Haftalık#86

  • Ericsson 5G Slideshare
    • In 2020, there will be more than 9 billion subscriptions, and billions
      of things will be connected – all with varying needs.
    • The applications that are built on 5G will bring
      a benefit to society, support resource sharing,
      enable smart use of available resources, and deliver
      connectivity at an affordable price
  • WSJ D Live, videos
    • Xiaomi sold about 18 million phones in the past year and it is forecasting sales of 60 million units this year.(WSJ)
    • Ericsson controls a third of the global market for wireless networks
    • Google X Team Hopes to Develop Nanoparticles to Provide Early Detection of Cancer, Other Diseases
  • Ben Evans Slideshare
  • Facebook, Whatsapp’a ait ilk 6 aylık sonuçları açıkladı.
  • Chinese phonemakers are preparing to take on the world (The Economist)
  • Andy Rubin, Google’dan ayrılıyor.
  • Photo Math uygulamasını 6 mio kişi download etti.
  • Bloomberg Tim Cook interview
  • The Global Innovation 1000: Top 20 R&D Spenders 2005-2014 (R&D Bütçeleri Samsung 13.4 milyar dolar, Intel 10.6 milyar dolar, Google 8 milyar dolar, Novartis 9.9 milyar dolar)
  • Microsoft’un giyilebilir cihazı ile ilgili yorumlar
  • A CIO’s guide to the future of work

Haftalık#85

  • Twitter Flight Developer Conference : Youtube
  • Samsung 5G hız testinde sabit 7.5 Gbps, 100 km hızla giderken 1.2 Gbps hıza ulaştı.
  • Charlie Rose: George Lucas
  • Google yeni e-mail hizmeti Inbox’ı tanıttı.
  • GhostDash head-up display creates virtual rivals for racers in training
  • Nest Smarthome firması Revolv’u satın aldı.
  • Connected Car pazarı 6 yılda 131 milyar dolara ulaşacak.
  • Pichai is currently a Senior Vice President at Google, overseeing Chrome, Android, and Google Apps. Recode’s report notes his new role would give Pichai control over research, search, maps, Google+, commerce and ads, in addition to the products he already handles.
  • WSJ -“Music sales at Apple’s iTunes Store have fallen 13% to 14% world-wide since the start of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. “
  • Netflix DVD için hizmet veren callcenter’ını kapattı.
  • Lumia, Microsoft’un yeni akıllı telefon markası oldu.
  • Slideshare
    • JWT: The Future of Payments & Currency (October 2014)
    • 24 Books You’ve Never Heard Of – But Will Change Your Life
    • How to Think Like a Futurist
    • Data Monetization in the Age of Big Data: Five Steps for Mobile Operators

Haftalık#84

  • Apple yeni iPad, iMac’lerini tanıttı
  • Şu ana kadar 225 mio iPad satıldı.
  • Apple pay çözümü için 500’den fazla banka ile anlaştıklarını açıkladı.
  • AliBaba’nın Wallet çözümünü 190 M aktif kullanıcısı var. Alibaba’nın günlük işlemlerinin %50’sini kapsıyor.
  • Microsoft farklı başlıklar altında yaptığı konferansları (TechEd, Management Summit, Exchange Conference, SharePoint Conference, Project Conference, and Lync Conference) Ignite adı altında tek bir konferansta topluyor.
  • Slideshare – How Google Works
  • Google çeyrek sonuçları açıklandı. Geçen sene aynı çeyreğe göre %5 altında.
  • Apple 2011’de aldığı virtual sim patenti yeni iPad’lerde devreye aldı. Yazılımsal olarak cihazı alırken müşterinin istediği operatörün data teklifini seçmesini sağlıyor.
  • Xiaomi Hindistan’da Redmi 1S modelini bir e-ticaret sitesi üzerinden 4.2 saniyede 100 bin adet sattı.
  • Google Glass’ın sağlıkta 15 kullanımı
  • Google Android tabanlı TV setup box’ını tanıttı. Nexus Player ile oyun ve streaming konusunda ek servisler sunması bekleniyor.
  • 26 Mistakes I See Founders Make When Pitching to VCs
  • Start exploring your life on earth
    Our planet has been around for 4.5 billion years.
    But how has it changed in your lifetime? BBC (Explore BBC Earth’s unique interactive, personalised just to you)

