The 'Internet Of Things' Will Be Bigger Than The Smartphone, Tablet, And PC Markets Combined. The numbers being forecast for the Internet of Things (IoT) are truly mind-boggling. BI Intelligence finds that the number of everyday and enterpries devices that will soon be connected to the Internet - from parking meters to home thermostats - will be huge. 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018, according to BII estimates, roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined. It will drive trillions in economic value as it permeates consumer and business life. In the consumer space, many products and services have already crossed over into the IoT, including kitchen and home appliances, lighting and heating products, and insurance company-issued car monitoring devices that allow motorists to pay insurance only for the amount of driving they do.
Access The Full Report And Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today >> Here are the top business-to-business and government applications for the IOT: Connected advertising and marketing. The Complete Guide to Solid-State Drives. Siemens Launches $100M Fund To Back Startups Aiming To Disrupt Manufacturing. Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate financing arm of Europe’s biggest engineering company, is launching a new, $100 million fund to back early-stage startups working in the areas of industrial automation and other digital technologies that can transform manufacturing. This comes after Siemens made two notable startup investments over past few months — in 3D visualization startup Lagoa, and CounterTack, the developer of next generation cyber security software. Corporate venture capital has traditionally been considered “dumb money”, but as this TechCrunch post noted in November last year, some of them are increasingly looking more like traditional VCs.
Indeed, in October 2013, 48 venture funding rounds valued at over $719M included CVC investor participation. This represented a 14% participation rate, the highest month in the CrunchBase dataset. We have requested Siemens to provide more specific details of this fund and will be updating after hearing from them. Want A Neat Overview Of What’s Going On In Wearables? Point Your Eyes Right Here… Wearables are so hot right now. Apple iWatch rumours are in rude health. Google is apparently looking (beyond Glass) at picking up and strapping onto its business another startup in the wearables space (guesses for which in the comments, please). Jawbone, maker of the UP fitness tracker bangle (and apparently not the company in Google’s Glassy sights), is running sweat-free towards an IPO. Action camera maker GoPro — ok, not technically a wearables company but the point of its cameras are that they are, y’know, wearable — has already filed for one.
Smartwatch maker Pebble has raised a tonne of money since 2012, first via Kickstarter and then, off the back of its snowballing crowdfunder, from VC checkbooks. Mature Western markets are saturated with smartphones — ergo step forward sensor-stuffed wearables as the next growth engine for device makers. Or at least all of the wearables its research has turned up. Click here to check out — and start quantifying — the data for yourself. The Internet of Humans? Are we about to get a Sci-Fi Makeover? TOMORROW starts here. Building the Perfect Browser Based IDE - Codio.
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Show As Gallery Have something to add to this story? Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Relations. Search engine optimization is not dead. It is alive and well; it has just gone social like nearly everything else. Social media has come to be a dominant force in everyday life, including marketing and business. Attaining SEO success now depends in large part on the social capital of your content.
Although keyword research still matters, content writers should focus on creating highly shareable content first and foremost. Embrace Google+ and AuthorRank Google AuthorRank has shaken up inbound marketing and SEO in a big way. Create an ample Google+ profile—featuring your main content topics in your introduction. Attain Reach with Content Syndication High rates of social sharing let Google know that you are publishing valuable content, which is appraised as share-worthy.
Use Coordinated, Social Content Promotion To get the ball rolling with social sharing, post your content on at least the big four social networks: Twitter, Google+, Facebook and LinkedIn. Leverage Email Marketing. Here's Why 'The Internet Of Things' Will Be Huge, And Drive Tremendous Value For People And Businesses. The Internet Of Things represents a major departure in the history of the Internet, as connections move beyond computing devices, and begin to power billions of everyday devices, from parking meters to home thermostats.
Estimates for Internet of Things or IoT market value are massive, since by definition the IoT will be a diffuse layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire consumer, business-to-business, and government industries. The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined. In a new report from BI Intelligence, we look at the transition of once-inert objects into sensor-laden intelligent devices that can communicate with the other gadgets in our lives. Access The Full Report And Data By Signing Up For A Free Trial Today >> Connected advertising and marketing. IBM's Is Using Watson To Psychoanalyze People From Their Tweets.
Ben Hlder / Getty Images Besides winning "Jeopardy" and helping "put a permanent end to leukemia," IBM has found another use for its Watson supercomputer: psychoanalyzing people. Watson is a computer that understands human language. Simply by looking at the language used when posting on social media sites, it can understand your personality and even predict major events likely to happen in your life. Amazingly, this tech doesn't even have to know a company's customer's social media accounts beforehand.
It can figure them out on its own by sifting through what people post online with information in a company database. The first use that comes to mind for this is marketing. "It can even predict major life-events: if you changed your Facebook status to "Married" a year ago, for example, a company might infer that it was about time to start approaching you about products and services for your first child. " Here's what your personality profile looks like to Watson: Democrats Introduce Open Internet Preservation Act To Restore Net Neutrality. Democrats in the House and Senate today introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act, a bill that would reinstate now-defunct net neutrality rules that were shot down last month. Net neutrality, in its most basic form, is the idea that ISPs must treat all Internet data the same.
Under its regime, ISPs are not allowed to selectively speed up or slow down information requested by their customers due to their selective gatekeeping of the services impacted. Or, more simply, Comcast can’t decide that a site you want to load, or a video you want to watch, should be slowed, and content that it prefers, accelerated. With last month’s striking of the FCC’s net neutrality ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has changed the landscape of the Internet. Those in favor of net neutrality view the regulatory scheme as key to a free, open, and level playing field.
Its antagonists decry it as government regulation of something, namely the Internet, which has worked just fine thus far, thank you. 10 small agencies that define “Digital Spring” in San Francisco. Punxsutawney Phil may have forecasted six more weeks of winter, but for digital agencies in San Francisco, there’s reason to believe that this year will be better than the last. Not that last year was bad; for digital agencies, 2011 brought opportunities to create stunning web and mobile applications, redefine interactivity on websites, and fundamentally change the way that consumers engage with brands.
In an economic landscape where simply surviving is considered a success to some, digital agencies are finding themselves thriving. No city embodies the idea of “digital spring” more than San Francisco. From the wifi-powered coffee shops in the Haight to the trendy bars in the FiDi, it would be hard to swing a cat without hitting someone from an interactive agency (please, don’t try that at home). In fact, it’s easy to get lost in the massive sea of agencies that inhabit San Francisco, but there are some digital shops that are hard to ignore. 10. Agency: Kurt Noble 9. Agency: Pereira O’Dell.