New research from Skimlinks, which took in data from 15 months of commerce-related content, shows that nearly three quarters of all purchases measured are made using desktop and laptop devices, rather than smartphones and tablets.
Mary Meeker, a longtime Internet analyst and current partner at prominent VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, dropped her annual information bomb on the crowd at the Code Conference here today.
U.S. regulators have been attempting to deal with the negative effect that a few large Internet providers might have on competition. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, new mobile technologies have been encouraging competition.
The first wave of Internet disruption enabled purely digital products to be sold and delivered online. New digital players grabbed the opportunity to distribute news, music, movies, and so on online and deliver only what people wanted to consume, even if that meant just a portion of the full content. In recent years, a new wave of digital disruption has been taking over the web. This second wave is characterized by the separation of consumption activities that traditionally went together, hand-in-hand, such as TV shows and advertising. The authors term this process of separating jointly consumed activities as "decoupling." Decoupling is the breaking of links between consumer activities that have traditionally been done together.
The rise of Wi-Fi and cellular data services made Internet access more convenient and ubiquitous. Now some of the high-speed backhaul data that powers Internet services looks set to go wireless, too.
Technology that uses parallel radio and laser links to move data through the air at high speeds, in wireless hops of up to 10 kilometers at a time, is in trials with three of the largest U.S. Internet carriers. It is also being rolled out by one telecommunications provider in Mexico, and is helping build out the Internet infrastructure of Nigeria, a country that was connected to a new high-capacity submarine cable from Europe last year.
IST Model (Intrinsic Security Technology Model) est une technologie qui permet d'augmenter considérablement la sécurité des transactions électroniques sur internet. Née comme une puissante méthode d'identification des utilisateurs sur des réseaux non protégés, elle a été spécialement conçue pour être robuste à de nombreuses attaques informatiques telles que le phishing, pharming, arp poisoning, etc.
As a 20-year veteran of the technology industry, I’ve seen the emergence of new next-gen technologies come and go – from the client server to the desktop, to PCs and laptops, and finally to the current mobile era. What makes this latest wave of devices, appliances and wearable materials different is their connectivity to each other and exchange of data via the cloud. To take this a step further, the Internet of Things is upon us and is something everyone in the technology world is talking about.
The Internet evolves quickly and its “state” changes a lot in a year. One big shift highlighted in Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s annual report on online trends: four of the top 10 most popular Internet properties are now held by Chinese companies—up from just one a year ago.
Sure, you can throw a file up to a public cloud and let people download it whenever they want. But companies increasingly seem to think that when sharing files, a cloud isn’t necessary.
Investors have thrown $1.8 million behind Infinit, a startup sitting firmly in this camp.
In disclosing the funding in a statement today, Infinit also announced the release of the first full-featured version of its software, which is available for Mac and Windows.
The funding affirms the logic behind leaving out clouds, which stands out from popular file-sharing tools like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box.
The growth of e-commerce behemoths like Amazon and the convenience they offer to shoppers have been especially hard on local brick-and-mortar stores. A startup called Bindo wants to reverse that trend. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Hong Kong, Bindo has created an iPad point-of-sale system that integrates with its cloud-based payment platform for small merchants, with the goal of making it easy for customers to shop online for products carried by stores in their own neighborhoods.
Today the company announced that it has closed a seed round of $1.8 million, co-led by Gary Vaynerchuk, East Ventures, and Metamorphic Venturess.
