The Internet, in principle, could have conscious states.
If you had to list the hardest problems in science — the questions even some scientists say are insoluble — you would probably end up with two:
Continue reading… “How the internet could learn to feel”
One in 10 men use gaming consoles to watch online content.
When men are looking for entertainment they favoring their computers and not their televisions, according to “The Great Male Survey” conducted by AskMen.com from May to July 2012.
Continue reading… “Men prefer computers over television for entertainment”
New rulings mean big changes in the online poker world.
Two weeks ago, online poker site PokerStars.com reached a settlement agreement with the United States Department of Justice in the amount of $731 Million dollars in relations to charges brought against them in April of 2011. In addition, the settlement included terms that saw PokerStars purchase rival online poker site Full Tilt Poker.
For those unfamiliar with the story, the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on April 15th, 2011 against PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker that charged them with numerous crimes that included money laundering, bank fraud, and violations of the UIGEA. In addition, their .com domains were seized by the US Government.Since that time, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker have both been forced out of business and PokerStars pulled out of the United States…
Continue reading… “Recent PokerStars-DOJ Deal Will Change the Future of Online Poker Forever”
With the arrival of the big smartphone platforms, we’ve reverted back to 1999.
Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 with the long cycle times for developing the apps. It’s like we’ve forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years.
Continue reading… “Mobile app startup failures look more like 1999”
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Most popular music video on YouTube right now.
Forty-eight percent of consumers in the U.S. still see radio as the dominant way to discover new music, according to Nielsen’s latest “Music 360” report. For almost two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, however, Google’s YouTube is now a more important source of music than radio (54%), iTunes (53%) and CDs (50%).
Continue reading… “Teens listen to more music through YouTube than any other source”
While driving we can get connected to the world through the internet.
Everyday the world of automotive technology changes. Companies are designing very advanced in-car technology that needs to be secure but also easily usable to their customers. Now a days big automobile brands introduce the internet facility and secure navigation systems in cars. This is very beneficial to the consumers.
Continue reading… “The future of in-car connectivity”
Count Apple co-founder and tech icon Steve Wozniak among the skeptics on cloud computing.
Cloud computing is here to stay, but not all of us like the idea of putting our personal data onto what is essentially a shared resource beyond our control. No less a tech icon than Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed his reservations on this topic this weekend.
Continue reading… “Steve Wozniak worries about cloud computing”
Within months of launch, Orkut’s user community started to change.
Did you know Google had a social network that predated Google+? Google’s social network was called: Orkut and it launched a few months before Facebook launched as a Harvard-only site.
Continue reading… “Dalton Caldwell: Critical mass vs network effects”
Tom Slee published “Seeing Like a Geek” a few days ago. It is a thoughtful article on the dark side of open data. He starts with the story of a Dalit community in India, whose land was transferred to a group of higher cast Mudaliars through bureaucratic manipulation under the guise of standardizing and digitizing property records. While this sounds like a good idea, it gave a wealthier, more powerful group a chance to erase older, traditional records that hadn’t been properly codified. One effect of passing laws requiring standardized, digital data is to marginalize all data that can’t be standardized or digitized, and to marginalize the people who don’t control the process of standardization.
Continue reading… “The dark side of open data”
Online buyers in India will spend nearly five times more on travel than on retail purchases in 2012.
India’s ecommerce is rising quickly as consumers turn to the web for products and services, but more than 80% of the country’s online sales come from travel purchases. Online buyers in India spend nearly five times more on leisure and unmanaged business travel than they spend on retail purchases.
Continue reading… “83% of ecommerce in India is from online travel sales”
The more we replace with our phones, the fewer consumer electronics we have to keep updated, and the less cluttered our lives can become.
We can easily get caught up in what’s new in smartphones, from novel applications of near field communication to their potential as detectors of environmental pollutants. But it’s also useful to occasionally look back on what they’ve granted us already. A recent survey in the UK found 4 in 10 smartphone users said their phone was “more important for accessing the Internet than any other device.”
Continue reading… “List of things replaced by smartphones”
Online video will soon dominate your time spent on the web.
Chances are that in the past three years that you have watched an online video. Almost every site on the internet that you visit has a video displayed in some form. Video viewership has skyrocketed and there are no signs of it slowing down.
Continue reading… “Why online videos are the future of marketing”
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