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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Article: High-Powered Plasma Turns Garbage Into Gas
High-Powered Plasma Turns Garbage Into Gas
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Fwd: Google Alert - hotel trends
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Date: 30 January 2012 21:49:54 CET
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Subject: Google Alert - hotel trends
News 10 new results for hotel trends Hotel Development Trends 2012
Hotel News Resource
The expectations of US hospitality executives have tempered, but the overwhelming majority remain bullish on the marketplace as investors look to pick up where they left off in 2011 – hunting for deals, according to the DLA Piper 2012 Hospitality ...
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Hotel Development Trends 2011 - Property Transactions Increased 62.8% over 2010
Hotel News Resource
Total hotel property transactions in 2011 amounted to US$14.0 billion, compared to $8.6 billion in 2010, according to data from STR Analytics. This is a 62.8-percent increase over 2010. The average price per key in 2011 was US$200000, compared with ...
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Hotel News ResourceHotel managers labor to control labor.
4Hoteliers
In aggregate, the participants in PKF Hospitality Research's (PKF-HR) 2011 Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey saw their rooms revenue (RevPAR) rise 5.3 percent, the result of a 6.2 percent increase in the number of rooms occupied and a 0.9 percent ...
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Trends in luxury ADR premiums
Hotel News Now (blog)
One indicator we watch to judge the health of the industry and the speed of a recovery is the average-daily-rate premium luxury hotels command over upper-upscale hotels. Traditionally, there is a clear bifurcation between hotels in different ...
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Hotel News Now (blog)
What are the winning Whatcom wedding trends for 2012?
Bellingham Herald
"One of the big trends is the intimate, understated wedding like in our hotel living room overlooking the bay. "There might be a small, quick ceremony for less than 50, followed by champagne and desserts with a string quartet.
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Bellingham HeraldPebblebrook Hotel Trust Provides 2012 Outlook
MarketWatch (press release)
"We expect that 2012 will be a very good year for the overall hotel industry, with the continuation of these positive trends. We're forecasting US industry RevPAR to increase between 6% and 8% over 2011. Our portfolio, comprised of high quality hotels ...
See all stories on this topic »CHECKING IN: Despite Volatility, Hotel Performance, Outlook Improving
CoStar Group
By Mark Heschmeyer Lodging demand trends continue on a solid recovery trajectory, despite heightened global macroeconomic risk stemming from European sovereign debt concerns and a slowdown in China, according to a bevy of reports that hit the market ...
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Mixed fortunes for UK hotel sector in 2011 as London-Provinces gap widens
BigHospitality.co.uk
"While the profit growth was more moderate than in 2010, it shows that hotels can buck the economic trends. "The 13.9 per cent increase in profitability levels achieved in 2010 was always going to be a hard act to follow, but London hoteliers have ...
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BigHospitality.co.ukTurkey is best in 2011 Hotel Performances
Focus on Travel News
MKG Hospitality's December and end-of-year hotel results are out for the Middle East & North African regions, showing clear-cut trends and a division in hotel performances. Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are easily the best performing markets.
