Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• The Meanings of the Selfie - NYTimes.com

  • attention seems to be the name of the game when it comes to social networking. In this age of too much information at a click of a button, the power to attract viewers amid the sea of things to read and watch is power indeed.

• A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause - Bloomberg

  • Some companies are apparently so concerned about the NSA snooping on their data that they're requiring - in writing - that their technology suppliers store their data outside the U.S.
  • the language began appearing in contracts over the past couple weeks, and could be an early indicator of things to come as businesses adapt to a landscape altered by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. Documents leaked by Snowden indicate that the NSA has tapped fiber-optic cables abroad, circumvented or cracked encryption and is massively collecting telephone records and Internet traffic.
  • U.S.-based technology companies face a serious threat.

• The Year Megaplatforms Ruled The Internet

  • 2013 was the year that a major, decade-long internet cycle neared its completion. 2014, at best, will be the very beginning of the next one.

• Do We Want an Erasable Internet? - WSJ.com

  • If the Snapchat model takes off—if other sites and services began to promote the idea of erasability as a competitive feature—the Internet would look very different from the Internet of today. It would be a more private network, one without the constant worry of every ill-considered picture or thought being held up for ridicule by the whole world, forever. But it also might be a less useful Internet, a network on which you couldn't look up an old photo every time you felt nostalgic, or where computers wouldn't always feed you suggestions based on your history, since your history wouldn't be complete.

• Christmas Lights? Electricity Price Index at All-Time High in U.S. | CNS News

  • he seasonally adjusted electricity price index hit an all-time high in the United States in November,

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Power Assure and RagingWire Schedule Demo of Software Defined Power at Gartner Data Center Conference 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com

  • The demonstration will show how, once configured with the service level and other application requirements, Software Defined Power continuously and automatically optimizes resource levels, the companies said, both within and between data centers.

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Friday Charts: The Death Of TV, Annoying Politicians And The Most Unexpected Economic Stimulus Plan - Seeking Alpha

  • every penny of lower gas prices per gallon yields $1 billion in economic stimulus, according to Deutsche Bank's Joe LaVorgna.
  • Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the online streaming industry,
  • So for every one American who ditched cable TV, almost two signed up for Netflix. The investment implications couldn't be clearer: Go short cable television and long video streaming.

• 10 Trends for 2014 and Beyond | JWT Intelligence

  • ● Executive Summary
     ● Immersive Experiences
     ● Do You Speak Visual?
     ● The Age of Impatience
     ● Mobile As a Gateway to Opportunity
     ● Telepathic Technology
     ● The End of Anonymity
     ● Raging Against the Machine
     ● Remixing Tradition
     ● Proudly Imperfect
     ● Mindful Living

• Evolve or Die: 5 New Service Areas You Should Be Looking At - Technibble

  • Evolve or Die: 5 New Service Areas You Should Be Looking At

• Wipro - Press Releases > 'Hybrid Cloud is the New Normal', says Wipro-Cisco Joint Study

  • IT decision-makers report great interest in using IaaS in a hybrid cloud approach to complement on premises capacity, rather than replace it, and are planning for the impact that it will have on network operations and spending. While a hybrid approach promises cost savings and significant gains in IT and business flexibility, some concerns remain around how to manage and integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud services in a hybrid cloud architecture.

     

    The study notes that 60% of the respondents believe virtualization will be the primary technology over the next 12 months. Banking, financial services and insurance companies strongly recognize the link between virtualization and private/hybrid cloud enablement with 97% of those surveyed highlighting this aspect.

• Richard Bernstein's 10 Themes For 2014 - Business Insider

  • RICH BERNSTEIN: These 10 Themes Will Be The Big Market Stories Of 2014

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