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Im not talking about the hassle for IT departments when people bring in their own devices. I mean the perils to the people doing the bringing. |
The fat client desktop system has ruled computing for 30 years. Could Google Chrome OS and other cloud-based, thin-client systems dominate the next 30? |
With more than 300 million monthly active users, the vision for Google+ is to make it a destination for meaningful conversations online. |
Over the past couple months, Google has made lots of changes, which has resulted in lots of speculation about the future of Google+. The popular opinion is that Google+ is a ghost town and that the recent changes will lead to the shuttering of the three-year-old network. However, this idea is all speculation, and could... |
The biggest problem is the narrow perception of Google+. Most people look at the network in the same context that they do Twitter and Facebook. What they don’t realize is that Google+ is the platform that makes Google products social. |
When you comment on a YouTube video, it’s a G+ thread. If you write a review of a business on Google Maps, it becomes part of that company’s online reputation and is incorporated into Google+. With such deep integration, it’s hard to see why Google would shutter such an important part of its social infrastructure. |
While Google+ is much more than a social destination, there are still more than 300 million active monthly users on the site. According to Bradley Horowitz, VP of product management for Google+, the vision is to make the platform a place for meaningful conversations online — among family and friends, as well as people ... |
“There you’ll see lots of passion and participation, and that tells us we’re hopefully doing something right,” he says. |
As far as the recent changes, including not making G+ accounts mandatory for new Gmail users, Horowitz says the goal of these changes is to clarify the purpose of Google+. |
“Having a Google+ profile is how you share public content on Google — from a restaurant review, to a YouTube video or comment, to an app rating, to a post on Google+,” he says. |
Ultimately, the vision for Google+ seems to follow the long held Google tenet of functionality. In addition to being the social underpinning of the Google family of products, it is also an important part of the search experience. However, Horowitz says that as a sharing tool, Google+ helps bring a more consistent socia... |
The Quigley Catholic girls soccer team has made life as a Section 5-AA unbeaten impossible. In the process, the Trojans are now at the top of the crowded standings. |
A week after handing Neshannock its first 5-AA loss, Allie Brooks scored 1:22 into overtime as visiting Quigley knocked off previously unbeaten Freedom 2-1. |
Brooks� goal came just moments after Freedom�s Laura Conrad tied the score with 49 seconds left in regulation. |
The win moved the Trojans (6-2, 5-1) into first place in the section, better than Freedom (3-4, 3-1), Beaver (5-2-1, 3-1-1) and Neshannock (6-1-1, 3-1-1). |
Quigley�s only section loss was to Beaver, which the Trojans play again Saturday. |
Jessie Smith opened the scoring for Quigley (6-2, 5-1) and added an assist. |
Moon Area 3, Montour 0 Goalkeeper Mara Hricik recorded the Tigers� sixth consecutive shutout and Caroline Keefer scored two goals, giving her 14 for the season. Jordan Calabria also scored a goal, and Lexi Thomas contributed two assists for Moon (9-0 , 5-0 Section 7-AAA). |
Hopewell 10, West Mifflin 5 Carley Work scored five goals and Kayla Losco added four assists as the Vikings (6-5) won in non-conference. Taylor Scurci added two goals, and Krysten Opsatnik and Julie Bosley also scored goals. |
Center 8, OLSH 1 Hannah Wytiaz scored three goals, and Madison Taylor added a goal and four assists for Center (5-3-1, 3-1-1 in Section 2-AA). Brooke Ceccarelli, Patty Lucci, Meagan Hampe and Courtney Miller also scored goals. |
Ambridge 3, Blackhawk 2 Meghan Regrut�s goal with 13 minutes to play lifted Ambridge (7-1, 4-1) over Blackhawk in Section 7-AAA. The Bridgers also got goals from Lindsey Kordas and Angela Riccio. Ambridge�s Corie McGill made eight saves for the win. |
Moon 3, Hopewell 2 In a non-section battle between two teams ranked among the elite in the state, the Tigers overcame a 2-0 deficit and won a 15-13 decision in the fifth game. Ashley Buse contributed 22 kills. |
Wolfe record Tess Wolfe of Blackhawk tied her school record when she recorded three birdies and finished with a two-under par 34 in a victory over North Allegheny on the third nine at Black Hawk Golf Course. |
Section 6 qualifier David Hutchinson of Lincoln Park carded a 77 at the Club at Shadow Lakes and finished as the medalist as the Section 6-AA qualifier. |
Ellis School 3, Sewickley Academy 2 Mary Greathouse and Todd Norton each scored goals as the Panthers slipped to 5-2-1 overall. |
A design of the proposed new building at Federation Square. Supplied: Victorian government. |
A story on the Apple store a day makes ... Victorian Labor very rattled. |
The proposal to plonk down an Apple shop -- sorry, a golden pavilioned experience lotus-flower -- in Melbourne's Federation Square was pushed through state cabinet before Christmas, with all the details hidden as commercial-in-confidence. |
More evidence is emerging that the Trump tax cut will be used for share buybacks not new investment. But you won't read that at the Fin. |
