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Tech Reviews by The Corliss Group--Foxconn, which assembles gadgets for companies such as Apple Inc., said it has sold a number of its communications technology patents to Google Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Taiwan-based Foxconn, officially known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., made a name for itself in contract manufacturing by making Apple's iPhones and Sony's PlayStation game consoles. But few know the electronics manufacturer has been developing new technologies and has a sizable patent portfolio. In a statement, the company said it has applied for 128,400 patents and has been granted more than 64,300 patents world-wide. In the highly competitive technology industry, companies are challenging each other to set industry standards, which has led to a few patent cases. Google, which is battling with Apple for mobile dominance, has continued to strengthen its patent portfolio through acquisitions. The Internet giant's purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2011 gave it a formidable patent portfolio, and protected its Android mobile operating system and partners from legal threat from competitors, including Apple and Microsoft Corp. Foxconn, which also sold some head-mounted display technology patents to Google for an unspecified amount last year, was one of the top 20 U.S. patent owners in 2013, according to Manhattan-based patent advisory company Envision IP.

On April 16, IT sector lawmaker Charles Mok was the mover of a joint statement backing the setting up of an innovation and technology bureau and urging fellow legislators not to mount a filibuster during the debate on this issue. A filibuster is characterised as a form of obstruction in a legislature. It is a strategy employed by minority representatives to give them some leverage in defence of their constituents' interests. Executed shrewdly, it can be a David and Goliath tactic that can be successful. Hong Kong has been criticised for lagging behind its rivals in cultivating a new sustainable economy. The performance of its economy over the last decade has been unimpressive. In real terms, average personal incomes have seen little or no growth, meaning Hongkongers' lives have not improved. Also, Hong Kong's increasing economic reliance on mainland China is a cause for concern. If the SAR's free economy is homogenised with the mainland's towering planned macroeconomics, there could be unforeseen and dangerous consequences. Tech Reviews by The Corliss Group

Technology stocks have never been the best friend of the equity income investor. Until the financial crisis struck in 2008, the yield on the MSCI Global Technology index remained resolutely below 1 per cent, with many tech companies simply not having the free cash flows to pay meaningful dividends. Those that did generally preferred to splurge on acquisitions as they chased market share in a frenetic land grab. And even after the global stock market sell-off briefly pushed yields above 2 per cent in late 2008 and early 2009, they sank back to little over 1 per cent in 2010. However, yields have since climbed back above 1.5 per cent and some equity income fund managers, at least, are starting to take note. "Traditionally, Technology companies never really paid dividends, so we were unable to make investments, resulting in us being structurally underweight Technology for a long time," says Nick Clay, co-manager of the £4bn Newton Global Higher Income fund. Tech Reviews by The Corliss Group

Mastercard warns: invest or face economic consequences. Many UK businesses are struggling to expand and develop to their full potential due to a lack of proper investment into new technologies such as alternative payment methods, a senior Mastercard executive has told CBR. Marcia Clay, the groups' UK and Ireland head of strategy and commercial development, explained that UK consumers are increasingly calling for innovative technologies such as mobile payments as they look to simplify their everyday lives. "I believe we need to prioritise support for innovative start-ups, businesses in the eCommerce and mobile payments sector for example, which are in a unique position to propel the UK economy forward in 2014 and beyond," she said. Clay detailed how Mastercard is working with London-based Startupbootcamp FinTech, providing the expertise, mentoring and access to a network of industry professionals that most early-stage FinTech start-ups would not be able to access otherwise. Mastercard has found that many small businesses still do not use electronic payments, despite almost 80% of UK businesses having a website or some sort of online presence. A much smaller percentage can currently accept card payments, and the company believes that businesses of all sizes should be encouraged to invest in new technology and services that give consumers more choice. The company also found that UK consumers are using mobile and contactless payment methods and wide-spread adoption is reaching a critical mass; with around 5.7m transactions taking place on UK smartphones every day. This has been spurred on by a major growth in contactless payments, which grew by 383% from 2012 to 2013 across the country a

