Category Archives: Technology

What do Employees Feel about Enterprise Mobility?

Article by Michelle Patterson

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous because we get to see people using them at office, in homes, on the road, and even at important client meetings. The use of mobile devices definitely has its own advantages for the enterprise and business owners are able to feel that with every passing day. Enterprises that have employees using mobile devices for doing their daily work have seen a rise in productivity. There has also been an improvement in customer service thereby directly affecting the revenue generation. (more…)

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Low Power Networking Technology from IBM and Semtech to Help Enable Telcos to Launch New Services for the Internet of Things

New Standards Organization for Long Range Wide-Area Networks Debuts

ARMONK, N.Y. – 11 Mar 2015: IBM Research and Semtech today announced a new technology based on low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) that offers significant advantages over cellular networks and Wifi for providing machine to machine (M2M) communications. (more…)

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Brain’s GPS system influenced by shape of environment

Patterns created by the brain’s grid cells, which are believed to guide navigation, are modified by the shape of the environment, according to UCL researchers. This means grid patterns aren’t a universal metric for the brain’s GPS system to measure distance, as previously thought. (more…)

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Research Uncovers Connection between Craigslist Personals, HIV Trends

Entry of site in a community tied to 16% increase in HIV   

Craigslist’s entry into a market results in a 15.9 percent increase in reported HIV cases, according to research from the University of Minnesota published in the December issue of MIS Quarterly.  When mapped at the national level, more than 6,000 HIV cases annually and treatment costs estimated between $62 million and $65.3 million can be linked to the popular website. (more…)

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Questions for John Savage: How can the global Internet be governed?

Beyond managing domain names and associated IP addresses, the Internet does not have much governance. Technical experts from around the world met recently in Berlin to discuss options. John Savage, the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown, presented a working paper on approaches to the Internet governance question. (more…)

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Facebook still has most users, but other social media sites grow

ANN ARBOR — Facebook remains the most popular social media site, by far, with 71 percent of online adults using the platform, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center that involves researchers from the University of Michigan School of Information. (more…)

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Seven steps to selling your idea to the boss

ANN ARBOR — Middle managers often know best when certain practices or products are ripe for change in an organization, but can struggle selling their ideas up the chain of command.

Sue Ashford, professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, details smart steps managers can take to get their ideas considered and implemented in a new Harvard Business Review article. (more…)

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Verbesserte Schnittstelle für Quanten-Internet

Ein Quantennetzwerk benötigt effiziente Schnittstellen, über die Information von Materie auf Licht und umgekehrt übertragen werden kann. Wie dieser Informationstransfer unter Ausnutzung eines kollektiven Quantenphänomens optimiert werden kann, zeigen Innsbrucker Physiker um Rainer Blatt und Tracy Northup nun in der Fachzeitschrift Physical Review Letters. (more…)

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