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Weekly#107

  • Morse Code Translator
  • Facebook is building a fleet of giant solar-powered drones (Business Insider). Aquila can reportedly stay in the air for up to three months at a time, and beam high-speed internet from between 60,000 and 90,000 feet in the air. They’ll be lighter than a small car, but as long as a Boeing 767.

  • Apple could release 3 new iPhones this year (Business Insider)
    the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 6S Plus, and a smaller device currently known as the iPhone 6C.

  • Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited Storage for 60 USD (Digital Trends)
  • A Navy Diving Suit That Recycles Wasted Oxygen and Helium (Wired)
  • Adorable Plant Monitors (Trendhunter)
  • Google To Build Robotic Surgery Platform With Johnson & Johnson (TechCrunch)

 

 

 


 

 

 

Weekly#106

  • Smart cities will house 9.7 billion IoT devices by 2020: Gartner (ZDNet)
  • Germany Moves Away From U.S.-Dominated IoT Standards Groups (WSJ)
  • Top 15 IoT Takeaways From South By Southwest (Forbes)
  • The Digital Transformation of Industry(PDF Report by Roland Berger)
    • “By 2025, Europe could see its manufacturing industry add gross value worth 1.25 trillion euros – or suffer the loss of 605 billion euros in foregone value added.”
  • PowerPoint Karaoke Brings Stress Relief to Silicon Valley’s Embattled Office Workers (WSJ) Participants give improvised talks in front of slides they haven’t seen before.
  • Microsoft announces Azure IoT Suite (Microsoft Blog)
  • 27 Revenue Model Options (SlideShare)
  • A developer kit for Nvidia’s self-driving car platform, the Drive PX, will go on sale in May for $10,000, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said today at the company’s GPU Technology Conference. (Recode)
  • 5 Internet of Things Things from CeBit (WSJ)
  • Xiaomi began public beta testing Tuesday of an online money-market fund that lets users earn interest on money saved in Xiaomi’s wallet app, a spokeswoman said (WSJ)
  • Ford Motor Co. is turning to longtime partner Microsoft Corp. to make over-the-air software updates standard in its next generation of cars. (WSJ)
  • Andreessen Horowitz Invests $7.5 Million in Big-Data Startup Tachyon “Tachyon is a memory-centric storage system that is both faster and more reliable than the previous generation of file-based storage systems, Mr. Levine said.” (WSJ)
  • Facebook Announces a Payments Feature for Its Messenger App (NyTimes)
  • Orange Seeks Foreign Partner for Video Site Dailymotion (NyTimes)
  • Google Now will open more broadly to more third-party apps (Mashable)
  • Carbon3D’s revolutionary new 3D printer is 25 to 100 times faster (Inhabitat)
  • Delphi’s self-driving car is set to take a road trip from San Francisco to NYC (Inhabitat)

 

 

 

Weekly#105

  • Algorithmia Launches With More Than 800 Algorithms On Its Marketplace (Techcrunch)
  • Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence (HBR)
  • Smartphones are about to become network hubs (NetworkWorld)
  • Apple Event in 90 Seconds (TechCrunch)
  • Starbucks Mobile Order & Pay Expands to the Pacific Northwest (Yahoo)
  • Three European countries have already hit their 2020 renewable energy goals (QZ)
    • In 2010, the European Union set a goal of producing 20% of its total energy from renewable sources by 2020. The latest figures show that the union as a whole reached the 15% mark in 2013. But the combined figure includes some countries already exceeding thier targets, while others lag far behind.
      Three out of the 28 EU member states have surpassed their 2020 goals. Sweden had one of the most ambitious goals, planning to produce 49% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. It’s already gone further than that, with 52.1% from renewable sources in 2013. Bulgaria and Estonia also are producing more than they had been targeting, five years ahead of schedule
  • 4G around the globe: Spain has the fastest LTE speeds, the U.S. has among the slowest (VentureBeat)
  • WhatsApp hits 1 billion installs on Android, the second non-Google app to do so (VentureBeat)
  • Who Coined ‘Cloud Computing’? (Technology Review)
    Part of the debate is who should get credit for inventing the idea. The notion of network-based computing dates to the 1960s, but many believe the first use of “cloud computing” in its modern context occurred on August 9, 2006, when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term to an industry conference. “What’s interesting [now] is that there is an emergent new model,” Schmidt said, “I don’t think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It starts with the premise that the data services and architecture should be on servers. We call it cloud computing—they should be in a “cloud” somewhere.”

