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Call for IQ societies, tests, links » World Intelligence Network

World Intelligence Network (WIN) is an international non-profit intelligence organization, created to support communication and interactions among members of various high IQ societies on a world wide web basis. choose your language ...

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Why Japan Matters: iPad Mania, Cloud Computing, And Social Intelligence

Editor’s note : Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com , really loves Japan. And if you are a startup founder or tech executive, he thinks you should too. He explains why in this guest post, culled from observations from his most recent visit. Thousands of people lined up last week to buy iPads. And, if you didn’t notice them, it’s because they were in Tokyo. I’ve been living in Japan for the past three weeks and couldn’t miss the madness around the introduction of the iPad here. I couldn’t believe the demand for this new “magical” computer. After all, this is the country that developed and built some of the world’s most popular PCs—and now the iPad, which was designed somewhere else, is revered. It’s bowed to. (Reportedly, about half of Japanese business and technology magazines are featuring the iPad on their covers.) I expect that out of the 10 million iPads sold this year, at least 500,000 to one million will be sold in Japan. Something else amazing in Apple-mania happened last week. Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft . I suggested in a post last April, “The end of Microsoft. A door opens to a new cloud” , that this seminal event was about to happen. Steve Jobs described it as being “Surreal”. I agree. It is surreal—both unbelievable and fantastic. This is a milestone that signifies a dramatic change of computing: Windows is on the decline, and new technologies such as iPads and iPhones, Android and Google Search, and Cloud Computing are on the way up. I have to admit, I love Japan. I love the people, the culture, the language, the architecture, the food—everything. I love walking through the temples and gardens in Kyoto. And, I love the philosophy of “Zen.” I love working in Tokyo, which runs at a frenetic charge that’s even higher than New York City. The reason I’ve been spending so much time in Japan is because it has become salesforce.com’s second largest market. We’ve found that the Japanese love Cloud Computing because it gives them great software that is eco-friendly, equal for all businesses, and upgrade-free. When I was at Oracle, Japanese customers were always waiting for our special “J” products (the port of our English versions), or the bug fix of a “J” port. It was often a long and painful wait. Cloud Computing solves all of these problems, and Japanese customers receive new software on day one, as well as bug fixes as they happen. Instant gratification. One of the things that captivated my attention in Japan was how utterly swept the country is with social networking—there is a Japanese Facebook Imperative underway. Japan is already one of Twitter’s largest markets, and local social vendors like Mixi are pervasive. Japanese customers have easily and rapidly adopted social networking as it is highly compatible with their community-based culture. Japan, more than any other country, is ready to accelerate social networking with mobile. The wide penetration of 3G will be an engine for this movement. In fact, Japan has the highest percentage market penetration of 3G of any country, according to InfoCom . The combination of dominant social market share and broadband wireless is a powerful catalyst for Japan’s IT industry. In my own personal experience here, I’ve seen this willingness to embrace social communications firsthand. Over the past few weeks of demonstrating Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com’s new enterprise social networking service, I was amazed to find that Japanese customers made unusually quick decisions to pursue it. Customers in other parts of the world (including the U.S.) have required a great deal of testing and evaluation. But in Japan there was an innate understanding of our app to be a Twitter or Mixi for the enterprise, which translated seamlessly—and drove adoption. This experience inspired me to think about what I call “Social Intelligence,” an idea I believe will launch us past business intelligence as the next major theme in enterprise computing. In Tokyo I enjoyed dinner with one of my friends, John Hinshaw, the global CIO of Boeing. I already knew Boeing is preparing to release the Dreamliner, the most advanced airplane in the world. But, I didn’t know that 35% of the Dreamliner is manufactured in Japan. In fact, the entire all-composite wing—the first of its size and sure to set the standard for how commercial airplanes will