Digital technology
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Dailymotion to bloggers: what if you earned money from others’ content?–#blogbus
Luc Dumont, SVP international Business Development Manager, demoed the most recent developments at Dailymotion from their Redwood Calif. office on day 2 of our blog tour, in front of our blogger bus bloggers on the second day of the tour. Dailymotion is a video hosting platform which was created in…
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Plugandplaytechcenter ’s Wu: “We want to give birth to the next dropbox”
On day two of our Blogger Bus Tour in Silicon Valley, we went to Sunnyvale, California in order to pay a visit to the Plugandplaytechcenter. This wasn’t my first time at this location for I had already visited the start-up accelerator more than two years ago (read that interview with…
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Wikipedia by numbers
A little while ago, I published a series of articles about Wikipedia, following a conference which took place last October in Amsterdam. Thanks to the open-site.org website, here is a little illustration of the prominence of the online encyclopaedia. Worthy of note is the fact that, after a long and…
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Engine Yard’s Dillon: A private cloud is an oxymoron
As cloud computing technology is booming there is talk of the so-called private cloud. As I was in San Francisco today, I managed to squeeze into a meeting with some of my former partners of the IT press tour. Today we visited Engine Yard, a new player at the forefront…
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immersion makes retro gaming experience richer on tablets
The gaming experience on tablets isn’t really what it should be, but all this may change soon thanks to Immersion, a San Jose based company which was set up 18 years ago to develop force-feedback controllers for joysticks and other gaming equipment manufacturers such as Sony, Logitech etc. Immersion is…
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Kaspersky says cybercrime explosion in mobile world is near
I had the opportunity to attend a Press conference organised by Kaspersky security. Eugene Kaspersky himself was present for this big announcement in mobile security. The firm is already widely known for its PC protecting suite and today it made a few important announcements related to its release of parental…
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E-health is coming to our homes
Ehealth is no longer a dream and we had further evidence of this at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona while visiting the “connected house” pavilion. Let’s zoom into these solutions of a very very near future in which our health and namely that of elderly citizens will be (ethically)…
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Innovation isn’t always where you think it is
It may seem strange but somehow, I’m not entirely certain that innovation is always where you think it is. Sometimes it lurks in corners, or even is conspicuous but you were looking in another direction. Perhaps that’s what happened at showstoppers on February 26th (a preview event before MWC in…
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First few slices of technological innovation at MWC
First few slices of technological innovation at the 2012 MWC event. You certainly know you are in Spain when you can spot the Patanegra at a buffet, but the motivation for the happy few who were present and invited act the showstoppers event in Barcelona today, didn’t quite come for…
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API jungle: What brands should do with this surfeit of APIs
As I started writing this article at the beginning of October 2011 , the http://www.programmableweb.com/[1] web site indicated on its home page that it has identified 4007 APIs and 6175 mash-ups on a global footprint: At the moment you are reading this piece on the Visionary Marketing, I am certain…
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