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Google could become the primary sales channel for the insurance industry by 2020

June 26, 2014

The absolute greatest vertical in Google’s AdWords revenue is auto insurance.

Google is well on its way to establishing its leadership through the registration of 6 billion daily unique searches and indexing of over 50 billion web pages (2013), when it comes to collecting and organizing information. What remains to be seen is how this information is being made universally accessible and at what price. One of the industries that has particular advantage of access to the world’s information is insurance.

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79% of all internet traffic by 2018 is going to be online video

June 21, 2014

According to a report from Cisco on consumer internet traffic, online video is going to be massive. By 2018, over 75% of all traffic is going to be video based.

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The state of the internet in 10 graphs

June 20, 2014

Share of Internet usage is two times higher in Asia and Africa.

Over the past two years online photo sharing has sextupled. Nigerians are on their phones 30 percent more than Americans. We now spend more time on mobile than on print and radio combined.

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The ‘nanodegree’ – A new type of college degree created by AT&T and Udacity

June 19, 2014

An instructor for Udacity teaching an online Python class.

AT&T and the online education provider Udacity have partnered to create the “nanodegree,” a new type of college degree similar to the Micro Colleges that Futurist Thomas Frey predicted. The vocationally focused nanodegree is designed to be a lifelong learning portfolio that would be widely recognized by the tech industry and far cheaper to obtain.

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Big Brother is watching your streaming music

June 16, 2014

Music consumers migrated to streaming music services that live in the cloud in accelerating numbers.

How does the surveillance state consolidate control? By living in “the cloud” — where all our pertinent data is stored on computer servers operated by the likes of Google and Amazon and Microsoft — becomes too seductive to avoid and too cheap not to afford.

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‘Mesh networking’ – the promise of a new internet

June 13, 2014

People tend to talk about optimistically about the Internet. They talk about it in terms that describe how it ought to be rather than how it actually is.

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Animals, Art, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Humor, Photo Perspectives

Top 14 Photos of the Week

June 10, 2014

Sometimes the big picture is even bigger than the BIG picture!

Quote of the Day: “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.” – Bertrand Russell

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Google invests $1B on satellites to bring WiFi to the world

June 5, 2014

The project is scoped to provide internet to areas around the world without wired connections.

Google plans to spend over $1 billion on a fleet of satellites that will be used to provide internet to parts of the world that currently lack digital connections, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.

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Email still eats up a good part of your day

May 23, 2014

People in the U.S. who go online spend more time on average perusing social networks than watching online video. But what else is eating up time: email.

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25% of patients now read online physician reviews

May 23, 2014

1 in 4 Americans now look online for doctor reviews.

There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet. Some doctors bristle at the fact that many patients now shop for physicians in the same way they shop for restaurants and plumbers: using online review sites.

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The future of tech is ‘fog’ computing

May 21, 2014

Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and retrieving data, don’t make sense without the cloud, and any business that isn’t racing to push its data and software into someone else’s data center is setting itself up for disruption by a competitor who is.

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Top 5 arguments against net neutrality

May 20, 2014

Members of Avaaz, a global advocacy group.

When the news hit Reddit that the Federal Communications Commissions’ plans to consider paid priority on the Internet, the question wasn’t so much whether the move was a good idea, it was “How do I best tell my elected representative that this is a horrible idea?”

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