be made—is made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagoya. Each 98-foot long wing is then airlifted to Washington for assembly in Boeing’s special cargo plane, “the Dreamlifter”. If you aren’t sold on Japan’s abilities for the complex yet, consider that Japan also leads the world in energy and environmental patents and it is also the global leader in energy research and development expenditure and efficiency. I can certainly understand why Boeing is also focused on Japan. When you get an iPad, the new iPhone 4, or iPod you can’t miss seeing “designed by Apple in California”—the tagline that has generated heat from critics who get upset because the device is assembled in China. But what most people don’t recognize is that the parts are made all over the world, with some of the most important components being produced in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Take the iPod Nano. The flash memory is made by Toshiba, the Li-Ion battery is made by Sanyo and Sony, and the color LCD is made by Sharp, Toshiba, and Matsushita—making the total of the Japanese share in terms of cost 81%. The reality is the iPod is made possible by some of the most important technology in the world—and a lot of it is from Japan. Even 10% of the iPad comes from Japan (the rest is made by Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers). Japan is one of the countries doing some of the most exciting research and development in the most complex components, which is what drives the most compelling products. While in Japan I learned that Japan’s political and technology leaders recognize that embracing new technology and developing fundamental infrastructure are at the core of this country. Anyone who has experienced the bullet train, driven on Japan’s highways, or made a cell phone call in Tokyo, knows Japan fully commits to these two tenets. Cloud Computing is viewed as a critical next step for Japan, and it is the fastest growing part of Japan’s IT industry. Japan is always focused on getting the next big thing right. (And it usually does. I think the energy around the iPad last week demonstrates that they’re ready for Cloud 2 —the next transformation in computing being defined by cloud + social + iPad. One of the greatest surprises during my trip was that then-Prime Minister Hatoyama requested a meeting with me. I spent almost an hour with him demonstrating the power of Cloud Computing in Japan. Then he had a final meeting with the Chinese President. And, then he resigned. Why would he care so much about the Cloud to spend some of his final moments in office with me? I think he realized that he needed to send a clear signal that this new technology is pivotal to the future of Japan. Right before I left Tokyo for home I met with John Roos, the new United States Ambassador to Japan. John is the former CEO of Wilson Sonsini, and is a Bay Area native. Interestingly, he had never been to Japan before being nominated to his position. He asked me why more entrepreneurs in the U.S. weren’t focused on the amazing markets in Japan. I told him that although the Japanese IT market is the second largest in the world, it’s notoriously difficult for many Americans to navigate. I am grateful to my Japan guru, Larry Ellison, with whom I was fortunate enough to experience many trips to this country while I worked at Oracle for 13 years. If it wasn’t for that direct education, I don’t think salesforce.com would be as successful as it is here. Japan is accessible through several non-stop flights from San Francisco every day. And while the Japanese market and Japanese customers wait for the arrival of the next great thing, most entrepreneurs, and even VC firms, focus instead on China and India. I have never understood why, as China and India represent a market that is an order of magnitude smaller than Japan when it comes to key technologies, like software. Sure, India and China are fast-growing markets, but the current buyers are in Japan. The way I see it: If you are overlooking Japan you might as well overlook the West Coast of the U.S. The Japanese city of Osaka has a bigger economy than the state of California. As the second largest IT market outside of the US, the reality is Japan still matters. The world is changing profoundly (just look at my favorite Apple vs. Microsoft market cap chart ), but there are some traditional and established entities that retain a significant influence. Entrepreneurs should take note that 85% of all enterprise software is still essentially bought in three core markets: the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. Ignoring Japan means ignoring one of the most important opportunities. And, if you need a hand in this market, come with me on my next trip. I can’t wait to get back. CrunchBase Information Marc Benioff Salesforce Information provided by CrunchBase

