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Do you want to play, I mean seriously ?
What connects preventing house fires, solving international conflicts and practising for a job interview? The answer is that you can learn how to do all of these things through playing a serious game. Gamification seems to be the new way of educating and informing citizens in an entertaining way. In July 2013 the IDATE (Institut…
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Smart Share
The widespread adoption of mobile technologies spells good news for the move towards a share economy in today’s world. The ubiquity of handheld devices with mobile data capabilities, provides unprecedented opportunities for people where ever they are, to reach out to each another, collaborate and share anything for economic advantage. With about 1.2 billion smartphones…
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Snapchat: the ghostly app which haunts teachers
Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Angry birds or even the famous Candy crush, all these apps are a nightmare for many teachers, not only in the USA but all around the world. In colleges and high schools, the problem remains the same, the attention of the school kids or young adults is on their smartphone screens and…
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What you should know about Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia
According to MITs technologyreview.com, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia seems to be a good deal for the American giant, boosting its position in mobile phones market and getting hold of some very useful patents. However, this operation might have some unexpected effects. After the departure of Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, the American firm decided…
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Is the luxury market becoming more accessible through mobile phones?
We have all imagined what our life would be like if we were rich. We would probably own high quality goods, a magnificent house, a beautiful car and wear expensive clothes. The problem is that luxury brands are usually available to a restricted market that only contains the wealthiest people. Whereas the rich have no…
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Love on the net and on the phone – is it serious?
The Internet and increasingly, the mobile internet, plays an important part in our social lives. Anytime, anywhere, mobile Internet users deal all sorts of things. Naturally enough a smartphone will allow you to talk with friends but you can also shop, window shop, send flowers, pay bills, book tickets as well as work and study. As…
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The risky kiss
Do you believe in fate, in love at first sight? Do you sometimes do something spontaneously? Maybe you do, but you certainly do not expect your new partner to be your relative! Or imagine that there might be a tool somewhere that could warn you that you wre about to sleep with a member of…
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Unsociable through technology!
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter have completely changed the way some people discuss and interact with their family, friends, the friends of their friends and all the people they are likely to encounter. Indeed, people communicate more frequently, at any time and from anywhere in all manner of ways including the exchanging of pictures,…
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Your phone’s nose knows (or will do soon) !
Many web-addicts fell for Google’s recent April Fool the “Google Nose”, an application which would employ ‘photo-audio-olfactory sensory convergence‘ to search for smells! But while the idea caused a lot of amusement, it is not such a far-fetched concept as it once was and some serious studies are being undertaken all over the world to augment…
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Mobile marketing: Today’s business?
The world is constantly changing, evolving but there has been an abrupt revolution, one that has altered our lives and with it, the way we do business. Technologies, and more precisely smartphones are allowing users more freedom, more power of social connectivity and more availability of information and knowledge. Enterprises are facing a growing need…