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Philippe J DEWOST
July 9, 2013 6:44 AM
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Facebook's Graph Search feature is rolling out to everyone today. The new search tool lets you to search Facebook's huge amount of data to get consolidated results. Mark Zuckerberg stressed Graph Search's privacy awareness at the big reveal months ago. "Every piece of content has its own audience, most content is not public, and you can only search for content that has been shared with you," Zuckerberg said at the time. Despite this reassurance, you still should take some time to look at your Facebook privacy settings to make sure things you share don't inadvertently show up in search.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 26, 2013 10:55 AM
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SK Telecom, le premier opérateur de téléphonie mobile de Corée du Sud a lancé ce mercredi son réseau mobile de nouvelle génération. Baptisé LTE Advanced il est deux fois plus rapide que les réseau 4G LTE existant. Samsung a présenté le premier smartphone compatible. La Corée du sud semble devoir conserver son rang de leadership en matière de téléphonie mobile. C’est vrai avec le constructeur Samsung, ça l’est aussi en matière de réseau et d’infrastructure. SK Telecom, premier opérateur téléphonique sud-coréen est devenu ce mercredi le premier opérateur mobile au monde à lancer un réseau à ultra haut débit, le « LTE-Advanced.» Et LG Uplus Corp., le troisième opérateur mobile du pays, fera de même le mois prochain.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 20, 2013 8:14 AM
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3D printer manufacturer MakerBot will be acquired by Stratasys, a company specializing in professional-grade 3D printing. MakerBot is famous in hobbyist and tinkerer circles for its easy-to-use 3D printers. The acquisition is a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $403 million.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 19, 2013 5:13 PM
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Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company's decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming...
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 19, 2013 2:59 AM
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Accel Partners, which has invested in Cloudera, Fusion-io and RelateIQ, is making a further big push into big data, as it announces the creation of a second fund focused on startups that are storing, analyzing and harnessing the power of data analytics. The funding for the $100 million Big Data Fund 2 will come from Accel’s other investment vehicles worldwide, including Accel London IV, a new $475 million European and Israeli tech-focused fund that was announced in April.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 15, 2013 4:09 AM
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Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced record user numbers, after revealing that the service just processed 27 billion messages over a 24 hour period. That's significantly ...
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 2, 2013 3:58 PM
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Tablets have killed the netbook market and are fast transforming the traditional PC. Apple's iPad gets most of the credit for that, but the tablet computer was not Steve Jobs' idea. Tablets actually began decades before the iPad was launched in 2010. Look at all the previous attemps including the Newton, the Palm Pilot, ...
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 1, 2013 10:33 AM
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The iPad family accounted for 81% of tablet use in the U.S. and Canada during April, up slightly from a few months ago. Kindle Fires accounted for the second largest share, followed by Samsung Galaxy tablets. In other words, even though Android took its first lead in global tablet market share last quarter (see chart, right), that's not showing up in North American usage patterns. It's likely that Android tablets are filling out the low-end of the tablet market in the emerging world.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 29, 2013 1:10 AM
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 25, 2013 10:18 AM
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Google is deep into a multipronged effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a move that could connect a billion or more new people to the Internet.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 23, 2013 4:07 AM
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Eesha Khare is the mind behind a super-powerful and tiny gizmo that packs more energy into a small space, delivers a charge more quickly, and holds that charge longer than the typical battery. Khare showed off her so-called super-capacitor last week at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz. In her demonstration, she showed it powering a light-emitting diode, or LED light, but the itty-bitty device could fit inside cell phone batteries, delivering a full charge in 20-30 seconds. It takes several hours for the average cell phone to fully charge. Khare also pointed out that the super-capacitor “can last for 10,000 charge cycles compared to batteries which are good for only 1,000 cycles.”
