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Why no one company will ever Monopolize the Internet

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Monopolies are a unbeneficial to overall businesses world.

The pace and power of web-fueled innovation is stunning. One day we’re swearing by Outlook, the next, we can’t live without Gmail. These changes exemplify the beauty of the Internet — the possibility that greener pastures are but a click away.

On the other hand, the list of tech innovations that could have been is quite long. Before we get into those, a few caveats…

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Alternative Transportation, Great New Product, Science & Technology News

Wireless braking system for bicycles

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Professor Holger Hermanns with his prototype wireless bicycle braking system.

Wireless gear-shifting for bicycles has been around for the past few years.  Now someone has developed a wireless braking system. Created by computer scientists at Germany’s Saarland University, the current prototype still looks a little boxy, but it does do away with cables and brake levers. According to computer algorithms that would normally be used in control systems for aircraft or chemical factories, the system should offer 99.999999999997 percent reliability – that means it would fail three times out of a trillion braking attempts.

 

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Culture, Current Events, DIY, Economy, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Latest Trend, New Viewpoints

The rise of Customer-Driven innovation

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Crowdsourcing for innovation.

Numerous studies demonstrate that 70-80% of all new products fail. Lack of relevance, lack of differentiation, inappropriate pricing and muddled messaging all factor into a brand’s struggle when launching a new product.

However, the ultimate judgment of new products falls to consumers, who, ironically, are often absent from the development process. That development stage stands the greatest chance of generating transformative new ideas early on, before the brand has made a significant investment…

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Analysis, Entertainment, Green Friendly, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

Will you leave your passwords for your loved ones when you die?

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Where do passwords go when you die?

I have pretty secure passwords, as much to keep would-be miscreants at bay as to keep my friends and family from finding out just how horrible a life I’m living. But according to a study, a full 11 percent of Brits plan to leave their passwords in their will.

There’s some sense to that, actually…

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Alternative Transportation, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Marchi Mobile’s futuristic RV is available in the present

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The eleMMent

If you are in the market for a futuristic and slightly bizarre motor home it’s check out the eleMMent.  You’ll be the envy of the trailer park when you pull up in this 500 horsepower, 40-foot long monstrosity, which features a fireplace, a pop-up sky lounge with fog machine, and paint that glows in the dark. (Pics)

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

The car will be the next big boom in mobile technology

 World News - Sept. 15, 2011

Cars are about to get connected to the internet like never before.

One of the great mobile devices we have is the car.  And cars are about to get connected to the Internet like never before.  Not only will it change how we drive, but it will change the economics of the car business as well.

 

 

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Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Banks demolish forclosed homes to ease housing market pressures

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It has become cheaper for banks to demolish forclosed property than to continue to hold onto it.

The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in the foreclosure-ravaged city of Cleveland.  The housing crisis hit this area early and hard. But the story behind the recent wave of demolitions is novel — and cities around the country are taking notice.

 

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