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5/13/2013

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

By Amy Cortese
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

5/13/2013
By Amy Cortese

As editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine for most of the 21st century, Chris Anderson has had a front row seat to the technological changes that continue to transform our world. He's explored some of these changes in his books, The Long Tail, about the rise of niche markets, and Free , about the... Continue Reading

Tags: Manufacturing, Network Trailblazers

 
5/7/2013

Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

By Kristi Essick
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Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

5/7/2013
By Kristi Essick

Many consumers today use personal cloud services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, and iCloud. The lure of these services is clear: they allow users to store files such as documents, notes, and photos on a central server – automatically syncing these files to all of their... Continue Reading

Tags: Cloud, Security

 
5/5/2013

Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

By Kevin Maney
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SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 

Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

5/5/2013
By Kevin Maney

National Basketball Association teams have long wielded big budgets for data analytics that can break down tendencies of rival teams. But this year, a disruptively cheap web-based version of the technology helped the high school boys on the Fort Bend Travis Tigers basketball team storm to the... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment, Mobility, Innovation

 
4/30/2013

Healthcare and The Cloud

By Melissa Jun Rowley
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CLOUD 

Healthcare and The Cloud

4/30/2013
By Melissa Jun Rowley

If ever there was an industry in need of higher quality for less money, it’s the healthcare sector. In addition to the demand to improve operational efficiency, healthcare service providers are increasingly facing competition, which is putting the pressure on to do more for less. This is... Continue Reading

Tags: Cloud, Healthcare

 
4/28/2013

Mobility in Retail: How Technology Lets Consumers Track Products

By Joanne Taaffe
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Mobility in Retail: How Technology Lets Consumers Track Products

4/28/2013
By Joanne Taaffe

In mid-January European consumers were shocked to discover that many of their favorite frozen beef products had been made using horsemeat. Over the following weeks Europe’s press unfolded the story of a complex pan-European purchasing and supply chain scandal that shook consumer confidence... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Retail

 
4/22/2013

Mobility Set to Transform Retail Industry

By Anne Field
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MOBILITY 

Mobility Set to Transform Retail Industry

4/22/2013
By Anne Field

A bevy of tech startups are helping retailers use mobile devices to change the way offline stores interact with customers—and make them a lot smarter, too. "Mobility is set to trigger a business transformation across retail,” Leslie Hand, research director for IDC Retail... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Retail

 
4/21/2013

3D On the Small Screen: Advertising Gets a New Dimension

By Jason Deign
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3D On the Small Screen: Advertising Gets a New Dimension

4/21/2013
By Jason Deign

You could call it a struggle between different dimensions. Today's video devices, from Apple iPads to flat-screen TVs, are slimmer than ever before; the upcoming Sony Xperia Tablet Z , for example, is just 0.26 inches (6.6 millimeters) thick. Yet gaze into the screens of these slim-line... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment, Video

 
4/14/2013

Big Data Analytics: You Have The Right To Remain Private. Or Do You?

By Kerry Doyle
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SECURITY 

Big Data Analytics: You Have The Right To Remain Private. Or Do You?

4/14/2013
By Kerry Doyle

Increasing numbers of companies are employing Predictive Analytics technology to better understand their customers, and then capitalize on that information. Organizations want to use this wealth of customer data to create 360-degree portraits of their customers' shopping habits and purchasing... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Security, Retail

 
4/10/2013

Coming, Ready or Not: Cell Phones as Sensors

By Laurence Cruz
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Coming, Ready or Not: Cell Phones as Sensors

4/10/2013
By Laurence Cruz

In the Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Chiapas state, an interesting experiment is unfolding that could be an early forerunner of a future trend—the use of cell phones as sensors. Under the city's "Vigilante Taxi Driver" program, cab drivers use GPS-enabled cell phones to send messages... Continue Reading

Tags: Government, Mobility, Security, Smart and Connected Communities, Government, Internet of Everything

 
4/1/2013

Mobile Technology for Mobile Education

By Eric Rabkin
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MOBILITY 

Mobile Technology for Mobile Education

4/1/2013
By Eric Rabkin

As Air Force bases go, aircraft carriers are mobile.  In the 1980s, civilian employees of the University of Maryland University College, which now offers many online courses, served tours on U.S. aircraft carriers, under contract to the U.S. Department of Defense, during which they offered... Continue Reading

Tags: Education, Mobility

 
3/25/2013

What's Hot About Next-Generation Hotspots

By Jason Deign
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MOBILITY 

What's Hot About Next-Generation Hotspots

3/25/2013
By Jason Deign

Coming soon to a street corner near you: the next-generation Wi-Fi hotspot. One where you do not have to bother with passwords or signup pages,or even finding out whether it is there. You will be using it before you even know it. The idea behind next-generation hotspots is simple: to make their... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility

