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Apple Pay Gets off to a Rough Start Apple Pay made its debut October 20, and while plenty of iPhone users are having success paying for certain items with little effort and greater security, early glitches and issues have made this service difficult to recommend. |
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Building Discoverability into Our Daily Information Consumption If we look at keywords essential to information processing, searchability and discoverability are critical. Any piece of information an organization has access to needs to become searchable and discoverable to the relevant end-users when they need it. This is presenting new business opportunities. |
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Georgia Tech Researchers Use Google Glass to Help Hearing-Impaired What if there were a way that a hard-of-hearing person wearing Google Glass could get real-time closed captioning to assist with everyday conversations? Researchers at Georgia Tech have created speech-to-text software for Google Glass that uses a smartphone to capture a conversation. |
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Facebook Looking to Expand Mobile Advertising Reach Facebook is relaunching the advertising platform it acquired, Atlas Solutions, with the hope of pushing its way up in the world of mobile advertising by leveraging the extensive base of user data it has. How other companies consume this data and make the right targeted connections may be a concern. |
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Wearable and Mobile Technology—My Journey through Disney World The new MagicBand technology at the Disney resort operates by radio frequency technology and allows you to connect your theme park ticket, hotel room key, credit card for buying food and merchandise, and your Disney ride preferences. They're an interesting take on wearables. |
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The Race to Smartwatch Supremacy In an attempt to compete with Google and Apple, Pebble, which Kickstarted one of the first smartwatches two years ago, is dropping its prices and adding new functionality. The company will have to continue to push, though, if it hopes to remain relevant in this now competitive industry. |
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Study Tests Activity Tracking App to Detect Depression Some of the most popular apps are the health and fitness ones. What if changes in activity level could flag overlooked symptoms of depression? Researchers at Dartmouth College hope that tracking daily physical activities can be good for your mental health, as well as your fitness. |
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Is the Use of Mobile Devices Harmful to Kids? When asked in 2010 if his kids love the iPad, Steve Jobs' reply was surprising: “They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” Anuj Magazine looks at the use of mobile devices by kids and the positive and potential negative effects. |
