Category Archives: Misc

Internet’s Most-Read Stories (Infographic)

  Fast Company: It turns out that the most-shared articles aren’t fluffy clickbait. Generally, they’re pieces that focus on grander themes: kids (“Schools Fail to Train Kids”), extreme wealth and poverty (“The World’s Poorest President,” “The Rich Alarmed by Homeless … Continue reading

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Health Care and IT: The Long Road to Wellness

“The development of our information processing industry is basically governed by longer term super-cycles… Analyses of what computational environments will facilitate can be mind-boggling. To offer just one example, health care delivery will be revolutionized by 1990, with most large … Continue reading

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Big Data and Healthcare (Infographic)

From Steve Lohr’s @SteveLohr profile of Jeff Hammerbacher @hackingdata in the New York Times On the Case at Mount Sinai, It’s Dr. Data Jeffrey Hammerbacher is a number cruncher — a Harvard math major who went from a job as a Wall Street … Continue reading

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The Age of Context Quantified

  Ambient intelligence is a relatively new term in the technology lexicon, yet ABI Research forecasts that it will become the major evolution in technology-based consumer services and quality of life applications over the next 10 years. Essentially, ambient intelligence … Continue reading

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Net Neutrality Means Different Things to Different People (Infographic)

Source: Defining Net Neutrality Without the Politics and Net Neutrality’s Technical Troubles  

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3 Database Admins Walked into a NoSQL Bar…

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15 Most-Funded Crowdfunding Projects On Kickstarter And Indiegogo

2014 was a great year for crowdfunding. Kickstarter had 22,252 projects raising a total of $529 million, up from $480 million raised in 2013. Indiegogo had 1,000% increase in funds raised over the past two years and both Indiegogo and … Continue reading

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4 billion people buying phones every 2 years instead of 1.6 billion buying PCs every 5 years

Source: Benedict Evans

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Biggest Data Breaches in 2014 (Infographic)

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The Past and Future of Wireless Networks (Infographic)

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