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Apple and five book publishers were using an agency sales model that raised the prices of e-books
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to launch a lawsuit against Apple and five U.S. publishers for allegedly conspiring to raise e-book prices through an agency sales model.
Last December, the
European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation
into whether five international e-book publishers had been practicing anti-competitive tactics with the help of Apple and its e-book store iBooks. Shortly after, the U.S. Justice Department climbed aboard the investigation as well.
After investigating the suspicious tactics, the DOJ has now warned Apple and the five book publishers that it plans to sue them for raising the prices of e-books. The five book publishers involved are
Hachette Livre (Lagardère Publishing France), Harper Collins (News Corp., U.S.A.), Simon & Schuster (CBS Corp., U.S.A.), Penguin (Pearson Group, United Kingdom) and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck (owner of inter alia Macmillan, Germany).
Traditionally, publishers sell physical books to retailers for about half of the cover price, which is considered a wholesale model. Retailers then had the power to sell those books to customers for a lower price if they wanted to.
However, the e-book industry rocked this model and rubbed publishers the wrong way. Amazon started selling best sellers for as low as $9.99 in an effort to encourage Kindle sales. When Apple came along with iBooks, publishers were worried that the tech giant would take over the book industry the way it did the music industry with iTunes.
Apple then struck a deal with publishers in 2010, where they'd settle on an agency model instead. The agency model allowed publishers to set the price of the book and Apple would receive a 30 percent cut. However, publishers were not allowed to let rivals sell
the same book
for a lower price.
According to the DOJ, Apple and the five publishers did this to raise the prices of e-books, which violates federal antitrust laws. The publishers reacted to these claims, saying that the agency model was used to "enhance" competition in the e-book industry by helping e-book sellers to make some money out of the deal.
The DOJ isn't buying this excuse, though. The government is wondering how competition could have increased when prices were increasing.
Apple, the publishers and the DOJ are currently in talks regarding e-book prices. While the DOJ warned Apple and the publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly conspiring to raise prices, some publishing executives associated with the talks have said that a settlement is being considered. Some solutions that have been passed around included the idea to keep the agency model, but allow booksellers to offer some discounts.
Apple has jumped heavily into the
book selling and publishing business
with the recent launch of iBooks 2, which is the sequel to the iBooks app that provides students with books they need as well as study features, and iBook Author, which is Mac software that allows textbook writers and publishers to create textbooks for the iPad.
Undoubtedly, e-books are an essential part of the iPad experience, and with the announcement of
the iPad 3 release
just yesterday, Apple likely wants to get this DOJ business figured out quickly.
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LOL! No they won't! Have you been drinking the Anti-Kool Aid??
People will imitate whatever they think is "cool" so they can be part of the "in crowd", so they too can be cool, while failing to reason that genuinely "cool" people don't give a shit what the hoi polloi beneath them think... that's what makes them "cool" in the first place.
I've tried to express this to my baby sister in the past, who used to go around wearing the "cool" clothes, the "cool" shades, buying a "cool" iPod nano. In fact, the only thing she has bought in the past that wasn't "cool" is a Galaxy S phone... and those are cool now.
She finally came to terms with it when I came home for Christmas holidays 2 years ago and I went out with her and her friends to clubs and all her friends kept telling her, "Your big brother is really cool!" She was floored. She told me the next day what they were saying, and that she didn't understand why they thought I was cool. I told her its simple... I don't give a damn what anyone thinks about me. I dress how I want, I act how I want, I do what I want. That's why they think I'm cool, because I'm not doing what everyone else is doing to be "cool".
Same for these Apple zealots. You're "cool" if own an Apple. People are stupid, and they fall for marketing. Brands don't make you cool. Your style and attitude make you cool. Its a real shame people think some product they can buy will make them "cool".
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You can just use uniq with its -f option: uniq -f 4 input.txt From man uniq: -f, --skip-fields=N avoid comparing the first N fields Actually this will display the first line: [Fri Oct 31 20:27:05 2014] The Brown Cow Jumped Over The Moon If that is a problem you can do: tac input.txt | uniq -f 4 or if you don't have tac but your tail ...
