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From the AFL: Jake Marisnick
Blue Jays prospect Jake Marisnick is rumored to be part of the blockbuster Toronto-Miami deal…
|Trade Analysis: Miami Mess Has Silver Lining
The Miami Marlins are a perplexing organization at the moment. On one hand, this week's trade is a devastating blow to a fan base that was promised the world last off-season. On the other hand, from a pure baseball standpoint, there are are players headed to Miami from Toronto to be relatively excited about.
This is a difficult trade to wrap your head around. The sheer amount of Major League talent, money, as well as prospects changing hands is massive. Not to mention, the turnaround in approach from the Miami Marlins in a year's time is highly perplexing, and in many ways embarrassing. With that being said, the haul of young players the Marlins are receiving in return is quite solid. Before going any further, let's review the players reportedly involved in the deal.
Blue Jays Get: Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonifacio, John Buck
Marlins Get: Yunel Escobar, Adeiny Hechavarria, Henderson Alvarez, Justin Nicolino, Jake Marisnick, Jeff Mathis, Anthony DeSclafani
It's a huge trade to say the least. And, the first thing that has to be addressed is how it impacts the Marlins' image publicly. The damage is about as bad as it gets from that perspective. After appearing to make a serious commitment to success last off-season, all this type of deal represents is a white flag for the foreseeable future. Miami's ownership had a dubious reputation in this regard to begin with, and this move certainly doesn't help. You cannot unload an ace pitcher, a star shortstop, and a high quality left-handed starter all in one deal and expect your fans to be happy about it.
But, if you're a frustrated Miami fan, there is more than a small silver lining to this head scratching deal. Yes, they're getting a massive amount of payroll off the books, but that's not really the type of positive news any Marlins' supporter wants to hear right now. The real upside to the deal is the young players they received in return. And, the potential centerpiece may be 21-year-old southpaw, Justin Nicolino. I evaluated Nicolino back in March and had this to say:
"Nicolino seemed to be able to put his fastball wherever he wanted, working both sides of the plate and living at the knees. What made him so incredibly difficult, though, were his secondary pitches. He was more than willing to go to either his changeup or curveball to begin an at-bat or when he was behind in a count.
First, let's talk about Nicolino's changeup. This is clearly his best pitch and is currently a 60 on the 20-80 scale and flashes 70 potential. It's going to be a true plus-plus offering at the next level and he already shows tremendous command of it. It has so much fade and diving action that he's comfortable throwing it to lefties as well. Thrown at 79-81 mph, it also has more than enough differential to be a swing and miss offering.
The curveball is another potential above average offering for Nicolino. He throws it at 72-74 with good depth and 11-5 action. It's currently an average pitch, but if he can tighten it up the plus potential is there. But, it's yet another weapon that he's very comfortable in locating.
When he's at full strength, Nicolino will be working around 90-92 mph and will bump 93 at times. Put that together with his plus command, dominant changeup and quality breaking ball, and you have a pitcher that profiles near the front of a rotation."
Jake Marisnick, Adeiny Hechavarria, and Anthony DeSclafani provide some excitement in the Marlins' end of the deal as well. Of that group, Marisnick has the type of tools to be an above average big leaguer. DeSclafani has the type of mid 90s arm and slider to pitch near the back of a bullpen, and Hechavarria is a wizard in the field. But, the reality is that this trade hinges on Nicolino and Marisnick for Miami. And, given that Toronto reportedly will eat the vast majority of the salaries of Reyes, Buehrle, and Johnson, the price Miami received in terms of talent is more than fair. But, everyone in baseball also knows that that money saved is likely to remain in ownership's pockets.
And, finally, from Toronto's perspective, they should be loudly applauded. Any team can go out and aggressively pursue trades and land big names. Toronto did it without bankrupting their talent rich farm system. They will miss Justin Nicolino in particular, but it's a more than fair price to pay for two cornerstone players like Josh Johnson and Jose Reyes, not to mention the other big leaguers involved in the trade.
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One of the biggest areas around APIs I think needs attention in 2012 is more tools that focus on developers. There are plenty API services and tools focusing on API owners, but we need to start making sure developers are taken care of.
