Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Sepp Hasslberger: LED LiFi Doubles Data Transmit Speed

Advanced Cyber/IO
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

I think it would be a definite step forward for such a technology to get into wide use.  The signal, transmitted through LED lightbulbs, is imperceptible to human eyes. Better than microwave…

LED LiFi Doubles Transmit Speed

pureLiFi, the light communications technology company, that transmits data using light waves from ‘off-the-shelf’ LED bulbs, says they have doubled the previous levels of data rates. Li-Fi enables energy-efficient data transmission using LEDs in light fixtures.

pureLiFi demoed the world’s first commercial Li-Fi product, Li-1st, during March at MWC 2014 and CeBIT 2014.

“At the Li-Fi centre in Edinburgh, we’ve established that we can still transmit data wirelessly at data rates close to 100 per cent when lights are dimmed to levels where they appear to be switched off altogether.”

“This latest development furthers the case for Li-Fi revolutionising wireless communications, helps keep pureLiFi at the forefront of research and commercialisation and shows that Li-Fi really could be the enabler of the Internet of Everything.”

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Robin Good: Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool

IO Tools
Robin Good
Robin Good

Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool

Google Research is a little-known sidebar available inside Google Drive documents and presentations which allows you to do just-in-time Google searches and to easily curate relevant results, including images, videos, text excerpts, links with full automatic attribution references, into the document or presentation you are preparing.

The Google Research sidebar facility can be called at anytime up by simply going to the Tools menu and selecting “Research” or by selecting any word in your text and then typing Ctrl+Alt+Shft+I.

Once in view, the mini Google Research sidebar, is ready to search across not just the Google standard web results, including news, images, videos and Google Scholar databases, but is also able to instantly filter and sort for you relevant Quotes, Dictionary items, as well as stuff from your own Google Drive documents and tables.

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Danielle Villegas: The Future of Mobile Learning

04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, IO Sense-Making
Danielle Villegas
Danielle Villegas

29 Slides Online: The Future of Mobile Learning – Empowering Human Memory and Literacy

Highlights: “Mobile First” when designing any curriculum; e-learning (electronic) differs from s-learning (speech) and p-learning (paper); knowledge needs to be meta-datad into mobile-usable chunks; m-learning (mobile) is a far advance and distinct from e-learning; applicability and ease of access rule; important reference The Mobile Proposition for Education Report 2012; m-learning is a design challenge, a mind-set challenge.

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Facebook: New Initiative, Connectivity Lab, to Bring Internet to Remote Areas

Advanced Cyber/IO, Drones & UAVs

facebookFacebook Initiative to Bring Internet to Remote Areas

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky.

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky.

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Google and Pricing: High Stakes WalMarting Just When Amazon Is Least Ready For A Price War

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google and Pricing: High Stakes WalMarting

I read a number of write ups about the new Google cloud pricing. The main idea, in my opinion, that  unifies the different reports is, “Everybody loves a bargain.” Consider “Google Slashes Cloud Prices: Google vs AWS Price Comparison.”

The essay-editorial begins with the invocation of the Google-Amazon joust:

Google threw down the gauntlet to challenge AWS public cloud supremacy by announcing significant price reductions across its Google Cloud Platform. The eye-opening price cuts covered compute (32-percent reduction), storage (68-percent reduction), and BigQuery (85-percent reduction). Google also signaled that future reductions could follow Moore’s Law — citing that historically public cloud prices have dropped only 6 to 8 percent annually as compared to 20- to 30-percent reductions in hardware prices.

The fact that neither Amazon nor Google provide much detail about their actual costs, profits, number of customers, and goals for their cloud services is not of much interest. Explanations of how pricing thresholds operate and migrate excite little curiosity.

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Google: Positive Impact on Elections in India and Indonesia?

Advanced Cyber/IO

google cleanGoogle’s new online tools will keep voters in India and Indonesia informed ahead of upcoming polls

Google has launched a series of tools as it seeks to make itself useful to 1 billion Indian and Indonesian voters, who are heading to the polls next month. These tools listed on the respective Elections Hub pages provide easier access to the latest news, videos, and practical details about the coming elections.

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Google Revamps Election Portal to Encourage Indians to Vote

NEW DELHI — Google India introduced a revamped Google Elections hub on Wednesday in an attempt to encourage first-time voters and the growing number of Internet users in the country to engage more deeply with the political process.

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The profile of Internet users in India is a small piece of the electorate. In a country of 1.2 billion with nearly 814 million registered voters, slightly more than 200 million use the Internet, according to an October report released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India.

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Patrick Meier: Humanitarians Using UAVs for Post Disaster Recovery

Drones & UAVs, Geospatial
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Humanitarians Using UAVs for Post Disaster Recovery

I recently connected with senseFly’s Adam Klaptocz who founded the non-profit group DroneAdventures to promote humanitarian uses of UAVs. I first came across Adam’s efforts last year when reading about his good work in Haiti, which demonstrated the unique role that UAV technology & imagery can play in post-disaster contexts. DroneAdventures has also been active in Japan and Peru. In the coming months, the team will also be working on “aerial archeology” projects in Turkey and Egypt. When Adam emailed me last week, he and his team had just returned from yet another flying mission, this time in the Philippines. I’ll be meeting up with Adam in a couple weeks to learn more about their recent adventures. In the meantime, here’s a quick recap of what they were up to in the Philippines this month.

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