Pure shell implementation: while read -r filename content ; do printf '%s\n' "$content" >> "${filename}.seq" done < /source/file
With input: <abc>def< <firstword>anotherword</firstword> <ghi>klm< Use: sed 's/<\([^>]*\)>\(.*\)<$/<\1>\2<\/\1>/' input Output: <abc>def</abc> <firstword>anotherword</firstword> <ghi>klm</ghi> The sed line only affects lines ending in < (because of the ...
A version in perl, using negative lookaheads: $ perl -0pe 's/\n(?!([0-9]{8}|$))//g' test.txt 20141101 server contain dump 20141101 server contain nothing {uekdmsam ikdas jwdjamc ksadkek} ssfjddkc * kdlsdlsddsfd jfkdfk 20141101 server contain dump -0 allows the regex to be matched across the entire file, and \n(?!([0-9]{8}|$)) is a negative lookahead, ...
Using awk: awk '{printf "%s\n", $2>$1".seq"}' file From the nominated file, print the second field in each record ($2) to a file named after the first field ($1) with .seq appended to the name. As Thor points out in the comments, for a large dataset, you may exhaust the file descriptors, so it would be wise to close each file after writing: awk '{printf ...
To select only lines modulo N with awk try awk '!(NR%2)' file or awk 'NR%3==0' file Here NR denotes number of rows processed so far. In your specific case (remove all lines with Y): $ echo 'YYYYYY XXXXXX XXXXXX YYYYYY XXXXXX XXXXXX' | awk '!(NR%3==1)' XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
If you have GNU sed, you could use the n~m (n skip m) address notation sed '1~3d' file which deletes every third line, starting at the first.
I've looked at a few approaches. Basically when it comes to serious IO (like n writes to n files), I try and get out of the command line and into a real language. I've benchmarked each with a 10,000 line by 64-char DNA-like numbered grid. The command for generating test data is at the end but here are the benchmarks. me (C++) 0m1.991s me ...
x is your awk variable, $x is something different.... $0 corresponds to the input string contents of the line just read, while $1...$n correspond to the breakdown fields of $0 contents using the default separator. awk lets you to programmatically access the fields using a variable, i.e., if the variable MyValue contains 5, $MyValue is the same as $5. What ...
$ sed ':again;$!N;$!b again; s/{[^}]*}//g' file This is that wants anyway. Explanation: :again;$!N;$!b again; This reads the whole file into the pattern space. :again is a label. N reads in the next line. $!b again branches back to the again label on the condition that this is not the last line. s/{[^}]*}//g This removes all expressions in braces. ...
join fileA fileB That assumes files are sorted on the first column (which they are in your example).
awk 'FNR==2 {if (/some string/) print FILENAME; nextfile}' ./* Some awks don't have "nextfile".
One way would be: $ perl -lne 's/^/\n/ if $.>1 && /^\d+/; printf "%s",$_' file 20141101 server contain dump 20141101 server contain nothing {uekdmsam ikdas jwdjamc ksadkek} ssfjddkc * kdlsdlsddsfd jfkdfk 20141101 server contain dump However, .that also removes the final newline. To add it again, use: $ { perl -lne 's/^/\n/ if $.>1 ...
With awk: awk -F'.' '{print $1}' file -F option change default field separator(space) to dot(.). $1 is index of field position(with . field separator). {ILMN_1343291 TGTGTTGAGAGCTTCTCAGACTATCCACCTTTGGGTCGCTTTGCTGTTCG NM_001402}.{5} ^^ field index is $1 ^^$2 With rev and awk: rev file | awk ...
POSIX defined length in awk is a string function, argument taken as a string. Using length with an array as argument is unspecified behavior. In some implementations of awk like gawk (version >= 3.1.6), OS X version of AWK, you can use length with an array as argument, it will return number of elements in array. Array in awk is associative array, looping ...
