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VC65: Funding Innovation
The Bush vs. Doriot models, Metcalfe and McCance
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First Mobile Phone Call, 1973
Today in 1973, Martin Cooper made a phone call from a prototype Dyna-Tac handheld cellular phone. The phone, which weighed about 2.5 lb, connected Cooper to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at Bell Labs.
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From Desktop Computing to the Web in Our Hands
Thirty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne signed a partnership agreement that established the company that will become Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977. (Wayne left the company eleven days later, relinquishing his ten percent share … Continue reading
Big Data and the Future of Business: Don’t Automate, Analyze
A few days ago I got an email from Netflix telling me that “recently you may have had trouble instantly watching TV episodes or movies due to technical issues.”
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Print Magazines Survive the Digital Tsunami?
The State of the Media Democracy Survey, Fifth Edition, from Deloitte, reports surprising finding regarding print magazines:
Posted in Digitization, Print, The InfoStory Quant
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First Sound Recording
Today in 1857, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville received a patent for the Phonautograph, the first device to record sound. He made sound recordings in order to analyze sound visually, not to play them back. But in 2008, audio historians and … Continue reading
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New York vs. The Census Bureau, 2011 and 1891
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau delivered “New York’s 2010 Census population totals, including first look at race and hispanic origin data for legislative redistricting.”
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InfoStory Quant: 1.2 billion in 2015
Research firm Radicati announced today that they expect the number of social networking users to rise from 798 million users in 2011, to over 1.2 billion in 2015. Since users typically have more than 1 account, they expect social networking … Continue reading
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Mobile Phones and Privacy Concerns
Professor Michael Pupin on the value and application of the wireless telephone:
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Fumbling the Future, Inventing the Present, Understanding the Past
Moshe Vardi, the Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM (CACM), has done a great public service by asking IBM to declassify and publish online an IBM report originally published in 1989. It summarized the work of 20 IBM Research Division … Continue reading
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