Most practical Big Data use cases of 2016

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Global Mobile Awards at 2015 MWC

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Category 1 – THE CONNECTED LIFE AWARDS
1A BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR HEALTH
Trice Imaging and Qualcomm Wireless Reach for Mobile Ultrasound Patrol
1B BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR EDUCATION & LEARNING
EDUMOBI for EDUMOBI Mobile Learning Network
1C BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE
Ericsson for Connected Vehicle Cloud
1D THE NFC & MOBILE MONEY AWARD
Dialog Axiata for eZ Cash
1E BEST USE OF MOBILE FOR RETAIL, BRANDS & COMMERCE
Etisalat for Connected Commerce
1F BEST MOBILE INNOVATION FOR THE ‘INTERNET OF THINGS’
Jasper for Cloud IoT Platform
1G THE MOBILE CONNECT AWARD FOR BEST AUTHENTICATION & IDENTITY SOLUTION
Etisalat for Mobile Connect
1H BEST MOBILE ENABLED CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DEVICE
ZTE for Smart Projector

Category 2 – BEST MOBILE SERVICES
2A BEST MOBILE SERVICE OR APP FOR ENTERPRISE
Citi for CitiDirect BE Mobile
2B BEST MOBILE SERVICE OR APP FOR CONSUMERS
Bharti Airtel for One Touch Internet
2C BEST MOBILE CLOUD SERVICE OR APP
AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management
2D BEST MOBILE ADVERTISING OR MARKETING
Mnet Mobile for Game On
2E BEST MOBILE NETWORK PRODUCT OR SOLUTION FOR SERVING CUSTOMERS
Alcatel-Lucent for VoLTE and Service innovation

The Internet of Things Wearable

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When I think of this concept, I would like to imagine using Internet technology to connect the world by creating things that are useful, enjoyable and appealing to a person's life, not just connecting things via objects that are uniquely identifiable in an Internet-like structure, just for the sake of getting them connected, but integrating those things into a logical and useful system that makes life easier and even fun. 

An increasingly hot development in terms of technological trends is wearables, or wearable technology, otherwise known as wearable devices, tech togs or fashion electronics. These are 
clothing and accessories incorporating computer and advanced electronic technologies, and made with designs that could incorporate practical functions and features, but may also have a purely aesthetic agenda. They could also be small devices or gadgets that people wear on their bodies, and in some cases have Internet connecting capabilities. 

Some people could blend this definition with the idea of home automation, and how their lives are made easier by connecting, via internet, different devices at home including electrical home equipment, as well as controlling them remotely. But that is not necessarily the case. Out of

MWC 2014 Mobile Awards

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Category 1: The Connected Life Awards

Best Mobile Health Product or Service - Energize the Chain for Econet Wireless Vaccine Project in Zimbabwe
Best Mobile Education Product or Service - Enable Mobile Technologies for Magic Pencil
Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive - Nuance Communications for Dragon Drive
Best NFC / Mobile Money Product or Service - Telenor Pakistan & Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa
Best Mobile Publishing Product or Service - Wibbitz for Text-To-Video Technology
Best Mobile Innovation for ‘Smart Cities’ - Accenture plc & RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. for City1Tap
Best Mobile Enabled Consumer Electronics  - DeviceAT&T & Filip Technologies Inc. for FiLIP
Best Enterprise Mobile Service - AirWatch for AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management, Version 7.0
Best Consumer Mobile Service - AT&T for AT&T Digital Life
Best Advertising or Marketing on Mobile - Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Lowe and Partners for Kan Khajura Tesan
Best Network Based Solution for Serving Customers - GMCR Inc for Globe Prepaid GoSakto: Create Your Own Promo
Best Mobile Product, Initiative or Service in Emerging Markets - Vodafone Foundation in India, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW) for RUDI Sandesha Vyavhar (RSV) project.
Best Mobile Product or Service for Women in Emerging Markets - Telenor Pakistan & Tameer Micro Finance Bank for Easypaisa
Best Use of Mobile in Emergency or Humanitarian Situations - Smart Communications for Smart’s SafePh: Yolanda Response
Best Mobile Product, Service or App for Accessibility or Ease-of-Use - Turkcell for Turkcell My Dream Partner
The Green Mobile Award - Grameenphone Ltd. for Climate Change Program
Best Entertainment App (Gaming, Music, Sports, Video)* - Device 6k
Judges Choice – Best Overall Mobile App * - CityMapper
Most Innovative Mobile App - PointGrab for CamMe
Smartphone App Challenge - Akbank T.A.S. for Akbank Direkt Mobile App
Best Smartphone - HTC One
Best Low Cost Smartphone* - Nokia Lumia 520
Best Entry Level or Featurephone* - Nokia 105
Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year* - LG
Best Mobile Tablet - Apple iPad Air
Best Mobile Infrastructure - Nokia Solutions and Networks with Telefonica O2 UK Limited for iSON Automation for Operations
Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough - Sensory Inc. for TrulyHandsfree™ 3.0
Best Cloud Based Technology for Mobile - Xively for Xively Cloud Services
Best Mobile Identity, Safeguard &amp - Security Products/Solutions
SecureAuth IdP – 2 Factor Access Control for the Mobile Enterprise
Best Solution for Growing Smaller or Independent Networks - Reach-U for Demograft
Outstanding LTE Contribution - SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network
KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service
Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology . The CTO’s choice - SK Telecom for Commercial LTE-Advanced Network - KT Corporation for Wideband LTE-A Commercial Service

Bitcoin depends on users' criteria

Bitcoin is a system designed for transferring money between individuals and businesses.

