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How Will 5G Spur Innovation across Multiple Industries?

IdeaScale

This next generation of wireless technology will be more than ten times faster than 4G and reduce latency in connections. Innovations such as self-driving cars, wireless virtual reality, and all new wireless home technology are expected to take hold. What does this mean for you? Benefits of 5G. The Impact of 5G.

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Innovating when everything is "as a service"

Jeffrey Phillips

What the "as a service" model doesn't fully contemplate, however, is the importance and value of data. After all, does a mower really create interesting data that can be harvested? Some products, like Alexa, create interesting data about the searches people conduct. Where does all the data go and who owns it?

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The conflict between digital transformation and speed

Jeffrey Phillips

Facebook and other platforms are built on the previous two ideas - ubiquitous connectivity through a global backbone and often wireless connectivity based on smart phones. Once you create fully digital business processes you'll need to collect and manage the data and obtain insight from the data to put back into your business.

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#1,917 – Personal Cloud Storage

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

We all know that most of our files and data nowadays reside in the infamous “cloud” We don’t really full know what that ubiquitous term means but we get it. Moreover, the skyBOX is wireless and portable, so you can carry it around in your pocket, accessing data no matter where you are.

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Omnichannel is the Future of Payments — Here’s How to Get Started

Business and Tech

Eighty-four percent of online retailers already sell on social media channels or plan to this year, according to data from our Future of Retail report. This also allows you to take payments without needing hardware or software. Use mobile to build an immersive customer experience. Mobile is a huge part of a unified omnichannel experience.

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The Future of Smart Cities

Leapfrogging

Some of the key elements of Smart Cities include: Ubiquitous Wifi – availability of wireless internet anywhere and everywhere. Smart, Sustainable Electricity – data and information that give people the power to conserve and manage energy.

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Five Tech Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry

Daniel Burrus

For example, there will be an increase in use of smart patches that attach to the skin to enable remote disease management, diagnostics, and the wireless transfer of general health information to a mobile device. Augmented technologies are designed to increase humans’ physical and cognitive capabilities.

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