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Drones from Globe UAV GmbH use the high-speed 4G LTE wireless Internet. Control data and live video feeds are transmitted in real time. The wireless LTE standard supports data transmissions of up to 100 MBit/s. In highly populated areas this high speed network has hardly any gaps. In the countryside on the other hand, high speed surfing is not standard at all. For Globe UAV GmbH’s drones this means that they are mostly deployed in cities since the control data and live video feed that they can transmit bi-directionally in…

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Private or public? Both cloud types offer benefits and both have enjoyed significant growth over the last few years. Yet, what’s the best bet for your business: The virtually limitless resources of public cloud stacks, or the close-to-home control of private alternatives? Here’s a look at some critical differences between public and private clouds. Infrastructure As noted by Business 2 Community, the biggest difference between public and private clouds comes down to hosting. Public clouds are hosted on shared server infrastructure, which means multiple “tenants” all sharing the same physical space. Servers…

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Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. During the press conference to announce NOKIA being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying this “we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”. Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included, teared sadly. Nokia has been a respectable company. They didn’t do anything wrong in their business, however, the world changed too fast. Their opponents were too powerful. They missed out on learning, they missed out on changing, and thus…

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Snapchat is much more than an app whose popularity has recently been going through the roof. Snapchat is changing behavior on the web and evoking the future of social VR…   When I use social media in my daily life, it more or less involves the following user scenarios: Facebook: I post a picture or a link and think up an amusing phrase to go with it that people will want to share – in the hope of gaining as many likes as possible. The more likes it gets, the…

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At the 2016 Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle unveiled a host of new cloud products, including many SaaS and PaaS tools. Oracle kicked off the 2016 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday with a very clear theme—the cloud. The company debuted more than 20 new products and services for the Oracle Cloud Platform, but what stuck out was the company’s focus on intelligent apps, containers, and analytics. The intelligent apps will be formally known as Adaptive Intelligent Applications, and will leverage data and insights found in Oracle’s Data Cloud, according…

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Intelligent fridge can tell you when you’re out of milk If you thought grocery shopping could hardly get much easier, think again. Microsoft is collaborating with Liebherr’s appliances division to develop ‘SmartDeviceBox’, a communication module that connects Liebherr’s refrigerators and freezers to the internet. Thanks to internal cameras and deep learning algorithms similar to those of Cortana (Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence), Microsoft’s new fridge technology recognises food packaging, and effectively monitors what products you have at home. “This information flows automatically into an inventory list, which lets the customer see quickly…

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You hear it all the time: Mobile is over. The app boom is finished. The average American downloads zero apps per month (okay, maybe 1.5 apps per month) — so it’s time to start thinking about the “next big thing.” Of course, nobody really means that mobile is “over,” just that all the big opportunities have already been grabbed. The thinking is that, with Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp, WeChat, and Twitter out there, and no one downloading many apps any more, there’s just no room for something new. It’s too late. Don’t bother trying to…

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Selecting an ERP vendor involves questions – lots of questions. It’s important to get as much information as possible in the selection process since choosing the right product from the right vendor is one of the most critical decisions in the implementation process. It can literally make or break the entire project. There are a great many questions you need to ask. Here are some of the most important ones. Does this product support your style of operations? ERP systems are specialized by type of business and often by industry.…

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Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn’t in trouble; the officers wanted his help. Jain is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs, fingerprint scanners and tattoo matching; he wants to make them as difficult to hack as possible. But the police were interested in the opposite of this: they wanted his help to unlock a dead man’s phone. Jain and his PhD student Sunpreet Arora couldn’t share details…

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Research has shown that 70 percent of organizational change efforts fail. Lack of support from across the organization is a major cause for this daunting statistic. Without support, big ideas don’t take hold — or have the desired impact. You need buy-in to make organizational change happen, especially when building support for a new technology initiative. This is a timely challenge as the internet, big data and other tools have made markets increasingly competitive, pushing many organizations to adopt new technology to remain relevant. These initiatives can seem like obvious solutions…

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