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ZoomBoard enables you to type more easily when using touch keyboards on very small devices such as smart watches.

 

Albino Pedroia

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Indian companies use social media to build communities of online fans rather than focusing primarily on pushing products or generating new customer leads.

The use of social media has reached a high level of maturity in India, according to a report just published by international auditing and management consultancy firm Ernst & Young. During the survey, 48 organisations in India identified as being ‘social media savvy’ were quizzed to find out how they use this channel.

L'Atelier - Paris

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Many shops, bars and other venues like to entertain customers visually with TV, but keep the sound muted. Giving customers sound access via their mobile devices is one way to re-connect the audience – with the programme, with each other and with local services.

A study carried out in March by Motorola Mobility*, the Illinois, US-based ICT equipment corporation owned by Google, among 9,500 consumers in 17 countries, found that on the one hand, an increasing number of viewers were adopting a multi-screen habit of watching television, but on the other hand, a majority of viewers also wanted TV-watching to be a more social experience.

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With the arrival of digital, the use of language has undergone profound change. Jeanne Bordeau, an advisor on language and modes of expression, recommends that company heads take stock of this linguistic revolution, fast.

L’Atelier caught up with Jeanne Bordeau at the launch of her manifesto entitled: “Le langage des dirigeants : une métamorphose” (Language of leadership undergoing metamorphosis’).

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In the past office-sharing was chosen by those seeking a low-cost option. Now the concept is changing and is seen as helping startups and independent entrepreneurs to foster innovation.

With 592 teleworking centres offering this type of service located throughout France, office-sharing and other types of co-working spaces seem to be on the rise in this country.

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MyHealthTeams has developed three social networking sites, each of which focuses on a specific chronic health condition. Designed to provide inter-personal support, this niche approach could also generate substantial data streams to help research.

 

 

Alice Gillet

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An increasing number of solutions are now being developed to enable people to watch TV on their mobile devices without using the Internet and impacting their data plan charges.

 

Clémence Coursimault

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Providing the appropriate tools will help to set up collaborative projects in cities and encourage people to express their views on the kind of city they would like to be living in. Of course it is unlikely that all cities will be able to follow this collaborative approach.

 

Interview with Lauren Anderson, Chief Knowledge Officer at Sydney-based Collaborative Lab, the global advisory services arm of CollaborativeConsumption.com. L’Atelier caught up with her at a panel session on the ‘Shareable City’ at the OuiShareFest event held on 2 - 4 May in Paris.

L'Atelier: How would you define the concept of the ‘Shareable City’?

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Our Innovator of the Week is Jean-Louis Schmitlin, who was recently awarded the ‘2013 Innovator Prize’, one of the Digital Technology Awards presented by Télécom ParisTech at a ceremony in the French capital. Télécom ParisTech (the Paris-based École nationale supérieure des telecommunications) is one of France’s top computer technology universities. Schmitlin’s brainchild is a portable electrocardiograph used in the fast-growing field of telemedicine.

An innovator ? Yes, and not just a run-of-the-mill innovator either, having been presented on 18 April with the Innovator Prize at the 2013 Digital Technology Awards ceremony.

L'Atelier - Paris

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According to Gartner, 3D printers can be a competitive advantage for companies that own them, and can be used for rapid prototyping, or even production purposes.

 

 

Alice Gillet

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The top universities in the United States and United Kingdom still dominate the world in terms of entrepreneurial quality and capacity for innovation. However, the competition is starting to assert itself.

The US and the UK remain at the top of the list of countries with the greatest number of universities contributing to the creation of the most successful entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide.

L'Atelier - Paris

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From 2011 to 2012, the Innovation score at US government departments and agencies dropped by 1.7 points to 61.5 out of 100. The latest survey report points the finger at a lack of support and encouragement for federal staff from management.

In spite of the budget squeeze and a freeze on recruitment and pay, the vast majority of United States federal workers claim they are keen to innovate and are constantly looking for ways to perform their jobs better.

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Few days ago, I had a chance to welcome a bunch of students who come from one American University in Boston region. I gave them a short and simple presentation regarding China internet business. In the end, what really strikes me is no matter how China throws out glaring internet statistics and potentials; so far its digital impact still remains weak outside of China.

I could not say I did a fantastic presentation. But I did ask these students whether they know Baidu or Tencent. They shook their heads and I thought I had to stop asking their knowledge of Alibaba, Sina Microblogging etc.

Cécilia Wu

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The US state of Tennessee has set up nine regional business accelerators on a public-private partnership basis, which draw on the state’s resources to help new companies launch and grow.

According to a recent report from Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), a public-private partnership whose aim is to coordinate and support all the south-eastern state’s entrepreneurship-related activities, Tennessee seems to have become the new Eldorado for startups.

L'Atelier - Paris

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On May 6th the US Senate voted in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a piece of legislation that would require sales tax to be collected on goods purchased via major e-commerce websites, thus standardizing and evening-up the rules in this area.

 

L'Atelier - San Francisco

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The post-hospitalisation period can be complex to manage, for both healthcare practitioners and the patient’s family. This new US startup has developed an app designed to help provide post-acute care solutions.

Facilitating patient monitoring and follow-up is an area which the e-health sector seems to be increasingly focusing on. Better

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Clinicast develops solutions which draw on and analyze data from US healthcare providers so as to help optimize their organization, workflow and cost management.

Very few people would dispute that the US healthcare system is simply not sustainable in the long term. First and foremost costs are too high. The United States spends around $2.7 trillion on health costs per year, equivalent to just under 17% of GDP.In addition the architecture of the system is too fragmented: hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers all use different standards, and there are very few channels for linking up the data generated in one medical establishment with another.

L'Atelier - San Francisco

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A recent study highlights the opportunities which online social networks may provide to analyze the impact of social behavior on health outcomes such as the prevalence of obesity.

 

Clémence Coursimault

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The WorldKit system uses a camera and projector to transform any surface into a touchscreen. In addition the screen can be moved to suit the user.

Systems that enable you to use any and every surface as a touchscreen have become rather widespread recently, but creating moveable interfaces is a somewhat less straightforward feat. WorldKit, developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, is designed to do just that. Using a paired depth camera and projector, ordinary surfaces can be made instantaneously interactive.

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To help major medical and pharmaceutical sector companies come up with innovative solutions to some of their problems, Tigerlabs is calling for applicants for a programme which will enable pioneering startups to compete for the opportunity to work in close collaboration with mainstream players.

Techstars worked recently with Nike to provide a dedicated startup accelerator model designed to enhance the brand’s range of apps by cultivating companies interested in leveraging Nike+ technology. Now Tigerlabs Health Accelerator, a Princeton, New Jersey-based entrepreneurial campus focusing on Healthcare IT, has set out to emulate this approach on a wider industry scale.

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