This week's roundtable was an interesting mix of entrepreneurs ranging from an IP licensing company to a snow removal system.Dr. Marilyn Bruno started off by presenting Aequor, Inc., an early stage biotech company that removes biofilms by using proprietary chemical compounds extracted from marine microbes. Biofilms support the proliferation of...
Xi Guohua, China's vice-minister of industry and information technology, has announced that the MIIT is working toward a national IoT plan. The announcement was made at the recent China IoT Conference in Shanghai. TCMnet reported the announcement. "According to Xi, MIIT will fix a clear positioning, development goals, timetable and...
It's now a little over 6 months into 2010, so a good time to reflect on the highlights of the year so far. At the beginning of the year, we identified some key trends to track: (in alphabetical order) Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Mobile, Real-Time Web, Structured Data.Mobile and...
One way or another, the Internet is coming to your television viewing experience. Whether it's talking to friends and family using Skype, keeping up with the world using Yahoo's widgets for Blu-Ray devices or searching the Web with Google TV, the Internet is here to smarten up your idiot box...
Having a game mechanic integrated into your product is effectively a launch requirement at this point. And it makes complete sense, too - build your product so that it harnesses people's natural competitive drive and their desire for praise and free stuff and they'll use your product more.That said, developing...
The conversation about conflict of interest for bloggers (and other social media types) never really dies down, and flares up constantly in ways large and small.Sometimes it's something as major as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission going after blogger freebies. Sometimes it's just a drive-by accusation that a blog post...
In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the European Parliament officially endorsed the development of the Internet of Things. This resolution frankly encourages the development of an Internet of Things in the European Union. It even calls on the European IoT Commission to "secure co-financing for the implementation of these technologies" and...
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) released their report "Women in IT: The Facts" today, examining the current state of affairs for women working in IT and computing careers. The report addresses some of the reasons why women leave the industry at staggering rates and what companies...
According to reports by the venture capital database, VentureDeal, overall venture funding for Internet technologies in the first quarter of 2010 held steady compared to the last quarter of 2009.These reports assess four sectors: alternative energy, biotech, telecom and wireless, and Internet and ecommerce. Of these areas, overall investment in...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned a public statement about Facebook privacy issues and what's being done about that issue by way of an article published in today's Washington Post. In the brief, carefully crafted mea culpa, Zuckerberg addresses the ongoing privacy backlash the site is now facing: "We just missed...
Think your Facebook profile is private? You had better double-check. A new website provides a voyeuristic look into the once-private social network by making Facebook status updates searchable. "My boss is a jerk and always tells me what I'm doing wrong!", posts one user who we'll be kind enough to...
A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that's sure to heat up conversation about the social network's perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he's closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora,...
Last week we asked you to send us your questions for our interview with wine connoisseur and social-media expert Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary and his consulting company VaynerMedia recently ran an experiment with the NBA's New Jersey Nets and geolocation app Gowalla (in which Gary is an investor) to see if...
Right about now, Rise of the Machines, a conference taking place in London on the Internet of Things, is about halfway over. Earlier today, one of the speakers, David Orban, sat down with another speaker, David Wood, for a five minute talk about the current state of IoT. As the...
If you like your Internet rammed into things - lighting systems, automobiles, art, books, crookedneck squash - you'll light-up like a Japanese robot when you lurch into the mashupInternet of Things conference in London. To refer to the conference by its full name (my hand to God), "Internet of things:...
The tech world is still reeling from the impact of Facebook's radical changes, announced last week a the F8 developer's conference, and their implications for privacy, the open Web and the future of social networking. However, these newly introduced features, such as the "like" button for websites, social plugins and...
When we write about Internet of Things we explain the latest in futuristic "sense and share" devices for your clothes, homes and cars. Yet when it comes to modern mobile, we don't need to focus so much on what can be done in the future as much as what can...
Facebook's Open Graph API is getting some negative attention in Washington today. Four democratic U.S. senators, Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken, sent a letter to Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this morning, asking for clarification about the privacy implications of Facebook's latest initiatives. Specifically,...
The cloud fundamentally changes the way enterprise applications function. Increasingly we are seeing traditional enterprise applications emerge in the cloud and partner with other Web-based services that have consumer appeal.In turn, we are seeing cloud-based consumer type services transform into enterprise grade offerings that provide customers with the same experience...
If you failed to notice Google's lovely new artwork this morning, today is Earth Day. The purpose of the day in recent years has been to reflect on our energy consumption and to raise awareness on how to better preserve our planet, and startups can play a significant role in...
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