Tag: Google

  • Google Analytics For Real Life

    Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new prod­uct released at this year’s Nation­al Retail Fed­er­a­tion expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For…

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  • JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to online literature

    JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Online dig­i­tal library JSTOR will begin offer­ing free access to its cat­a­logue of jour­nals, papers, and books. The Reg­is­ter & Read pro­gram will now allow indi­vid­u­als to reg­is­ter for the ser­vice, but mem­bers will only be able to read……

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  • How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

    How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futur­ist and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence guru Ray Kurzweil has just start­ed at Google and gave an inter­view to Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Hub days after start­ing his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into nat­ur­al lan­guage… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil…

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  • The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees

    (via The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees – Businessweek) Related articles Foursquare’s New Series D Round Of $41M Helps It Delay Tricky Questions About Its Valuation (techcrunch.com) Bloomberg Businessweek’s Big Story On Samsung Fails To Mention One Of The Biggest Reasons For Samsung’s Success (embargozone.com)

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  • Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things

    Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridicu­lous­ly pow­er­ful. The ser­vice isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT…

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  • Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level

    (via Basis Band goes on sale, taking wearable fitness tech to the next level | Digital Trends) Related articles From The Pebble Smartwatch To Google Glass: Gauging The New Mobile Market For Wearable Devices (businessinsider.com) Gibson meets Glass: Cyberpunk creator dons Google’s wearable (slashgear.com) 3 Ways To Make Wearable Tech Actually Wearable (fastcodesign.com) OK, cupid:…

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  • Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

    Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom Killian Bell, cultofmac.com Imag­ine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christ­mas. It’s prob­a­bly your first smart­phone — maybe even your first cell­phone peri­od — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start play­ing…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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  • Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

    Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work). The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com 2012 was the year of the doom mer­chant in busi­ness. In the fan­ta­sy world of dying plan­ets earth…

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