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IEEE Seminar, February 6th, 5PM, EME 1151
IEEE Okanagan Subsection Presents Mr. David Mayes Faculty of Management, Global Internet Group, LLP Big Data, the Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not? Time & Date: 5pm-6pm, February 6,...
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Urban Legend of Free Wi-Fi For the Masses: Devil In The Details
I just finished a long chat with one of my longtime Intel colleagues in Oregon. I have the great good fortune to be recognized as an “Intel alumni,” which allows me to simply pick up the phone to...
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Facebook won't die. And it won't own the Web. It'll just be... mediocre
Reblogged from PandoDaily: The good news about Facebook is that it is, once again, destined for great things. Which is unfortunate. Because the bad news about Facebook is that it's dying. More than...
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Big Data, The Cloud And Smart Mobile Are Actually One Big Thing
ToDaClo is a current buzz word of sorts for “touch-data-cloud,” (or Big Data, The Cloud and Smart Mobile) which appears to have been coined by a writer for Forbes magazine during a talk in Paris in...
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Sweden boasts the world’s fastest 4G speeds; US ranks a lowly 8th
Reblogged from GigaOM: Sweden was the first country to launch an LTE network, and it retains plenty of bragging rights. According to a study by U.K. network-testing firm OpenSignal, Sweden has the...
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Why Knowing How To Code Is So Important: One Million More Jobs Than Students
As many of my colleagues and students know, student cyber skills are one of my big passions. Having been incredibly fortunate to be thrown into the whirlwind of Intel and Silicon Valley, I watched as...
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Mobile World Congress: Smart Mobile Mega War Gets Even Weirder
Mobile World Congress This Week New developments in the global smart mobile and tablet war at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, continue to add to the intrigue, infighting and mega...
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Silicon Valley’s Misguided Love Affair With An “App” For Everything
The knee jerk joke of “There’s an app for that!” isn’t really that funny. As an experienced Silicon Valley veteran, I am very familiar with many of its leading companies, luminaries and eccentric...
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White spaces networks are not “super” nor even Wi-Fi
Reblogged from GigaOM: Recently there has been a push to make a significant amount of unlicensed white-space spectrum available in the 600 MHz band as part of the Broadcast Television Spectrum...
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5 Ways Big Data Is Going To Blow Your Mind
“Big Data, Big Deal or Not?” Debate Continues The Gigaom Structure Data Conference has just concluded in New York City. It has added significantly to the discussion and the debate on the significance...
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Microsoft’s New End Game Strategy: Pray
PC Sales in Freefall: Wall Street Journal Quarterly PC Shipments Drop 14% as Windows 8 Fails to Stem Advance of iPads and Android Devices Mega Mobile Market Share War Moving At Breathtaking Speed to...
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Smartphone Classroom Participation Startup Top Hat Monocle Strengthens Its Team
A couple of weeks ago I was asking myself about the current “clicker” classroom participation technology at UBC. Why did the university implement a proprietary technology with no other practical use,...
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Multidimensional Mobile Market War: Silicon Rust Belt
Winners and Losers: Tech’s Hot or Not List Read more in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323809304578431211400776432.html?KEYWORDS=Tech%27s+Rust+belt In this, my...
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Standards always win for scalability: The case for HTML5 for brands and...
Reblogged from PandoDaily: The evolution from static Web to mobile is an organic, shifting movement for publishers and advertisers. First publishers began creating mobile “versions” of their sites,...
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Integrated Big Data, Cloud, and Smart Mobile: One Big Deal or Not?
IEEE Talk: Integrated Big Data, The Cloud, & Smart Mobile: One Big Deal or Not? by David Mayes on Jul 10, 2013 This IEEE Talk discusses the three biggest trends in online technology and proposes...
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The Internet of Things: The Promise Versus the Tower of Babbling Things
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) is being loosely tossed around in the media. But what does it mean? It means simply that data communication, like Internet communication, but not necessarily...
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More On The Tower of Babbling Things: Honeywell Smart Thermostat
This article from Gigaom serves to further underscore The Tower of Babbling Things….Competitors battling each other over control of The Internet of Things over the means, methods and, most importantly,...
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Latest IDC Mobile Market Report Underscores Importance of Industry Analysis
Android OS Was on Nearly 80% of Devices Shipped in the Second Quarter, IDC Says Students of Industry Analysis will note the importance of high technology industry analysis firms, like International...
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The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Should Microsoft buy Blackberry?
Readers of this blog will recall last week’s post on the International Data Corporation‘s (IDC) report on the mobile phone market. The problems for both Microsoft and Blackberry were exposed again...
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How Gigabit Fiber to the Home Will Transform Education Way Beyond MOOC’s
The post below caught my attention because of the current industry debate and competitive battle over deployment of much higher Gigabit Internet bandwidth via optical fiber to consumers, known as Fiber...
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