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April 3, 2013 4:14 PM
Impressive... as it was to dare propose a bigger screen than Steve decided it was enough..
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Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier earlier this month published a book together called "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think" that examines the drivers, trajectory and impact of big data analytics. Mayer-Schonberger is a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and is on the advisory boards of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the World Economic Forum. Cukier is the data editor of The Economistand a prominent commentator on developments in big data. They shared an excerpt of their book this week in Quartz, about how the algorithms used in big data are creating artificial intelligences that no human can understand, making it quite the challenge to retrace the steps that led to a determination. Software code is decipherable. Programmers can trace their way back step by step to find an error, and then fix it. And logs generated by network elements can help network operators determine why something may have routed incorrectly. But data scientists can easily paint themselves into a corner.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
According to a new book, "data scientists can easily paint themselves into a corner" as no human can possibly understand the kinds of artificial intelligence created by such algorithms and answer the "how" or the "why" questions...
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No Flash in the pan
Lynch is particularly interesting as an executive choice for Apple because of his close association with Adobe Flash, a product he infamously clashed with Apple over, beginning in 2010.
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No Flash in the Pan - And a very interesting perspective on how relationships between Apple and Adobe shaped up (and down)
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![More New Androids Than Babies, And Other Surprising Mobile Facts [Infographic] | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/12CV2a-pXDgOdg80N6ecmzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
For example, every day more than 1.3 million Android devices are activated — which is way more than the 300,000 babies born daily. Users now spend more time each day surfing the web or on their mobile apps than they do watching television.
There are more than a billion smartphones in use around the world, and age is no barrier — teens, adults and seniors are all well represented among their users.
More than 60% of the apps in the Apple app store have never been downloaded (not even once)
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On average, people check their phones 150 times a day... and a few other surprising mobile facts
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Motorola Mobility's study of 9,500 global consumers found that a majority of respondents who view video programming in the bedroom use their smartphones and tablets versus broadcast TV. Read this article by Dan Farber on CNET News.
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Expect pillow fights ?
Nicolas Fodor's comment,
April 16, 2013 9:33 PM
As long as it doesn't overtake love making we are good...
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March 8, 2013 2:20 AM
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HTC was the first company to ride the Android wave to smashing success. It is also the first company to crash on the Android wave. Here's a look at its revenue growth over the last 16 quarters.
What happened to HTC? Samsung. It released its phones on more carriers and it marketed the heck out of them. HTC was left in the dust.
There are two sides to the Android Wave. Switching slopes may happen much faster than expected.
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March 4, 2013 3:22 PM
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Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the technological Singularity is “a bunch of hot air.”
“The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it,” says Nicolelis, author of several pioneering papers on brain-machine interfaces.
The Singularity, of course, is that moment when a computer super-intelligence emerges and changes the world in ways beyond our comprehension.
Among the idea’s promoters are futurist Ray Kurzweil, recently hired on at Google as a director of engineering, who has been predicting that not only will machine intelligence exceed our own, but people will be able to download their thoughts and memories into computers (see “Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a Mind at Google—and Have It Serve You”).
Nicolelis calls that idea sheer bunk. “Downloads will never happen,” he said during remarks made at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on Sunday. “There are a lot of people selling the idea that you can mimic the brain with a computer.”
Ray Kurzweil's brain might not be downloadable after all
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February 26, 2013 7:08 PM
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Yet usage is still in favor of iOS when you compare market share.
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February 25, 2013 6:02 AM
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February 21, 2013 1:50 PM
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"Due to an unprecedented rate of return of employees following the Chinese New Year holiday compared to years past, our company has decided to temporarily slow down our recruitment process," the company said in a statement.
"This action is not related to any single customer and any speculation to the contrary is false and inaccurate."
Like other Chinese contract manufacturers, Foxconn, the trading name of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, relies on a large number of migrant laborers from across the country who journey home for the most important holiday of the year. Many do not make it back to work, but Foxconn spokesman Louis Woo said this year they saw as many as 97 percent of employees return.
The return rate mentioned by Foxcon is not about iPhones, it is about workers...
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February 17, 2013 11:34 AM
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Inevitably nicknamed the iWatch, the Apple device, on which the company is characteristically not commenting, has the tech world in a frenzy of sci-fi speculation. James Bond, Dick Tracy, Inspector Gadget – the techno watch has been a mainstay of fanboy fiction for generations. But the internet revolution seems to have largely bypassed the watch, until now.
Apple reportedly has 100 employees looking at the device that will take advantage of recent developments in hi-tech curved glass, cheaper sensors and better voice recognition software.
What will the iWatch do? Monitor your health? Act as a credit card? A wrist-bound GPS? Laser cannon and teleporter? We'll have to wait and see but to be honest if that's all it does, you may as well strap an iPhone to your arm. Apple has a history of delivering surprises and the iWatch would be its first big new product since the death of founder Steve Jobs. The company will want to make a splash. Especially as arch-rival Google has its own "smart watch" in development and is already testing Google Glass, web-connected specs. Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook too are watching developments and have their own plans.
Last year analyst Forrester issued a report describing wearable computing as "the new platform war". Tech analyst Juniper Research estimates that wearable computing will generate $800m (£500m) in revenue this year and $1.5bn in 2014. Annual unit sales of wearable computers will rise from 15m this year to 70m by 2017.
iWatch iTV ?
