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a YCombinator partner experiences 6 months mobile email absolute diet

a YCombinator partner experiences 6 months mobile email absolute diet | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Worth a full read on his blog :

 

Six months ago I deleted email from my phone by unlinking my Gmail account from the iPhone Mail app. Technically I could still check my email using Safari but I use 1Password to manage my passwords and the experience on mobile requires several,...

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Get Ready For 'Super Wi-Fi' To Be A Big Thing In 2013

Get Ready For 'Super Wi-Fi' To Be A Big Thing In 2013 | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

By this time next year, thousands of people will be using a new longer-range kind of Wi-Fi commonly called "super Wi-Fi."


Super Wi-Fi isn't really Wi-Fi, a form of wireless networking which uses unlicensed spectrum. Instead, it's a new kind of wireless network running on unused or underused spectrum known as "white spaces." It's championed by the likes of Google and Microsoft.

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How To Be a Genius: Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual

How To Be a Genius: Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say. How do we know? Gizmodo read Apple's secret Genius Training Manual from cover to cover.

 

It's a penetrating look inside Apple: psychological mastery, banned words, roleplaying—you've never seen anything like it.

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smartphone adoption growing 10x faster than PC business in the 1980's

smartphone adoption growing 10x faster than PC business in the 1980's | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history.  Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution, 2X faster than that of 90s Internet Boom and 3X faster than that of recent social network adoption. 

 

Five years into the smart device growth curve, expansion of this new technology is rapidly expanding beyond early adopter markets such as such as North America and Western Europe, creating a true worldwide addressable market.

 

Overall, Flurry estimates that there were over 640 million iOS and Android devices in use during the month of July 2012.

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Why Quora Is Wikipedia's Worst Nightmare

Why Quora Is Wikipedia's Worst Nightmare | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

If the buzz in Silicon Valley is to be believed, the decade-old compendium of common knowledge Wikipedia could very well be replaced in the near future by a startup run by ex-Facebookers.


Instead people will be visitingQuora, a San Francisco-based$400 million startup that's basically an extremely flexible and powerful question-and-answer site, because Quoradelivers new and relevant content in addition to having a giant database of information.

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The other side of #BYOD : there is always a trade-off

The other side of #BYOD : there is always a trade-off | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Employees allowed to bring their own devices to work and given the flexibility to adjust their work schedules often work an extra five to 20 hours extra per week, a new survey claims.

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Facebook Just Updated Its iPhone And iPad Apps With Some Must-Have Features

Facebook Just Updated Its iPhone And iPad Apps With Some Must-Have Features | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Beyond an impressive (and long awaited) speed and UX improvement, facebook's last iOS release raises the HTML5 vs.native apps debate to a whole new level

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For Sales Forces, Big Data May Be Overhyped

For Sales Forces, Big Data May Be Overhyped | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article ("Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems. But as early as 1990, the Conference Board cautioned that half the companies that had purchased such systems regretted going down the path they did. In the second wave, led by Siebel Systems, tens of billions of dollars were spent. Many surveys around the year 2000 reported that 50% to 70% of these implementations failed. Now in its third wave, recent CRM efforts are more successful, having matured with the lessons of the early failures and the emergence of industry-tailored solutions that are quicker to deploy and lighter to sustain. But it's been a long time coming.

So how then should you think about big data for your sales organization? Here are three recommendations:


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Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.

A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.

.../... (Abstract from Reuters available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-science-music-idUSBRE86P0R820120726)
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The Latest PC 'Growth' Numbers Show No Growth At All

The Latest PC 'Growth' Numbers Show No Growth At All | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
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Gartner: 1/3 of consumer data will be stored in the cloud by '16

Consumer adoption of cloud services will continue to increase in the coming years, with one-third of personal data being stored in the cloud by 2016, Gartner predicts.

Today, only about 7% of personal data is stored in the cloud. But, Gartner researchers say the ability for consumers to capture data on their smartphones and tablets, using cameras and video recording devices, will drive the need to store data outside of local traditional options, such as on a personal computer hard drive or an external hard drive. Plus, the advent of technology allowing data to be automatically uploaded to the cloud, will mean that 36% of consumer data will be stored in the cloud within four years.

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Apple Has Almost Completely Eliminated The Windows Platform Advantage

Apple Has Almost Completely Eliminated The Windows Platform Advantage | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

The ratio of Windows PCs sold compared to Macs steadily increased throughout the second half of the 1990s and during the first few years of the 2000s, thanks in part to the success of Windows 95. But as we reported recently, analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco crunched some numbers and found that this ratio has been declining for the past eight years thanks to Apple's resurgence.


According to Dediu, the ratio of Windows PCs to Macs sold dropped to below 20 in 2011, its lowest level since before Windows 95 was launched. But that only tells part of the story.


In a new post, Dediu compares the ratio of Windows units sold to all Apple devices, not just Macs. When you factor in iPhones and iPads, the ratio of Windows units to Apple devices sold has dropped to less than two.


