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Wearable gadgets are billed as the next big thing in technology but China's tech counterfeiters are shunning the category. 
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Continual downsizing of technology means that researchers have to develop ever more ingenious methods of packaging and protecting their tiny devices.
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That's the way to do, solve complex problems is doing it at the same time. We admit we are biased since we teach this to engineers and others. ;-)
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Intel co-founder Andy Grove once noted that some of his fundamental views on running a business were based on reading Peter Drucker’s foundational work, The Practice of Management, 30 or so years after its publication in 1954.
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Now this is how Social Responsibility is done, Drucker laid it out and yet there are so few that heed what he wrote. We professionally use so much of Drucker's work in our work at the S+IG as foundation to what we do that we are surprised that so many do not follow one of the founding fathers of modern management theory and had laid out to follow,...ahhh but for the time to read, understand and apply this to your own business.
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Automotive Industry Is Entering a New Golden Era of Innovation PR Newswire (press release) 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --The global automobile industry is entering a new golden era of innovation and advancement, and the ability to innovate in four key... Via Jan Feather
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Not a surprise really, we've been seeing the big push from all of the major players in the last 6 months. Kind of a redundant report, but just in case you need a data point here you go
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We are car people, and this is not your daddy's Hyndai, and it will have the wearable stuff in it too, count on that
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The software giant plans to cut its losses on the latest version of its software in an attempt to appease millions of disgruntled users
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Can someone give me an Amen to that ! ?
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Likely true, check it out
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You don’t have to be a startup to go lean -- even the largest companies can re-learn how to be nimble, think different, and innovate.
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Got this t-shirt when I was at Intel (Systematic Innovation Program - resulting in $212.5M for the company). So we know that intrapreneurship is a must do that can really help the top and bottom line of a company. But the rules of intrapreneurship are different, and you cannot pull it off without a senior level manager, Snr VP and above sponsorship, otherwise you get smoked by internal politics. and you had better deliver on what you say you can do.
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Huawei admits defeat and exits US market
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Virtual supermarkets? Consumer-designed products? The distinction between physical and digital is becoming a thing of the past, as digital-physical innovation becomes the key to enterprise success. Via 15marches
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B2C - Get your digital marketing and customer feedback game on B2B - "Physical components of a supply chain, such as trucks, pallets, warehouses, even individual packages, are being digitally-enabled with sensors and actuators that allow data and analysis for on-the-spot action. Companies that capture and integrate that information gain the ability to dynamically manage costs for serving even the smallest segments of their markets and the flexibility to determine the best inventory allotments based on supply and demand predictions. Using real-time data, these companies also can find the best transport methods by weighing predicted customer service outcomes against the impact on their carbon footprint."
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Innovation can cause serious reactions among legislators and incumbent players. Here are three industry example. Via S. Diez de Medina Ph.D.
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This isn't a surprise to us here at the S+IG, but if you haven't had this experience where politics gets in the way of a good innovation,.....well you just haven't done enough innovating to know, because if you do it right, you will actually make enemies (the status quo) and make no bones about it, they are against you changing their cozy view on the world. -- And now you you know why I have a somewhat confrontive style when it comes to doing the innovation thingy
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IBM Watson Group Unveils Cloud Services to Visualize Big Data Insights, Fuel Analytics Exploration
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"Most extraordinary innovations occur at the intersections of things" said Dean Nitin Nohria, of Harvard Business School. This intersection is food and technology, or restaurant and technology. I h...
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Good use case
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Companies that implement socially and environmentally responsible strategies tend to profit—but the benefits take time to show.
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" Companies seeking to implement these types of programs should consider joint implementation to take advantage of complementarity effects and spreading the costs over more programs,” the authors write. “In addition, companies should realize that the payback of many of these programs may not occur immediately or in the short run.”
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(Phys.org) —Want to build a robot? Good. Want to add intelligence? Great. Two robotics innovators want to give makers an easy way to bestow brains on their robots.
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Nice approach for your own DIY robot, very cool
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Horace Dediu of Asymco does good work. Yesterday he published a thought-provoking article entitled "When Apple reached parity with Windows," which immediately..
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Definitely worth the read - Excellent spot on analysis of the platform wars, (the underlying war and battles), this is another front of the larger and broarder Silicon Wars. Nonetheless clearly the platform wars between MSFT and APPL have a central place where a lot of products pivot from. Read on for the details.
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Researchers at UCLA have discovered a way to make graphene batteries that charge fast, are inexpensively produced, non-toxic, and efficient.
The micro-supercapacitors created by Kaner and El-Kady are highly bendable and twistable and will be ideal for future flexible displays, e-paper, and wearable electronics. Graphene batteries sound almost too good to be true. In addition to super fast charging, they don’t have any negative environmental impact. They are biodegradable and even compostable.
“We are now looking for industry partners to help us mass-produce our graphene micro-supercapacitors,” Kaner said. Via Paul Williams
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Wow 5 second SmartPhone charging - but this technology is still in the R&D space of academia
Mytchel Daley's curator insight,
March 26, 2015 5:23 AM
As the years go on technology is gradually becoming more powerful and accessible. With this, people rely on technology more than they ever have in the history of man kind. A simple device like this shows how great of an impact this technology can be in every day human life.
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Ryanair Ltd. is an Irish low-cost airline. Its headquarters is located on the grounds of Dublin Airport in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland, with its primary operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airports.
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Been waiting for someone to say this publicly My contacts in other companies have told me as much that Google was making this move strategically, so the CEO of Ryanair is not off the mark with his assertion at all. Watch out shake up coming to on-line bookings and many other things related to the travel industry and Google will show the way by disrupting the current business models of most of the primary on-line ticketing that we've been using for a few years now..
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By Alexei OreskovicSAN FRANCISCO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Google Inc tookits biggest step to go deeper into consumers' homes, announcinga $3.2 billion deal to buy smart thermostat and smokealarm-maker Nest...
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Interesting move by Google, especially since this space has a bunch of players already, no the least of which is Belkin, my dark horse pick to do well, because they have excellent use cases already developed and making a play in the market. There are times when 1st mover advantage is vitally important, however with the entrance of Google into this space, also means they will likely be making a plays that are beyond the reach of Belkin and others, and so we will have to wait and see how this all plays out. Game on
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At the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum revealed the existence of a futuristic-sounding device described as a portable continuous wave ... Via trendspotter
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Previously scooped on this, but in far less detail, read on how the NSA can spy on you using Radar Waves bouncing of your devices and know what you're typing and doing.
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The Machine-to-Machine⊃1; industry is forecast by Strategy Analytics to grow at a CAGR of 18 percent, from $45 billion in 2013 and reaching $242 billion in 2022, according to the new Strategy Analytics Machine-to-Machine Strategies (M2M) service report. Via IoT Business News
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Yep that's right $242Billion with a B
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New technologies are forging a close and intimate relationship between people and their personal data.
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Interesting what we humans hope to get from doing an internet search, and this report and analysis is pretty good from a general standpoint about wearables and IoT and where it could go
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I would think more than just biotech and pharmacuetical companies getting together, other R&D groups might do better by working with others who would have mutually served interests
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At CES 2014, we went in search of products and services with the potential to disrupt entire industries. We found dozens of them.
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Sometimes even Forbes has a decent enough article worth reading on what is going on in IoT and wearables. Worth a quick read
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Interesting that not even the knock off kings will copy your crappy wearable tech design, might be a hint to get better at what you are designing