    The term began to see wider use the following year, after companies including Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM started to tout cloud-computing efforts as well. That was also when it first appeared in newspaper articles, such as a New York Times report from November 15, 2007, that carried the headline “I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar.” It described vague plans for “Internet-based supercomputing.”

    Sam Johnston, director of cloud and IT services at Equinix, says cloud computing took hold among techies because it described something important. “We now had a common handle for a number of trends that we had been observing, such as the consumerization and commoditization of IT,” he wrote in an e-mail.

    Johnston says it’s never been clear who coined the term. As an editor of the Wikipedia entry for cloud computing, Johnston keeps a close eye on any attempts at misappropriation. He was first to raise alarms about Dell’s trademark application and this summer he removed a citation from Wikipedia saying a professor at Emory had coined the phrase in the late 1990s. There have been “many attempts to coopt the term, as well as various claims of invention,” says Johnston. (Source)

 

 

 

 

Weekly#104

    • Google’s Android to Take On Facebook in Virtual Reality
      Secret team at search giant working on new version of popular OS for virtual reality (WSJ)
    • Zombie Projects: How to Find Them and Kill Them (HBR)
      • 1- Use simple, transparent, predetermined criteria. 
      • 2-Involve outsiders. 
      • 3-Codify lessons learned along the way. 
      • 4-Expand the definition of success.
      • 5-Communicate widely. 
      • 6-Provide closure.
    • Preview 27 different Apple Watch apps in your browser (GigaOM)
    • Sony to release Playstation 4 virtual reality headset in 2016 (GigaOM)
    • Report: Google preparing iOS app for Android Wear smartwatches (GigaOM)
    • How companies assess your financial risk based only on your email address (QZ)
      • Email domain: “The analysis of the email domain can be very powerful, as it allows the understanding of the existing controls around the creation of an email address,” Carvalho tells Quartz. In general, corporate email addresses pose less risk when it comes to online fraud versus email services open to the public, such as Yahoo or Gmail.
        Age of email address: Emailage can obtain information about the age of some email addresses. An email address created around the time an order was placed is another red flag for merchants.
        Numeric patterns: Patterns in email handles, such as the numbers in John12345, can also be a possible sign of fraud.
        Logic patterns: More sophisticated fraudsters use technology to automatically generate email addresses. “The act of creating these addresses often reveals patterns of logic used to create them,” says Carvalho. “We can detect these patterns and identify other email addresses associated with the same fraud ring before fraud happens.”
        Email tumbling: Some email addresses, such as those from Gmail, still work when users add special characters, such as a period or plus sign, to the handle. People sometimes use this workaround to create multiple accounts with one email address. (Source QZ)
    • Apple Suppliers Told to Produce Larger iPad in Second Half (WSJ)
    • Minecraft’s Markus Persson Tells All On His Sale To Microsoft, And What’s Next (Forbes)
    • Haiku Deck’s new AI tool can automatically generate your next presentation (TNW)
    • Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2016 Preview with Retina graphics and cloud integration (TNW)
    • Apple may partner with HBO on the launch of its $15/month streaming service (VentureBeat)
    • Reid Hoffman’s Two Rules for Strategy Decisions (HBR)
      • Reid’s first principle is speed. One of his most popular quotes is, “If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.” Another is, “In founding a startup, you throw yourself off a cliff and build an airplane on the way down.” Practically, Reid employs several decision making hacks to prioritize speed as a factor for which option is best — and to speed up the process of making the decision itself.
      • Reid’s second principle is simplicity — simplicity enables speed
    • Music discovery app Shazam will now identify products (BI)

    • Here’s why Apple joining the Dow is a ‘historic moment’ for the company (BI)

      * Stocks in the Dow have more visibility
      * Joining the Dow also opens up Apple to a new class of investor
      * According to Dow Jones, “a stock typically is added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth, and is of interest to a large number of investors,” and so on some level, Dow Jones is reaffirming Apple’s corporate reputation with this addition.

       


 

 

 

 

 

Weekly#103

  •  Morgan Stanley, Apple Autonomous Car estimations

    • Technology connected to an autonomous car may be the ticket. ”We note that Apple prefers to develop and design its products in-house and to outsource the actual production and assembly process. This could be enabled by cars going autonomous – we estimate over 60% of the value of the autonomous car will come from software vs. 10% today,” she wrote.

