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India’s Daily Readership of Online News and Information Jumps 34 Percent in the Past Year

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2013Technologycomscore mmx service, daily readership, India, india today group, indian express group, information, jagran sites, navbharat times, ndtv, news publishers, oneindia, online news, punjabkesari

Times of India Leads Online News Ranking, While Also Generating Significant Traffic from Abroad

New Delhi, 1 October 2013 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report highlighting online news readership in India based on data from its comScore MMX service. The report showed that there has been significant growth in daily readership of news and information content in the past year, with an increase of 34 percent to 9.4 million average daily visitors to the category. (more…)

How Does Video Conferencing Benefit a Business?

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2013Small Business, Technologybenefit, business, easing communication, executives feel confident, growing businesshttp, how, internet, internet connection, michelle patterson, new project, online communication systems, phone conference, phoneam, powerpoint presentations, small business, tandberg corporation, video calls, video conferencing, voip

Cost control is one of the major challenges that companies face and when it’s for a small business, things come to survivability. Thus, the latest technologies and tools that promise to cut down the costs of a company is readily tested and accepted by the small business concerns. VoIP/IP telephony or online applications to make cheap/free calls are always welcome by the business owners who would like to enjoy anything doesn’t have a price tag attached to it.

There are many business owners who work with overseas clients and frequently travelling is not a very feasible option. Travelling abroad is not at all a financially viable option, if it has to be undertaken quite frequently. Phone conferences were a great way to have one-to-one meetings but it had its own downsides – they were costly and very difficult to arrange. Phone conferences often proved to be confusing and led to misunderstandings. Internet and especially after the advent of broadband, it has become really easy for medium and small-scale companies to maintain cheaper communication channels with their clients. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Scientists Turn Data into Disease Detective to Predict Dengue Fever and Malaria Outbreaks

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2013Technologyclimate change, data, disease detective, disease modeling, eclipse foundation, environmental factors, epidemiology, ibm labs, infectious diseases, james kaufman, johns hopkins, justin lessler, made in, malaria outbreaks, new analytic measures, open source framework, predict dengue fever, spatio, stem, temporal epidemiological modeler, world health organization

IBM teams up with Johns Hopkins University and UC San Francisco to help public health officials model, predict and track the possible spread of infectious diseases

SAN JOSE, Calif., – 30 Sep 2013: Scientists from IBM are collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and University of California, San Francisco to combat illness and infectious diseases in real-time with smarter data tools for public health. The focus is to help contain global outbreaks of dengue fever and malaria by applying the latest analytic models, computing technology and mathematical skills on an open-source framework.

Vector-borne diseases, like malaria and dengue fever, are infections transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding insects, such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. (more…)

Mobile computing in the ‘bring your own device’ era

By Guest PostSeptember 26, 2013Education, Technologyacademic work, byod, byod friendly, device, era, gartner study, jeff capuano, len peters, mobile computing, patrick lynch, smartphone, university cio, us college student, wireless network, yale

Early in September Yale passed a milestone in mobile computing, with a record 39,414 mobile devices connected to its wireless networks. As on most college campuses the growth of mobile computing at Yale has been explosive, from well under 10,000 devices three years ago to almost 40,000 today.

A recent Gartner study showed that smartphone ownership among college students went from 55% in 2011 to 62% in 2012, and the percentage of students using their smartphones for academic work doubled in the same period. The typical U.S. college student now routinely uses between 2-3 wireless devices, and higher education computing experts predict that average to grow to 3-4 devices over the next year. (more…)

Introducing Kindle Fire HDX—Powerhouse Tablets Built for Work and Play

By Guest PostSeptember 25, 2013TechnologyAmazon, ghz, hd video, kerberos intranet, kindle fire hdx, second screen, software encryption, xray for music

All-new Kindle Fire HDX—stunning new 7” or 8.9” HDX display, quad-core 2.2 GHz processor with 3x the processing power, 2x more memory, 11 hours of battery life, and dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus audio

New HDX display goes beyond HD—exceptional pixel density, perfect 100% sRGB color accuracy, reduced glare, dynamic image contrast, and improved brightness for the best viewing experience indoors or out

Lightest large-screen tablet—Kindle Fire HDX 8.9” is startlingly light at 13.2 ounces, 34% lighter than the previous generation

Introducing the Mayday Button—revolutionary on-device tech support—free, 24×7, 365 days a year (more…)

AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo agree to streamline access to premium ad inventory for advertisers

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2013Technologyadvertiser friendly, advertisers, aol, apis, digital advertising, kooi, Microsoft, microsoft advertising, premium ad inventory, publisher friendly, rik van der, seth demsey, tom shields, tv budgets online, Yahoo

Three leaders in digital advertising converge on technical specifications for programmatic sales, simplifying the purchasing process of premium digital ad inventory.

NEW YORK — Sept. 24, 2013 — AOL Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo on Tuesday announced that they have each committed to converge around a common set of API specifications for the premium programmatic digital advertising sales channel. The goal is to make it easier for advertisers and agencies to procure premium digital advertising by reducing the friction in discovering, ordering and paying for premium inventory. (more…)

Green Revolution 2: Apps for Farmers

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2013Technology8 nations, african nations, america, apps for farmers, australia, australia based tradiepad, australian freelance writer, canada, g8, global north, green revolution 2, group, icow, Kenya, m pesa, paradigm, real time data, sharon freeman, sms, tradiepad, trial and error, vodafone, world bank

Doing paperwork has proven to be unsustainable but also entirely cumbersome in recent years given the multiplication of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. From Australia to America, Canada to Kenya, a paradigm shift towards cloud computing is being felt in the world and this could only expedite the clamor for less paper consumption.

Tradespersons have progressively depended on cloud-based applications to manage invoicing, bookkeeping and other jobs instead of filling their dashboards with unnecessary clutter. In particular, most farmers have looked and used the Cloud for a chance to turn a profit and save the earth all at the same time. (more…)

Bing discusses design and technology in NYC

By Guest PostSeptember 21, 2013Technologybeautiful look, bing, bing designers, design, functionality

Bing brings together tastemakers and experts to share insight on the intersection of beauty and functionality and how technology plays a role in modern design.

NEW YORK — Earlier this week, Bing gathered together a variety of taste makers and journalists at an intimate and interactive panel to discuss the convergence of design and technology. (more…)

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