Umgesetzte, marktorientierte Innovationen wie auch erfolgreiche Produkte und Dienstleistungen sichern in einem zunehmend globalisierten und konkurrierenden wirtschaftlichen Umfeld unternehmerischen Erfolg. Erfolgreich zu sein setzt voraus, Erfahrung mit aktuellem Fachwissen situativ zu verknüpfen und den Mut zu haben, Neues und oft Unkonventionelles anzugehen aber auch Bewährtes weiterhin realisieren zu können. Das praxisorientierte, berufsbegleitende Projekt-Kompetenz-Studium der Steinbeis-Hochschule forciert einen Wissenstransfer, der dieses konkrete Fachwissen vermittelt und die erfolgreiche Arbeit von Nachwuchs-, Fach- und Führungskräften unterstützt. Lebenslanges und berufsbegleitendes Lernen ist an der Steinbeis-Hochschule zentraler Aspekt unseres Konzepts. Dabei gilt es einerseits inhaltliche und organisatorische Anforderungen von Unternehmen und andererseits die Vereinbarkeit von Bildung und Beruf zu berücksichtigen. Über 100 Transfer-Institute im Steinbeis-Verbund aus rund 800 Steinbeis-Unternehmen bieten ein breites Spektrum an maßgeschneiderten, spezialisierten Studien- und Lehrgängen zur praxisnahen Qualifizierung von Fach- und Führungskräften an. Im Mittelpunkt unserer Philosophie steht die Organisation der Institute als "Unternehmen im Unternehmen Hochschule", die eigenverantwortlich agieren. Als Hochschule finanzieren wir uns über Projekt- und Studiengebühren und beanspruchen keine staatlichen Subventionen. Fokussiert auf die Anforderungen der beruflichen Praxis haben wir uns als unabhängiger Dienstleister in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft mit unserem Projekt-Kompetenz-Konzept etabliert. Heute sind über 4.000 Studenten an unserer Steinbeis-Hochschule eingeschrieben und wir arbeiten mit zahlreichen projektgebenden Unternehmen zusammen - das bestätigt uns in unserem Konzept und stärkt uns für die Herausforderungen der Zukunft. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Johann Löhn Präsident der Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin

Unsere Hochschule ist eine Tochter der Steinbeis-Stiftung für Wirtschaftsförderung. Das weltweit verzweigte Expertennetzwerk des Steinbeis-Verbunds deckt neben Aus- und Weiterbildung auch die Dienstleistungsbereiche Beratung, Forschung und Entwicklung sowie Analysen und Expertisen ab. Der Name Steinbeis steht für die effiziente und effektive Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis, von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. 1983 in Baden-Württemberg in der heutigen Form gestartet, ist der Steinbeis-Verbund zum Synonym für konkreten wettbewerblichen Wissens- und Technologietransfer geworden. Zum Steinbeis-Verbund gehören über 800 Zentren, die fachlich spezialisiert sind und alle Technologie- und Managementbereiche abdecken. Die Zentren werden größtenteils von Professoren geleitet, die unsere Anforderung der Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis leben. Wir fördern ein effektives und effizientes Zusammenwirken von wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen und Wirtschaft, indem wir Wissens- und Technologiequellen streng nach den Spielregeln der Märkte verfügbar machen. Zentrale Rahmenbedingungen sichern in unserem dezentral organisierten Verbund das Zusammenwirken von unternehmerischer Eigenverantwortung und Orientierung gebenden verbindlichen Spielregeln.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523846/how-a-database-of-the-worlds-knowledge-shapes-googles-future/ Compiling a giant database of all the facts in the world could help Google's future products understand you better. For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years. That's why in 2010 Google acquired Metaweb, a company building a database intended to give computers the ability to understand the world. Two years later the company's technology resurfaced as the Knowledge Graph (see "Corliss Tech Review Group: http://thecorlissreviewgroup.com/"). John Giannandrea, vice president of engineering at Google and a Metaweb cofounder, says that will lead to Google's future products being able to truly understand the people who use them and the things they care about. He told MIT technology Review's Tom Simonite how a data store designed to link together all the knowledge on Earth might do that. What is the Knowledge Graph? It's a distillation of what Google knows about the world. An analogy I often use is maps. For a maps product you have to build a database of the real world and know there are things called streets, rivers, and countries in the physical world. That's creating a symbolic structure for the physical world; the Knowledge Graph does that for the world of ideas and common sense. We have entities in the knowledge graph for foods, recipes, products, ideas in philosophy or history, and famous people. We can have relationships between them, so we can say these two people are married or this place is in this country or we can say this movie is related to this person. How does that make a difference to Google's Web search? We've gone up a level from just talking about the words to talking about what the thing actually is. In crawling and indexing documents we can now have an understanding of what the document is about. If the docum

It weighs just 34 grams, is 72 x 35 x 12 mm in size, and costs only the $39: The Google Chromecast looks and feels like a USB flash drive with a glandular problem. Cheap, easy to set up and even easier to use, there's really nothing to dislike about the Google streaming device, except for one thing: Canadian content (which we will get to in a moment). The Chromecast is so small that once it's plugged into an HDMI port in the back of a television set, there's almost no indication that it's a part of your home theatre setup. Only its power cord, which can either be plugged into a wall socket or available USB port, gives a hint that it's even there. Unlike other streaming media devices like the Apple TV or Roku 3, Google Chromecast doesn't come with a remote control, or in fact, any onboard applications or content. Everything, from setting up the device to watching a video from your personal media collection or browsing YouTube, is done through the use of apps on an Android phone or tablet, iOS device or via Google Chrome browser on a Chrome OS, Windows or Mac PC. No matter which device you use with the Chromecast, setup is a cinch. Simply power the device, plug it into an available television HDMI port and follow the Chromecast's onscreen prompts. The device will walk you through the process of connecting it to a Wi-Fi network, pairing with your choice of source device and downloading any available firmware updates. Even with the lousy Internet speeds I suffered while testing the hardware in rural southwestern Ontario I was setup and ready to start streaming content to my Chromecast in under 10 minutes.

