Internet – Page 26

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Facebook’s silent majority holds the key to the company’s future

September 15, 2012

If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.

Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.

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Business, Internet, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Top Kickstarter cities in the U.S. (Infographics)

September 10, 2012

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding site.

When it comes to getting your big idea funded by strangers size matters.

Three of the most populated metro areas in the U.S., New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, are the top three Kickstarter cities in America when it comes to total funds raised, according to data compiled by ThingsWeStart.com. Chicago, Austin, and Boston also make the top 10 list.

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

Solving the software developer shortage

September 4, 2012

Moving development to the cloud and offering the IDE as a service to developers, a significant amount of their workload has been removed.

The sentiment that software is taking over the world has become widely accepted throughout the tech community. Last year it was examined in depth by Marc Andreessen. However, as software continues to infiltrate nearly every industry, there’s a serious consequence taking shape. The demand for development continues to grow exponentially, but the amount of qualified developers that are available to produce this commodity is not. Simply put, the world is running out of developers.

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Analysis, Latest Trend

Study finds 75% of homeless youth use social networks

August 31, 2012

Young adults find ways to access the Internet even without a roof over their heads.

Social scientists found that 75 percent of the homeless youth they surveyed use social networks and that their usage patterns were remarkably similar to college students. in a new intriguing study..

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Analysis, Internet, Science & Technology News

Why we all need to understand ‘big data’

August 30, 2012

Big data

“Big data” – where does it come from? Why aren’t companies like Facebook and Google concerned about big data? The answer is that the web companies are the forerunners. Driven by social, mobile, and cloud technology, there is an important transition taking place, leading us all to the data-enabled world that those companies inhabit today.

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Analysis, Internet, Science & Technology News

A national survey shows most Americans are confused about what cloud computing is

August 30, 2012

A majority of Millennials, believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.

“The cloud” is the tech buzzword of the year. But many Americans remain foggy about what the cloud really is and how it works. A new national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, showed that most respondents believe the cloud is related to weather, while some referred to pillows, drugs and toilet paper. Those in the know claim working from home in their “birthday suit” is the cloud’s greatest advantage. The good news is that even those that don’t know exactly what the cloud is recognize its economic benefits and think the cloud is a catalyst for small business growth.

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Analysis, Globalism, Internet, Sealife

Information war is the ‘new cold war’

August 27, 2012

An information war has erupted around the world.

Around the world an information war has erupted. The lines for battle have been drawn between governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.

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Analysis, Brain, Internet, Science & Technology News

How the internet could learn to feel

August 23, 2012

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:

Where do the laws of physics come from?
How does the physical stuff in our brains produce conscious experience?

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Analysis, App, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Mobile app startup failures look more like 1999

August 16, 2012

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.

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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Music, Science & Technology News

Teens listen to more music through YouTube than any other source

August 15, 2012

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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%).

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Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The future of in-car connectivity

August 9, 2012

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.

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Steve Wozniak worries about cloud computing

August 7, 2012

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.

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