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The InfoStory Quant: 181% Annual Growth
181% is what Gartner projects will be the growth rate of tablet PCs (e.g., iPad) sold in 2011, to 54.8 million units. Gartner estimates that by 2014, the number of tablets sold worldwide will reach 208 million, representing 58% of … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Earliest Surviving Film
Today in 1888, Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture.
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This Day in Information (Extra): First Aerial Photograph
Today in 1860, James Wallace Black made the first successful aerial photographs in the United States. He photographed Boston from a hot-air balloon at 1,200 feet. One good print resulted, which the photographer entitled “Boston as the Eagle and the … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Birth of Wireless Industry
Today in 1983, the wireless industry was born when the head of Ameritech Mobile Communications placed the first commercial cellphone call from Chicago (home of the first city-wide cellular network) to Alexander Graham Bell’s grandson in Germany. Today industry revenues … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: The NeXT Big Thing
Today in 1988, Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer at Symphony Hall in San Francisco. A day or two later, I was among a standing-room only crowd at Boston’s Symphony Hall admiring the all-black, beautifully-designed “workstation” with a brand-new optical … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Douglas Adams on PCs
Today in 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published. Among many memorable observations by Douglas Adams: “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: Mining Information
“For 40 years now, the tech industry has been digitizing everything in sight. The next 40 years, businesses will be focused on how to make sense of all that information.” —Jonathan Spier, CEO and cofounder of Netbase
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InfoStory Quote: Info Feed
I hate to bite the hand that Feeds me so much information — Duran Duran
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This Day In Information: Giant Brains
Today in 1996, the US Postal Office introduced a special “Computer Technology” stamp to mark the fiftieth anniversary of ENIAC, the first large-scale, electronic digital computer. The stamp shows an image of a brain partially covered by small blocs that … Continue reading
The Future of the Social Network According to IBM
Last night I saw the future of social networking at the IBM research center for social software. The open house, part of the FutureM events this week in Boston, showcased 11 experimental applications: New ways to enhance collaboration over the … Continue reading
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