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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Location Technology – More than just social check-in on Twitter (video)
In a recent presentation I delivered on mobile location technology I touched on a number of examples of how social media fanatics can checkin and share their location information on social media streams like Twitter and facebook… although, as we all know, location technology is about much more than just the social check in! I [...]
Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8095
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
PlayBook Tablet PC to Cost Less Than $500 to Taken on iPad
RIM said it'll begin selling a Playbook tablet computer in North America in the first quarter for "under" $500 as it takes on Apple's iPad.
Silicon Valley Employment Levels Recovering Faster than Bay Area
While the economic recovery has the legs of a
wounded duck, Silicon Valley's comeback looks
like it's just taking flight.
A report released by the Business
Forecasting Center
at the University of the Pacific in Stockton predicts the Valley's economic engine
is likely to recover faster than the rest of Northern
California. The report says the San
Jose metropolitan area "continues to be the only area in Northern California that is clearly recovering." The
Center forecast job growth at a rate of 3 percent next year and in 2012.
Speaking at a Bay Area Council meeting in Santa Clara, John Haveman of Beacon Economics in San Rafael, an economic analysis firm, predicted that Silicon Valley will "bounce back faster than either the East Bay or San Francisco." Employment in IT, including telecommunications, Internet service providers, Web portals and data management - which had slipped 8 percent during the recession - already has returned to its normal growth rate, he said.
Valley Boom in Temp Jobs Could Signal Growth for Full Time Slots
Temporary positions in Silicon Valley jumped by 14.6 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while the numbers aren't great - there are about 18,000 temp jobs in Silicon Valley - the figure is is widely viewed as a precursor to growth in full-time employment.
The downside, of course, is that temp jobs tend to pay less than full-time positions. For instance, in Santa Clara County, the average annual wage for temporary workers was $43,700 in 2009 versus $82,000 for full-timers.Fast Growing Super Micro To Boost Staff by 200-Plus
One San Jose company that's looking to beef up its workforce is Super Micro Computer, a maker of servers and related products, which plans to add 220 workers in 2011, with a focus on hardware engineering talent. The company already employs more than 60 engineers who focus on power supply systems.
With about 1,100 employees, most located in Silicon Valley, Super Micro's revenues were up 43 percent
last year. At the same time, the company's workforce expanded by about 20
percent.
Of Top 10 Fields for New Grads, Four Hottest are in Technology
Of the 10 hottest occupational fields for newly minted college graduates, the top four are in
IT. The list, compiled by University
of California San Diego Extension,
is based on enrollment figures, national employment statistics, and interviews
with area business executives.
Leading the list are healthcare IT, mobile media, data mining, and embedded engineering. For the most part, healthcare IT jobs in demand are those needed to implement the switchover from paper to digital medical records - healthcare integration engineer, healthcare systems analyst, clinical IT consultant, and technology support specialist.
-- Doug Bartholomew
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/silicon_valley_employment_levels_recovering
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Yelp's Check-in Offers Make Much More Sense Than Foursquare's
Local search and business review service Yelp entered the location-based check-in game nearly a year ago, following in the footsteps of other services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Over the summer, the company added badges and mayor-like features and we wrote that the move clearly placed Yelp "in direct competition with the likes of Foursquare."
Now, Yelp is introducing Check-in Offers later this month, a feature that will give users real-life discounts and deals when they check-in to locations and it appears the company is following in Foursquares' footsteps again - but is it?
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A primary driving force for Foursquare users this whole time has been game mechanics - points for check-ins, badges, mayorships to flaunt just how much you go to the local dive bar - and real-life deals were added later as a way to both monetize and keep users checking in. Why continue checking in if all you get is a virtual badge, right?
Yelp, on the other hand, has long been in the game of local business reviews by community members. That's been its primary product all along. Check-ins, for Yelp, were more of a community building feature, something to keep users interested and interacting. As the company writes in yesterday's blog post announcing the feature, "Yelp is a transactional website, and upcoming features like Check-in Offers help to further bridge online discovery and offline buying. In other words no one types "Sushi" near "Los Angeles" for fun."
So, sure, Yelp may be literally following in Foursquare's footsteps with a similar feature, but it means something completely different in this context. Foursquare may offer "tips", but those same tips are the reviews at the very core of Yelp and it's why users go there.
We got a chance to speak with Stephanie Ichinose, the senior director of communications at Yelp, and she told us that mobile accounted for around 30% of Yelp's searches and that the site had just hit 14 million reviews over the weekend.
"It's an obvious and pretty natural extension," said Ichinose. "It absolutely makes sense for us to layer it in as a way business owners can communicate with their users."
And that might be the key difference here - at the heart of Yelp are businesses and those 14 million user-submitted reviews of those businesses. At the heart of Foursquare are locations of many kinds - businesses, hangout spots, random peoples' houses - some with reviews (or "tips") and some without.
Would these sorts of check-in deals bring you over from Foursquare to Yelp? Or is the user experience with Foursquare strong enough to keep you going, with the occasional deal or mayoral discount? Let us know if you think Yelp's implementation makes more sense or if it just works better with Foursquare in the comments below.
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Post originale: http://jkdodd.soup.io/post/85762072/Yelps-Check-in-Offers-Make-Much-More
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
New Gas-Powered Mazda Will Get More than 70 Miles Per Gallon
Mazda will introduce a subcompact gas-powered vehicle in Japan next year that gets 70.5 miles per gallon, a model automakers say shows that combustion-powered cars can deliver fuel efficiency similar to hybrid vehicles. With a more efficient engine and transmission, and a frame and suspension system produced with lighter, high-tensile steel, the new Demio (called the Mazda 2 outside of Japan) is 30 percent more fuel efficient than similar models now produced by Mazda.
Models produced for the U.S. market will have a lower fuel economy rating because of different manufacturing requirements, but the vehicle will still use the same amount of fuel as a Toyota Prius, without the added costs of an electric motor and accompanying battery. The Demio represents a new class of gas-powered vehicles that automakers say can cut fuel consumption globally even more quickly than hybrids or electric vehicles since changes to the engines tend to be less expensive and can be implemented rapidly. Ford recently announced innovations that will improve the fuel economy of its Focus model by 17 percent, to about 40 miles per gallon.
Reprinted with permission from Yale Environment 360
Post originale: http://featured.matternetwork.com/2010/10/new-gas-powered-mazda-will.cfm
Netflix Paying More Than $1 Billion For Streaming Rights (NFLX)
The number of users streaming video content from Netflix may be growing like crazy, but the company's latest earnings filing on Monday (PDF here) shows that the transition from discs to bits won't be cheap.
Acquisition of streaming content was the number-one drain on cash flow during the quarter, costing more than $115 million. By way of comparison, the company only spent about $30 million on acquisition of DVD discs. Netflix also revealed that it now owes $1.2 billion in commitments for streaming content deals--that's up from $115 million at the end of 2009.
As Peter Kafka reports at Media Memo, a lot of the expense probably comes from the company's deal with the Epix Pay TV channel, which was signed in August. That deal cost an estimated $1 billion, and gave Netflix rights to films from Epix partners Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM. Netflix could also end up on the hook for more than $2 billion when it has to renew its deal with Starz, which gives the company streaming rights to films from Disney and Sony.
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See Also:
- Why Netflix Won
- CHART OF THE DAY: Netflix Streaming Up 145% In A Year
- Netflix's Inventory Of Streaming Content Isn't Growing Fast Enough
Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/5WxTPEUEQko/streaming-rights-cost-netflix-more-than-1-billion-2010-10
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Twitter considers a new funding round -- possibly more than $200 million -- AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports.
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