      Other points covered in the research note:

      –Total Market: The automotive TAM (total addressable market) is $10 trillion of installed base, with and annual new vehicle revenues of [roughly] $1.6 trillion. “This dwarfs smartphones at $400 [billion] and PCs at $266 [billion] of annual revenue…If AAPL were to corner just 25% of the value of the car, it would be equivalent to the entire smartphone industry today.” (Source: Forbes)

  • Microsoft’s mind-blowing vision of the future: 3D holograms, smart surfaces, next-gen wearables, and ‘fluid mobility’

  • 2nd generation Pebble is now taking preorders in Kickstarter.  hits 500 K USD in 17 minutes.
  • Video: The Facebook chief executive officer talks drones, lasers, and debates with Bill Gates
  • Scanadu’s New Pee Stick Puts The Medical Lab On Your Smartphone
  • When Drones Aren’t Enough, Amazon Envisions Trucks with 3D Printers
  • Apple sends out invites for March 9 event, likely for Apple Watch
  • Bionic Eye helps blind man see his wife for the first time in 10 years
  • The first full-scale Hyperloop test track may launch in California next year

  • Google just paid $25 million to buy the entire ‘.app’ web domain

  • Toyota hackathon winners aimed for drone that automatically follows a car

  • US Mobile Market Update – Q4 2014 and 2014

 The average mobile data consumption (cellular) crossed 2GB/mo in 2014. In the US, it took roughly 20 years to reach the 1GB/user/mo mark. However, the second GB mark has been reached in less than 4 quarters. An entire year’s worth of mobile data traffic in 2007 is now reached in less than 100 hours. (Source : Chetan Sharma)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haftalık#102

  • 1 gr DNA 455 exabyte veri saklayabiliyor.
  • 20 Tools to Run a Small Business
  • Cisco Visual Networking Index 2014-2019 Report
    • Global mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014.
    • Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000.
    • Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent of total mobile data traffic for the first time in 2012.
    • Almost half a billion (497 million) mobile devices and connections were added in 2014.
    • Mobile network (cellular) connection speeds grew 20 percent in 2014.
    • In 2014, a fourth-generation (4G) connection generated 10 times more traffic on average than a non‑4G connection.
    • The top 1 percent of mobile data subscribers generated 18 percent of mobile data traffic, down from 52 percent at the beginning of 2010.
    • Average smartphone usage grew 45 percent in 2014.
    • Globally, there were nearly 109 million wearable devices (a sub-segment of the machine-to-machine [M2M] category) in 2014 generating 15 petabytes of monthly traffic.
    • Globally, 46 percent of total mobile data traffic was offloaded onto the fixed network through Wi-Fi or femtocell in 2014.  (from : Cisco)
  • Raspberry Pi Satışları 5 milyonu geçti.
  • Facebook VR uygulamaları geliştirmeye başladı. Geçen sene Oculus VR’i satın almıştı.
  • Film tavsiyesi : Something Ventured (2011)

 

 

 

 

Haftalık#101

  • [pdf] 2015 silicon valley index
  • Flipboard desktop sürümünü devreye aldı. https://flipboard.com/
  • Boston Dynamics yeni robotunu tanıttı.
  • Watching people code could be the next big thing in live streaming video
  • Microsoft çalışanlarının yeni CEO’ları hakkındaki düşünceleri (Business Insider)
    • They’re delighted about the end of Windows-first
    • It’s exciting to work at Microsoft again
    • A third employee told us that people walk around more freely with iPhones and Android phones now.
  • Apple şirket değeri 710 milyar dolar oldu.
  • Apple’da Tesla’dan gelen 50 kişi çalışıyor. Business Insider’a göre şirket self-driving car ya da cep telefonu araba etkileşimi artıracak çözümler geliştiriyor olabilir
  • Google Maps 10. yaşını kutladı.
  • Six Things Technology Has Made Insanely Cheap (bloomberg)
    • Personal Computers
    • Software
    • Televisions
    • Securities Commissions
    • Cameras
    • Cell Phone Service
  • Singapur’da drone garsonlar


 

 


 

 

 