I'm not sure this is better than doing it in memory, but with a sed that reads out its infile for every line in its infile and another on the other side of a pipe alternating Hold space with input lines... cat <<\IN >/tmp/tmp Row1,10 Row2,20 Row3,30 Row4,40 IN </tmp/tmp sed -e 'i\ ' -e 'r /tmp/tmp' | sed -n '/./!n;h;N;/\n$/D;G;s/\n/ /;P;D' ...
Use awk to split the fields on the , (-F,) and substitute out the " (gsub): awk -F, '{gsub(/"/,""); print $1,$2}' file Firstname Lastname Alex Johnson Baran Atasoy
Combine the two: awk -F: '/^n\*:/ {print $2}'
awk '!seen[substr($0,27)]++' file
If I correctly understand the question you want to get only values after =, and store the these values in separate files, based on second field(?). If I'm right try something like this: $ awk -F'[ =]' '{print $6>"file_"$2".txt"}' file The result: $ ls -1 file_leftWallPhi.txt file_leftWallUSf.txt file_leftWallrhoPhi.txt file_leftWallrhoUSf.txt ...
Assuming the extensions are all-digit: perl -pi -e 's/\.\d+$//' /path/to/file -i does in-place editing (like in sed). \d means digits, and $ denotes the end of the line. With awk: awk 'gsub(/\.[0-9]+$/,"")' /path/to/file gawk has an in-place editing option in newer versions, but I am not sure how portable that is. gsub supports an optional parameter, ...
Using awk it is straightforward, just set your field separator as .: awk -F. '{print $1}' file Another approach, using the shell (in this case bash): while IFS=.; read -r lines _; do line+=("$lines"); done <file printf "%s\n" "${line[@]}" ILMN_1343291 ...
Try this one: awk -F ']' '{a[$2]=$1}END{for(i in a){print a[i]"]"i}}'
Other possibilities: sed sed -n 's/^n\*:\(.*\)/\1/p' grep grep -Po '^n\*:\K.*'
You have most of it already. You just need to change your -exec to a -printf find /var/warehouse/* -type f \( -name "*.avi" -o -name "*.mkv" -o -name "*.flv" -o -name "*.mp4" \) -printf "%f\n" %f will print the name of the file that was found, ignoring the path to it. You may also want to consider changing your -name to -iname (case insensitive match) so ...
This is really easy to do with sed, actually. You just get as many as you can in one go, then try, try again: sed -e :t -e 's/\(<[^<]*\)[0-9]\{1,\}\([^>]*>\)/\1\2/g;tt' I tried it with the following random bits of input: <Number1> 234234 </Nu994845mb6er8>' 234234 <000000000000000000000000000000000000>> <a1> 2 ...
You either need a loop around a substitution command (possible in both sed and perl), or a nested substitution command (perl only). I prefer the latter approach; it's a bit more general: perl -pe 's/\<([^>]*)\>/do{$a = $1; $a =~ s,\d,,g; "\<" . $a . "\>"}/ge;' Example input: <a1> 2 <34b5c> 6 7 def Output: <a> 2 ...
Here's a perl approach, essentially the same as Anthon's sed solution: $ perl -pe 's/<(.+)>(.+)</<$1>$2<\/$1>/' file <sss>ss</sss>
You could assign multiplay field separator by -F awk -F[\",] '{print $2,$5} Same with sed sed 's/"\|,[^,]\+$//g;s/,/ /' or sed -E 's/"(\w+)","(\w+).*/\1 \2/' Same with tr and cut tr -s ',"' ' ' | cut -d" " -f2-3 At last but not a last: just bash builtin's while IFS=, read a b c do echo "${a//\"/} ${b//\"/}" done Or may be more complicable ...
awk 'FNR == NR { onecol[$0]=1;next; }; $1 in onecol' fileB fileA
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Judge Allan Roberts noted Wall received an "indulgent" sentence when he was initially given community detention coupled with supervision after admitting having unlawful sexual connection with his girlfriend, then aged 14 years old and when Wall was 17.
The Corrections Department called for re-sentencing saying Wall would not obey directions and avoided supervision.