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 15, 2013 3:08 PM
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If Google is allowed to go after specific neighborhoods and homes in Austin, Texas, AT&T says it should be able to snag the same terms and conditions for its own fiber-optic deployment. "I think you are going to see that begin to manifest itself around the United States, and in not just AT&T and Google. You will see others doing this because the demand for really high-speed broadband via gigabit-type fiber-based solutions on a targeted basis is going to be very, very high," Stephenson said.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 14, 2013 1:51 AM
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Apple's iTunes business exceeded $4 billion revenue last quarter. Horace Dediu broke down where all the sales are coming from on his site, Asymco. As you can see, it's mostly a mix of content and app sales.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 29, 2013 11:54 AM
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Adobe today announced that it has acquired Neolane, a conversational marketing company with an annual revenue of just under $60 million, in a transaction that’s worth $600 million in cash. Neolane was founded in 2001 and is currently headquartered in Paris, France, with offices around Europe, North America and Asia. The company’s customers include the likes of Accor Hotels, Alcatel-Lucent, IKEA, Samsung, Sony and Dior.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 24, 2013 7:02 AM
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Pinterest's latest round of $200M financing was at a $2.5B valuation. Two recent $1B+ acquisitions (Waze and Tumblr) point to them as a possible next candidate. But the valuation expectations are several orders of magnitude higher.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 20, 2013 2:37 AM
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According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo is offering to pay $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins. That’s below the more than $40 million raised by the San Francisco-based startup from a variety of venture capitalists, including First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Launched in 2008, Xobni — which is “inbox” spelled backwards — received its initial round of funding in 2006 from Y Combinator.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 19, 2013 6:38 AM
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That robots, automation, and software can replace people might seem obvious to anyone who’s worked in automotive manufacturing or as a travel agent. But Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s claim is more troubling and controversial. They believe that rapid technological change has been destroying jobs faster than it is creating them, contributing to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States. And, they suspect, something similar is happening in other technologically advanced countries.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 17, 2013 1:06 AM
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Academic experts at the Fraunhofer Institute and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has claimed to have set a new world record of the wireless data transmission this week (a week after Samsung’s supposed 5G breakthrough), where they have successfully transmitted 40 gigabits per second over a one kilometre (0.62 miles) wireless link – a speeds that would allow the download of a DVD in a single second. Interestingly, distances of over one kilometer have already been covered by using a long range demonstrator which the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology set up between two skyscrapers. “Millilink” is the name given to this project and the technology has the same speed just like the fastest commercial fibre optic links, and could represent a major breakthrough for carrier backbones, broadband Internet access in rural areas, and ultra-fast last mile access for customers who haven’t had fibre rolled out in their area.
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 4, 2013 2:01 PM
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SFR lance la Fibre à 300 Mbit/s et démarre un pilote à 1 Gbit/sLa Fibre de SFR passe à 300 Mbit/s et devient la plus rapide du marchéSuite aux expérimentations menées en 2011 et 2012, SFR organise un pilote grandeur nature à 1 Gbit/sLa Fibre à 300...
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Philippe J DEWOST
June 2, 2013 3:46 PM
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Voici l'intervention que j'ai effectuée le 23 Avril 2013 pour inaugurer la journée "IT Future 2013" organisée par Fujitsu à Paris. Présentation Slideshare également disponible
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 31, 2013 1:23 AM
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 28, 2013 2:49 PM
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Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs has found a way to go that extreme distance by relying on the basic concept behind noise-cancelling headphones. When the researchers send data across two light beams in opposing phases, they can superimpose the signals and neutralize the distortion that would normally occur at long ranges. Such clean output lets Bell Labs ramp up the signal strength and maintain high speeds across whole oceans: its test pushed 400Gbps through 7,954 miles of fiber.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 23, 2013 5:04 AM
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The report published by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations detailing Apple's strategies is a great read on its own. The report gives an inside look on Apple's absolutely genius tax avoidance strategies. Apple uses a variety of offshore structures and arrangements to shift billions of dollars from the United States to Ireland. The U.S. corporate tax rate is 35%, while Apple said it has negotiated a special corporate tax rate in Ireland of less than 2%*. (The 2% rate statement has proven controversial, see below for details) Apple has found the secret to not paying taxes. You just avoid taxes by not declaring a tax residency for the company that oversees the entirety of your international income.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 23, 2013 3:39 AM
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Apple is going to integrate IAC's video site Vimeo and Yahoo's photo sharing site Flickr into the next version of iOS, the software that runs iPhones and iPads, Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac reports. Gurman says iOS users will be able to upload video straight to Vimeo from their iPhones and iPads, just like they can currently upload straight to YouTube. The same will be true of Flickr. iOS users will be able to quickly upload their photos to Flickr straight from their devices. This is going to be really good for Apple, Yahoo, and iOS users. Yesterday, Yahoo announced a redesign for Flickr, and an increase in storage to 1 terabyte of data. This means that you can pretty much store all of your photos in Flickr.
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Philippe J DEWOST
May 15, 2013 2:12 AM
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According to Philip Rosedale : "I think the magic of Silicon Valley (and, most visibly, San Francisco) is not in fostering risk-taking, but instead in making it safe to work on risky things. The phenomena is larger than the people: having traveled a lot, I would argue that the entrepreneurs and engineers in San Francisco are pretty much the same sorts of people as the ones you'd find anywhere. But there are two things happening in Silicon Valley that are qualitatively different from New York or London (or pretty much anywhere else): First, the sheer density of tech entrepreneurs per capita is 10 times greater than the norm for other cities, and second, there is a far greater level of information sharing between entrepreneurs here. Putting a sharper point on that second one: In New York City they ask you to sign NDA's, and in San Francisco we don't. And what may feel a bit risky for the one turns out to have a big positive benefit for the many."
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