So its nice to see the Mashery's new Developer Connect, which matches developers with companies looking for specific API development skills. Mashery partnered with Elance to develop the API skill matchmaking service, powered by Elance's huge network of professional technical talent.
There are plenty of developers out there who have polished their skills working with specific APIs, either on production, or hobby development projects, and would love to find freelance work, and make some money of their talent.
On the flip-side, there are plenty of companies looking to build web and mobile applications that use one or many APIs, and would prefer to contract with developers who already have experience with those APIs.
Its a win-win situation for developers, API owners and companies looking to build on top of APIs. I think it is also a sign that the API space is really maturing. With platforms like Mashery's Developer Connect, powered by Elance, developers may now be able to make a good living specializing in API development.
Its a great idea, I wish I had come up with it! Oh wait. I did!! In fall of 2010, and pitched it to Elance, after pitching the idea, I even built a Elance Developer Area prototype, and did a four part series on the potential.
I actually don't have a problem with this, I thoroughly enjoy my ideas getting used, rather than sitting on the back burner. What did piss me off, is when I was offered the exclusive by Elance after they actually built their version...they sent me a Techcrunch post, saying here is your exclusive.
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Well then, why doesn't NATO prove it? "If NATO officials are so confident of bin Laden's whereabouts," says Atika Rehman at Pakistan's Express Tribune, "why don't they go after him?" If they have proof our intelligence officials are hiding him, "why not expose them"? This is just "one conspiracy theory after another." Our country must find out who really is helping the terrorists, so we can put this story to rest once and for all.
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Pakistan must help us find Osama: "This is the first time in many, many years that the finger has been pointed so blatantly at Pakistan," says Nic Robertson at CNN World. It's almost certainly a deliberate effort to put pressure on the country "to provide what the U.S. and NATO want." The country may be reluctant to turn in a man "many people see as a hero of Islam," but if Pakistan wants the West's aid in making its border regions safe, it must help give up bin Laden.
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It's a point I've raised before, but it's worth making again: Japan's bond buying is killing Asian equities.
Here's Societe Generale's chart showing flows into Japanese funds and those into emerging Asia:
The biggest losers have been Taiwan, Korea and China, Societe Generale says. The iShares MSCI China ETF (FXI) has dropped 13.7% during the past three months, the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) has fallen 9% and the iShares MSCI Taiwan (EWT) has dropped 3.1%. The iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF (EWJ), meanwhile, has gained 16.7%.
In a separate report, Societe Generale's Albert Edwards fretted that the plunging yen could lead to a replay of the 1997 Asian currency crisis. He writes:
It seems investors may have forgotten that yen weakness was one of the immediate causes of the 1997 Asian currency crisis and Asia's subsequent economic collapse…
A weak yen comes at a time when the Chinese and other major EM countries are seeing a deteriorating BoP situation similar to what we witnessed in the mid 1990s. I studied Asian economies very closely at that time as the average UK pension funds had almost 10% of their assets parked in Asia ex Japan! Hence when I see a sharp rise in Chinas real exchange rate and deteriorating [balance of payments], it rings alarm bells. China is not the most vulnerable of the EM currencies to a weak yen, but this conjunction could easily trigger a currency crisis as growth is crushed. High levels of FX reserves are no protection if they are sold to prop up Asian currencies this will only impart a further deflationary monetary squeeze. Boom will turn to bust.
Edwards has been a bear for quite a while (though not permanently, as his reputation suggests) so feel to disregard what he says. Emerging market bulls do so at their own risk.
China's stock market bounced back from yesterday's disappointing GDP data, but it has entered a period of slower growth, the Financial Times says. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.6% today.
India is targeting manufactures that sell below cost with new taxes, Reuters says. India The S&P BSE India Sensex Index gained 2.1%.
South Korea unveiled a fiscal stimulus package, Bloomberg reports. The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index rose 0.1%.
China warned nations not to expand their military presence in Asia, a veiled threat to the U.S., which has been boosting military ties with the Philippines, among others. The Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index fell 0.75%.
Taiwan is investigating whether Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) hired people to post negative reviews of HTC phones. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Index rose 0.5%
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Oil's plunge has Russia reconsidering its export duties on crude. Russia's Micex stock index has risen 0.2%.
