Berto Jongman: New Patent Mapping Systems Helps Find Innovation Pathways — Doing the Wrong Thing Righter

New patent mapping system helps find innovation pathways What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited research funds? What technology areas are a company’s competitors pursuing? To help answer those questions, researchers, policy-makers and R&D directors study patent …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.7

BIG DATA: Rutgers Predicting Crime with Big Data, Affordably BOOK: Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (John Rizzo as reviewed by Dina Temple-Raston) BOOK: Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity (Cynthia Sue Larson) CYBER: Intrusive Meta-Data CYBER: Zeus Malware Targeting Small Banks and Credit Unions DEATH: 25,000 …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.2

Bank of America employs 20 full-time social media spies, watches anarchists and occupy protesters Children’s Book, Death is Wrong Presses Singularity Life Extension Imperative Customs Rules! A federal judge in New York has ruled authorities can seize travellers’ laptops at the border without citing a legal reason, suspecting the traveller of a crime, or explaining …