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Details Published on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:45 The next revolution of the Internet is upon us, and not only is it continuing to shape the way we do things, it's changing the way our things do things. In 2008, the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people on the planet, and just like people these "things" are talking to one another via the Internet and wirelessly now more than ever. Proximity-based social networking applications, which use geo-proximity as the main filter for discovering people and places, are instrumental in this online evolution, as our immediate needs are often dictated or affected by how near or far we are from something. As more technologies enable devices to discover one another over distances through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC (Near Field Communications), businesses and marketers are using social networking, mobility, and gaming to dive into the proximity pool. The emerging proximity-based mobile social...

Details Published on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 13:26 Turn off the alarm and get out of bed, check. Crank up the coffee pot, check. Sit in traffic for an hour on the way to work? Not this week. Thousands of people across the country are giving up the commute, and working from home as part of their pledge to telecommute this week. It’s part of Telework Week 2013, promoted by The Mobile Work Exchange and sponsored by Cisco, which champions the work anywhere, anytime mentality for today’s mobile employee. The week is part of a yearly push to get people to telecommute. And the movement is growing. This year about 110,000 people pledged to work from home. With more highly connected employees, and solutions that allow people to work anywhere, the International Data Corporation projects 37% of the global workforce will be mobile by 2015. An interesting twist to Telework week this year is the timing of a major policy change at Yahoo. CEO Marissa Mayer told her employees they could no lon...

Details Published on Sunday, 26 October 2014 06:05 Advanced analytics is a top business priority, fuelled by the need to make advanced analysis accessible to more users and broaden the insight into the business, according to market analyst Gartner. Advanced analytics is the fastest-growing segment of the business intelligence (BI) and analytics software market and surpassed US $1 billion in 2013. "While advanced analytics have existed for over 20 years, big data has accelerated interest in the market and its position in the business," says Alexander Linden, research director at Gartner. "Rather than being the domain of a few select groups (for example, marketing, risk), many more business functions now have a legitimate interest in this capability to help foster better decision making and improved business outcomes." says Linden. IT and business leaders must expand their efforts to move their organizations from using only traditional BI that addresses descri...

The federal government has agreed to stop approving oil fracking off the California coast until it studies whether the practice is safe for the environment, according to legal settlements filed Friday. Separate deals reached with a pair of environmental organizations require the Department of the Interior to review whether well techniques such as using acid or hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to stimulate offshore well production threatens water quality and marine life. The practices have been conducted for years in federal waters and were revealed when the Environmental Defense Center filed Freedom of Information Act requests, the organizations said. The stories you need to read, in one handy email Read more ...