Google Fiber installation has officially kicked off in Kansas City.
Google Fiber, the gigabit home internet service, finally went live in Kansas City after months of anticipation. The search giant is offering 1Gbps speeds for just $70 per month—significantly faster and cheaper than what any traditional American ISPs are offering.
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Text messaging on the decline.
Around the world, text-message traffic has been declining because Internet-powered alternatives are becoming so widely used. American cell carriers have fought off the decline until now.
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A pilot project will determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit.
While MOOC’s, massive open online courses, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges by making hem eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.
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Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.
Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising. Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In the 1980s, as a young human factors engineer at IBM, I spent much of my time working with anthropometric tables, a compilation of statistical data about the human body used for designing a product’s ergonomic interface.
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Top brands on Instagram
Of the world’s biggest 100 brands, 54 percent are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.
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MOOC is massive open online course
Recently there have been many discussions over the topic of MOOCs. MOOC stands for a massive open online course. It is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number of students.
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Almost half of all US internet users stream TV content through an internet-connected device.
Marketers are familiar with cord cutters—consumers who have traded in their cable TV packages for internet-steamed TV and video content but they should also be aware of “cord frayers.” Cord frayers make up a segment of consumers who have downgraded their cable TV packages instead of cutting the cord completely. Not surprisingly, doing so has affected cord frayers’ TV and online video viewing behavior.
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People are shifting from using websites, where search is a natural activity, to using mobile apps.
Last month something crucial happened that no one seems to be paying attention to. People searched less. That’s never happened before.
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About 43.5 percent of our social traffic are social networks we know.
In the early days of the web, pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information. Around 2003 or 2004, the social web really kicked into gear, and thereafter the web’s users began to connect with each other more and more often. Hence Web 2.0, Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This is the dominant history of the web as seen, for example, in this Wikipedia entry on the ‘Social Web.’
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Georges Nahon
A very inspiring keynote was given by Georges Nahon, head of Orange Silicon Valley, to a panel of blogger in in which he shared his vision with regard to what is happening in IT in general, and in the Silicon Valley in particular. Here is are the detailed conclusions of Georges’s presentation.
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Is the cool glow of a smartphone the sure sign of an addict?
What exactly do you do here, I’ve been meaning to ask. Because I’m the producer, right? I cook. But from what I can tell, you are just a drug addict! You are a pathetic junkie too stupid to understand and follow simple rudimentary instructions!” – – Walter White from the hit TV show “Breaking Bad.”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Addiction is a word seething with negative connotations. It implies that someone is out of control with their life, making bad decisions with their money, and placing everyone around them at risk.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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