GlaxoSmithKline, The pharmaceutical giant, has decided to open to public the design of 13,500 chemical compounds that could inhibit malaria, In order to foster collaboration among scientists and researchers interested on developing a drug that can control this disease. The malaria is a condition caused by parasites which are transmitted to the human blood through a mosquito bite. It is one of the world’s biggest health problems with more than 210 million cases annually. Most of these cases affect poor countries where people live with less than 1USD per day.
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New research into online behavior suggests that up to 44% of users using illegal download sites could be converted into paying music subscribers if services were priced correctly. Most of 44% P2P users would be willing to pay a small fee every month to continue downloading from their favorite sites on a legal basis.
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There is no doubt that we are living in complex and changing times for Telecom industry. I think a good glimpse of the unprecedented transformation Telcos, media companies are internet players are going trough happened during this year’s Mobile world congress in Barcelona.
Several big mobile operators like Telefonica and Vodafone set the tone of the discussion about how Google is turning their business into a mere “dumbpipe” role. Even do the “frenemy” relationship between Internet players like Google and wireless service providers has been there for a while, this is the first time, Telcos ask openly for more regulatory intervention on Google’s internet dominance.
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Probably one of the most farsighted and most well renowned logos in the mobile industry was “Connecting people” from Nokia, the finish handset manufacturer. The slogan, created by Ove Strandberg, established the vision of the mobile industry during the last decade: connect 6 Billion people via wireless technology. Clearly, the wireless industry has done an incredible job on fulfilling this shared vision. Currently, more than 4 Billion users around the world communicate via a mobile device and in the next 3 years another 1 Billion people will join them. Besides, wireless broadband is growing exponentially and via 2014 most of internet connections will be performed via wireless network.
But the question today is what is going to be the next decade motto for this industry?
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It looks like everyone wants to have an Application store: you see Apple celebrating three billion downloads milestone, RIM and Google launching their own apps store to support BlackBerry and Android phones respectively and even operators like China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica exploring this avenue.
But have you thought on automobile applications store?
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As part of Google efforts to go green, the giant took a big step by entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy. The request done to the federal energy regulatory commission includes buying and selling electricity on the wholesale market.
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The success of Facebook, Twitter and others big social networks is showing sign of fatigue as the fad dissipates and digital natives started moving away from these crowded communities to more niche based sites.
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Only 13 percent of Internet users are willing to pay for news content online. At least that’s one conclusion that emerges from UANA survey commissioned by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
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Do you tweet while driving? Do you update your Facebook status at work or during vacation? Have you ever wonder how much time people spend on social networking activities like updating status, checking in on Facebook or posting a tweet on Twitter?
A recent study from Retrevo.com, a consumer electronics shopping site, tried to find the answers on how much control people have over their social media life.
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If we could turn back the time ten years and browse trough the World Wide Web, probably we would be shocked by the organizational chaos, primitive design and the lack of functionalities from most of the sites. Internet was not always an organized place, linked, personalized and rich in Multimedia content. We have traveled a winding road to be where we are today : The Web 2.0
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