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Technology in the Classroom

By Guest PostNovember 26, 2013Education, Technologyalexander brown, anuradha sivaraman, class participation, classroom, common hashtag, increase, re tweeting, social media service, Technology, tweets, Twitter, twitter feed, university of delaware

UD faculty use Twitter to enhance classroom experience

The University of Delaware’s Alexander Brown, instructor of business administration, and Anuradha Sivaraman, assistant professor of business administration, believe that using Twitter for their courses helps keep the classroom discussions contemporary and increases class participation.

“It’s a good way to source material for classroom discussions,” Brown explains. “If you run a class where you want to engage students with current content and keep things contemporary, Twitter is the way to go.” (more…)

comScore MMX Ranks Top 50 U.S. Desktop Web Properties for October 2013

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2013Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore mmx, data, debt ceiling deadline, desktop web properties, Google, local us market, Microsoft, online buying power, political news sites, Twitter, US, Yahoo

Halloween and October Festivities See Six Retail Subcategories in the Top 10
Political News Sites Continue Growth as Americans Keep Tabs on Government Shutdown

RESTON, VA, November 22, 2013 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly ranking of U.S. desktop web activity at the top online properties for October 2013 based on data from the comScore MMX service. Several retail subcategories were among the top-gaining in October as Halloween and other festivities took place. Americans also frequented Political News sites as major stories such as the U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling deadline made headlines. (more…)

IBM Study Finds More Than Half of Midmarket Companies Lack an Integrated Digital Strategy

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2013Technologyanalyzing data, big data analytics, c suite business, c suite leaders, cloud, coriell life sciences, digitization, Environment, ibm global financing, ibm study, individual dna, integrated digital strategy, john mason, micro strategies, midmarket, midmarket companies, mobile, return on investment, scott megill, smbs, Technology

Small and Midsize Businesses Outperform Competitors By Fusing the Physical with Big Data, Mobile and the Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y – 21 Nov 2013: An IBM global study of C-Suite leaders uncovers a surprising fact about small and midsize companies: they may not be as digitally savvy as they’d like.

The survey’s top findings include:

More than half of midmarket companies lack an integrated digital strategy.
65% of the midmarket C-Suite business executives recognized that the lack of a cohesive social media plan is the biggest barrier to doing more in the digital space.
More than half of respondents also cite the need to better understand how social media fits with other operational priorities, and how to measure its return on investment. (more…)

New Approach Advances Wireless Power Transfer for Vehicles

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2013Technologyhighway stations, mobile receiver, recharge electric vehicles, transfer of energy, transmitting power wirelessly, wireless energy transfer

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new technology and techniques for transmitting power wirelessly from a stationary source to a mobile receiver – moving engineers closer to their goal of creating highway “stations” that can recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as the vehicles drive by. (more…)

IBM Survey: Speed and Analytics Key Drivers in Mobile Adoption for Organizations

By Guest PostNovember 19, 2013Technologyanalytics, business, byod, ibm survey, infographic, innovation, integration, interaction, kevin custis, mobile adoption, mobile strategy leaders, organizations, security, social business, speed, upwardly mobile enterprise

Half of the Respondents Report a Greater Than 10 Percent Gain in Employee Productivity as a Result of Their Mobile Efforts

ARMONK, N.Y. – 19 Nov 2013: IBM today announced results of a new study revealing that 90 percent of global organizations surveyed are willing to sustain or increase their investments in mobile technologies over the next 12-18 months. One of the reasons for increased investments is the measurable impact on speed and productivity. For example, half of the respondents report a greater than 10 percent gain in employee productivity as a result of their mobile efforts. (more…)

Scientists “Burst” Supercomputing Record with Bubble Collapse Simulation; Could Lead to Advances in Healthcare and Industrial Technology

By Guest PostNovember 18, 2013Technologyalessandro curioni, bubble collapse simulation, burst, cloud cavitation collapse, complex phenomena, engineering problems, eth zurich, fastest supercomputer, finite volume method, gordon bell prize, healthcare, ibm, ibm bluegene q, industrial technology, laboratory, llnl, petros koumoutsakos, scientist, sequoia, supercomputing record, swiss university, ultra scalable code, world

– 15,000 bubbles are simulated using IBM BlueGene/Q “Sequoia” at 14.4 Petaflop of sustained performance, a 150-fold improvement over current state-of-the-art
– Destructive capabilities of collapsing bubbles are increasingly being studied in areas ranging from treating kidney stones and cancer to high pressure fuel injectors
– Research team named as a Finalist for the 2013 Gordon Bell Prize (more…)

Apple is ahead of the rest

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2013Technologyapple, innovation from apple, model of iphone, world of technologies

The world of technologies doesn’t cease to surprise. This time we have an innovation from Apple. It should seem, there only was a fuss about the new iPhone 5, and now we have the news about the brand-new iPhone 5S. Is there a big difference between these two models and how many people are going to buy the latest one?
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IBM Helps Bridge the Cyber Security Skills Gap by Partnering with More Than 200 Global Universities

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2013Technologycloud computing, cyber security, cyber security skills, ibm security, skills taxonomy, threat intelligence research, traditional computing

Lack of cyber security skills a major inhibitor to adoption of emerging technologies like cloud, mobile, cognitive and social networks

ARMONK, N.Y – 15 Nov 2013: IBM today announced that it is adding eleven additional schools to its more than 200 partnerships with universities around the globe, focusing on collaborating to bring cyber security skills into the classroom. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment in the cyber security field is expected to grow rapidly, increasing 22 percent by 2020. As organizations transmit and store more sensitive information electronically, the need for employees with experience in cyber security will be imperative in order to protect data in the cloud, mobile devices and traditional computing. (more…)

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