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Whistle tente de construire le réseau social canin - GigaOm.com
▻http://gigaom.com/2014/03/02/quantified-canine-startup-whistle-starts-building-a-dog-centered-social-netw

Whistle - ▻http://www.whistle.com - est un collier pour chien qui permet de recueillir ses données d’activité. Et la startup aimerait le transformer en réseau social pour #animaux, permettant de documenter son activité, de le connecter à ses relations... Nick Wingfield pour le NYTimes revient également sur Whistle et d’autres startups proposant des produits numériques pour nos animaux de compagnie : ▻http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/every-dog-has-its-data et souligne combien ces objets intéressent les chercheurs vétérinaires ainsi que les sociétés qui vendent des produits et aliments pour nos animaux domestiques. En évoquant également les technologies qui s’intéressent à la solitude des animaux de compagnie comme ▻https://www.dropcam.com ou ▻http://petcube.com qui nous permettent de jouer avec (...)

#quantifiedself #bodyware

Reaching for Silicon Valley [At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta — sur fond de contentieux et de chips]
NYTimes.com - Nick Wingfield 16/11/13
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/technology/reaching-for-silicon-valley.html?pagewanted=all

At Stanford, in the heart of #Silicon_Valley, academic research with an eye toward private industry — that “quasi-Wild West way” — is a way of life.

No other university has been associated with so many big tech giants created by former students and faculty members— companies including Google, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. A study conducted last year by two Stanford professors estimated that nearly 40,000 active companies generating annual revenue of $2.7 trillion can trace their roots in some way to #Stanford.
▻http://engineering.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Stanford_Innovation_Survey_Executive_Summary_Oct2012_3.pdf

The university’s affiliation with so many of these spin-outs, as they are known, is lucrative as well as legendary. Stanford has earned about $337 million just from licensing to Google its search algorithm, which was developed while the company’s co-founders were in graduate school.

One of Stanford’s closest rivals in creating spin-outs has been the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which played a role in the creation of Akamai, iRobot and the E Ink Corporation. Many other schools with respected computer engineering programs, including Cornell and the University of Washington, are all doing more to copy Stanford’s success in commercializing technologies, which can benefit the schools through #patent licensing fees, alumni donations and the cachet that attracts future generations of students.

Aux #Etats-Unis, les liens entre #université et #startups sont étroits. Une certaine culture de l’#entreprenariat qui fait naître des #tech_companies, ce qui ne va pas sans #conflits_d'intérêts. De là à la #silicon_army...

Google’s Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

►http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/technology/googles-lawyers-work-behind-the-scenes-to-carry-the-day.html?nl=todaysheadl

Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and NICK WINGFIELD
Published: January 3, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind the scenes, executives made frequent flights to Washington, laying out their legal arguments and shrewdly applying lessons learned from Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle in the 1990s.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman. Google’s lawyers and executives played well with regulators.

After regulators had pored over nine million documents, listened to complaints from disgruntled competitors and took sworn testimony from Google executives, the government concluded that the law was on Google’s side. At the end of the day, they said, consumers had been largely unharmed.

#google #internet #réseaux-sociaux

“Comment vas-tu point d’interrogation” | Xavier de la Porte
►http://www.internetactu.net/2011/12/12/comment-vas-tu-point-dinterrogation

La lecture de la semaine est un article du New York Times, signé Nick Wingfield et il s’intitule : “Le bon vieux temps des malotrus accrochés à leur téléphone portable”. Est-ce que parler au téléphone est la même chose que parler à son téléphone ? se demande pour commencer le journaliste. Le bruit produit par quelqu’un discutant sur un téléphone…