet connections.
Continue reading… “People are leaving rural Scotland because the internet is too slow”
Apparently, new certainties in life are death, taxes, and Internet ad revenues going up. Online ad revenues in the U.S. jumped 18 percent from 2012′s numbers to hit a new record, $20.1 billion, just for the first half of 2013. Mobile revenues were the fastest-growing, soaring 145 percent to $3 billion, and digital video ads, crucial to the growth of visual media online such as YouTube, rose 24 percent to $1.3 billion.
Continue reading… “New record as online ad revenues jump 18% to $20B in first 6 months of 2013”
The annual Freedom on the Net report from Freedom House is out, and like in most such reports, the actual rankings are largely unsurprising. Iceland, the frozen whistleblower nirvana, ranked first, and second was Estonia, the tiny Baltic country that gave us Skype. China, Cuba, and Iran came in last, obviously.
Continue reading… “Internet freedom on the decline globally”
Internet of Things
Seventy-five billion is the number of devices that Morgan Stanley has extrapolated from a Cisco report that details how many devices will be connected to the Internet of Things by 2020. That’s 9.4 devices for every one of the 8 billion people that’s expected to be around in seven years.
Continue reading… “How big will the Internet of Things become?”
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world together to promote the “Knowledge Economy”. Internet.org, is a group that Zuckerberg started in partnership with mobile-device makers Samsung, Nokia, and Qualcomm, and they have released a video highlighting his plan to interlink the next 5 billion people.
Continue reading… “The internet needs to be 100 times more affordable: Mark Zuckerberg”
Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s commercial space company, has just launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit carrying a Canadian Space Agency satellite, CASSIOPE. Part of the satellite’s payload is Cascade, a prototype for a super-fast space-borne file-transfer system—a kind of digital courier service.
Continue reading… “Ultra-fast internet connection just launched into space”
Google Shopping Express
After six months of testing, Google has officially opened its new service, Google Shopping Express in the San Francisco Bay Area. Google Shopping Express is a new same-day delivery service that is available in the Bay Area, which includes San Francisco and San Jose.
Continue reading… “Google Shopping Express – a same-day delivery service for online shoppers”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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