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U.K. startup Navetas says it can disaggregate individual household power loads without sensors in the home. Smart meter giant Sensus is a new investor and partner. 
These five future technology myths uncover more of the truth behind technology advancement and capabilities. Explore these future technology myths. 
The Journal of Open Research Software will be launching soon. In the meantime, please contact editor.jors@ubiquitypress.com if you’d like to know more. “The Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users' Digital Lives by 2014” Gartner... 
Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. The Imagine Cup 2012 Kinect Fun Labs Challenge asks students to think about entertainment with a social conscience and brings the Imagine Cup into the living room. It is a unique opportunity for students to develop applications that change the world with the Fun Labs area of Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE. 
It's the hot trend in software right now, but what does big data mean, and how can you exploit it? Strata chair Edd Dumbill presents an introduction and orientation to the big data landscape. 
Hands on with Microsoft Surface 2.0... larger, cheaper & more interactive 
According to a new study by the London School of Economics and Political Science, the development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses. The study, commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone services industries in the UK, USA, Germany and Italy from 2010-2014. 
Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline on the future of computing. 
Audi sketched out its vision for the future of connected cars Wednesday at CES, with cell phone boosters and LTE paving the way for hands-free, autonomous driving and user-controlled swipable heads-up displays. 
Next week global leaders from DTTL and Deloitte member firms are meeting in Davos at the 2012 World Economic Forum to discuss the important issues of the day. 
Linked Open Data: The Essentials provides answers to the following key questions: What do the terms Open Data, Open Government Data and Linked Open Data actually mean, and what are the differences between them? |
Computing isn't just getting cheaper. It's becoming more energy efficient. That means a world populated by ubiquitous sensors and streams of nanodata. 
Britain isn't known for handling poor weather well; an inch of snow can be enough to grind the transport network to a halt. Now a project run by business and technology community Cambridge ... Via Massimiliano Vurro 
What are the ethical implications of tomorrow’s internet? 
Virtualization has been increasingly used for leveraging underutilized compute resources, but there are questions about whether we are tryin... 
The project, three years in the making and still in beta, is just starting to be rolled out by government and planning agencies. 
Hadoop features front and center in the discussion of how to implement a big data strategy, one of the biggest trends in IT. The Second Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiralling into a dangerous endgame: prices are climbing, unemployment remains high, debt is soaring and the recovery is slowing. Worse, climate change from fossil-fuel-based industrial activity looms. Facing a collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a new vision to take us into the future. 
SPEECH/11/40 Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda EU Data protection reform and Cloud Computing “Fuelling the European Economy” event, Microsoft Executive Briefing Centre Brussels, 30 January 2012... 
In a meeting with investors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced the Nintendo Network which will compete against Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. 
Thinfilm’s first-gen sensors will be able to cache data about the object itself, on the item itself. In this case, the sensors will record data concerning the object’s temperature history, tracking precise time, temperature and exposure information, and also displaying it in a low-power readout. The data within can be accessed as needed, insomuch it doesn’t need to be retrieved from the cloud, or require a constant wireless connection. 
"People know more about their iPhone than they do their own health," points out Travis Bogard, Jawbone's VP of product development. "So how do we make them consumers of their own wellness?" Today Jawbone is finally unwrapping their attempt to solve the problem: The UP, a $100 wristband, smartphone app, and web app trio that work together to monitor your exercise habits, sleep cycles, and eating decisions. It's already on sale on Jawbone's website; on November 6th, it'll be available at Apple, Target, AT&T stores, and Best Buy. Via Mark Lamm, Vingtcinq Scenario 
Next up will be a more useful target--potent versions of small protein inhibitors that bind to and block the 1918 pandemic influenza virus... |
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