Haftalık#100

  • [Video] Jack Ma – Charlie Rose World Economic Forum 2015’teki interview’i, AliBaba ve vizyonu hakkında güzel bilgiler var.
    • I made a bet: in 10 years we’ll be bigger than Walmart (based) on the sales. Because if you want to have 10,000 new customers, you have to build a new warehouse and all that. For me? Two servers.
  • Star Wars Milenyum Şahininin Drone versiyonu
  • John Bannister Goodenough 57 yaşında (1980’de) lityum ion pil’i geliştirmiş. 1991’de Sony tarafından ticarileştirilmiş.
  • Alibaba Çin’de drone teslimatı ile ilgili testlere başladı.
  • Teknoloji çevirmenleri nasıl etkileyecek. (economist)
    Jochen Hummel, a pioneer in translation memory, says that a real breakthrough would come from combining software, memory and content management in a single database. But making money may still be tricky. The American tech titan has not tried to commercialise Google Translate. A former executive says the firm experimented with content-management software but “decided to focus on easier stuff, like self-driving cars.”
  • Robots provide a personal touch at Japanese bank (telegraph)
    Unveiling Nao in Tokyo on Monday, officials at the bank pointed out that the android is able to speak no fewer than 19 languages and can determine customers’ emotions from their facial expressions.
  • SpaceX 8 Şubat pazar günü okyanustaki yüzen bir platformdan kalkış ve iniş denemesi yapacak.
  • Building Robots With Better Morals Than Humans
    Bill Gates told Reddit this week that he agrees with Musk. “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence,” Gates wrote. “First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned.”
  • A New Global Swarm of Weather-Sensing Satellites
    Armed with tiny orbiting sensors, a startup plans to build the world’s largest database of private weather data.
  • Why Is Google Making Human Skin?
  • Tesla’da eski Apple çalışanı 150 kişiyi işe almış. Tesla’da toplam 6 bin kişi çalışıyor.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Haftalık#99

  • Apple tatil çeyreğini 18 milyar dolar rekor karla kapattı.
    • Gelirler 74.6 milyar dolar
    • Geçen sene aynı çeyrek 51 milyon adet iken bu çeyrek 74.5 milyon adetiPhone, iPad satıldı, iPhone şirket gelirlerinin %70’ini oluşuturuyor.
    • iOS kümüle satışları 1 milyarı geçti.
    • Nakit miktarı 178 milyar dolar
  • Amazon şirketlere e-mail çözümü sunmayı planlıyor. WorkMail’in account başına aylık 4 dolar olması bekleniyor.
  • Deloitte TMT 2015 [summary] [PDF]
  • PSFK presents the Mobile Commerce Playbook [slideshare]
  • Facebook’u sadece mobilden kullanan kullanıcı sayısı %38.
  • Big Mac Index
  • VR uçuş eğlence sisteminde kullanılacak

 

 

 

 

Haftalık#98

  • WhatsApp Web uygulamasını yayınladı.
  • Microsoft Windows 10 ve HoloLens’i tanıttı. HoloLens özellikle gelecek nesil productivy uygulamaları için önemli bir altyapı olabilir.

  • Twitter ZipDial’i satın aldı. Kullanıcıların belirli numarayı arayıp cevapsız çağrı bırakarak tetikledikleri mobil pazarlama kurguları sunuyor.
  • Samsung bir sonraki Galaxy telefonlarında Qualcomm yerine kendi işlemcisini kullanacak.
  • Yeni bir kitap deneyimi : Kitabı aldıktan sonra okumak için sadece 24 saat vaktiniz olan ve sonra kendini imha eden bir iPad uygulaması
  • Kalp şeklinde telefon (Japonya’dan)
  • Shazam 30 milyon dolar yatırım alarak 1 milyar dolar değerlemeye ulaştı.
  • Airbnb yakında otel zincirlerinden daha fazla rezervasyon rakamına ulaşacak. 2014 Şubatta 300 bin odadan Aralıkta milyona ulaştı. InterContinental Otel grubu portföyünde 698 bin odası var. Rezervasyon olaral yıllık  Airbnb 37 milyon oda gece, IHG grubu 177 milyon oda gece büyülükte.
  • 2014 bulut kesinti süreleri
    • AWS 2.01 saat downtime 99.9974%
    • Google 3.46 saat downtime  99.9814%
    • Azure 42.94s aat downtime  99.9814%
  • Uber’den istatistikler
    • San Francisco (SF) Taxi pazarı 140 milyon dolar (yıllık)
    • Uber’in SF’den geliri 500 milyon dolar
    • Uber’in büyümesi yıllık  SF’de 3 kat NY’de 4 kat , Londra’da 5 kat
  • Interactive graphic: How nations compete on pay, innovation, and education

    Global Competitiveness Index (score)

    Switzerland (5.7)
    Singapore (5.65)
    United States (5.54)
    Finland (5.5)
    Germany (5.49)
    Japan (5.47)
    Hong Kong SAR (5.46)
    Netherlands (5.45)
    United Kingdom (5.41)
    Sweden (5.41)

    source (WEF, QZ)

  • Dropbox windows akıllı telefon ve tabletler için olan mobil uygulamasını yayınladı.
  • BCG Perspectives : The Mobile Internet Economy in Europe