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OpenSignal’s WifiMapper app for iOS reveals 500 million hotspots waiting for you

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by on May 14, 2015 at 10:24 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, ios, OpenSignal, Wi-Fi, Wifimapper

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OpenSignal has been doing a bang up job of crowdsourcing information on mobile network coverage for years with its iPhone and Android apps. It diversified into weather reporting and now it’s turned its attention to Wi-Fi hotspots. WifiMapper, its new iOS app, uses the same crowdsourced approach to pull together a database that it claims contains details on more than 500 million networks across the world, with two million recommended options. What makes this hotspot finder stand out from the others – and there are lots – is that it meshes together OpenSignal’s data with information from Foursquare. That means it shows not…

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Amazon wants to train young people to become cloud experts

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by on May 14, 2015 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon has launched a new program today with the aim of educating young people to become cloud experts of the future. Of course, given the company’s huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, it’s not exactly an altruistic move on its part. Nonetheless, AWS Educate aims to “help educators and students use real-world cloud technology in the classroom.” The program will be free for educational institutions, teachers and students, following a successful application. If you are accepted, you’ll get credits fro AWS services for testing (like Amazon EC2, S3 and Amazon RDS). There’s also Web training and self-study sessions to give…

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The biggest trends in the future of communications

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by on May 14, 2015 at 8:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Future of Communications, nexmo, SMS

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This post is part of a series titled, ‘Future of Communications,’ and is brought to you by Nexmo.

Over the past three months, we have been exploring the future of communications. We’ve looked at everything from what types of companies are using SMS, to asking how safe are your Bitcoins? In our final instalment in this series, we collect the biggest trends together to give you an overview on where communications will be going in the next few years, and how you can capitalize on it right now. SMS, Push and Email notifications have their own use cases Email, push notifications and SMS are all popular methods of communicating with customers. While there are different advantages and disadvantages to…

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