Haftalık#83

  • Amazon ilk mağazasını Newyork’ta açtı.
  • Tesla yeni modelini tanıttı.
  • Google Hangout için ayrı bir uygulama yayınladı.
  • Apple 16 Ekim’de yeni iPad lansmanı yapması bekleniyor.
  • Gartner: Top 10 Strategic IT Trends For 2015
    • Computing everywhere
    • Internet of Things (iot)
    • 3D Printing
    • Advanced, Pervasive, Invisible Analytics
    • Context-Rich Systems
    • Smart Machines
    • Cloud/Client Architecture
    • Software-Defined Infrastructure and Applications
    • Web-Scale IT
    • Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection
  • Marc Andreessen on Finance: ‘We Can Reinvent the Entire Thing
  • Humans Are Now Outnumbered By Mobile Devices
  • 7 Experimental Interfaces That Show the Future of UI Design
  • Comedy Audiences Charged Per Laugh with Facial Recognition Tech
  • Electrolux Design Lab
  • MC10
  • G.E. Opens Its Big Data Platform (Nytimes)
    • The company did it entirely with sensor-equipped G.E. machines, including 1.4 million pieces of medical equipment and 28,000 jet engines. All in, the company said, each day it now gathers 50 million pieces of data from 10 million sensors, off equipment worth $1 trillion
    • Mr. Ruh also said Predix currently touches 21,500 G.E. locomotives, 23,000 G.E. wind turbines, 3,900 gas turbines and 20,700 pieces of oil and gas equipment. His software division, located near Silicon Valley, now includes 1,200 people, and will add another 100 people by the end of the year. Attrition in 2013, he said, was 1.1 percent, an unusually low number in a hot engineering market.

Haftalık#82

  • Google ve Apple’dan sonra Facebook da sağlık uygulamaları geliştirmeyi planlıyor. (wsj)
  • Google lego ekran teknolojisi üzerinde çalışıyor.
  • Spotify, Kanada da servis vermeye başladı.
  • Dubai polisi Google Glass’a aranan kişileri tanıyacak bir yazılım geliştiriyor.(Dubai detectives to get Google Glass with facial recognition)
  • Japonya hızlı treninin 50. yaşını kutluyor.
  • Drone yarışı devam ediyor. Facebook aylarca uçabilecek dron geliştiriyor. Google ve Facebook diğer 3 milyar insanın internete erişimini sağlamak için çalışmalar yapıyor. Eğer bu nufüs internete bağlanırsa Facebook’a göre 140 milyon yeni iş imkanı yaratacak.
  • Blackberry yeni telefonu Pasaportu tanıttı. 200 bin preorder aldı. Temmuz ayında Secusmart satınalmıştı. (In late July, BlackBerry entered into an agreement to acquire Secusmart, a German mobile security company that provides high-security voice and data encryption)
  • Avustralyalı bir bilim adamı CD’ye 1000 TB veri yazmayı başardı.
  • [Video] Citizen Chasing Horizons
  • the World’s First Wearable Drone

Haftalık#81

  • Wearable Technologies 2014 Slideshare
  • On a Shoestring, India Sends Orbiter to Mars on Its First Try  (nytimes)
    • The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was intended mostly to prove that India could succeed in such a highly technical endeavor — and to beat China. As Mr. Modi and others have noted, India’s trip to Mars, at a price of $74 million, cost less than “Gravity,” the Hollywood movie. NASA’s almost simultaneous — and far more complex — mission to Mars cost $671 million.
  • Google’s Niantic Labs introduces ‘missions’ to its location-based Ingress smartphone game
  • Valve launches its Steam Music Player with free Half-Life and Portal video game soundtracks
  • Facebook (Messenger) said it had more than 200 million monthly active users globally. That number is likely much higher now. In the US alone, its user base has grown 75% since then, according to comScore, to 67 million unique visitors in August. (QZ)
  • Apple quickly releases iOS 8.0.2 to fix iPhone issues caused by the prior update
  • Japanese Construction Giant Obayashi Plans to Build a Space Elevator by 2050
  • INFOGRAPHIC: You Won’t Believe How Many World-Changing Inventions Came From NASA

