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‘We don’t want to be at the mercy of Facebook’: social app developer on the importance of filing patents

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Filing a patent is an important step towards building the product that you want while providing legal protections to you...

Mobile

Wajam’s iPhone app brings social results to multiple apps

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Wajam moves from desktop browsers to mobile and injects social search results in Google Web and Google Maps search for iPhone with patented technology.

Mobile

How much does Android make? Not much, apparently

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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How much does Android operating system earn Google? Not much according to The Guardian. In fact, between 2008 and 2011 Android generated only $543 million in revenue - somewhat insignificant when compared to Google's $38 billion total revenue in 2011.

Technology

Google secures patent for driverless cars

Mark O'Beirne11 years ago

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Google has been awarded a US patent which would allow them to bring self-driving cars to the road. It originally filed for the patent in May. The patent allows for the switching between a human driven mode and one in which a vehicle would drive itself.

Technology

Microsoft patent estimates person’s age using Kinect

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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A rather clever Microsoft patent made public last week proposes using devices like Microsoft's Kinect to judge a persons age. Based on the system's age predictions appropriate content can be served accordingly - a automated parental control system if you will.

Apple hopes to eliminate the need for 3D glasses

Technology

Apple’s ‘pseudo-holographic’ display patent revealed

Darren McCarra12 years ago

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According to a recently granted Apple patent, the computer electronics and software giant are working on a screen technology that produces a special type of ‘pseudo-holographic’ or 3D image. The technology could eventually be used to produce 3D TVs and devices that don’t require viewers to wear special glasses.

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Less than 9% of the 300 million tonnes of plastic produced every year is actually recycled. In order to change this, we must first see a change in consumer behavior.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we explore how the Everything as a Service (XaaS) economy stands to be a vital tool to create a more sustainable society, alongside how this economy is impacting consumer culture on a wider level.

To do this we are joined by Lincoln Lincoln, Head of Global Sales & Customer Success at CloudBlue.

We kick off the show by discussing the rise of subscription services, and Lincoln shares the example of Stellantis, a global automaker that he claims generates 20% of its revenue from subscription services for its cars.

With this new approach to a subscription-based model, Lincoln argues that the days of buying a car with a one-time purchase and watch it depreciate as you drive it out of the forecourt are over.

He also shares how features in cars are now sold as subscriptions, such as BMW announcing that heated seats can now be used as a pay-as-you-go service, so you can turn it on during winter, and off during the summer. Meaning you only pay for what you want, when you want it.

Additionally Lincoln highlights how the XaaS economy is raising our expectations and demands as consumers.

He draws on the example of the exercise bike company Peloton, and advocates that no longer do we buy a simple exercise bike, but we now expect this bike to challenge our fitness goals and produce content that motivates us.

And finally, we discuss how subscription services stand to increase sustainability by encouraging the production of products that stand the test of time, and discourage models such as planned obsolescence.

Lincoln advocates that this is because in this modern economy, rather than selling a product as a one-time purchase, when it is sold as a subscription, the consumer benefits because they pay as they go, and the manufacturer is encouraged to create an asset or product that works for as long as possible.