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Here's how you can build a career in the Internet of Things industry When everything from washing machines to doorknobs is getting connected, is a career around the Internet of Things the next gold rush in the job market? Almost every piece of electronic circuitry is on the lookout to get connected right now. This is leading to the widespread emergence of Internet of Things, the connected network of objects that use sensors, actuators and transmitters to send and receive data related to the object itself. And to say that Internet of Things is still just a buzzword would be nothing short of idiocy. IoT has jumped way beyond smartwatches and has entered almost every industry that you can think of – from manufacturing to health. According to US Technology firm Gartner, the world will have more than 25 billion objects with computer chips within the next five years. There are real companies out there who are completely changing the way they function by incorporating IoT i...

Origins and history of Search After Gods and Encyclopedias, Search engines have taken up the role of answering all questions and searches. Let us see how they got there. When was the last time you wanted some information and it wasn’t within your reach? Well, barring nuclear codes and Death Star plans, search engines have brought information literally at your fingertips. We’ve come a long way from primitive filing and indexing systems to the modern day million-results-under-a-second nature of search systems and it wasn’t always this easy. The Memex Idea While a simple Google search would tell you the origin of web search was around the 1980’s, the actual concept of an indexed search goes quite further in the past beyond that. In his article ‘As we may think’ published in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, Vannevar Bush proposed the idea of a virtually limitless, fast, reliable, extensible, associative memory storage and retrieval system. He named this device a memex. Al...

Use Any Phone on Any Wireless Network The reason most cell phones are so cheap is that wireless carriers subsidize them so you'll sign a long-term contract. Open access could change the economics of the mobile phone (and mobile data) business dramatically as the walls preventing certain devices from working on certain networks come down. We could also see a rapid proliferation of cell phone models, with smaller companies becoming better able to make headway into formerly closed phone markets. What is it?  Two years is an eternity in the cellular world. The original iPhone was announced, introduced, and discontinued in less than that time, yet carriers routinely ask you to sign up for two-year contracts if you want access to their discounted phones. (It could be worse--in other countries, three years is normal.) Verizon launched the first volley late last year when it promised that "any device, any application" would soon be allowed on its famously closed network...