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Bloomberg reports that South Korea faces a possble tax revenue shortfall that poses a fical cliff risk. Reuters reports that North Korea put its missile units on standby today, as China called for an easing of tensions. Bloomberg reports that investor speculation about measures to aid South Korea's property market fueled gains by builders there and helped move emerging market stocks to a two week high. South Korea's Kospi Index rose 0.57% today.
Russia warns against military activity near North Korea, Reuters reports. Bloomberg comments that Russia is expected to hold interest rates as inflation tops growth worries. Russia's Micex stock index has risen 0.08%.
FT.com reports that Thai exports slumped against rising baht. Bloomberg reports that Sanofi (SNY), France's biggest drugmaker, will start building a $75 million plant in Vietnam amid riisng demand for health care in Asia. The Stock Exchange of Thailand SET Index rose 1.07%.
Reuters says South African former President Nelson Mandela is in good spirits and making progress. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index has fallen 0.08%.
Turkey's trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in February. The Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index has climbed 0.53%.
Argentina faces a deadline today to submit a proposed formula to pay holders of $1.3 billion of the defaulted bonds.
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In Korea, developers led stockshigher, including Hyundai Development (KR:012630) which rose 3.8%, followed by GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (KR:006360), up 2.6% and a 2.4$ gain by Daewoo Engineering & Construction (KR:047040).
Other Korean stocks rising: Search-engine operator NHN Corp. (KR:035420), which rose 3.4% after Shinhan Investment Corp. said prospects of its mobile messenger application will bolster its share price. And Samsung Securities (KR:016360) added 1.7%.
In Turkey, Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS (TR:SAHOL), the nation's second-largest industrial group, rose almost 1.9%.
Yes, according to HSBC's Herald van der Linde and Devendra Joshi.
Asian stocks have always been more volatile than stocks in the U.S. and Europe. The iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index (AAXJ) exchange-traded fund, for instance, has had a 12-month volatility of 14.5%, well above the SPDR S&P 500 ETF's (SPY) 10.3%.
But structural changes in Asian markets could bring their volatility down in the years ahead, Linde and Joshi said.
Why might Asian equities get safer? They include the potential for more cash coming from local investors, more publicly-traded companies in a wider range of sectors, and market reform. Together, they will help bring down the cost of equity, which will make companies more profitable–and less volatile.
But not all countries are created equal. Linde and Joshi expect the cost of equity to drop in Korea, Indonesia, and perhaps India–and causing their price swings to become more muted. The Philippines, on the other hand, could experience a rise and become more volatile.
The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped Index ETF (EWY) has a 12-month volatility of 18.7%, while the WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (EPI) has a 28.1% volatility. The iShares Indonesia Investable Market Index ETF (EIDO) has a 12-month volatility of 22.5%, and the iShares MSCI Philippines Investable Market Index ETF (EPHE) has a volatility of 14.2%.
Now, we all know that there's more to risk than volatility but getting more return for each unit of volatility is rapidly becoming a tenant of investing–hence the rise of low-volatility and risk-parity strategies.
And that bias toward safer strategies has an impact on Asia's stocks. Linde and Joshi write:
Last year, despite the growth outlook being much better in Asia than in the US and Europe, Asia underperformed when markets fell and then outperformed when they rallied. So, despite its better economic fundamentals, Asia is a high volatility – or beta – region. This can make investing in the region difficult, especially for those who can't stomach the risk tolerance. So, if Asian equity volatility was to decline, not only would these markets become more attractive to more cautious investors, the cost of capital would fall and valuation multiples rise.
And that would be a good thing all around.
China is encouraging retired doctors to start working in rural areas to boost access to healthcare in the nation's poorer regions. China's Shanghai Composite stock index rose 0.9% today.
The Wall Street Journal looks at how Apple (AAPL) is trying to become a player in India's smartphone market. India's Sensex stock index gained 0.7%.
South Korea's current account surplus grew to $2.25 billion in January, up from $2.14 billion in December. South Korea's benchmark Kospi stock index rose 0.2%.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) is the winner of Apple's battle with Samsung, Bloomberg says. Taiwan's Taeix stock index rose 0.2%.
Blackberry (BBRY)–together with PermataBank and Monitise–is launching a mobile payment system in Indonesia. Indonesia's Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 1.1%.
