No one at Apple has a tattoo? Perhaps this was
inevitable as computers and people “converge.”
Why The
Apple Watch Doesn't Like Tattoos
The Apple Watch looks like no friend to fans of
the body arts. The device lost some of its shine when several buyers
reported
problems using their new wearable on heavily tattooed arms.
Apparently, dark body ink seems to interfere with
the gadget's sensors, producing inaccurate readings in some cases or
completely stifling some features, like alerts, in others.
Anecdotal though they may be, evidence of the
problems keeps mounting. Given the way the photoplethysmographic
sensors work, and the fact that the watch relies on them for key
functions, Apple should have foreseen some of these issues. Instead,
it's trying to delve into it after the fact, investigating the
problems. (Though it hasn't offered any official comment yet.)
While we wait, here's some insight into the matter.
Perspective. Ah, so that's what's happening.
Facebook Is
Eating the Internet
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social
publishing site, just 11 years old, is now
the dominant force in American media. It drives a
quarter of all web traffic. In turn, Facebook sucks up a
huge portion of ad revenue—the money that keeps news organizations
running—and holds an enormous captive audience.
We already know, from a
Pew poll last year, that nearly
half of the adults who use the Internet report getting their news
from Facebook alone. Now consider some of the latest
numbers from Pew, in its annual State
of the Media report, which came out on Wednesday:
•
As in previous years, just
five companies generate the majority (61 percent) of digital ad
revenue: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL.
• Facebook more than
doubled digital ad revenue over the course of two years. It made $5
billion in ad money last year. That represents 10 percent of all
digital ad revenue.
• Facebook is
getting a quarter of all display ad revenue and more than a third (37
percent) of display ads on mobile.
(Related) Another view of the same report.
Most of the top news outlets are getting the
majority of their web traffic from mobile devices such as smartphones
or tablets, according to a Pew
Research report released Wednesday.
Pew’s State of the New Media report found 39 of
the top 50 news websites have a greater percentage of traffic coming
from mobile devices than desktop computers.
Is this enough to make Windows phones more
attractive?
Windows
'open' for Apple and Android
Microsoft is releasing software tools that make it
easier to run popular Apple and Android apps on Windows mobile
devices.
By changing a "few percent", Apple app
makers should be able to run code on Windows 10 mobile devices, it
said.
And many Android apps should run with no changes.
Experts said the move was an "imperfect
solution" to Microsoft's problems persuading people to use
Windows mobile.
For my gaming students. (Digest Item 4)
Embed
Classic MS-DOS Games in Tweets
You can now
embed
classic MS-DOS games in Tweets, with anyone following you able to
play the titles directly from within Twitter. To prove this works, I
embedded The Oregon Trail in one of my own tweets, before
promptly getting sidetracked actually playing it.
This is all possible thanks to the collection
of classic MS-DOS games preserved for posterity by The Internet
Archive. Titles offered up to play through an emulator include
Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3D, SimCity,
Street Fighter II, Bust-A-Move, and Where in
the World is Carmen Sandiego.
An article
for my Data Management and Business Intelligence students.
A Leader’s
Guide to Data Analytics
In recent
years, data science has become an essential business tool. With
access to incredible amounts of data—thanks to advanced computing
and the “Internet of things”—companies are now able to measure
every aspect of their operations in granular detail. But many
business leaders, overwhelmed by this constant blizzard of metrics,
are hesitant to get involved in what they see as a technical process.
...
Too often, Zettelmeyer says, managers collect data
without knowing how they will use it. “You have to think about the
generation of data as a strategic imperative,” he says. In other
words, analytics is not a separate business practice; it has to be
integrated into the business plan itself. Whatever a company chooses
to measure, the results will only be useful if the data collection is
done with purpose.
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