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Connected Admin » World Language teacher uses cell phones in class …

World Language teacher uses cell phones in class – watch the video. By Connected Admin, April 29, 2010. The video below is about Katie Titler. She is a Spanish teacher in Wisconsin who uses cell phones as part of her instructional ...

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Big Data shakes up the Speech Industry

I spent a few hours at the Mobile Voice conference and left with an appreciation of Google's impact on the speech industry. Google's speech offerings loomed over the few sessions I attended. Some of that was probably due to Michael Cohen's keynote 1 describing Google's philosophy and approach, but clearly Google has the attention of all the speech vendors. Tim's recent blog post on the emerging Internet Operating System captured the growing importance of networked applications that rely on massive amounts of data, and it was interesting to observe in person its impact on an industry. (Google's speech and language technologies were among the examples Tim cited.) Google thinks of seamless voice-driven interfaces as having two key features: (1) ubiquitous availability so users can access speech interfaces from any app and on any device, and (2) high-performance so speech technologies lead to frictionless user interactions. In order to produce and deliver ubiquitous, high-performance speech interfaces, Michael Cohen emphasized Google's big data systems as key to how they develop all their services. Having speech technologies in the cloud lets Google quickly iterate and push enhanced speech engines on a regular basis. More importantly, their speech engines learn and get trained using real data from their many interconnected services. Speech engines typically rely on both language and acoustic models. Language models are statistical models of word sequences and patterns. Cohen pointed out that their language models use data collected from web searches, giving them access to an ever growing corpus that few can match (230 billion words collected, refined to a vocabulary of the million most common words). Cohen disclosed that some of the more recent acoustic models they're evaluating are built using unsupervised machine-learning algorithms . (These are speech algorithms trained on recorded speech that haven't been transcribed by hand.) While he coyly avoided explaining how an accurate system can be built from unsupervised techniques, it's likely they use data from their 411 service ( something Tim predicted 3 years ago ). Of course having access to relevant real-world, user-generated data is pointless if one can't operate at a large-scale. Fortunately Google pioneered many of the recently popular big data management and parallel computing technologies, so they're probably the best company equipped to use large-scale data. Big data technologies are essential pieces of infrastructure that Google engineers tap into. In fact their speech algorithms wade through massive amounts of data on a regular basis, resulting in a virtuous cycle of refinements. There are situations when embedded speech engines make sense (e.g., speech enabled navigation systems should still work in the "middle of nowhere"). Google's access to relevant data and their big data skills make them a formidable general purpose, cloud-based 2 speech engine. Hybrid systems that use cloud services when available, and otherwise default to embedded speech engines, were mentioned frequently at the conference . This is great news for players like Nuance that have both embedded and cloud engines. But as network connections become more reliable and ubiquitous, Google's cloud-based (and big data driven) speech engines are going to get harder to beat. In recent years many speech companies have amassed lots of data, but in Google they face a competitor that leverages web-scale data. Microsoft with its search engine and call center data, speech products and research group , is also a major player. It just isn't clear if they are using data from their interconnected services to benefit their speech products, as efficiently as Google does. (1) Michael Cohen was one of the founders of Nuance and is currently the Manager of Speech Technology at Google. (2) Some of Google's speech engines are easily accessible (at least on Android) through simple API's .

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Smart Keyboard Pro: The Missing Pieces of the Stock Keyboard

With a lot of attention going to Swype’s new Guiness record , reviewing a keyboard alternative app – especially a paid one – may sound a bit like grandpa praising the good ole days of basketball before the 3-point line. Nonetheless, I was unsatisfied with the stock keyboard so I explored a number of options. Smart Keyboard Pro seemed like the best bet so I dove into my wallet and fetched the American equivalent of 2 euros. This app substitutes for the stock Android keyboard, so it doesn’t open like a regular app. You have to enable it from the settings menu. If you set it to default you’ll notice it anywhere you would normally have a keyboard. The first difference you’ll notice is that, similar to the Sense UI keyboard, the shifted buttons are visible on each key in a smaller font. A long press on the appropriate key will insert the number/symbol. Beyond that, Smart Keyboard Pro has more options than the New York Stock Exchange. Change the skin, the length of the vibration on a key press, the language, and a hoard of other features. So why pay for this over the stock keyboard? First, its responsiveness to quick texting outpaces the stock keyboard. Give the free version a try if you don’t believe me. Second, options options options. Some have critiqued the spell check, but it even has additional options to improve spell checker results and word replacement. Third, Smart Keyboard Pro incorporates swiping to switch keyboards, toggle symbols or bring up the dictionary. The last two benefits have conditions on them. For Droid users, it adds predictive input for the hard keyboard making it worth the hype of having a real keyboard (of course, this only matters for Droid users). The other benefit is voice input for all fields. If you’re already running 2.1 you’ve got this, but for those without 2.1 the mic button alone makes this worth the price. Pros: Responsiveness to multi-touch input Options galore Hard keyboard auto-correct (Droid only) Needs improvement: Auto-correct could still be improved Special Note: Requires Android 2.0 or higher Final Verdict: Smart Keyboard Pro is worth the investment for Droid owners wanting hard keyboard auto-correct or others wanting a voice input option while waiting for a 2.1 upgrade. Phone used: Reviewed on a Droid running 2.0 (and again on 2.1) Dev: Cyril Deguet Note: This review was submitted by Chris Welter as part of our app review contest . Related Posts XDA Mobile App – Developer forums on the go SMS Backup: Save your text messages in Gmail, clean out your inbox! Toshl: Keep your expenses controlled Advanced Task Manager: The Advanced Solution for Task Management Opera Mini 5 Beta: A Browser Worth Singing About

