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Wearable devices
The Apple Watch launch gave me a chance to go back and revisit the development of wearable computing and my experience with wearable devices. Wearable computing had it’s genesis in academic research; some of it government funded. For instance DARPA had a hand in the US Army Land Warrior programme. France has it’s FÉLIN programme…
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Beacons + more news
Beacons Data point: Beacons, retail apps and targeted messaging | JWT Intelligence – beacons powered by BlueTooth LE provide potential opportunities for retailers. Beacons can be used to help facilitate customer in-store navigation. Beacons can also be used to track customers in-store providing a more granular understanding of footfall. More related content here. Beauty Mobile…
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Slack + more news
Slack Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield’s new Slack signed up 8,000 companies in 24 hours | VentureBeat – psyched for Stewart Butterfield. met him once during a press junket to Sunnyvale and he was a gracious host for the media. Slack is a messaging client that allows groups, internal and external. It facilitates moving a lot…
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This is your brain on e-books
This is your brain on e-books This Is Your Brain on E-Books | MIT Technology Review – This is your brain on e-books highlights how e-books are different. I had a similar experience to this is your brain on e-books that I called Kindle brain Consumer behaviour The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning…
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InMobi + more news
InMobi InMobi advertising removed – Dabr blog – interesting publisher feedback. InMobi is part of a new generation of ad tech firms. InMobi is an Indian multinational mobile advertising technology company, based in Bangalore, India. InMobi was founded in 2007 under the name mKhoj by Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta and Abhay Singhal.InMobi started…
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The golden age + more news
‘The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over, and We’re Dancing on its Grave’ – Derek Thompson – Business – The Atlantic – the golden age of Silicon Valley is considered over because it is now chasing the easy money. In reality this decline from the golden age is an evolution rather than a radical…
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Howard Stringer + more news
Howard Stringer Sony confirms Kazuo Hirai as new President and CEO, replacing Howard Stringer — Engadget – this is huge, the pivot back from entertainment to engineering and technology is happening at Sony. Howard Stringer worked for three decades at CBS, which Sony bought during the go-go years of the 1980s. He started as junior…
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Patriot Act + more news
PATRIOT Act PATRIOT Act clouds picture for tech | Politico – the PATRIOT Act passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, giving the US government access to web services to try and fill in the gaps in intelligence. However the PATRIOT Act covers data held outside the US. So many foreign multinational companies…