A psychiatrist would have provided Wall with the skills he lacked, the judge said.
There was no victim impact statement before the court and the girl's mother should have taken a more proactive role, the judge said.
Wall's lawyer Jo Woodcock acknowledged that jail was the only option for resentencing because there was nowhere suitable for Wall to have home detention.
He asked that if a suitable address could be found that could be considered for the community-based sentence.
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Doing more with less is a familiar refrain for IT professionals, and today's challenging business environment has only increased the pressure on managers to achieve efficiencies, maximize performance and improve responsiveness of the data center. More and more frequently, IT is turning to virtualization to accomplish its mission-critical goals.
The hot new trend in cloud computing is a natural extension of this drive toward virtualization. In the case of the public cloud, IT can add processing power and infrastructure as needed, and in the case of the private cloud, IT can improve the utilization of existing infrastructure. In other words, cloud computing platforms offer IT the opportunity to increase efficiencies and become more agile, transforming the data center into an environment that delivers greater benefits to end-users.
This tremendous potential of cloud computing can be seen by examining how organizations currently manage, analyze and mobilize data. Cloud has given IT organizations the opportunity to fundamentally shift the way data is created, processed and shared.
In order to take advantage of cloud computing for data management, IT must familiarize itself with the latest issues and trends. This requires a greater understanding of each of the three prominent cloud models - private, public and hybrid - along with proper evaluation of the criteria around a cloud strategy.
Cloud Gazing: Three Prominent Models
Much like those ubiquitous, puffy white masses of water vapor in our stratosphere, each of the prominent cloud computing models has its own unique qualities and benefits. The type of cloud strategy an organization chooses will depend on the specific issues they are addressing.
For IT organizations operating a virtual data center environment, private or internal cloud may offer important advantages. An internal cloud is an effective way to boost productivity while providing users a certain level of self-sufficiency. Such a cloud deployment also mitigates the need to purchase new systems. Through virtualization and cloud infrastructure, users can self-provision a virtual machine on the cloud environment, which can easily be expanded or contracted as a given project reaches fruition. By first developing tools to handle life cycle management of virtual machines, a user can request a virtual machine using a menu to specify resource requirements (CPUs, memory, storage), operating system details, lease period and other miscellaneous configuration information.
An internal cloud can provide critical efficiencies by avoiding data center expansion, faster provisioning of server capacity, faster upgrades of memory, CPU and storage, improved reliability, and business continuity/disaster recovery improvements. Case in point, a major financial services provider recently turned their compute backbone into an internal cloud with a focus on providing a platform to host virtual desktops. The company found that it is easier to share infrastructure with the computational jobs which run after the local trading day ends so there is a nice segregation of "jobs" in the local data center. Additionally, this solution has proven to deliver faster ROI.
Intense interest in public or external cloud strategies is being fueled by the potential for improved efficiencies, flexible and dynamic environments, on-demand infrastructure and smaller maintenance requirements. External cloud services offer the potential for improved business agility, better scalability and versatility. An example of this can be found with one of the world's leading electronic stock exchanges, who turned to an external cloud provider in order to enable brokerage firms to show customers and regulators that best-execution requirements were met for a given trade. An application was written to upload data for every stock in files representing ten-minute increments of trading data based on data from the major exchanges. This allows an accurate reconstruction of the trade environment without having to build out an internal storage infrastructure strictly for emulation (or testing) purposes. A further benefit of this cloud deployment has been the flexibility of pay-as-you-go pricing.
In today's challenging economy, with IT increasingly finding itself strapped for resources, external cloud services are proving to be an effective means for lowering upfront costs and reducing the workload on overburdened IT staff.
Experts agree that the hybrid cloud environment, a mix of in-house and outsourced computing and networking resources, will be a leading choice for enterprises in the near term. The hybrid model offers the greatest flexibility when dealing with the dynamic data requirements of most businesses today.