Russia charged a government critic of more acts of fraud today. Russia's Micex stock index has dropped 0.05% so far today.
Brazil recorded a January budget surplus of 30.25 billion reais. Brazil's Bovespa stock index has dropped 0.1% in early trading this morning.
China will tighten rules for its so-called shadow-banking system, the Financial Times reports. Trina Solar (TSL) earnings fell–and missed analyst forecasts. China's Shanghai Composite stock index fell 1.4% today.
India's election-year budget might put unpopular financial reforms ahead of voters preferences, Reuters reported. India's Sensex stock index fell 1.6%.
South Korea's grocers threatened to boycott Japanese goods if it doesn't drop claims to disputed islands, while the Wall Street Journal reported that Google (GOOG) is worried about Samsung's (005930.Korea) Android smart phone dominance. South Korea's Kospi stock index fell 0.5%.
The yield on Taiwan's 10-year government bonds dropped the most in five months, Bloomberg reported, as Italy's election forced investors into safer assets. Taiwan's Taeix stock index fell 0.8%.
The Philippines imports rose 13.2% in December from the previous year. The Philippines Stock Exchange PSEi Index fell 1.35%.
Russia's government said that it would seek more representatives on its central-bank board, but that its independence is not at risk. Russia's Micex stock index has dropped 1.3% so far today.
South Africa's economy grew at a 2.1% clip during the fourth quarter of 2012, above economist forecasts for 1.7% growth. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index fell 0.85%.
Brazil's consumer confidence fell in February, its fifth consecutive decline. Brazil's Bovespa stock index has dropped 0.3% in early trading this morning.
This weekend's G20meeting was supposed to shed light on the state of the so-called currency war–but instead its members acted as though one didn't exist. Real or imagined, however, emerging-market investors ignore FX at their own risks.
Talk of currency wars have been heating up since Shinzo Abe became Japan's prime minister, after running a campaign predicated on bringing rising prices to a nation that has suffered from near-non-stop deflation during the past 20 years. His election caused the yen to drop 20% versus the dollar–and weaken against Asian currencies like the Korean won, on the hope that Japan would follow in the footsteps of the U.S., England and Europe, by using unconventional measures to try to stimulate the economy and boost inflation.
Some argue that these measures are legitimate attempts to boost economies that have yet to fully recover from the Great Recession–and I'm sympathetic with this camp. No one wants a repeat of 1937, when the U.S. hike interest rates too soon and cause the economy to crumble. It didn't fully recovered until World War II. Keeping interest low–and taking unconventional steps to when rates can't go any lower–is a justified response to a crisis unlike most of us have ever seen.
But even if the low-rate policies are justified, they still have consequences for emerging-market nations. That's because interest rates are one of the main movers of currencies, and when one country has ultra-low rates, investors will look to higher-yielding ones to meet their income need–known as a carry trade. As a result, the currencies of low-yield countries will fall, as investors sell it in favor of high-yielding currencies.
And for some emerging markets, that creates major problems. Take Chile. Its central bank kept its interest rates unchanged at its Feb. 15 meeting, despite being caught between strong consumer demand–which would call for rate hikes–and lackluster exports–which would typically require lower interest rates to rectify. The Financial Times took a look at Chile's tough spot here.
Chile can't hike rates, however, because that would cause its peso to go up and ding external demand for its goods, even if that would cool the local economy. And it can't raise them because that would cause the local economy to heat up even more, even if it solved the export problem. That leaves its central bank with one option: Currency intervention.
Of course, none of this new. Countries have always done what they thought best for their own economies–including keeping their currencies weaker than they should have been to make themselves more competitive and build up large currency reserves.
It just didn't feel like a war when the global economy was booming, notes HSBC currency strategist David Bloom. Now emerging market investors will have to try to differentiate between those countries that will tolerate a rising currency and those that won't he said in a note on Feb. 14.
Mexico, South Africa, India and Indonesia are among the countries more likely to allow appreciation of the their currencies, while Colombia, Turkey and South Korea are among those that are most likely to take steps to weaken them, HSBC says.
Just as important as the individual countries, however, is the impact on other asset classes. For instance, investors have been moving into local-currency emerging market bonds–such as those found in the Market Vectors Emerging Market Local Currency Bond (EMLC) exchange traded fund–but these bonds will be be more volatile because they rise and fall as the dollar weakens or strengthens against those currencies. Likewise, some stock markets that look primed to move higher might fall because of currency fears. For instance, the iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF (EWY)
War or no war, currencies matter.