See all stories on this topic »Room Key CEO Aims to Add More Hotels to Website
Washington Post
30 (Bloomberg) -- John Davis, chief executive officer of Room Key, talks about the launch of and strategy for online hotel search engine Roomkey.com. Room Key is a venture owned by six hotel companies including Hyatt Hotels Corp. and Marriott ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
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 BrainReserve (@PopcornBrains)26/01/2012 21:19 Does Tech-Savvy Beer Store Redefine The Man Cave?j.mp/AqGTgz |
MOCOM 2020 - The Future of Mobile Media and Communication
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Revealed: The FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media
Revealed: The FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media http://smf.is/1EV5cM (via @summify)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
@extremefuturist, 22/01/2012 04:07
 XFF 2011 (@extremefuturist)22/01/2012 04:07 Extreme Futurist Fest opening: bit.ly/zDA2XC #XFF |
@PopcornBrains, 21/01/2012 00:58
| BrainReserve (@PopcornBrains) 21/01/2012 00:58 Yesterday's Apple Event was awesome! Text books, iBooks Author, new iTunes U! We're smarter already: j.mp/vZ6Gyo |
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Apple in education
 Pete Cashmore (@mashable)19/01/2012 23:34 Everything You Need to Know About the Apple for Education Talk - on.mash.to/xmig0Q |
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Article: Mind-Reading Armbands - BodyWave Technology at CES 2012 is Mind-Control Without a Headset
Mind-Reading Armbands - BodyWave Technology at CES 2012 is Mind-Control Without a Headset
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bodywave-technology-at-ces-2012
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Your top 10 predictions for 21... (bbc.co.uk)
Your top 10 predictions for 2112
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16536598
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INFOGRAPHIC: Generation Y, Emp... (allfacebook.com)
INFOGRAPHIC: Generation Y, Employment And Facebook
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-generation-7-2012-01
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RunKeeper takes next step towa... (gigaom.com)
RunKeeper takes next step towards total health tracking
http://gigaom.com/mobile/runkeeper-takes-next-step-towards-total-health-tracking/
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5 Infographics For SMBs to Che... (smallbiztrends.com)
5 Infographics For SMBs to Check Out
http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/01/smb-infographics.html
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Monday, January 16, 2012
The Rise of the New Groupthink
The Rise of the New Groupthink http://smf.is/1E4Vul (via @summify from @_GOOD_Biz, and @christianwig)
Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour - Icon Toppling
Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour http://smf.is/1E4Vug (via @summify from @dens)
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Do We Need Doctors Or Algorith... (techcrunch.com)
Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/doctors-or-algorithms/
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Surgical robots to provide ope... (nextbigfuture.com)
Surgical robots to provide open-source platform for medical robotics research
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/surgical-robots-to-provide-open-source.html
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Timeu.se: Temporal dynamics of "study"
I've been using Timeu.se to explore how millions of people report spending their time.
Look what I discovered about "study" at http://timeu.se/855f590b
Visit http://timeu.se to start exploring!
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6 Incredible Examples Of How Twitter Predicts The Future
6 Incredible Examples Of How Twitter Predicts The Future http://smf.is/1DVaNT (via @summify from @Theyear2030)
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Article: CES Trend: Digital health gadgets galore
CES Trend: Digital health gadgets galore
http://gigaom.com/mobile/ces-trend-digital-health-gadgets-galore/
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One Simple Secret to a More Successful Business
One Simple Secret to a More Successful Business http://smf.is/1DM4hL (via @summify from @smallbiztrends)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ten 100-year predictions that came true
Ten 100-year predictions that came true http://smf.is/1DGCIr (via @summify from @elizterry)
This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business http://smf.is/1DGCIx (via @summify, @PopcornBrains)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Fwd: Shaping Tomorrow Newsletter
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Date: 4 January 2012 18:16:12 GMT
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Shaping Tomorrow Newsletter
MOBILISING HEALTH APPS
Mobile health apps are set to change the way individuals can look after their health, doctors can diagnose and monitor patients, and medical research can collect data and develop their research. As health apps go from 'dumb', i.e. use only aggregated or limited personal data to intelligent using personalised health records and genetic data, a revolution may be underway. Sheila Moorcroft, Research Director
SELECTED INSIGHTS
WHAT IS CHANGING?
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Autonomous Transportation for the Year 2030
COMMENT Autonomo is a fully autonomous vehicle designed for the year 2030 to overcome many of the major problems facing many of the world's major cities like Los Angeles face today. Its main sources of inspiration are drawn from biomimicry, sustainability, artificial intelligence and information technology
Its objectives are to alleviate congestion, maximize access through the already existing road network, improve energy efficiency and create a completely carbon neutral transportation option. It's said we can achieve all of this with minimal restructuring of the existing road infrastructure through the use of advanced smart technologies
How 'open innovation' is evolving
COMMENT Partnering with outsiders can help corporations save money by sharing research & development costs & capitalizing on inventions that are already being prototyped. In a Financial Times article, "Innovation Matchmakers" Louise Lucas reports that consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble hopes to triple its sales from such research collaborations to $3 billion by 2015.