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New Cell Phone: "Call me" and "Call me back at roaming"

Just call the short number 477, or log on self My Kyivstar / "My DJUICE». Also during the call the call center expert fixes the language of communication, convenient for the customer, and in the future, he will receive messages in that ...

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Yet More Android Business Models

Back in September, I ran a series of five blog posts on different Android business models, where selling individual apps to individual users through the Android Market (and kin) was just one of the models. On Saturday (March 6th), I will be speaking at Chicago's Day of Mobile conference on this topic. I figured it was time to toss out another 9 business models for you to consider. Again, the goal is to demonstrate that there are many, many ways to try to build a business in mobile, particularly with Android -- engineers who focus exclusively on the Android Market are missing out! Most of these models are focused consulting specialties -- not just claiming to be an Android developer, but places where you might become world-renowned in a specific niche. Model #41: Porting Specialist Rather than just advertise yourself as a generic Android consultant, become expert in helping firms port existing mobile applications to Android. You might specialize in iPhone-> Android, to help firms who jumped on the iPhone bandwagon catch up on Android faster. You might specialize in Windows Mobile-> Android, to help firms worried that their legacy WinMo code will not work on the new Windows Phone platform. And so on. Model #42: Native-izer Android's Native Development Kit (NDK) provides a gateway to native code, written in C/C++, implemented as extension libraries for traditional Android Java-based apps. Many applications could take advantage of the NDK to speed up algorithms: signal processing, game physics, encryption, and so on. However, many Android developers are comfortable in Java and less comfortable in C/C++, particularly for mobile. Develop the expertise, then promote your ability to help firms accelerate their Android apps by converting key portions of Java code to native code. Model #43: Mobile Web Guru Let's face it: despite more and more platforms standardizing on WebKit, there are still plenty of idiosyncrasies when developing Web content for mobile. These range from WebKit version differences to trying to adapt desktop browser libraries to work better on the small screen and over mobile broadband connections. You could aim to become an expert in this process, helping firms tweak their Web sites' mobile editions to work well on Android and other mobile platforms. This could easily extend to helping them create applications using tools like PhoneGap , that allow you to write cross-platform mobile apps using traditional WebKit-hosted HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Or, you might work on the techniques to create offline-capable Web apps using HTML5 and help clients implement those for Android and other HTML5-capable platforms. Model #44: Accessibility Maven Android offers text-to-speech and speech-to-text (a.k.a., voice recognition), haptic response, and other technologies designed to help with accessibility. However, it is easy for developers to skip over these features -- after all, some of us are still climbing the hill towards internationalization and localization. Top-notch Android apps, though, will make themselves accessible, providing access to new markets begging for this sort of support. You could become an expert in accessibility on Android, helping developers (through code, training, or consulting) make their applications more accessible. Model #45: Talent Agent A lot of focus has been placed on firms using various techniques, like off-shoring, to reduce the salaries of their programming staff. However, some firms are realizing that, for the right talent, paying top dollar (or euro or yuan or whatever) makes some sense. Some developers are simply more productive than others, particularly when it comes to new technologies that existing staff lacks experience in. We are not far from a world where "rock star" developers might actually want to retain agents to help negotiate contracts. Such agents will need to know enough about the technology to "speak the language" while also being able to strike deals, while earning an agent's commission along the way. Model #46: Enterprise Customizer Over time, more and more enterprises will be interested in Android. Some of them will want handsets tailored to their specifications, not so much in terms of hardware, but in terms of