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Why mobile is driving off-grid solar in the developing world
When we think about off-the-grid solar, we tend to picture environmentally conscious homeowners and corporations trying to make an incremental difference in greenhouse gas emissions by installing PV...
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Qualcomm wants your help in building a diagnostic tricorder
The combination of sensors and mobile networks are changing the way we interact with the health system. Maybe it’s the addition of a jacket on your phone that can monitor our heartbeat or even a...
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One design, any screen: Introducing GigaOM’s new look and feel
You’ve no doubt had the experience of reading a site on your mobile phone and wondering why half the headline is chopped off, or the font size is so small you can’t read it. It just seems like the...
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Hurry up and put a projector in my phone, Intel
For several years now, Intel has used its annual Research@Intel event to showcase an interactive projected display. The idea is that any surface can be turned into a space to flip through photos, watch...
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Finding pi: Enterprises must dump their legacy ideas and search for radical...
Radical innovation has historically overcome barriers to scientific progress. For example, the discovery of pi as a numerical concept found application in mathematics, physics, signal and image...
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Stellar, South African nonprofit to bring digital savings to young girls
When Stellar launched last summer, Joyce Kim like any other startup exec wasn’t getting much sleep and found herself trolling Twitter in the middle of the night, San Francisco time. In September, Kim,...
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Half of U.S. shoppers rely on phones for in-store research
The Pew Internet and American Life Project shed light on one of the biggest challenges for retailers: more than half of U.S. adult cell phone owners used their mobile phone during the recent holiday...
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Apple jumps to third place in worldwide mobile phone shipments
Apple’s (s aapl) huge iPhone sales numbers from its latest quarterly results and the overall success of its iPhone 4S helped it grow its mobile phone business by 128.4 percent year-over-year in the...
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Safety last? the conundrum of connected cars
Updated. U.S. car makers, reinvigorated after their near-death experience, are adding the latest consumer electronics to their new models as a way to boost profits, a fact that the Wall Street Journal...
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Rogers’ new One Number: Is this the future of telco voice?
It was only a matter of time before a major North American operator abandoned its territorial notions about mobile voice and adopted a true ‘softphone’ service. That operator appears to be Rogers...
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