nouvelle technologie 1st week

By: Amit V. Chaudhary

1. Google Plus More Intelligent

• Hashtags: It automatically scans your updates to add relevant links; scans the photo (e.g. Eiffel Tower) to tag it unlike Twitter and Facebook

• Auto Enhance: Adjustments like contrast, color, brightness, saturation, noise reduction

• Auto Awesome: It creates animated .GIF from the series of photos taken in short period of time. Stiches together one picture so that everyone is smiling

• Auto Highlight: It skips the blurry photos, duplicates, and underexposed shots, and chooses the “best” photos to show off.

• Unlimited uploads for photos under 2048-pixels wide

• 15GB of free space• Integrated space: Gmail, Drive, etc

2. Attino’s ChapterBuy

• Launched by Attano• 10,000 chapters• Publishers: Pearson Education, Sheth

Publishers and Laxmi Publication• Starts off at Rs 3 per chapter going up to 1,146• The chapters are DRM (Digital Rights

Management) Locked

• Can be used on 3 devices simultaneously• Geo-IP protection, so that international users

can’t use editions meant for developing countries

• Use: Higher education where only few chapters are referred to from various references books

• Pay just the difference when you buy an entire e-book

3. SkyDrive no more …. So sad

4. GapSense

• Developed at The University of Michigan• Existing technology: CSMA (Carrier Sense

Multiple Access)• 3 Wireless Protocols– Wi-Fi: For laptops– Bluetooth: For peripherals– ZigBee: For sensors like lighting, security alarms

• ZigBee takes 16 times longer than Wi-Fi to gear up from its idle state to transmit information (so more collision)

• Hidden terminal: Newer Wi-Fi standards for faster data rates on wider bandwidths than the standard 20MHz

• GapSense creates a common language of energy pulses and gaps to control. (like traffic control)

5. Intel Generations

What are the codenames of the 2nd and 3rd generation processors?

Second Generation

Third Generation

Then what is 4th Generation called?

Haswell

6. What is the difference between WhatsApp and iMessage?

• WhatsApp uses XMPP Protocol (an open standard) where internet connection is required for exchanging the messages

• iMessage is integrated with SMS; communication always on …..

7. Microsoft Comes to Android

• The Android version works on Phone only and not on Tablets

• Only 5 devices• SkyDrive is the default space to save• Currently available in the US

8. Esha Khare, the Inventor

• Invented Super-Capacitor• Used a nanostructure, which allows for a lot

greater energy per unit volume• Can charge any device in 20 seconds• Can lasts for 10,000 cycles compared to

batteries which are only like 1,000 cycles• Demonstrated the technology at Intel

International Science and Engineering Fair• Won a $50,000 Intel Foundation Young

Scientist Award

9. What was this company before?

Nokia was a paper manufacturing company.

What was this company before?

Sony famously was a rice-cooker maker whose initial cooker prototypes were terrible.

What was this company before?

YouTube was an online video-based dating service.

What was this company before?

Nintendo started out by making card-based games, before crossing over to the tech side.

What was this company before?

Wipro was initially set up as a vegetable oil manufacturer in 1945. Wipro stands for

Western Indian Palm Refined Oil Ltd. The company logo still contains a sunflower to

reflect their original business.

10. Facebook News Feed

• Soon you will have video adds• 15 seconds spots (minimum length)• User will see no more than 3 spots in their

feed per day• It will cost the advertisers from $1 million to

about $2.5 million a day, depending the size of audience targeted

• Primetime

11. Muzik Socially Connected Smart Headphones

Enables you to Tweet and Facebook

12. Kickstarter

• Home for films, games, and music to art, design, and technology

• Launched in 2009, 4.5 million people have pledged over $723 million, funding more than 45,000 creative projects

• Each project is independently created; kickstarter is not involved in the development of the projects

• Project creators set a funding goal and deadline. To date 44% of projects have reached their funding goals

• Creators keep 100% ownership of their work.• Charges 5% fee to the funds collected.

13. Nokia Treasure Tag

• Attach it to your keys, wallet or valuables• Alerts you when they are moved a certain

distance from your smartphone• Designed to pair with Lumia Windows Phones

via NFC • Battery lasts for 6 months• Works on Bluetooth 4.0 standard

14.Autographer Wearable Camera

Sensors used in it ….

• Colour sensor: perceiving light and brightness and adjusting the image accordingly

• Temperature: Built-in thermometer, measuring ambient temperature

• Magnetometer: determines which direction the camera is facing

• PIR: motion detector that uses infrared light to sense moving objects

• Accelerometer: measures how quickly or slowly the Autographer is accelerating

15. WeChat App

• Parent Company = Tincent• No advertisements at the moment• Revenue Model = Brands like BigBazaar,

Tradus, etc have already started building their Official Accounts for interaction between Companies and their fans.

• 190 million users across the globe.