MIAMI – The Victor Diaz Fan Club, if one existed, could rejoice yesterday. |
On the day Diaz arrived back in the big leagues, manager Willie Randolph provided the strongest indication yet that the Mets’ promising young hitter would be with the team for the long haul. |
Randolph qualified the comments later in his pregame conversation, saying: “It doesn’t mean it’s going to be all year, either.” But the Met skipper penciled Diaz into last night’s lineup, throwing him into the fire, playing right field and batting eighth, against dominant left-hander Dontrelle Willis. |
The 23-year-old was recalled when outfielder Eric Valent was designated for assignment late Friday. With Carlos Beltran’s strained right quad injury lingering, the move was a necessity. |
In 28 games this year, Diaz batted .294 with 17 runs, seven doubles, four homers and 15 RBIs. The issue facing the Mets is whether Diaz’s development will be hampered as the team’s fourth outfielder, or whether he’s better suiting playing every day in Triple-A. He batted .194 in nine games at Norfolk. |
It sounded like Randolph believes the youngster is ready to stick in the big leagues, even if he only plays about once a week. |
“Really, it’s all about what makes the club better,” Randolph said. “I understand you want a young kid to play a little bit or whatever. |
“If you’ve done what you’ve done in the minor leagues and you have nothing really to prove, maybe being in the big leagues with the right coaching staff and the right work ethic, you can still learn as much. |
Randolph indicated that Beltran (strained right quad) probably won’t play until Tuesday at the earliest. He said Kaz Matsui (neck strain) is still not at 100 percent, but he will check with the second baseman about playing today. |
The Mets had conversations with the Cubs about reliever LaTroy Hawkins, who was traded to the Giants yesterday, a source said, but nothing was ever close. |
OLE GUNNAR SOLKSJAER’s arrival at Manchester United has been significant in progressing contract talks with Anthony Martial. |
That is the view of former Tottenham midfielder Ryan Mason, who says he can understand why the Frenchman did not want to sign a new one under Jose Mourinho. |
The forward rejected a new deal in October when Mourinho was in charge but is in talks to renew at the moment. |
While the France international is still to finalise terms, talks are understood to have progressed. |
Martial has also made it be known it is his intention to extend his time at the club, which marks a significant U-turn from last summer when he wanted to walk away. |
“I can understand why he didn't want to sign,” Mason said on Sky Sports’ The Debate. |
“Jose Mourinho had just been given a new contract and if he's there for the next four or five years and Martial is in a system he doesn't enjoy and doesn't get the best out of him then I can't blame him for rejecting a deal. |
“But I am sure now if they are talking then it's a different story altogether. |
“Martial is such an exciting prospect. He is a player that Manchester United fans want to see." |
Despite progressive contract talks Martial's representative Philippe Lamboley climed on Wedneday that an offer from Sevilla is on the table. |
Lamboley told Spanish radio station ABCdeSevilla: "We are studying the Sevilla option in detail. |
"Sevilla are a very good club, are in a good position in La Liga, play in the Champions League and have a great coach. That's all I can tell you." |
The Andalucian club remain in Spain's top four and are looking to strengthen in attack. |
Mourinho was reportedly willing to part with Martial last summer but club executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward insisted that the 23-year-old was going nowhere. |
Even under the Portuguese, Martial impressed at times, netting seven league goals, but still was not 100 per cent happy. |
But ex-Reading and Chelsea midfielder Steve Sidwell says it is vital that the club secure his future in the coming weeks. |
“It's all about the environment. He wasn't happy in the environment before and now he has a spring in his step,” he added. |
United have won six Premier League games in a row under Solksjaer as they look to break into the top four. |
Along with Martial, Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford have seen huge upturns in form, with Rashford scoring five league goals. |
And Mason says that the Norwegian is getting the best out of the 21-year-old, who made his 150th appearance for the club in the 2-1 win over Brighton last weekend. |
“Manchester United are top heavy and have been for a couple of years. The defensive manner in which they were setting up was never going to get the best from Martial, Rashford and Paul Pogba," he said. |
Darmstadt has joined the ranks of Deutsche Telekom’s 5G cities. A first group of 5Gantennas is now in operation in that city. The new systems follow 5G-antenna test fields in Berlin and the Port of Hamburg. The aims in connection with the Darmstadt 5G test field include gathering experience with installation and operat... |
Plans call for Darmstadts’s 5G test network to comprise a total of 18 antennas, at a total of six different sites, and to be fully in place this spring. The first antennas for the test field are now in operation at a site along the city’s Mina-Rees-Straße (Mina-Rees Road). The test field array will conform to the 5G Ne... |
