The Independent sur Twitter : "Afghan men are wearing burqas to draw attention to women's rights #InternationalWomensDay. International Women's Day 2015: Afghan men wear burqas to campaign for women's rights - Middle East. The group of roughly 20 men walked through the capital of Afghanistan to draw attention to the rights of women ahead of international Women’s Day on 8 March. With muddy trainers just visible beneath the burqas, an item of clothing that became synonymous with oppressive Taliban rule in the 1990s, the march drew some attention from onlookers. “What is the point of this?” Asked traffic policeman Javed Haidari, 24.
“All of the women in my family wear burqas. I wouldn't let them go out without one. " But 29-year-old activist Basir, who goes by one name, claims the march – organised by a group called Afghan Peace Volunteers – takes women’s rights “to the streets.” “One of the best ways to understand how women feel is to walk around and wear a burqa,” he claimed. READ MORE: 250 dead in Afghanistan after avalanchesAfghanistan's first female taxi driver: 'Why are you still driving?
' “Today’s protest against the burqa is a western move,” one male onlooker told an ITN reporter. Samsung-iot-keynote-smart-home-smartthings?utm_content=buffer4c3df&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Samsung Electronics CEO B.K. Yoon talked up his company's strategy to connect everything in your life.
"The Internet of Things is ready to go," he said in his keynote address. Turns out, Samsung's latest and perhaps boldest IoT campaign is already underway. The not-so-secret ingredients: Its big TV and home appliance business, and its recent acquisition SmartThings, a developer-centric smart home company that works with more than a hundred other products. See also: Samsung Reveals Its Master Plan To Connect Your Life Samsung's already started connecting those dots. For Samsung, It’s Go Time Despite Samsung's flatlining sales in mobile devices, the $211 billion global tech giant sold more than 665 million products last year spanning televisions, refrigerators, ovens, washers and other home appliances, as well as phones and tablets. That's a big leap for the company. A Galaxy Of Connected Things Yoon pledged to keep the connected platform open.
New 'Social' Businesses Want To Know All About You. No Thanks! Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's hyperbolic CEO, has been telling anyone who will listen that the "sudden convergence of cloud, social and mobile spheres" is forcing - and allowing - companies to connect with customers in new ways, and to listen with an intensity never before possible. I'm sure the benefits of social business are dramatic and undeniable, but am I alone in being totally creeped out at what seems to be an obvious invasion of privacy? I don't know about you, but I'm just not ready for companies - even companies I choose to do business with - to closely follow everything I do and say. Even if other humans aren't involved. Do You Want To Be Connected To A Machine? At a recent executive event in San Francisco, Benioff entertained customers and journalists wtih a video featuring Beth Comstock, GE's high-profile CMO, claiming her "core belief" is that "business is social.
" The big question for GE, Comstock said, is "how do we connect our customers/employees to our machines? " De Maasvlakte is een dijk van een werk, maar economisch van te weinig waarde - Commentaar. Toy Robots and Programmed Light Bulbs - Google Embraces the Internet of Things - ReadWriteCloud. Google is making a significant investment in the Internet of Things, with everything ranging from toy robots to programmable light bulbs. The news came at Google I/O today. Among other things, Google introduced Android@Home, which will turn Android devices into home controllers - to do everything from dimming the lights to managing an irrigation system. Of particular note are the Android Open Accessory Development Kit and the Android Device Kit. Both are built on Arduino, a circuit board that can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors and other things in the home or elsewhere.
But now with Android@Home, developers can create a new degree of interactivity with toys, games, big machines - you name it. On the third floor at Moscone West, Google dedicated a section of its floor space for companies that are integrating the Android technology. Lighting Science Group is a maker of LED lighting instruments. Google Web Search Gets Social. New for some, not seen by all - yet - Google has added "Shared By" and "Recent Update" elements to search result pages. Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan points out that some people's results are now coming up with socially-engaging teasers such as "shared by 5+" next to news stories. Even more intriguing, a blue "recent updates" box is appearing to offer results from Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and more. As Sullivan notes, it's quite different than the social search partnership Bing and Facebook rolled out last week.
In Bing's new social search results, they only show users what's been shared by Facebook connections.
Isp. Jacobvos. Ford first to seamlessly integrate Pandora into a car stereo | D. Pandora Internet radio has just about taken over our musical lives, and now Ford has figured out the best way yet to integrate it into a car. Starting with the 2011 Ford Fiesta, if you have an Android or BlackBerry smartphone, you can tightly integrate the beloved Internet music service into your car's stereo system. Hey, this is cool. Ford's SYNC lets you select Pandora stations with voice control, jump to the next song or give a song the thumbs up or thumbs down. Because we're not completely impressed with voice control inside a noisy vehicle, our favorite part of this trick is the steering-wheel-mounted controls for such functions. Along with Pandora, the other two mobile apps enabled by Ford's downloadable SYNC Applink system will be Stitcher Smart Radio and Twitter client OpenBeak.
UPDATE: Now Ford's telling us, "On vehicles next year, the SYNC Applink will provide interoperability with iPhone. " Ford SYNC, via The Gadgeteer. The 2nd Annual Internet of Things Europe 2010: A Roadmap for Eur. You are in: Information > Summary The 2nd Annual Internet of Things 2010 conference joined together business leaders, consumer advocates, policymakers and entrepeneurs to explore what opportunities and risks the Internet of Things will offer businesses and consumers, and how these will re-shape our interactions with the real and virtual worlds in the coming years. Thank you to all who joined us for what was a thoroughly successful and informative event! Speakers include Neelie Kroes Vice President and EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda European Commission Ken Sakamura Professor of Information Science University of Tokyo This high level conference, run with the support of the European Commission explored the development of the Internet of Things and discuss the opportunities and challenges ahead.
It explored and discussed the future of the Internet of Things with existing and potential application scenarios and the dimension of new services.