Regardless of the model, cloud computing is proving to be highly attractive because of its dynamic infrastructure, ability to support any application and operating system, accessibility via Internet protocols, automatic scalability and the fact that no software or hardware installation is required on site. Additional benefits for end-users include the:
- ability to shift resources from undifferentiated heavy lifting to differentiated value creation,
- abstraction from infrastructure,
- "pay for what you use" approach and
- adaptability to resource requirements
As a result, cloud computing is fast becoming an important tool in the IT arsenal.
Cloud Potential: Classes of Applications Deserving of Deployment
At present, cloud isn't for everyone. In those cases where the most stringent privacy and security policies are in place, a public cloud offering may not meet the regulations needed by IT. Conversely, applications that readily lend themselves to cloud are ones in which the user interface is easily presented in a Web browser and where time sensitivity isn't an issue, such as sales force automation or customer relationship management.
Some classes of applications in use today that might not appear to be obvious cloud candidates will in fact be deployed to the cloud in the near future. Increasingly, we are seeing more functions of data management and data analytics being moved to cloud environments with great success.
One such class of applications is database management systems. For organizations with large databases and high transaction volumes, cloud enables a measure of strategic agility that can meet today's enterprise needs. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a prime example of a mission-critical data management system that allows IT to get a handle on exploding information demands. This application provides access and control over data, transforming information into a vital, accessible and decisive mission asset made all the more effective when utilized in cloud.
As organizations employ larger data warehouses for purposes ranging from standard reporting to strategic business analytics, complex event processing and deep-dive data mining, the need for performance will continue to outpace the capabilities of traditional relational databases. Cloud computing offers IT a powerful means for meeting the performance and scalability requirements of the enterprise data warehouse. With large-scale systems continuing to expand, alternate approaches to support standard reporting, analysis, and power-user ad hoc queries will become increasingly established as the platforms of choice for very large database systems.
As with other cloud environments, analytics in the cloud benefit end-users by offering a pay-as-you-go model and adaptable resource requirements that free up IT from the need to purchase additional hardware and going through the extensive procurement process.
In order to satisfy the rapidly expanding need for analytical performance, Sybase offers a solution well suited to exploit the benefits of cloud. Sybase IQ takes an alternate database approach, storing data oriented by columns instead of rows. This approach has proven superior in sustaining the performance and rapid growth requirements of analytical applications and, when combined with cloud computing, offers significant advantages. The column-oriented methodology provides a combination of architectural simplicity and the ability to configure data in a way that can reduce the physical amount of data that must be accessed. Reducing the storage footprint while optimizing column access will reduce data access latency and improve use of network bandwidth, thereby contributing to a scalable environment that continues to provide consistently high performance as data volumes, number of users and number of queries increase.
With a growing trend toward mobility in the workforce, IT faces increased demand for access to mobilized applications. Managing data and exchange technologies can place significant demands on IT, necessitating regular onsite maintenance of mobile devices. Cloud offers IT the scalability, flexibility, performance and responsiveness needed to deploy and manage mobile applications. For example, Sybase SQL Anywhere provides data management and data exchange technologies that enable the rapid development and deployment of database-powered applications. Design and management tools within SQL Anywhere enable IT to implement and deploy mobile applications, while also easily providing support.
For one major telecommunications provider, cloud computing is key in offering Web-interfaced applications hosted and deployed in a managed service (SaaS) model. This company leverages Sybase's Afaria solution, which provides comprehensive management and security capabilities to ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure. The provisioning and scalability advantages of cloud make it possible for the company to offer an integrated suite of managed mobility applications for their customers that can be contracted individually or in combination. Afaria enables the company to offer its hosted applications, and assist customers in managing the deployment, expenses and ongoing support to a global mobile workforce without technical complexity and security risks.
Cloud computing can enable IT to more effectively handle the wide ranging database requirements of mobile workers, while minimizing the impact on end-users, thus allowing them to focus on the work at hand rather than getting bogged down with the technology.
Multi-tenancy Requirements
There are numerous considerations IT should take into account when pursing a data center cloud strategy. These range from security and compliance requirements to the need for a rich user interface, effective management and control, and the need to establish standards, provide support and improve performance.