Amazon dominates internet retail from a to z

As Amazon readies to launch the new kindle Paperwhite in april next year, and while the process of consolidating its status as the biggest internet retailer in the world is firmly underway, the company is also facing an increasing amount of complaints particularly from European countries, including a strike in Germany, regarding harsh working conditions in its warehouses. 

In a recent US survey by Bizrate Insights done from october 24 to november 4, online shoppers confirmed they will be spending 34% of their holiday budget at Amazon, which is really close to the 35% they are planning to spend at all the other online shopping venues.

Amazon is proving to be, without a doubt, the number one retailer for the 2013 Christmas season. Black Friday aside, the company's labor dispute is so delicate that some media outlets are saying workers "face increased risk of mental and physical illness."

Nowadays, the business model for Amazon Web Services is being copied by many tech tech companies, and it is also widely recognized as a sort of standard for cloud services. Prices are so competitive that it is really hard for similar companies to come up with monetizing ideas anywhere nearly as effective and original. However, the one thing that

Google plans on selling endorsements

According to last week's announcement, besides the fact that Facebook is already doing it, Google will soon take the same route of selling users endorsements. In other words, people's private posts and other important stuff about themselves, or something they might have liked, will eventually become public, and it does not mean just airing their good or bad experiences at some hotel.

The timing is not particularly the most appropriate since these days there is a lot of talk on both sides of the Atlantic about information privacy concerns which are raising eyebrows at all levels, including high ranking government officials from some European countries.  

Although these are supposed to be "minor changes" to the company policy to take effect on

Education with an innovative attitude

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In the book Inside Real Innovation the authors claim that, at the present time, we are in the middle of an innovation crisis because real innovation is not happening, at least not the one that would make a sizable impact in the world. They even go as far as to affirm that behind all 
bubbles or crises that nearly collapsed the world's economy, like the one that took place in 2008, there is a real crisis of innovation. 

In terms of Education, perhaps, we should consider examples from people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others who have not finished their university education. They most likely abandoned their studies because it clearly did not fit their interests and vision of the future. Some of them might have thought it was a waist of their time dealing with a system that did not reward actual learning, but rather simply honored obtaining a particular grade. Or they might have just decided that it was time to face the real world ahead of time. 

Experts agree that nowadays most people who need to look up a word or the definition of something significant to their everyday lives commonly use Wikipedia substantially more than other sources. That is why this online encyclopedia is the largest and most popular in the world. Based on a recent announcement about security within Wikimedia, the idea that encrytped https browsing for all their projects will be a default option only if users are logged in, seems especially relevant to them when they realize it comes with a persistent feeling that someone seems to be particularly

Steve Ballmer retires as CEO of Microsoft

After thirty three years of service to the technology giant, CEO Steve Ballmer announced on August 23, 2013 that he is retiring within a year.

In an article titled "Defenestrated" and published today by The Economist it is claimed that Ballmer "is a casualty of the personal computer's rapid decline". Although it is true that sales of personal computers have been falling at double-digit rates, and people seem to prefer Google Android and Apple mobile products instead of PC's, that is simply not a real reason for someone to decide to end his career, and to possibly even risk going into obscurity after having achieved numerous wins with a company the size of Microsoft. A process like this one must certainly be more elaborate than that.

Thinking about the possible motivations for him to reach the point of making such a decision, it is arguably something that was going to happen sooner or later. Some indications point directly to the fact that under his leadership the loss of market share by the company in some important sectors has been critical, and equally noticeable have been the missed opportunities to do substantially better in technologies such as mobile or search. Microsoft, nonetheless, has other areas of software that substantially make up for those losses.

The mobile and search areas could very well be some of the most critical issues at discussion in this story since Microsoft was just not able to catch up with the competition in this aspect. However, it is also

Ubuntu Edge: smartphone with a Touch of Android

Officially announced by CEO Mark Shuttleworth on July 22, this year, Ubuntu Edge is a hybrid next-generation device designed as a high concept smartphone to be built by Canonical Ltd.

Ubuntu Touch is the operating system developed for Ununtu Edge, and unveiled at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where it was declared winner of CNET's Best of Show, finishing ahead of Firefox OS. 

The idea behind this particular design is producing a phone that will be ready to tackle the future of computing, as well as drive innovation to the mobile industry. Launching something like this has the idea of convergence written all over it, since it will be combining the mobility of a smartphone and the power of a desktop on a single device.

This will be the first time Canonical gets into the smartphone business, and although they claim no interest in competing with the giants, the moment could not be better for rising the level of smartphone capabilities an even higher echelon, and to start coming up with tremendous technology for everyone to benefit from.

Some of the features this device will be loaded with include, a scratchless saphire glass monitor cover, 4.5 inch 1280 x 720 display the fastest available multi-core processor, 4GB of RAM, 128 GB for storage, or a body made out of a single piece of textured metal. It will also have two LTE antennas for full speed 4G, which will work both in Europe and America. The thinner and lighter battery is expected to come with silicon anode technology. 

The monitor is supposed to have the best combination of