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Google CEO Larry Page spotted rocking Project Glass glasses [Video]
Yes, really. When Google co-founder and current CEO Larry Page stepped on stage to speak at Google Zeitgeist 2012, he wore a pair of the Project Glass glasses. Well, I don't know if you can call it a 'pair' of glasses when technically it's just a set of frames with a small rectangle of glass over one eye, but it seems that Google is slowly releasing prototypes into the wild.Google's innovative glasses, which will theoretically be able to do ...Digital innovators to star at 2012 Flux Trend Review
If you want to meaningfully participate in the world you, never mind change it, you need to know what forces are driving shaping it.Anyone who's still has doubts about how digital online technologies are changing the way we function as human beings need only look at the speaker list for this year's Flux Trends Review, set to take place on 7 June in Johannesburg.The annual event claims to cherry-pick "the best thought leaders to provide a 360-degree look ...The right to be forgotten: A path to the future
Earlier this year European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that internet users had a "right to be forgotten" -- the idea being that anyone should be able to delete all the data they have online at any time, except in cases where there is a legitimate interest in maintaining information in a database.According to the new EU policy, the "right to be forgotten" simply "would allow people to request that their information be erased and not disseminated online."Research fellow ...Beyond connectivity: The ‘gigabyte revolution’
The latest trends in mobile are leading the "gigabyte revolution" which will take us to the one gigabyte per user per day by 2020, says CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks Rajeev Suri.The evolution of mobile technology will lend itself to an era where connectivity will be a human right and download speeds will be 10 times what they are now.Suri was speaking at the Korea Communications Conference, which explores the journey of mobility and its future potential."Connectivity will ...The future of convergence: Next steps for the smart era
Technological evolution has brought about many changes to human life and has served as a "big momentum for growth" for emerging market economies.That's according Suk-Chae Lee who was speaking at the Korea Communications Conference about our connected natures, the future of smart convergence and the new opportunities they provide.Lee is the CEO of KT Corporation, a South Korean integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider."People are now living in world where they can be connected wherever they are with introduction ...SEO jobs to ‘suffer’ but mobile, open source jobs to fly
If you're in the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) game, you may need to think about a career change.A recent report from Freelancer.com suggests that SEO jobs in the future will "suffer".Why? Well, says Freelancer.com, Google has "intensified its fight against low quality content". SEO is the practice of ensuring that a site occupies the highest position possible in Google, effectively the largest gateway to the quality web. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this but it does mean that if ...Google’s Page and Schmidt backing asteroid mining startup
Wired is reporting that a group of intrepid billionaires will soon announce their new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc, “which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth."Nope, this is not a movie, this is actually happening.“The resources of Earth pale in comparison to the wealth of the solar system," Eric Anderson who founded the commercial space tourism company Space Adventures, told Wired. Anderson ...10 Big tech trends for the next decade
The world is changing and tech is changing with it. Over the next 10 years the global tech market will be completely redefined as people's values and expectations evolve.These new expectations and values will shaped by global economics, technology itself, and social change. How this change takes place will be defined by what people value enough to pay for, how their values are changing, and how technology and service providers can respond to this profitably.Research company Gartner ...6 Reasons your PC is not going anywhere
Memeburn recently featured a story explaining why your PC is dead. It made some interesting points. It made some valid points. Cloud. Virtualisation. Abstraction of application and data from device. But it missed the point.Sure, smartphones and tablets will take over from PCs for many. The PC will return to its place as a powerful tool for those that know how to use it. Those that used it at the start: the geeks, the nerds, the hobbyists, the musicians, the ...5 Reasons your personal computer is dead
The reign of the personal computer as the sole access device is coming to a close, and by 2014 the "personal cloud" will replace the computer at the centre of users' digital lives."Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices," said Steve Kleynhans from research company, Gartner."Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of ...
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