Open innovation might make it tough to keep design secrets under wraps, naturally. But the practice might just prompt large companies to develop products and services faster to compete nimbly as corporations and smaller innovation firms increasingly team up. And large companies will also likely to continue to devise imaginative ways of managing the open innovation process itself.
Education, disrupted: MIT to offer free, online courses to all
COMMENT The disruption of higher education just got very interesting. It appears that the disruptors — private, online universities — are being disrupted at their own game. One of the pantheons of traditional on-site learning, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has announced it will be launching online courses that will be free and open to the world. And, in the process, plans to offer certificates
Perhaps this may be a turning point for introducing market forces to the spiraling upward costs of higher education — often called the "education bubble. It may also be a signal about the role of accreditation, and the deconstruction of degree programs as the core of university teaching.
A roving eye: Home health monitoring with robotic systems
COMMENT The most expensive way to deliver care is in a hospital – but discharging patients too soon can lead to complications and rehospitalizations. That's where robots can help – and sometimes a robot can be as simple as a video/audio system that can roll around under remote control, transmitting communications over a 4G cellular network.
Instead of having to drag kids back to the hospital for frequent office checks after surgery, Hiep Nguyen, a urologist/surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston, can call the family at home and do the check remotely.
Any GSM Phone Vulnerable to Hijack Scams
COMMENT Vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones And instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security.
They could use the vulnerability in the GSM network technology, which is used by billions of people in about 80 percent of the global mobile market, to make calls or send texts to expensive, premium phone and messaging services in scams.
Engineers unleash car-seat identifier that reads your rear end
COMMENT Cars of the future may use the driver's rear end as identity protection, through a system developed at Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology.
The system performs a precise measurement of the person's posterior, its contours and the way the person applies pressure on the seat. The developers say that in lab tests, the system was able to recognize people with 98 percent accuracy.
Holographic 3-D looks tantalizingly closer in 2012
COMMENT Applications like holographic TV have long been relegated as the next big thing in the distant future but a Leuven, Belgium-based R&D lab for nanoelectronics has come up with a process that might bring holographic images closer to realtime.
Imec hopes to construct the first, proof-of-concept moving structures by mid-2012. "Imec's vision is to design the ultimate 3D display: a holographic display with a 60° diffraction angle and a high-definition visual experience," they state.
Kraft uses Intel technology in vending machine to target customers by age
COMMENT In a clever mix of technology and marketing, Kraft Foods has teamed up with Intel to create a vending machine, called the iSample, that can dispense free pudding samples to adults only; it's intended target audience for its new product.
Thus, in addition to television, radio, animated billboards and Internet advertising, we will all likely soon be subjected to various machines studying our bodies and faces to discover clues about our gender, age, race, health and perhaps level of wealth based on our clothing, so that those that wish to sell us things can be more discriminating in their advertising.
Fantastic futures? Technology and business in 2012
COMMENT Although those of us following the Mayan long calendar may be heading into 2012 with some trepidation, for those taking a longer-term view here is our annual peek into what next year holds. 12 people from across the technology spectrum give their insights to what the next year will hold.
The consumerisation of IT continues apace with more and more of us bringing our own devices to work. Cloud computing seems to be almost ubiquitous and virtualisation no longer sounds like something to do with the transporter in Star Trek.
The internet gets physical
COMMENT Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution. The consumer internet can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies. This is the internet of things.
Sensor aware computing is rapidly coming to fruition and is affecting, or will affect, all industries.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Now we’re cooking: How to get Americans back in the kitchen
Now we're cooking: How to get Americans back in the kitchen http://smf.is/1Dckj2 (via @summify from @Sustaination)
Five tech industry predictions for 2012
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Monday, January 2, 2012
@Sustaination, 02/01/2012 12:09
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What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today’s Digital Market
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