The test field antennas employ the state-of-the-art antenna technology that is central to 5GNR: Massive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), a technology that greatly increases the number of transmitting and receiving antennas in place. With its large number of elements per 5G antenna – up to 64 – Massive MIMO enabl... |
To help accelerate the development of new 5G applications, Deutsche Telekom, working in cooperation with hubraum, its Berlin-based start-up incubator, has launched a 5Gprototyping program. The start-ups at hubraum are now using Deutsche Telekom’s 5Gtest field in Berlin to develop 5G applications under live conditions. ... |
Since the end of January, hubraum’s Prototyping 5G program has been filled to capacity, with a total of 15 participating start-ups, including participants from Germany, Denmark, France, Poland, the Netherlands, England, Israel and Finland. The focuses for the new applications under development include the areas of virt... |
And with MobiledgeX edge software, available within Telekom Deutschland’s cloudinfrastructure since November 2018, the start-ups also have the opportunity to test their 5G concepts and prototypes in an edge computing environment. |
Can AmEx's Plenti Break The Coalition Curse? |
American Express is rolling out Plenti, a new coalition loyalty plan, linking such diverse retail brands as Macy’s, Rite Aid and Hulu. And while such programs have failed before in the U.S. — despite considerable success in other parts of the world — observers think this effort may be just what American consumers need ... |
“Coalition programs have been very popular in places like Canada and the U.K.,” says Christopher Barnard, CEO of Points, a global provider of loyalty currency management. |
“But the real challenge here has been that there are very few companies that cover the entire U.S. And that makes it hard to build a truly national coalition.” He says at least half a dozen previous attempts at such plans have failed. |
Plenti, which consumers can join for free, allows people to earn loyalty points when they spend money with AT&T, ExxonMobil, Macy's, Nationwide, Rite Aid, Direct Energy and Hulu, regardless of what method of payment they use. And in addition to earning points (with at least $10 in savings for every 1,000 points), these... |
The idea of a single plan that works in many places appeals to consumers: American Express says its research has shown that 72% of shoppers would prefer such a rewards program. Plenti is based on Payback, a coalition program American Express already operates in such countries as Germany, Italy and India. |
A spokesperson for Macy’s tells Marketing Daily one reason it is so bullish is reach, “with 71% of the U.S. population living within five miles of at least two of the current Plenti partners.” And he says the push to introduce Plenti “will be extensive. Macy's, along with American Express and the coalition partners, wi... |
Want a real home-cooked meal in a foreign country? |
Got a burning desire to track icebergs in Canada? |
Need to know how to build a proper sandcastle? |
The best new travel sites offer these and other unique experiences. |
TripTuner tries to find your ideal destination by matching travel to your tastes and preferences. |
A panel of scales lets you choose the degree of experience you want: relaxing or active, bikini or parka, adult or kid-friendly, beach or mountain, urban or remote, high-end or thrifty, and everything in between. |
High preference for "active" and "mountain" gets you to Mount Kilimanjaro, Torres del Paine in Chile or Innsbruck, Austria. |
Maxing out "relaxing" and "bikini" matches you with Mykonos, Greece, and the Seychelles. |
You can limit recommendations to a region closer to you, for your wallet's sake. |
The site's soundboard tuner is fun to play with, but goes no further than booking hotel rooms. |
What better way to experience local cuisine than to eat with locals in their homes? |
Meal Sharing brokers invitations to home cooked meals around the world. |
It's not only easy on the wallet, it's a great way to meet fellow travelers and locals, rather than relying on restaurants or room service for every meal. |
Love the idea of camping, but can't give up a clean toilet? |
Travelers can set up tents in the backyards of houses around the world from $5 per person a night. |
The site's "glamping" options include swimming pools, barbecues, Wi-Fi and babysitting services. |
"Bamping" (basic camping) options provide little more than a corner of turf with bathroom facilities. |
This home rental site takes "exclusive" seriously. |
Applicants (both hosts and renters) must be second homeowners and approved by a membership board. |
It helps to be recommended by an existing member. |
Members have access to well-maintained homes in reliable locations. |
Owners rest easy knowing their homes won't be trashed by rowdies. |
Members can rent apartments in Florida for $75 a night or private villas in Mykonos for $1,600 a night. |
The days of having Expedia, Kayak, Hotwire and Groupon opened on multiple tabs may be over. |
All The Rooms is a search engine that trawls hotel sites, as well as alternative-stay sites such as Hostelworld, Airbnb and housetrip, combining research on hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, houses and apartments onto one page. |
U.S. comedian Andy Samberg found himself wondering what to do while on a trip in France and shortly after co-founded CanaryHop. |
What to do and where. |
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