firmware and software. Some may want phones without the ability for users to install software, or phones that have "call home" capabilities if they are reported lost (that cannot be readily disabled), or phones that store all modifiable data in encrypted partitions. Android, out of the box, is a consumer operating system today. However, it is open source, and in partnership with the right device manufacturers, Android could be tailored for enterprise use. However, device manufacturers may not have the staff or expertise to do that customizing themselves, turning to outside consultants who can spend the time to learn enterprises' needs and adapt handsets to match. Model #47: Sync Specialist Android 2.0 introduced the notion of syncing contacts with third-party contact registries, ranging from Exchange to Facebook. Creating such synchronization code is no picnic, either on the handset or on the server. You might aim to become expert in helping firms needing such synchronization -- whether to public social networks or proprietary enterprise systems -- enable such synchronization for Android devices. Model #48: App Generator A lot of noise is created about the gap in catalog sizes between the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. A substantial portion of that gap comes from "generated apps", ebooks being the most prominent. There are some 20,000 books available for iPhone on the App Store and far fewer than that for Android on the Market. These are not custom-written applications, but rather generated from existing content (e.g., EPUB). You could create app generators designed to allow non-technical people to get their ebooks, audiobooks, RSS feeds, or other off-the-shelf content into the Android Market. Create a site that accepts the content as input and spits out a signed APK as output for the customer to upload from their Market account. You would be selling access to the app generators, or perhaps for specific generation capabilities (e.g., different prices for simple ebooks or ebook+audiobook combination apps). Model #49: Augmented Reality Layer-er As augmented reality (AR) apps continue to grow in popularity and power, different firms or groups may want to have their data represented in AR layers, but lack the time and expertise to do so. This is especially true so long as there are no standards for what such layers should look like, requiring custom work for different AR engines. You could become expert in these AR engines and in layer creation, to help cities or activists or whoever get their data out in this new visualization technology. Might We Suggest... Android Beyond Java: Part Three Want to develop for Android, but Java isn’t your thing? Learn more about alternative Android programming options in this this week’s series of posts on Building ‘Droids!...

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Talk to Me

Talk to Me . Avoid language barriers by using a real-time speech-to-speech translator. Price: Free AndroidTapp.com Android App Review: Pros & Cons: Pros Translate language speech to text and text to speech phrases with many different language options Email and SMS text message the translations Great for traveling More language options in text to speech mode Cons Voice translation only works from English to other languages and not in reverse, however you can toggle text to speech mode to write for example Spanish to Italian Not 100% accurate… but what automated translation service is?!? Features: Talk to Me Android App is a speech language translation app for many languages, which also supports text to speech. Send your translations to friends via SMS text message or email the audio file. The speech detection experience has been much better than Google’s voice to text experience. Voice Languages Supported (there are many more language options in text to speech mode) : Spanish French German Italian English (United Kingdom) English (United States) Usefulness: Talk to Me Android App is very useful to those trying to learn another language or travel. Ease of Use: Simply tap the big green button and speak a short phrase into the phone, a few seconds later it will translate in the language and dialect of the translation language chosen. Frequently Used: User dependent, maybe sparingly or casual use. Interface: Nothing fancy but very intuitive. AndroidTapp.com Rating (4.1 out of 5) Should you Download Talk to Me? Yes! Simple and Easy Language Translation App!

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Call to cell phone

Hello, i want to make free call from internet to cell phone but whenever i try to do so, i get confused.

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