The wireless industry is against super WIFI networks while Google and Microsoft say it would spark innovation.
On February 3, 2013, the Washington Post boldly led a front-page story last weekend with the claim: “The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.”
Continue reading… “Creating Spectrum for the Internet of Things”
Technorati is one of the largest sites that monitor blogs and their influence. Last week they released their Technorati Media’s 2013 Digital Influence Report which paints interesting numbers showing how brands spend their money online, and how people react to this branding effort. There are two trends which seem to indicate we may just see a shift in the coming months which should be of interest to any online marketer.
Continue reading… “We will see a shift from social networks back to blogs in 2013”
Recently, Marc Andreessen made some bold statements about the future of the retail business:
“Retail chains are a fundamentally implausible economic structure if there’s a viable alternative,” he says. “You combine the fixed cost of real estate with inventory, and it puts every retailer in a highly leveraged position. Few can survive a decline of 20 to 30 percent in revenues. It just doesn’t make any sense for all this stuff to sit on shelves. There is fundamentally a better model.”
Continue reading… “The future of 3D printing and the retail business”
“We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today’s hot technology create platforms for future disruption,” analyst Bryan Hopkins writes.
Forrester, a research firm, understands that everyone who’s been listening knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.
Continue reading… “Top 15 emerging technology trends: Forrester”
Virtual fencing promises radical transformation by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape.
European farmers claimed North America with fences when they first arrived. Fences were the physical manifestation of a belief in private ownership and the proper use of land — enclosed, utilized, defended — that continues to shape the American way of life, its economic aspirations, and even its form of government. (Videos)
Continue reading… “Virtual fences will transform rural America”
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Many people have had the misfortune of receiving a package that has been roughhoused in transit. A lot of times we don’t even realized it until we opened the package. Cambridge Consultants’ DropTag might just serve as the insurance we need.
Continue reading… “DropTag – sensor let’s you know when your packaged has been dropped, damaged”
EyeSight Technologies
Touching and swiping are commonplace ways to interact with TVs, computers, and mobile devices thanks to smartphones, tablets, and Windows 8. But what if you want to do the same without touching the screen at all? (Videos)
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Wall Street
Years ago Dell computers used to be pretty cool. But the company that was started by the youngest CEO to every sit atop the Fortune 500, Michael Dell, is as outdated and out of place in today’s world as the old CRT monitor in the back of my parents’ garage.
Continue reading… “Why Wall Street strangles innovation at tech companies”
Logo for the Russian search engine, Yandex.
The biggest search engine few people have ever heard of. is probably Yandex. According to Search Engine Watch, the Russian search engine has surpassed Microsoft’s Bing in the world’s top search engine rankings. Search Engine Watch got its data from ComScore.
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Content will come to you.
You can call it “anticipatory computing,” or “information gravitation” or whatever you want, but it appears the future of search isn’t search at all. Instead, next-generation applications will surface the information we need when we need it — whether we know we need it or not.
Continue reading… “The future of search is gravitational”
“Chicago has developed into a city that every investor must watch.”
Chicago’s most innovative minds launched 197 digital startups in 2012, up from 193 launched in 2011. 59 companies secured funding of at least $1M in 2012, an increase from 44 companies in 2011. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “2012 Built in Chicago digital startup report”
There are nowhere near enough “data scientists.”
It is currently accepted that the people who understand Big Data – the enormous datasets of information being collected with nearly every click of every computing device on the planet – will rule the roost in the future. If you can predict behavior by measuring and monitoring people’s machines down to an almost atomic level, you can make both your customers and your shareholders much happier.
Continue reading… “The search for data scientists grows frantic as startups produce more data”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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