  • Elon Musk’s Latest Venture: A Gigafactory for Solar Energy

Haftalık#80

  • Microsoft Minecraft’ın yapımcı firmasını 2.5 milyar dolara satın aldı. Minecraft XBox konsollarında 12 milyon download rakamına ulaştı PC ve Mac kullanıcı sayısı 16.6 milyon. 40 çalışanı var ve geçen sene 100 milyon doların üzerinde gelir elde etti. Microsoft’un yeni nesillere erişimi, teknoloji algısını kuvvetlendirmesi, mobil ve sosyal alanda kuvvetli bir uygulama ile güç kazandırabilir.
    • Minecraft offers Microsoft a platform with strong elements of social and mobile usage, two areas where it has struggled so far. But perhaps most importantly, Minecraft gives Microsoft an intergenerational success story that few other games or services can replicate.The Verge spoke with dozens of parents who see Minecraft not only as an incredible tool for bonding with their children, but a gateway to education in computer science that could restore some appeal to the Microsoft brand for the next generation. Ari Paparo, an ad-tech entrepreneur in New York, plays Minecraft with his own children. “My eight year-old son says: ‘If Apple wanted to get cooler they would buy Minecraft instead of Beats.’”  
      (The Verge)
  • Where (in the Human Body) Venture Capital Is Going (WSJ)
  • 100,000 Digitized Art History Materials from the Getty Research Institute Now Available in the Digital Public Library of America
  • Y Combinator Releases Its Curriculum as a Stanford Class — And Online
  • Larry Ellison to Step Aside as Oracle CEO
  • Samsung kasım ayında Hindistan’da Tizen işletim sistemli akıllı telefonunu piyasaya sunacak.
  • “Google confirmed the next version of its Android operating system will encrypt user data by default, making it difficult for law enforcement or phone thieves to read data on a phone without user cooperation
    …for devices with Android “L” installed, the next version of the operating system which is expected to be released in October, encryption will be turned on by default.”
  • “SoftBank’s Alibaba Alchemy: How to Turn $20 Million Into $50 Billion….Son displayed when he pumped $20 million from his company into a fledgling Chinese Internet venture 14 years ago”. (WSJ)
  • IBM Hopes To Lure New Data-Hungry Customers With Freemium Watson Analytics Tool
  • Why most people aren’t downloading apps anymore
  • Apple and Amazon Take Baby Steps Toward Digital Sharing
  • SAP said on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Concur Technologies, an enterprise software company based in Seattle, for about $8.3 billion.

