Looking forward to see the wearable gadgets from the phone companies. We already have the spy eyewear that records video and so on, but when it comes to watches that double up as phones and probably with an operating system, that might be interesting...i look forward to seeing how the market would receive these but that might mean walking with a smartphone displayed to the public. In the very insecure streets that could get your hand cut off or hurt by snatchers.
Exactly Alison, all 3 components make the world go round and round everyday since those have become an essential comodity in our lives. Sometime these things do crete more trouble for us than others eventhough we are used to the routine since we use it every day.
The issue of who gets rights to my website and social media after death is a thorny one.
If I'm dead who cares?
I would like to have some of my media 'live' after my demise. But, how to do it seems to be not clear. Do I want a 'memorial' page? Do I want to just keep my sites going as if I'm alive, but maybe with a disclaimer that I'm not?
Or does Facebook, Google, et al, just get to do what they want with my pages?
It would only seem fair that I should be able to "will" my pages to someone to manage them or at least to keep them online. But it's going to take some law makers and attorneys to sort it all out for now.
" ... some lawmakers want to draft legislation that would give social networking rights to a deceased individual's estate.... "
Does this mean I'll stop getting birthday reminders on Facebook for friends who are dead? Because that's kind of a downer.
I need to make sure my wife has all my social media passwords, and draft a codicil to the will that gives her permission to access and use my accounts for purposes of either switching them to memorial mode or shutting them down -- her choice. I'll be dead; I don't care.
- Tog described using a smartwatch as a silent, invisible form of text messaging, using tapped-out Morse code to send and vibrations in Morse to receive.
- Little, simple iphone tasks: Starting and stopping music, or a pedometer app, answering a call. Some of these tasks are handled using other peripherals now, such as Bluetooth headsets and switches on earbud cords.
- Simple GPS: An arrow on the watchdial shows you which direction to turn. That'd be enough for walking -- when driving, you'd also want a vibration to remind you to look at the watch face when there's a turn coming up.
That said, I'm not really excited about a smartwatch the way I was, say, about rumors of the iPad before it launched in 2010. That was one device the uses of which seemed obvious and desirable. The smartwatch seems like a nice-to-have rather than a gotta-have.
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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