In the case of multi-tenant applications, IT must consider the separation of data from a security, privacy, and compliance perspective. Data that is bound by strict privacy regulations, such as medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), will require that tenants log in, after which they are then routed directly to their own secure database server. In this way, data remains separate and secure, and in compliance with government privacy mandates.
Another factor IT must consider is the implication of application performance on end users. If one tenant is running a large, complex report, overall performance on the database server can be slowed. IT must gauge the sensitivity of other users to such performance issues and factor this into decisions regarding external cloud providers as well as internal cloud initiatives
In terms of choosing cloud schema, IT can establish a single database on the server with separate schemas, allowing one tenant to employ a set of tables within the database while another tenant is able to utilize a different set of tables within that same database. In this scenario, the cost of provisioning is lower, but there is a trade-off in performance and data isolation. A second option is to employ shared schema where all tenants' data is contained in the same table. Each tenant has a column in the table, making this option more cost effective to provision, however application development becomes more complex.
Operational Considerations of Cloud
When hosting data in the cloud, IT must take various operational considerations into account. These considerations should include how backups will be performed and how often data will be backed up. Additional operational details, such as the existence of offsite storage and the robustness of disaster recovery protocols should be examined.
A further consideration IT should take into account as cloud computing gains wider acceptance is the ability for users to access the data center from both desktop and mobile environments. When considering mobile access, IT must evaluate technical considerations, such as how users will traverse an organization's firewall. Existing security requirements around data, and the ability to synchronize that data to mobile devices when appropriate, clearly add to the complexity of cloud deployment. Areas such as these should be top of mind for IT as they move forward.
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As IT seeks to maximize the efficiency, performance and responsiveness of the data center, virtualization and cloud computing are providing important new tools to meet mission-critical goals. Cloud is opening the door for IT to get the most out of vital processing power and infrastructure.
The tremendous potential of cloud computing is fundamentally shifting the way data is created, processed and shared. Currently, the most prominent cloud models, private, public and hybrid, are transforming the data center into an environment that delivers significant benefits to end-users, in how they access and manage data.
As new strategies evolve and more classes of applications become viable in the cloud, IT has the opportunity to dramatically improve the agility, flexibility, performance and efficiency of data centers which, in turn, will ultimately lead to bottom-line organizational success.
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
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C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
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"The only thing I had a hand in is in the music," he tells E! Online. The lovebirds chose Neal McCoy to sing at their reception, which Blake calls 'a no-brainer.' "We were at a concert this summer and watched him and we both looked at each other, high-fived and said, 'There's our guy,'" he recalls. "And then we said, 'Whatever it takes to get him there, we're going to get him there.'"
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An early focus on play should be introduced as part of a fundamental overhaul of the system that would bring it more into line with Scandinavian countries, according to 127 experts from academia, teaching, literature and charities.
In a letter to the Telegraph they call for changes to a system that they say focuses too early on formal lessons and the Three Rs from the age of four or five when children should be allowed to play instead.
Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the former Children's Commissioner for England and one of the letter's signatories, told the paper: "If you look at a country like Finland, children don't start formal, full-scale education until they are seven.
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Other signatories of the letter include Lord Layard, director of the Well-Being Programme at the London School of Economics, Dr David Whitebread, senior lecturer in psychology of education at Cambridge University, and Catherine Prisk, director of Play England.
The Telegraph said the letter was circulated by the Save Childhood Movement, which will launch its Too Much, Too Soon campaign tomorrow.
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January 31, 2014
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It's that time of the year again; the moment in the calendar when dusty, weathered jerseys are brushed off. There is a palpable feeling of nostalgia in the air; the Six Nations is back with the countries going toe to toe for a trophy with a capacity of 3.75 litres - enough to hold five bottles of champagne.
The weekend's action kicks off with champions Wales hosting Italy with England then travelling to Paris to face Les Bleus. On Sunday Scotland travel to Ireland and ahead of the first round of Six Nations matches, ESPN brings you a rundown of the complete picture.