 
3/24/2013

Securing the Internet of Things

By Laurence Cruz
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SECURITY 

Securing the Internet of Things

3/24/2013
By Laurence Cruz

First, the good news: The Internet of Things is here, and with it vast quantities of convenience, pleasure and benefits. And the bad news? The Internet of Things is here, and with it a variety of security concerns. Apparently, both types of news are true. On the upside, things like... Continue Reading

Tags: Security, Internet of Everything

 
3/19/2013

The Evolving Context-Aware Ecosystem: Location, Proximity & Privacy

By Melissa Jun Rowley
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MOBILITY 

The Evolving Context-Aware Ecosystem: Location, Proximity & Privacy

3/19/2013
By Melissa Jun Rowley

Imagine living your life day to day with the most loyal, personal companion—one that pays the utmost attention to your habits, anticipates your needs, makes the best recommendations, and provides valuable information about your surroundings at any give moment. This isn't your spouse,... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility

 
3/18/2013

Video Conferencing Offers Insight To E-Health

By Kerry Doyle
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Video Conferencing Offers Insight To E-Health

3/18/2013
By Kerry Doyle

It's well known that we're moving into a "perfect storm" of healthcare-related issues: an aging population, reforms such as the Affordable Health Care Act and an increasing premium on healthcare workers. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the U.S. demand for... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Video, Healthcare

 
3/17/2013

Health Check: The Rise of Telecare in Europe

By Joanne Taaffe
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HEALTHCARE 

Health Check: The Rise of Telecare in Europe

3/17/2013
By Joanne Taaffe

Streets of half-timbered houses with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs suggest change comes slowly to Colmar, the city at the heart of France's Alsace wine region. But when it comes to providing healthcare its authorities are breaking with tradition. Since January, residents of Colmar's... Continue Reading

Tags: Healthcare, France, United Kingdom

 
3/11/2013

How the Mobile Phone Can Help Keep Your Children Safe

By Jason Deign
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MOBILITY 

How the Mobile Phone Can Help Keep Your Children Safe

3/11/2013
By Jason Deign

If you are a parent it is hard not to stress about what might be happening to your kids when they are out of sight. With missing children featured regularly and prominently in the media, every time a youngster steps unaccompanied out onto the street, it can drive a mom or dad to despair.... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility

 
3/10/2013

Time-Crunched Lifestyles and Appetite for Variety Fuel Demand for Mobile Businesses

By Mary Ann Azevedo
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MOBILITY 

Time-Crunched Lifestyles and Appetite for Variety Fuel Demand for Mobile Businesses

3/10/2013
By Mary Ann Azevedo

TiVo employee Greg Oncina is a busy man. He and just about nearly everyone else living and working in Silicon Valley struggles with juggling a hectic work schedule with having, well, a life. So when TiVo added haircuts to its list of employee perks, Oncina was thrilled. Now TiVo’s events... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility

 
3/4/2013

Productive and Profitable: Taking the Telework Pledge

By Kirsten Chiala
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MOBILITY 

Productive and Profitable: Taking the Telework Pledge

3/4/2013
By Kirsten Chiala

Turn off the alarm and get out of bed, check. Crank up the coffee pot, check. Sit in traffic for an hour on the way to work? Not this week. Thousands of people across the country are giving up the commute, and working from home as part of their pledge to telecommute this week. It’s part of... Continue Reading

Tags: Government, Mobility, Innovation

 
3/3/2013

Full of Eastern Promise: Technology Tour in an Emerging Market

By Sue Tabbitt
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Full of Eastern Promise: Technology Tour in an Emerging Market

3/3/2013
By Sue Tabbitt

Entrepreneurs from 16 of Britain’s most promising digital, wireless and mobile software technology companies took part in an exclusive tour of India last month, giving them a unique opportunity to showcase their innovations to potential investors and business partners. The backers of... Continue Reading

Tags: Education, Innovation, EMEAR

 
2/24/2013

Online Education and the Virtual Classroom

By Eric Rabkin
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EDUCATION 

Online Education and the Virtual Classroom

2/24/2013
By Eric Rabkin

Sometimes the best inventions happen by accident. One of the world's great storehouses of biological knowledge is the Animal Diversity Web . In 1995, University of Michigan biology professor Philip Myers decided to use the new medium of the World Wide Web to engage his students in producing... Continue Reading

Tags: Education, Collaboration