Haftalık#79

  • Apple iPhone6 ve iPhone6 Plus, Watch ve Apple Pay’i tanıttı.
    • iPhone 5 ve 5s toplam cihaz sayısı 200 mio
    • 4.7 ve 5.5 inch – 1334×750 1920×1080 pixels
    • iPhone 6’larda kullanılan işlemci A8 ve M8
    • A8’de 2 milyar transistor bulunuyor
    • M8’in mesafe ve çıkılan kat (elevation) hesaplayabiliyor
    • iOS8 17 Eylül’de download’a sunulacak
    • iPhone6, ilk iPhone’den 50 kat daha hızlı
    • AppStore’da 1.3 mio uygulama bulunuyor.
    • Saat’in 3 modeli (Watch, Sport, Edition) olacak ve 2015 yılında satışa sunulacak, 349 dolardan başlayacak
    • Saat’in üzerinde yeni bir iletişim modeli bulunuyor, Flirt uygulamalarında kullanılabilir
    • Apple Pay iPhone6lar ve watch ile kullanılabilecek.
  • Goldman calls Apple launch ‘impressive’ in lifting earnings estimate and stock-price target to $115, up from $107.
  • Spotify, video reklamlara başlıyor.
  • Five brands successfully embracing the ‘internet of things
  • 15 Examples of Open Innovation between Big Companies & Startups
  • This Emergency Smartboat Won’t Need Sailors to Help It Navigate
  • Harvard students know which way the wind is blowing. According to a report from the Harvard Crimson, the school’s introductory computer science class (CS50) has a record 818 undergraduates this fall.
  • U2’s Apple deal shows why musicians don’t sell music anymore (Source : QZ)
    • Now Apple has changed its tune yet again, offering the entire U2 album “Songs of Innocence” for free to 500 million iTunes users.
    • Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis hazarded a guess that Apple is paying the band up to $30 million in exchange for offering the album free to its hundreds of millions of users. “That’s probably what the Beats by Dre model is all about: Apple as a label,” he wrote in his email newsletter. “Everyone wins: free music for us, another selling point for Apple & artists get absurd exposure through sampling.”
  • Whats Next Blog
  • With VoLTE already rolling out, AT&T turns to Wi-Fi calling in 2015
  • Thinking about farming in space? Choose Mars over the moon. A Dutch study found that many types of plants could survive 50 days in synthetic Martian and lunar soil, but the Martian plants grew significantly better. (GigaOM)
  • Apple IPhone 6 Plus stock sells out, shipping delayed 3-4 weeks
  • 2012 rakamlarına göre iPhone üretim süresi 24 saati buluyor.

    141 Steps required to make an iPhone
    24 Hours of labor it takes to manufacture the phone
    325 Sets of hands it takes to make a single iPad
    5 Days it takes to make a single iPad

Haftalık#78

  • The future of customer service [trendwatching]
  • The Rise of The Business Moment
  • a16z Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon, Blog
  • Apple’a göndermede bulunan Ikea Reklamı
  • iPhone models stay in production for up to 3 years. The Volkswagen Type 2 remained in production from November 1949 to December 2013.
  • Pinged all devices on the Internet, map
  • iot & chopsticks
  • Connected City in 19th century
  • Netflix may add short-form content to increase mobile usage
  • Withings moves beyond health gear with a new Wi-Fi camera
  • Google explains its latest gains in computer vision
  • How does Google Maps represent disputed borders between countries
  • With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things
  • Microsoft’s Chromecast competitor
  • 45 million smart homes in operation by 2018 in a global market worth $100 million.
  • worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches) will reach 175 million units worldwide in 2014, passing the 170 million portable PCs expected to ship during the same period. Next year, total phablet volumes will top 318 million units, surpassing the 233 million tablets forecast to ship in 2015.(IDC)
  • The World’s First Google Glass Detector
  • How the Next iPhone Could Finally Kill the Credit Card
  • Signs from future

Haftalık#77

  • Whatsapp 600 mio aktif kullanıcıya ulaştı.
  • Jawbone’un analizine göre 25 Ağustos’taki 3:20’deki Napa depreminde  kullanıcılarının %93’ü uyanmış.
  • Amerikadaki eyaletlerin ekonomik büyüklüklerine göre ülke isimlerini yerleştirilmiş hali
  • 2019 yılında digital müzik gelirlerinin %70’i streaming’ten gelecek.
  • Samsung yeni S serisi cihazlarında Google Maps yerine Here maps kullanacak.
  • Apple’ın 9 Eylül’de giyilebilir cihazını lanse etmesi bekleniyor. 300 dolardan satışa çıkarsa Morgan Stanley analizine göre 30-60 milyon cihaz satması ve en az 9 milyar dolarlık ek gelir elde etmesi bekleniyor. Business Insider’da raporun özeti
  • Ford ilk developer konferansını 8 Eylül’de yapacak.
  • Why mobile is the next platform, in one image
  • Google’ın da Drone ile ürün teslimatı konusunda bir projesi olduğu ortaya çıktı. Project Wing. Proje 2 yıldır devam ediyor. Kanat genişliği 1.5 m. ve 8.5 kg ağırlığında.
  • Scientists use lasers to manipulate memories in mice
  • Microsoft’s surprising ‘Plan B’ for mobile