Emerging markets have been synonymous with growth, but the outlook for individual nations is constantly changing. Countries from Brazil and Russia to Turkey face challenges including infrastructure bottlenecks, credit issues and political shifts. Barrons.com's Emerging Markets Daily blog analyzes news, data and research out of emerging markets beyond Asia to help readers navigate the investment landscape.
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Since launching our revolutionary Ulitzer platform we have been the butt of a smear campaign perpetrated by a small number of social media terrorists from within Adobe's Flex user community.
Ulitzer, Inc. owns www.sys-con.com.
I cannot imagine a Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, or Apple employee publicly writing "SYS-CON should die!" under his or her corporate credentials, or leaving reader feedback on a Gartner blog implying "SYS-CON are thieves" next to his or her corporate credentials especially when the allegation is false and carries legal consequences.
Naturally we documented these attacks and forwarded them to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Adobe assured us that none of its employees would do such a thing and claimed it must be a few "disgruntled" members of the Flex community.
In other words Adobe shrugged off the libels and failed to rein in its people.
This lack of adult supervision is reinforced by the lawlessness of social media, where there is little to no accountability and careless invective is common.
It is hard to imagine responsible people giving such rants any credence but they taint the environment in which we all work, leave lasting misimpressions and damage reputations for no good reason.
SYS-CON has worked hard for two decades to build its good name and I have no intention of ignoring these smears on our reputation. I will take legal action against those responsible for these attacks.
I would tell Adobe's management that it needs to create and implement a clear corporate policy for employees who contribute to social media, and to educate its user base at the same time.
It is unclear to me why Adobe hasn't done this already before these hooligans taint it. It is doubly unclear to me since SYS-CON Media has had a long association with Adobe technologies.
We started publishing ColdFusion Developer's Journal nine years ago as a testament to ColdFusion's powerful entry position in the development tools market.
CFDJ was influential in Allaire's successful IPO and later during Macromedia's acquisition of the company.
Based on CFDJ's success we launched MXDJ for Macromedia users. By the time Adobe acquired Macromedia MXDJ was being printed and distributed in multiple languages including French, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Standard Chinese.
With more than 2,000 original articles to its credit, CFDJ today offers the richest technical content archive for the CF community.
SYS-CON has also published more than 4,000 stories about Flex, 15,000 stories about Flash and 8,000 stories about Adobe itself.
SYS-CON Media has doubtlessly published the largest number of articles, news, feature stories and blog posts about Adobe and Adobe products.
Both CFDJ and MXDJ (later renamed Flex Developer's Journal) have consistently been an integral part of Allaire, Macromedia and Adobe's service to their user communities.
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This is not the first time SYS-CON has dealt with online terror attacks.
A few years ago when we attempted to reveal the identity of an anonymous open source blogger, we suffered weeks' worth of DDoS attacks. The online lynch mob posted hundreds if not thousands of threads and blog entries smearing us.
Simply Google my name to see examples of these attacks by bullies who just didn't want to see advertising banners when they consumed free quality content on our website.
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The 3rd International Internet of @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 its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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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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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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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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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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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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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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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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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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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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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, 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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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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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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Top-ranked Serena Williams beat Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 7-6 (5), 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Madrid Open on Sunday.
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Williams says ''I felt a little sluggish out there.'' She next faces Lourdes Dominguez-Lino of Spain.
Putintseva broke Williams' serve early to open up a 3-1 lead in the first set. But the defending champion settled down after breaking serve and, once through the tiebreaker, dominated the second set.
Also in the first round, former top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki was ousted by 35th-ranked Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4.
Serena's sister Venus Williams withdrew early Sunday morning before her first-round match due to back problems.
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Early this morning, an altercation between Perez Hilton and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas led to an arrest - and left both parties steamed and pointing fingers.
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Holly and Telisha are the same person. Whosoever is writing under either name is just trying to degrade African Americans. Since you are found out, I guess you are not doing a good job. Peace out.
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He's so gross and ugly! No wonder he's always so angry. I guess we should feel sorry for him.
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