Studium an der SHB Die 1998 gegründete private, staatlich anerkannte Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin (SHB) bietet Studierenden und Unternehmen auf Basis des Projekt-Kompetenz-Konzeptes berufsintegrierte und praxisorientierte Studienprogramme mit den staatlich anerkannten Abschlüssen Bachelor und Master. Die Studiengänge der SHB führen zu folgenden Abschlüssen: Bachelor: ● Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) ● Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) ● Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Master: ● Master of Arts (M.A.) ● Master of Business Engineering (MBE) ● Master of Business Administration (MBA) ● Master of Science (M.Sc.) Forschung an der SHB Transferorientierte Forschung bildet neben den Weiterbildungsangeboten der SHB den zweiten Schwerpunkt. Aktuelle, theoriebasierte Forschungsergebnisse finden direkt zur Umsetzung in der Praxis und spiegeln den Steinbeis-Gedanken des konkreten Transfers wider. Denn alle Forschungsarbeiten an der SHB untersuchen immer eine anwendungsbezogene Problemstellung. Sie verfolgen in ihren Lösungsansätzen stets die Maxime der Praxisnähe und eines hohen wissenschaftlichen Niveaus. Forschung an der SHB findet aktuell zu folgenden Schwerpunkten statt: Forschung an der SHB: Bankmanagement ● Controlling ● Corporate Publishing ● Finanzierung ● Insurance und Asset Management ● Kollektive Intelligenz in Unternehmen und Netzwerken ● Intercultural Interactive Marketing Konvergenzmanagement ● Nonprofit-Marketing ● Produktions- und Fertigungsmanagement ● Real Estate ● Sales und Services Management ● Verbundnetzwerke Studenten und Alumni Mehr als 5.700 Studierende waren 2011 in Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen an der SHB eingeschrieben. Darüber hinaus haben 47 Promovenden transferorientiert und praxisnah geforscht. Betreut werden die Studierenden von rund 1.400 Professoren und Lehrkräften. Seit ihrer Gründung konnte die SHB mehr als 6.000 Alumni verabschieden.

Neben den Schools bieten auch einzelne Institute an der Steinbeis-Hochschule berufsbegleitende, transferorientierte Aus- und Weiterbildung auf einem breiten Themenfeld aus Management und Technologien an. Mit unserem Angebot sprechen wir nicht nur potenzielle Bachelor- und Masterstudenten an. Insbesondere unsere nichtakademischen Programme mit Hochschulzertifikat, wie beispielsweise das St. Galler Managementseminar, das Steinbeis-Technologie-Seminar, das ekm (Entwicklungs- und Konstruktionsmanagement) Fernstudienprogramm oder auch der Innovation Professional und der Rating Advisor/Rating Analyst, zielen auf Mitarbeiter und Unternehmen, die an exzellenten Weiterbildungsprodukten interessiert sind. Auf der folgenden Seite finden Sie eine Übersicht aller Institute an der SHB. Auf den jeweiligen Seiten sind Ansprechpartner und Kontaktdaten der Institute für Sie aufgeführt. Bei den Instituten erhalten Sie detaillierte Informationen zu den konkreten Studien- und Lehrgängen.

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Sharing files with colleagues and clients should be easy and convenient. What it shouldn't be is a security risk - but it frequently is. Because many small businesses don't have the right file-sharing systems and policies, many turn to unsafe practices that often put both their business's and clients' privacy in jeopardy. Is your business guilty of engaging in dangerous file sharing habits? Here are five you need to watch out for and what you can do about them. 1. Sharing files via email The most obvious dangerous habit is sharing files via email. Just the other day I received a design document from a client as an email attachment. 2. Using consumer-grade cloud solutions Workers around the world are putting themselves and their employers at risk by indiscriminately using unauthorized file sharing services on their mobile and desktop devices - to the tune of $2 billion. With more workers joining the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution and turning to insecure file sharing services like personal Dropbox and Google Drive accounts, the threat is greater than ever. 3. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing P2P sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It's also great software to get hacked. 4. Using flash drives Flash drives are the easy tool of choice for infection since they bypass network security. If an infected file is on a flash drive and inserted into a system, it can start an infection spread from the PC. 5. Lack of visibility The danger starts when employees take matters into their own hands and engage a file sharing service on their own. The individual making a one-off decision is not going to be thinking of the bigger picture of organization-wide requirements.