My fantasy XV
Wales v ItalySaturday, 2.30pm, BBC One
Things are looking bleak for Italian rugby at present. Their clubs endured yet another woeful Heineken Cup campaign and they are unsure over just which competitions they will be playing in next season. While Wales' players are probably enjoying some better form, they too are having to park off-field uncertainty as they continue to be dogged by the unsavoury dispute engulfing the Welsh game.
Wales skipper Sam Warburton is benched for the opening game but there is enough about the Welsh team that makes them overwhelming favourites to win this opener. Italy have a host of injuries and have opted for youth with Tommaso Allen starting at fly-half but if they were to storm the Millennium Stadium, it would be one of the biggest upsets in the history of the tournament.
Weather: Looks like rain for Cardiff with a temperature of around 7°C.
Odds: Wales are a huge 1/33 to beat Italy with the Azzurri priced at 18/1 to win.
Key Stat: Italy have a solid set piece and finished with the best lineout (90%) and scrum (91%) last season
Prediction: Wales by 25.
France v EnglandSaturday, 5pm, BBC One
Wales the favourites
With just 20 games between now and the 2015 World Cup for England, Stuart Lancaster has had his second crack at building a team. Debuts have been handed to Luther Burrell and Jack Nowell and while plenty of column inches has been given to talk of England's culture and the work Lancaster has done, that will count for little if the young team crash and burn in Paris.
France endured a woeful 2013 and finished at the foot of last year's championship. The pressure is on Philippe Saint-Andre to stop the rot and he too has rolled the dice of selection opting for the uncapped Jules Plisson at fly-half for Saturday's late kick-off. With Thierry Dusautoir crocked, a lot of pressure rests on the sizeable shoulders of Pascal Pape and openside Bernard le Roux.
Weather: The conditions should be perfect with the sun breaking through with the temperature a cool 8°C.
Odds: France are favourites at 4/7 with England at 6/4. Nowell is 12/1 to score the first try on his debut.
Key Stat: France love to kick and last season they hoofed away more possession than any other country.
Prediction: France by three.
Ireland v ScotlandSunday, 3pm, BBC One
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Ireland are at the start of that path under Joe Schmidt and while they can take some solace from that memorable performance against the All Blacks, they will want victories rather than valiant defeats. While there is an exciting new era breaking out, all the focus will be on one soon-to-be retiring veteran as Brian O'Driscoll begins his final championship for Ireland. His incumbent replacement Robbie Henshaw will be waiting in the wings.
Scotland are an unpredictable bunch. Interim boss Scott Johnson has kept the faith with Kelly Brown at openside despite suggesting previously his place in the side was under threat. The exciting Matt Scott is benched with Duncan Taylor preferred at inside centre.
Weather: It should be a cloudy 7°C in Dublin on Sunday.
Odds: Ireland are clear favourites at 1/8 with a tie - by no means completely out of the question - priced at 33/1.
Key Stat: The Scots only away win in the Six Nations from their last 17 fixtures since 2006 and that was over Ireland in 2010.
Prediction: Ireland by 15.
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What the coaches have said
"We need to make sure we get out of the blocks and don't get caught with our pants down."Wales' Warren Gatland
"Plisson is one of, if not the best fly-half in the French league at the moment so why would I be scared to pick a young player? I started in the Six Nations when I was 19 or 20 and I survived."France's Philippe Saint-Andre
"The upside is that they have no fear." England's Stuart Lancaster on his young side
Three match ups to watch
Wesley Fofana v Luther Burrell: The French centre is just a joy to watch and Burrell will need to call on all of his Heineken Cup experience to nullify the Clermont runner.
Rhys Priestland v Tommaso Allan: Italy's Allan is yet to play in the Six Nations and has a handful of Perpignan games to his name. Wales' Priestland is back in the Welsh driving seat having endured a difficult couple of years and will hope to shine.
Rob Kearney v Stuart Hogg: Two Lions fullbacks, but two No.15s who have a different style of rugby. Scotland's Hogg is a more direct runner while Ireland's Kearney has a superb tactical brain.
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