thumpad » admin http://www.thumpad.com contents on protable medium, mobile devices, software, social networking in/and the tech industry Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:37:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 There's no such thing as big data http://www.thumpad.com/2201/Theres-no-such-thing-as-big-data/ http://www.thumpad.com/2201/Theres-no-such-thing-as-big-data/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:44 +0000 admin Having a lot of data is not the same as using it well. Today's big companies are losing to small upstarts simply because those firms ask better questions. To compete, large enterprises need to learn how to harvest the data they have on customers, markets, competitors, and products. Read more.

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2201/Theres-no-such-thing-as-big-data/feed/ 0 Building data startups: Fast, big, and focused http://www.thumpad.com/2202/Building-data-startups-Fast-big-and-focused/ http://www.thumpad.com/2202/Building-data-startups-Fast-big-and-focused/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:44 +0000 admin Building data startups: Fast, big, and focused

The emergence of data startups highlights the democratizing consequences of a maturing big data stack. Companies ……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2202/Building-data-startups-Fast-big-and-focused/feed/ 0 Top Stories: August 1-5, 2011 http://www.thumpad.com/2203/Top-Stories-August-1-5-2011/ http://www.thumpad.com/2203/Top-Stories-August-1-5-2011/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:44 +0000 admin This week on O'Reilly: The fragility of our modern systems was made clear to Tim O'Reilly during a recent trip, Jonathan Reichental defined the G+ Effect, and we learned what can happen when the barriers to scientific exploration come down. Read more.

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2203/Top-Stories-August-1-5-2011/feed/ 0 Data and the human-machine connection http://www.thumpad.com/2204/Data-and-the-human-machine-connection/ http://www.thumpad.com/2204/Data-and-the-human-machine-connection/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:44 +0000 admin Data and the human-machine connection

Managing data and extracting meaning require new approaches, new education, and even a new language. Opera Solutions CEO Arnab Gupta discusses ea……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2204/Data-and-the-human-machine-connection/feed/ 0 Pulse Sensor – wearable heart-rate sensor for Arduino http://www.thumpad.com/2198/Pulse-Sensor-8211-wearable-heart-rate-sensor-for-Arduino/ http://www.thumpad.com/2198/Pulse-Sensor-8211-wearable-heart-rate-sensor-for-Arduino/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:43 +0000 admin The Pulse Sensor is a plug-and-play ready component that hooks up to the Arduino platform which opens a ton of possibilities to incorporate biometric data into wearable electronic designs thanks to it’s very small form factor.
The creator of the Pulse Sensor, Joel Murphy and Yury Gitman, set up a Kickstarter account to get the necessary funding and move that great idea from  prototype stage into mass produced, open source reality.
The Pulse Sensor works similar to a optical heart-rate pulse senso……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2198/Pulse-Sensor-8211-wearable-heart-rate-sensor-for-Arduino/feed/ 0 Stock Market Lingerie http://www.thumpad.com/2199/Stock-Market-Lingerie/ http://www.thumpad.com/2199/Stock-Market-Lingerie/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:43 +0000 admin Stock Markets are in the spotlight today more than usual so I thought to look for something fitting to all the Stock Market talk but of course with a wearable technology touch.
To my surprise and thanks to a fabulous wearable tech project from emerging artist Erin Lewis, currently studying Integrated Media and Wearable Technology at OCAD University, the ‘Stock Market Lingerie‘ is the perfect match.
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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2199/Stock-Market-Lingerie/feed/ 0 Warning Signs – smart shirt points out pollution http://www.thumpad.com/2200/Warning-Signs-8211-smart-shirt-points-out-pollution/ http://www.thumpad.com/2200/Warning-Signs-8211-smart-shirt-points-out-pollution/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:43 +0000 admin Carbon monoxide is part of cigarette and cigar smoke as well as car exhausts highly concentrated on road sides is the silent killer of our time. These gases are invisible and work over time to kill.
Sue Ngo and Nien Lam, two former students at NYU Tisch School of the Arts came up with a brilliant, visually powerful design to remind one self and the polluters how harmful their behavior is.
Their interactive fashion project called ‘Warning Signs‘ uses color changing, Thermochromic fabric with m……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2200/Warning-Signs-8211-smart-shirt-points-out-pollution/feed/ 0 LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy S II Celox leaks http://www.thumpad.com/2196/LTE-enabled-Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-Celox-leaks/ http://www.thumpad.com/2196/LTE-enabled-Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-Celox-leaks/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:04 +0000 admin We've uncovered an image and some specs on an upcoming Galaxy S II smartphone carrying an LTE radio. The information, originally from Korea, claims that the smartphone codename is Celox.

And the LTE radio (100Mbps/50Mbps downlink and uplink) won't be the only things that set the Celox apart from its mortal Galaxy S II sibling. According to the rumor, the new smartphone should be based on the Qualcomm APQ8060 chipset, which features a dual-core 1.2GHz processor. The Celox should also have a larg……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2196/LTE-enabled-Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-Celox-leaks/feed/ 0 LG Prada K2 high-end droid shows up in blurry video http://www.thumpad.com/2197/LG-Prada-K2-high-end-droid-shows-up-in-blurry-video/ http://www.thumpad.com/2197/LG-Prada-K2-high-end-droid-shows-up-in-blurry-video/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:04 +0000 admin The Prada brand is coming back to the LG phone lineup, according to a leaked roadmap, and now there's an extra-blurry video of one such device – the LG Prada K2 – to back it up.

From what we've heard of the Prada K2, specs state that it's a dual-core Gingerbread droid with a 4.3-inch version of the excellent NOVA display. This one will be even brighter than the one on the Optimus Black, putting out a blinding 1,000 nits of brightness (the old one was 700 nits).

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2197/LG-Prada-K2-high-end-droid-shows-up-in-blurry-video/feed/ 0 Leaked promo video supposedly shows new Nokia WP7 phones http://www.thumpad.com/2194/Leaked-promo-video-supposedly-shows-new-Nokia-WP7-phones/ http://www.thumpad.com/2194/Leaked-promo-video-supposedly-shows-new-Nokia-WP7-phones/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:04 +0000 admin The Nokia Sea Ray may be expecting company – a leaked promo video shows off what is supposedly a Nokia phone powered by Windows Phone 7 and it looks different than the Sea Ray. Of course, it could be fake (though pretty well-made) or it could be some internal promo video.

Remember the first images of Nokia WP7 phone that turned out to be nothing but mockups? The video shows two models, one of which looks almost exactly like the mockups that leaked originally. The other model however is different from t……

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]]> http://www.thumpad.com/2194/Leaked-promo-video-supposedly-shows-new-Nokia-WP7-phones/feed/ 0 German court blocks shipments of Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe http://www.thumpad.com/2195/German-court-blocks-shipments-of-Galaxy-Tab-101-in-Europe/ http://www.thumpad.com/2195/German-court-blocks-shipments-of-Galaxy-Tab-101-in-Europe/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:19:04 +0000 admin The patent struggle between Apple and Samsung is really heating up – after the initial victory for Apple that prevented Samsung from launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, now a second Apple victory will prevent Samsung from selling the Tab 10.1 in Europe (except the Netherlands).

This is a preliminary injunction, which will last until the German court reaches a decision. Galaxy Tab 10.1 units that have already been shipped to stores will sell normally but there won't be resupplies until this ……

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