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February 16, 2013 7:16 AM
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Several iDevices users have reported a steady yet significant inflation of device storage memory taken by "Other" content than Music, Photos, Videos, Apps, Books...
Nobody seems to have a clue of what this "other" space is used for, nor how to bring it down to zero. Documented tricks like shutting down the iPhone, or performing a Save / Restore from iTunes won't let it go, at least on some iDevices including my iPhone and iPad.
More intriguing, such space seems to be growing at each iTunes sync. On the above image you'll see a situation where "Other" now eats almost 1/3 rd of my total available space.
What about you ?
Please check your iTunes config and let me know how much "other" space is taken on your iDevices
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March 28, 2013 6:16 AM
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The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.
A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet.
It is having an impact on popular services like Netflix - and experts worry it could escalate to affect banking and email systems.
Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks.
Dooo yoouu feeeel the sloooow doooown?
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March 23, 2013 4:30 AM
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import•io, the cloud-based Big Data platform, is announcing it has raised £600,000 ($900,000) from Wellington Partners, Alta Vista founder Louis Monier, and long-time French technology investor Emmanuel Javal to help the award-winning start-up expand and develop its platform.
import•io turns the web into a database, releasing the vast potential of the data trapped within the web. It lets companies, developers and coders extract, connect and fuse disparate sources of data from the web to let them build and create powerful new data sets and applications.
“We believe that the Web is full of useful data, but the reality stands: the Web was designed for documents, not data. At import•io, we want to allow anyone to harness this trapped data. We democratize access to it by making it simple to turn Web sites into data sources, and to fuse them to create incredibly rich new data sets in a single real-time, virtual database that can be easily and consistently accessed,” says David White, CEO of import•io.
Congratulations to Eric Archambeau !
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March 23, 2013 4:03 AM
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The goal for a chip maker supporting “Less Than Moore” is not to displace the Qualcomm or Samsung, following Moore’s law and getting back more than enough revenue to invest and develop IC ever more integrated, targeting smaller technology node, supporting the type of Roadmap you can see below. This roadmap from Samsung shows Discrete Application Processor and Baseband Processor paths, as well as in parallel a roadmap for cost sensitive systems with Integrated (Application + BB) processor.
LTM = PPP x TTM
Interesting introduction to "Less Than Moore" approaches, that combine Price/Performance/Power optimization techniques with Time To Market constrains.
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March 21, 2013 2:10 PM
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Unicast traffic might account for a small percentage of current video streams on telecom networks but the volume is set to increase dramatically, affecting IPTV-related network investment decisions during the next five years.
That's the view of two operator executives who addressed industry analysts and the media in London Wednesday morning on the fringes of the TV Connectevent at London's Olympia exhibition halls.
Ibrahim Gedeon, the CTO at Canadian operator Telus Corp., and Lukas Fluri, head of Product IT & Devices at Swisscom AG, agreed that unicast video traffic (driven by the uptake of catch-up TV services) would grow from current low levels to somewhere in the region of about 30 percent of total video traffic within the next five years. And that, of course, puts greater pressure on network capacity, planning and management.
The shift from broadcast to unicast video streams has already forced Swisscom to invest in greater core network capacity alongside ongoing investment in mobile broadband, fiber-to-the-home and DSL vectoring in its wireless and fixed access networks, "all very capex-intensive projects," noted Fluri.
This is great news for unicast pure players like FairPlayInteractive.tv
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March 20, 2013 4:50 AM
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The Contactless Mobile Report 2013 #MWC13 Next Mobile Connectivity NFC, QR, Bluetooth, WiFi, ... Barcelona 25-28 February 2013 24-27 February 2014
Quite complete and comprehensive deck wrapping up on MWC announcements, products and trends and covering
- mobile phone market
- smartphone market
- usages
- technologies
- mobile contactless including NFC
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March 14, 2013 2:39 PM
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ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service.
After capturing the mobile processor market, ARM enters the cloud
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March 3, 2013 12:09 PM
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We've been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. .../...
In short: it appears the Lightning Digital AV Adapter has a SoC ARM CPU with 2Gb worth of RAM
Now there is a good reason why such adapter costs $50 : it's a tiny computer...
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February 25, 2013 6:08 AM
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An "Easter egg" is a hidden message or joke that software developers sneak into their projects.Google has hidden one in its new, high-end Chromebooklaptop, the Pixel. One of Google's developer's spilled the beans about it to reviewers at Wired.Open the Chromebook and tap out this code using Pixel’s directional keys: up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right, then B, then A. That combination is actually a "famous" Easter Egg key called the called the "Konami Code." It comes from old-school video games, and was often used to hide extra, secret features in the game.
So geeky, reminds me of the old Easter eggs in MacOS System 6 and 7...
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February 22, 2013 2:43 AM
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This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I'd like to dispel that notion. Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the...
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February 20, 2013 12:49 AM
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The French government has just launched a consultation to collect 'expectations, needs, and ideas' to help it define its project of turning Paris into a digital innovation hub.
We have the champions :-)
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February 16, 2013 2:11 PM
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MarketWatch estimates that all of those old phones sitting around are worth $34 billion. (That's allphones, not just smartphones.)
What do you do with your old smartphones ?
Those who will address consumer inertia like ReCommerce solutions have indeed a nice market opportunity.
It's the ad dollars, stupid !