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Flashback: Microsoft’s ‘Skinput’ research project in 2010 foreshadowed an AI gadget of 2023

GeekWire

“Skinput,” from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, circa 2010. As shown in the video below, from 2010, Skinput was a research project that projected light onto a user’s skin, using sensors to distinguish among the waves that run through the arm or hand to detect different inputs.

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Google Pitches In To Declutter The Mobile Web

Forrester IT

On their constant quest to enable users to quickly find the best answers to their questions, Google announced last week that starting in January 2017, they will bury mobile websites where the content is blocked by intrusive interstitials. In other words, mobile websites that have pop-up ads won't rank as high in Google's search results.

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From MDM to UEM in a decade: What we’ve learned about enterprise mobile management

Computerworld Vertical IT

In 2010, Apple launched its platform for iOS device management, a move that put third-party vendors at the heart of the enterprise mobility management (EMM) industry.

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

T-Mobile Photo). — T-Mobile appointed former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director Letitia Long to its board. Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. He previously was SVP of product at Roku and led mobile apps at Yahoo. Letitia Long. (T-Mobile

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The 10 TENsions That Will Define 2010

Trends in the Living Networks

To anticipate what will shape 2010, we need to understand the TENsions that will define the opening year of the TENsions decade. These are the 10 TENsions for 2010, the opening year of the TENsions. The mobile Internet will explode with Google Phone and Android adding to iPhone’s success. Hyperconnected – Disconnected.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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. — Wireless charging technology company Ossia announced that former T-Mobile executive Michael Morgan and former Ossia Chief Strategy Officer Preston Woo will join the startup’s board effective this month. He also led T-Mobile’s financial services subsidiaries. He was most recently SVP and chief accounting officer.

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