Technology

Mobile Wallet Technology

May 10, 2012
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Traditional wallets and purses are being replaced with smartphone “mobile wallets” that incorporate cameras, Internet connectivity, thousands of “apps” and increasingly, banking, credit and payment transaction technologies. Your future is calling on your mobile phone, and the ringtone sounds like a cash register. The proliferation of affordable mobile phones has created a global paradigm...

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Google Glasses and the Era of Radical Change

May 2, 2012
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Today, they can sport Google Glasses that make video phone calls. So, how our IQ would change our brains when using this device? Since the transistor was invented at Bell Labs in New Providence, NJ, back in 1947, the U.S. has vaulted ahead of the rest of the world at every major high-tech milestone....

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The Great Tech War Of 2012

January 10, 2012
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google don’t recognize any borders; they feel no qualms about marching beyond the walls of tech into retailing, advertising, publishing, movies, TV, communications, and even finance. Across the economy, these four companies are increasingly setting the agenda. There was a time, not long ago, when you could sum up each...

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Tabs will dominate Chinese computer market in 2011

January 7, 2011
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We call this technology the “Chi–Tab”… but in the U.S. it goes by a bunch of different names… Dell calls it the “Streak.” HP has their own version – the “Touchsmart.” Samsung has the Galaxy Tab. Apple of course has the iPad. There’s also the “Ideos” from a Chinese company called Huawei, and the...

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Apple iAd Mobile Advertising Platform

April 9, 2010
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Today during its iPhone 4.0 developer preview, Steve Jobs announced Apple’s much-anticipated mobile advertising platform, iAd. This has been expected since Apple acquired mobile ad platform Quattro Wireless, after having AdMob snatched away by Google (though the FTC may recommend blocking that deal). Apple will sell and host the ads, giving 60% of ad...

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Pranav Mistry at TED: Digital User Interface Technology

December 20, 2009
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Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. At TEDIndia, he demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper...

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