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Technology use in US school system marked by background inequality
L'Atelier - San Francisco
Rosie Streamlines Your Shopping by Telling You When You’re Running Low
Founded in September 2012 and accepted this year into the Cornell incubator programme, Rosie sets out to improve the whole experience of physical shopping with an online shopping platform that alerts users when they are about to run short of an item they need. In order to do this, the web and mobile platform acts as an aggregator of consumer habits. Based on the average habits of the users, the app can predict when a product in a household will run out.
L'Atelier - ParisColorado launches a fund to support local tech entrepreneurs
Ivory King
Half-tablet, half-smartphone: 'phablet' sales are skyrocketing
The very first iPhone surprised the mass market with its touchscreen, which was quite a reasonable size for that time. However, it was the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Note II that brought the word ‘phablet’ into our lexicon, with an advertising campaign accompanying the launch that played on the ambiguity of this half telephone, half tablet device. “Phone? Tablet? Best of both”, claims the ad.
L'Atelier - San FranciscoPerk Health Provides Means for Firms to Reward Physically Active Employees
Every physically inactive employee in the United States costs his/her company on average $5000 more in healthcare-related expenses or lost working hours per year than an active person. Many entrepreneurs are now coming up with solutions to help reduce this bill, along the lines of the employee inactivity cost calculator developed by East Carolina University.
L'Atelier - ParisThe use of Electronic Medical Records improves preventive healthcare
Electronic Medical Records have been among the most disruptive technologies for the health industry. Among other benefits, ERMs help physicians better follow their patients, they can support decision making, improve patient/doctor relationships and communication. A study from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association focuses on the role of ERMs for preventive healthcare for women.
Ivory KingInnovation: Cities Play Role of Catalyst
L'Atelier - Paris
AppGlu lets brands manage their mobile applications without a developer
Ivory King
SketchInsight Boosts Collaborative Ideas Exchanges via an Interactive Whiteboard
How can you make the process of exploring data during meetings with colleagues more engaging?
L'Atelier - ParisCoffee Who Fosters In-Company Collaboration…over a Cup of Coffee
How can a company encourage internal collaboration by identify staff who don’t work directly with each other, but who might well have complementary ideas and skills that can lead to breakthroughs? Internal social networks, and motivational ‘ideas challenges’, are on the rise at companies these days, but more often the ideal solution would still be to have your people get together ‘for real’, and exchange ideas on a face-to-face basis around the coffee machine.
L'Atelier - ParisTagstand lets users and businesses program their own NFC stickers
Today, NFC adoption is mostly lead by businesses and public organizations, who use it to facilitate payments, for advertising purposes, in public transportation… But less frequent is the proactive use of NFC by consumers themselves. Y-Combinator backed Tagstand, however, believes NFC can change people’s every day interaction with their own world, if it is put into the hands of consumers.
Alice GilletHow Retailers, Companies and Insurers Can Become Health Coaches
Can retailers contribute to the health and well-being of their customers? Certainly, just as those customers’ employers and insurers can.
L'Atelier - ParisChina quick review : Bitauto and DangDang fiscal year
Bitauto Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012 Results
L'Atelier - ShanghaiSoftware-based solutions increasingly popular for data storage
Data storage is a consistent uphill battle - for many companies, more storage is needed constantly, and this has developed a secondary concern of data management. In InformationWeek’s 2013 State of Storage Survey, 42 percent of respondents manage 100 terabytes or more of data, highlighting just how critical data management strategy is.
Ivory King[MWC 2013] Haptic Creating More Lifelike Mobile Tactile Experience
Even though you can feel vibrations on most of the mobile devices currently in existence, the sensation is usually rather limited. At the Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona on 25-28 February, L'Atelier met up with Immersion, a Californian company which has developed a technology that substantially improves touch control.
L'Atelier - ParisFlint removes hardware for merchant smartphone payments
Mobile credit card readers brought wider payment options to many merchants - independent vendors and small businesses, as well as a convenient option for trade shows and special event sales. The barrier to entry was low with free reader hardware from Square or Paypal, but now sellers need no special equipment when they use Flint’s service.
Ivory KingMobile Technology Could Provide More Economic Solutions in the Public Sector
In the United States the private sector’s ability to harness the disruptive power of information and communication technologies and use them to come up with better and more efficient processes has led to an increase in productivity of over 50% in 25 years. By contrast, the public sector has not managed to keep pace with the new technologies and a wide productivity gap has opened up in recent years.
L'Atelier - ParisDespite high demand, the industry lacks IT security professionals
Ivory King
IT Workers’ Job Market Confidence Begins to Wobble
A year ago we published an article commenting on a survey carried out by online market study firm Harris Interactive, which found that IT sector professionals were optimistic about their future.
L'Atelier - ParisChina quick review : Perfect World & funding, Qihoo & financial results
Perfect World to Increase Its Investment in VC Fund
L'Atelier - Shanghai