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IBM SmartCamp Istanbul has just announced the Final 5 startups in this year’s competition.
Voting is now closed. The results will be announced live shortly. Thank you for voting.
8digits – Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote
8Digits built an inutitive interface with a world class analytics and live chat solution. The solution will help web site owners have a smarter web presence.Watch and Vote
E-Masary - Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote
E-Masary’s vision is to establish a REAL-TIME payment gateway for the masses that enriches their lives through job creation while jointly mobilizing and linking the lives of the banked with the un-banked. Watch and Vote
ISSD - Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote
ISSD handles all processes starting with the power module design, followed by the required digital circuitry design and development of application specific algorithms, finalized with embedding all software in embedded platforms. Watch and Vote
Skin Scan - Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote
The Skin Scan team developed a proprietary algorithm to calculate the fractal dimension of a mole and the surrounding skin to build a structural map that reveals the different growth patterns of the tissues involved. By processing this map, Skin Scan is able to see if the mole is an abnormal development, like skin cancer, and to alert the user if a medical visit is required. Watch and Vote
WeDecide - Click Here To Watch Their 1-Minute Pitch Video And Vote
WeDecide offers a social platform that enables, incentivizes, measures and rewards collaboration by employing a virtual stock market game. This enables participants to collaborate around ideas by becoming partners in them and to compete between ideas to be selected for implementation. Watch and Vote
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Kevin Winterfield in
8digits
8Digits built an inutitive interface with a world class analytics and live chat solution. The solution will help web site owners have a smarter web presence.
Watch their 1-minute pitch, then VOTE for them by clicking “LIKE” below:
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Kevin Winterfield in
E-Masary
E-Masary’s vision is to establish a REAL-TIME payment gateway for the masses that enriches their lives through job creation while jointly mobilizing and linking the lives of the banked with the un-banked.
Watch their 1-minute pitch, then VOTE for them by clicking “LIKE” below: Continue Reading »
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Kevin Winterfield in
ISSD
ISSD handles all processes starting with the power module design, followed by the required digital circuitry design and development of application specific algorithms, finalized with embedding all software in embedded platforms.
Watch their 1-minute pitch, then VOTE for them by clicking “LIKE” below: Continue Reading »
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Kevin Winterfield in
Skin Scan
The Skin Scan team developed a proprietary algorithm to calculate the fractal dimension of a mole and the surrounding skin to build a structural map that reveals the different growth patterns of the tissues involved. By processing this map, Skin Scan is able to see if the mole is an abnormal development, like skin cancer, and to alert the user if a medical visit is required.
Watch their 1-minute pitch, then VOTE for them by clicking “LIKE” below: Continue Reading »
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Kevin Winterfield in
WeDecide
WeDecide offers a social platform that enables, incentivizes, measures and rewards collaboration by employing a virtual stock market game. This enables participants to collaborate around ideas by becoming partners in them and to compete between ideas to be selected for implementation.
Watch their 1-minute pitch, then VOTE for them by clicking “LIKE” below: Continue Reading »
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by Andy Bochman, author of the Smart Grid Security Blog and an Energy Security Lead for IBM’s Rational division.
Next month, I’ll be meeting with key industry experts to discuss Security metrics at the EnerSec Smart Grid Security Summit in San Diego. We’ll covering the challenges with, and business benefits of measuring utilities’ smart grid with the right metrics, including organizational security maturity. This got me thinking about consumers and behavioral economics and what we value as important. Is it convenience, social acceptance, security, privacy, price? Continue Reading »
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Chris Luongo in
“Hidden beneath the highways and streets of Washington DC is a sprawling infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of assets — water distribution pipes, valves, collection pipes, man holes, water meters and fire hydrants . . . ”
Here’s another true story from IBM’s First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) program, which pairs IBM researchers with clients to bring incredible discoveries and possibilities into view.
As DC Water discovered, bringing greater intelligence and connectedness into its operations would go a long way toward creating a truly integrated and smarter water system; and, most importantly, satisfying its thousands of customers.
And as all the FOAK projects are proving, it is the dynamic nature of this close interaction with IBM clients and the changing forces of the real world that drives innovation and brings it to market at an ever-quickening pace.
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Chris Luongo in
One of the discussions heard at last week’s Smarter Commerce Summit in San Diego, CA centered on a power shift from sellers to buyers that is redefining the term “commerce.”
Retailers were the first to face the rising power of consumers, but now leaders in every industry are serving the connected customer’s needs at every turn — through dynamic business networks that span human, digital, social and mobile modes.
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Chris Luongo in
Every day, companies make bet-the-business decisions about their customers, new products and even their own reputation based on account balances, delivery schedules, profit margins, and more — and most do it with crossed fingers. That’s because they know that decision making today is an art based on incomplete and conflicting information, and that hunches play a big role in determining which way to go.
Now imagine a company that could look at all of its information at once. Spot hidden trends before they occur. Target marketing of products across multiple channels to drive sales. And analyze vast amounts of customer data and insight, and feed it into every point in the process — from design to distribution.
We’re now in the age of “Smarter Commerce“. And below are examples of companies that are showing the way (click on the images for a larger view).
