Open and easy access to rare earth materials -- which are critical parts of electronics in everything from cars to computers -- is still more a dream than reality. One of the ways to address that anxiety is to harvest and reuse such material from used electronic components – in particular computer hard drives. More on Network World: Quick look: World’s largest e-waste dump + To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here MORE

Consider sports betting. Today, many bettors use known and published statistics, mathematical models, and other relatively primitive tools. The idea is to gain a small advantage. Now let’s look at the world of technology. MORE

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The post How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports appeared first on Dataconomy. Imagine you’re a quarterback and you’ve just stepped off the field. Your team has lost. You could look at it as a failure and call it a day – or you could look at it as an opportunity to improve. MORE

KORE Software is hailing what it calls “a groundbreaking level of integration” through the world's first CRM-based transaction and payment processing integration with Archtics, Ticketmaster's season ticket sales application. It will greatly reduce the time it takes sales representatives to complete a ticket or premium inventory sale, since they will no longer need to leave the CRM platform. MORE

Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates worldwide after its use led to double-digit productivity growth in US stores MORE

What would you do if you had so much data about your customers that you know could know (almost) everything about your customer when they contacted you? MORE

The FIRST organization have chosen to use the sports model as the basis of their programs, as shown in the image to the right. Is the sports model getting out of hand and need to be changed? Tags: FIRST DeliberatePractice Education learning Mastery sports MORE

Technology Amazon augmented reality code EA Sports engine Facebook Frostbite graphics physics Unity Unreal videogames virtual realityPerhaps you need an engine to power your IT shop Image Credit: Jorge Quinteros. As the person with the CIO job, you have a lot of challenges facing you. MORE

Concerts, sporting events and meetings were canceled as part of a national boycott. More than 26.7 million people visited Dallas in 2016, adding an estimated $7.4 billion to the city’s economy. MORE

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Pick a sport. Any sport. You are now tasked with managing that team’s success. Sounds pretty fun, right? Apply this to managing a company’s search engine optimization (SEO) and it quickly turns into a cumbersome task. MORE

Big data has made its way across many different areas of industry, including the professional sports industry where the use of analytics is making a major change in how athletes and sports teams are preparing for games. Big Data CTO News SportsThe use of analytical data is not solely limited to being used as a development tool for individuals […]. MORE

IT records as well as sporting records were set at the recent Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro MORE

From managing water meter data, through Bitcoin and video data, to web publishing, NoSQL database technology is finding real use cases. But it's likely to be stuck at 10% of the market for some time MORE

To create a winning IT team, it pays to treat job candidates like potential prospects for a sports franchise MORE

Every sport in the world today has some form of analytics programmed to it. If we’re talking about sports analytics, I have to bring up the “Moneyball” reference. Honestly speaking though, sports analytics has come a really long way from the. MORE

Lessons learned from working with sports data can inform new ways of addressing enterprise DevOps, cloud, and AI needs MORE

Cycling team is using technology from design to the track to improve its business and sporting competitiveness MORE

IT has become integral to many aspects of business, from marketing and customer engagement to new product design. This requires a new way of organizing and engaging across functions. How important is this cross-functional engagement? It’s huge. Seventy-five percent of the 750 respondents to our global survey (see “The Leadership Edge in Digital Transformation,” from […]. MORE

Sports: the games we know and love. We love to play and watch these games so much, in fact, that in the US, there are only two days during the year when the four major pro sports leagues aren’t playing a game (i.e., MORE

In its latest outing at the tennis tournament, IBM brings technology from Red Hat to the courts to process data in the public cloud MORE

Information Technology Blog - - 7 Best Sports Games That You Can Play on Your Cell Phone - Information Technology Blog. Sports continues to a global favorite. People either actively participate in sports by playing on the field, watching it on TV, or playing games online. MORE

Customers hold the power in their relationships with businesses. Today, it's not enough for businesses to deliver products. Customers expect them to deliver outcomes and success. To do this, businesses must understand who the customer is, what their pain points are in achieving their business goals, and must help them choose the right products to meet their goals. The relationship does not stop there. MORE

Current Affairs Events Off Topic Sports golf mobility sportsI had the great pleasure to attend this week's U.S. Open Championship golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. All in all, it was a remarkable experience on many levels: . the immense skill displayed by the players (as of this writing, Rory McIlroy was running away with the tournament), the beauty and challenge of a U.S. Open-caliber course, and. MORE

Implementing sports betting isn't just about legality but about data and building out the software to support oddsmaking, new types of betting, and financial requirements MORE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) teams nabbed 260,000 counterfeit sports-related items during its annual, year-long Operation Team Player sting. MORE

For a sport built on advanced technology, Formula 1 has lacked a truly digitally enabled fan experience – but that could be about to change MORE

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The average length of time in the commercial sector between a network security breach and when the detection of that breach is more than 240 days , according to Gregory Touhill , deputy assistant secretary of Cybersecurity Operations and Programs for the Department of Homeland Security. MORE

There’s rarely a dull moment in the world of collegiate and professional sports. (Jeremy Vale contributed to this blog.) MORE

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Over the past few years, companies in all markets have embraced digital transformation, whether it is financial services finding new mechanisms to engage with customers or manufacturers adding sensors and other data collection components into their operational processes. MORE

Here is what a recent report says about opportunities for startups in Sports Technology in Europe. With 1500 startups and 900 new investment deals, it is safe to say that the field is vast and possibilities in the sector are booming. What is a SportsTech startup? How are these startups. MORE

Business is a Sport, You Need a Team. Technology is a team sport. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. by Brian Katz on May 20, 2013 · 1 comment. Last weekend I had the good fortune to watch the FA Cup final on television. MORE