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Big data and big oil — a perfect marriage?
Stefanie Heerwig Natural ResourcesBig oil and gas companies are finding new ways to extract data streams, combine them, merge them and gain insights that can optimize their businesses, increase profits and save the environment. We're talking about big oil meeting big data.
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New phones make waves at Mobile World Congress
Ross Lancaster Science & TechnologyThe always-changing world of mobile technology is a geographically scattered one, with prominent phone- and gadget-makers based in Korea, Finland, California and most places in between. Yet, on special occasions, the biggest names in mobile — as well as many of the most compelling startups — can be found under one roof.
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Has linear video topped out?
Mitch Weinraub CommunicationsLinear video isn't going away anytime soon. Live sports, news and real-time programs like "American Idol" and "The Voice" will keep people watching live, linear TV and tuning in to appointment television for the foreseeable future. However, 2014 may be the year that cable television engineers will finally stop having to focus so much of their energy on launching new linear video channels.
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Telemedicine: The future of medicine
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareThere are many reasons for the increasingly prevalent use of telemedicine. What may have started out as a way to deliver improved health care services to rural areas, has now exploded to include ways to extend the availability of services to everyone and produce cost benefits both to health care providers and to the patient.
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Is pharmaceutical biotech investment at risk?
Mike Wokasch Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementHigh profitability, strong cash positions, large global healthcare market opportunities, reliable dividends, and perceived security and stability have provided Big Pharma Biotech investors a solid basis for investment rationale. On the other hand, increasing cost of R & D, prolonged time to market, pricing pressures, marketing constraints, and regulatory uncertainty and challenges are now eroding investor confidence and interest.
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Is IT a problem or part of the solution?
Yoav Ziv CommunicationsOver the years, multisystem operators' expectations for their customer care, billing, ordering and provisioning systems have been simple: they should "just work." But then satellite service providers and telcos introduced new, real competition.
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‘My business’s website is my favorite,’ said no one ever
Mark MacDonald CommunicationsWhat is your favorite website? What site do you go to over and over again? It's probably not your business's — even if you designed and produced it. And the sobering truth is; that your customers and clients will never say your website is their favorite place to go online either. It will never happen.
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Solar energy process technology developments to watch
Don Rosato ManufacturingSystem considerations such as reliability, overall energy production rate and competitiveness in the Levelized Cost of Energy are dominating solar energy or photovoltaic maturation as subsidized manufacturing is replaced by true grid parity.
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Should Comcast and Facebook be the gatekeepers of our content?
Liz Murphy CommunicationsComcast and Facebook may seem quite different from each other — the former is the traditional faceless corporation, and the latter is a young, fun start-up that prides itself on social interaction and innovation. In reality, they are two sides of the same coin.
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Can solar energy compete with fossil fuels?
Stefanie Heerwig Natural ResourcesAccording to the Edison Electric Institute, such utility-sized solar plants will soon appear across the United States with 232 under construction, in testing or to be granted with permits. One question, however, remains: Can solar compete with fossil fuels in terms of price?
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