Currently NFC is seen as one of the most exciting areas in our industry in terms of revenue generation: projections show up to 700 million NFC-enabled mobile phones will be sold by 2013, according to Jupiter Research. At Nokia, however, we would argue that the industry’s current focus on secure NFC may be at...
Daily Archives: June 22, 2011
When big data meets journalism
The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States — including the new MIT Center for Civic Media, which we wrote about earlier — announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge on Wednesday. There’s s a theme running through most of...
Bahraini Blogger Gets Life Sentence
One blogger in the Gulf country of Bahrain has been sentenced to life in prison while another has received 15 years, according to Reporters Without Borders. The life sentence is the longest sentence a blogger has ever received. Blogger Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace was one of eight imprisoned Bahrainis to receive life sentences. Al-Singace. Another...
The Winklevosses will not take their appeal to the Supreme Court, CNBC reports.
The Winklevosses will not take their appeal to the Supreme Court, CNBC reports. Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/NkMK8FwXumA/the-winklevosses-will-not-take-their-appeal-to-the-supreme-court-cnbc-reports-2011-6
The Google Docs Integration We’ve Been Waiting For Is Finally Here
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger See Also: Box.net Makes Document Sharing Easy, But Still Can’t Compete With Google Docs For Live Collaboration 10 Things You Never Knew You Could Do On LinkedIn Hate Keeping Gmail Contacts In Order? This Plug-In Scans Signatures To Automate The Busy Work In April we wrote “Box.net Makes Document Sharing...
SAICAST: Apple Possibly Building A TV Set With Samsung (And Hulu?!) (RIMMAAPL)
See Also: THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple’s iCloud Could Gain As Many Users As Gmail And Twitter Here Are Some New Details On The iPhone 5… Finally…An Explanation For iPhone 5 Delay — Apple Pushed Back Release To Wait For iOS 5 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON ITUNES HERE Apple is rumored to be working...
How PARC wants to reinvent the Internet
Xerox PARC’s engineers developed the Ethernet, the mouse, the laser printer and many other staples of everyday computing back in the 1970s. Forty years later, the lab is back at it: Teresa Lunt, VP and director of the computing science lab at PARC, showed off a new networking technology dubbed Content-Centric Networking (CCN) at...
Google has now invested over $780M in clean energy
Google has emerged as one of the most aggressive clean power investors in 2011, and has now invested over $780 million into clean power projects and technologies, with $700 million of that being invested this year. The latest funding, announced Wednesday morning, has Google adding another $102 million into a wind farm being built...
New IBM Analytics Technology Helps Clients Unlock Big Data
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how security threats can be mitigated by implementing layers of control in this brief from Qwest: Five Network Security Threats and How to Protect Your Business IBM’s Netezza division today announced a new appliance that allows...
GitHub Releases Mac Client
Today GitHub announced a client for OSX, GitHub for Mac. The client walks developers through the process of creating a GitHub account and uploading repositories and provides a local admin interface similar to the traditional Web-based one. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/Vk0cZszGe2o/github-releases-mac-client.php