"Seen this way, Post-PC devices wiped out of leverage faster than it was originally built," Dediu writes. "They not only reversed the advantage but cancelled it altogether."

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MEX and Qualcomm initiate Pathway on context aware UX

MEX and Qualcomm initiate Pathway on context aware UX | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

The Pathway explores how systems responsive to behaviour patterns and sensor data enable new experiences better suited to individual user needs. It aims to solve specific design challenges around the self learning process, balancing dynamic and consistent interface elements, approaches to privacy management and making it easy for users to correct contextual mistakes.

• In which scenarios do real-time sensor data and behavioural patterns combine most effectively to reveal user context?
• What is the right balance between dynamic, contextually responsive elements and consistency in the user interface?
• How can contextually responsive experiences respect privacy yet learn user behaviour quickly enough to deliver benefit?
• How do graceful failure techniques allow users to correct inaccurate contextual guesses and reassure the system is learning from mistakes?

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Google Is Activating 1.3 Million Android Devices On A Daily Basis

Google Is Activating 1.3 Million Android Devices On A Daily Basis | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed the company is now activating 1.3 million Android devices on a daily basis, up from 900,000 in July.

 

For some context, Apple sold ~46.4 million iOS devices last quarter, or 515,500 per day.

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how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak

how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
If you're worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec, reportedly from a breach of an FBI agent's laptop, our rockstar ...
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The 6 Apple Patents Samsung Violated

The 6 Apple Patents Samsung Violated | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

So Apple won its big patent lawsuit against Samsung (at least 1st round) and everyone commented about the consequences and the Apple Tax, but what about the ground ?

 

Business Insider have pulled together the six patents the jury says Samsung violated.

 

For instance Utility Patent 163: Enlarging documents by tapping the screen : you know when you double tap text that is too small and it enlarges? Or when you double tap and the text centers?

 

Well Apple owns that patent and the jury agreed that Samsung violated this one with 12 of its phones

 

Maybe Steven Spielberg or John Underkoffler should have patented most of Minority Report's gestures after all as evidenced in http://fon.gs/minority-report-ui-analysis

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VMware prepares for the all-software future

VMware prepares for the all-software future | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Summary: VMware is preparing its technologies for a future where the datacentre is viewed as a set of multiple services rather than as a collection of virtual machines and infrastructure.
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NASA to launch smartphone-powered nanosatellites

NASA to launch smartphone-powered nanosatellites | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
NASA is relying on a small team of engineers at its Ames Research Center in the Bay Area’s Moffett Field to develop three nanosatellites powered by Android smartphones.

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How Apple, Amazon & Google Make So Much Money

How Apple, Amazon & Google Make So Much Money | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Lots of chatter about "the Apple Tax" these days including @gassee 's excellent Monday Note; here is the other side of the Apple Tax...

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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data -- around 700 terabytes -- in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
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Nokia sells 500 patents, Qt software to counter losses

Nokia sells 500 patents, Qt software to counter losses | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
The value of the deal in which Nokia will divest Qt software to Digia was not disclosed, but analysts estimated it was a fraction of the $150 million Nokia paid for Qt's then-owner Norway's Trolltech in 2008.

Qt software was a central part of Nokia's strategy until 2011 when it decided to swap its own smartphone software for Microsoft's Windows Phone.


"It was a big bet that got left in the cold when Nokia ditched its own software platforms for Microsoft's Windows Phone," said Geoff Blaber analyst at CCS Insight.


The software is used by more than 450,000 developers for making applications for some 70 industries, including automotive, medical, industrial automation and defense.


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Google acquires Sparrow

Google acquires Sparrow | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Rumors had been turning around the French tech scene for quite a while that French startup Sparrow (which also happens to be my favorite email client of all time) had been in acquisition discussion...
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Information Technology Spending to Hit $3.6 Trillion in 2012, Report Says

Information Technology Spending to Hit $3.6 Trillion in 2012, Report Says | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Europe may be a mess, the United States is having a slow recovery, and China is losing steam, but information technology is doing well.I
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With more than 3Bn queries / day, Google Search Is Still Growing

With more than 3Bn queries / day, Google Search Is Still Growing | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Google is still growing. Searches continue to rise on a year over year basis. We spend so much time thinking about the growth of social companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, it's easy to forget Google is still getting more and more queries.
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Fancy Founder Wants to Be the “Pre-Crime” of Shopping, Minority ...

Fancy Founder Wants to Be the “Pre-Crime” of Shopping, Minority ... | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

Fancy is a rising star in today's era of curation and with a bookmarking tool and a focus on images, Fancy's constantly being compared to the ever-popular Pinterest. ... [Fancy's founder and CEO Joe] Einhorn discusses Fancy’s mobile strategy and how it gives them an edge over Pinterest, how his company will survive the growing competition, and how the oft-referenced Minority Report influenced his goals with Fancy.

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