Pictured with Bigelow is a BA 330 module, similar in function to what the new Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be.
Robert Bigelow is a hotel ans aerospace entrepreneur, He got rich off budget hotel suites that start at $189 a week. Now they are funding his dream of building inflatable space habitats with rates topping $400,000 a day.
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Americans prefer the iPhone over Android.
Americans overwhelmingly prefer iPhone over Android while the rest of the world has overwhelmingly embraced Android. According to IDC, Android has a 75% market share in smartphones, versus 15% for Apple, worldwide. But in the U.S. the iPhone still rules. Sixty-three percent of smartphone sales at Verizon and 84% of smartphone sales at AT&T are the iPhone.
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Marc Andreessen
Alexia Tsotsis of Tech Crunch was doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” last year when she had the opportunity to interview Silicon veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed.
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When you hear the name Bluetooth, it brings back bad memories of the wireless cell phone earpiece that was more personal statement than practical tool. But Bluetooth has come of age. It has become the muse of several start-ups and established companies that are finding new and creative ways to take advantage of Bluetooth’s drastic uptick in efficiency, from the Nike Fuelband to the Pebble Smartwatch, which we previously featured on “This Could Be Big.”
Smartphone apps are more advanced than what automakers are offering, so they are preferable.
Increasingly, drivers prefer using applications on their smartphones to the navigation systems that come installed in their cars.
Continue reading… “Drivers prefer their smartphones to the mediocre built-in car navigation systems”
Mobile readership offers publishers a new circulation revenue sources.
Media businesses have already gone through a first wave of digital transition, and in the last few years, mobile has been the next frontier. Publishers have been tasked with deciding whether to offer their content on the smaller-screen devices—and how.
Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frey is a futurist and keynote speaker who presents his ideas about the future to companies, government officials and others around the globe seeking guidance and insight in a rapidly changing world.
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There are plenty of job siting open despite the less-than-booming U.S. employment market. But there’s a mismatch between the skills that applicants have and the skills required for the careers that are in hot demand. Among employers, 25% reported that they had open positions in science and engineering that were hard to fill, and 18% said they were struggling to fill jobs in computer programming and information technology (IT), according to a 2011 report by McKinsey & Co. Looking ahead, employers could face a shortage of 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers worldwide by 2020.
Continue reading… “Top 5 hottest careers you may have never considered”
Several universities offer free courseware.
2013 will see countless technological advancements, some of these will happen in education. Here’s a look at some of Edudemic.com’s ideas of what may happen in education in the next year. (Infographic)
Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation 3 exclusive game, Journey.
Video games are the most interactive form of entertainment we have but they have been slow to achieve the kind of experiential status that is often associated with art, music, literature, and film. Last year there were many titles released that challenged this notion. Among them was Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation3 exclusive, Journey, which has received heaps of praise and made many video game enthusiasts’ Game-of-the-Year lists.
Continue reading… “Video games should be consider an ‘experience, not just a product”
Intel has struggled to keep pace with its competitors in the PC motherboard category.
Intel has taken the first steps toward dissolving its PC motherboardproduction. If all goes according to plan, the entire division will be nonexistent by 2016.
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Broadband connections over 10Mbps dubbed high broadband.
The number of broadband connections over 10 Mbps — dubbed “high broadband,” has grown by 73 percent from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from Akamai. The U.S. has also see a 20 percent overall increase in average speed to 7.2 Mbps over the past year, but the number of people who have adopted broadband (measured at anything above 4 Mbps) was 62 percent, which puts the U.S. at No. 12 in the worldwide rankings when it comes to adoption and No. 9 when it comes to average speeds.
Continue reading… “The broadband future is faster, but still not distributed evenly”