Press Conference - iZone-iHUB

Calling all amateur and professional bloggers! Turn that golden hand to great prizes by attending our iZone-iHUB Bloggers Conference and by simply blogging about what’s to come for iZone-iHUB!

Mechanics

1.    The contest is open to all amateurs and professional bloggers. It starts upon completion of attendance to our blogger’s conference.

2.    Bloggers will be invited to attend the iZone-iHUB bloggers conference this January 4, 2013 at iZone-iHUB Tech site. Slot reservations are a must.

Venue: Penthouse 12^th floor 1 Agustin Building, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Business Center, Pasig City 1605.

3.    Each blogger will publish a post (not more than 600 words) in their blogs regarding the events and what to expect from iZone-iHUB.

4.    Theme of the contest: iZone-iHUB as a beacon of innovation in the Philippines.

Note: entry should stick to the theme and the blogger’s knowledge/understanding of iZone-iHUB and the activities they have planned for. Bloggers are allowed to use a maximum of 5 photos and these photos should be relevant to the topic.

5.    Contestants are required to fill up the online registration form in order to join the contest. To register they need to visit this link: http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com (http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com/) . They will be required to fill up the required fields and provide the URL link of their blogs. (The registration form will appear on the site on the date of the Bloggers Conference)

6.    The entries must be published on their own respective blogs on or before the (Date) or for amateur bloggers you can contribute your entries to technology driven blog sites for exposure of your content. Again blogger must be registered in order to qualify.

7.    Deadline of submissions will be at January 14, 2013. ( 2 days before the Grand Launch)

8.    All entries will be judged following this criteria:

a.    50 pts – Traction of Blog (Unique visits, number of visitors from the time frame of the contest)

b.    30 pts – Quality (includes writing style / ability to understand iZone-iHUB and its goals)

c.    15 pts – Creativity ( Includes choices of words and overall layout of the entry)

d.    5 pts – Technicality (Should be written in English, use of Filipino and /dialect must be provided with English translation enclosed with parenthesis, word limit and number of photos in the entry.

9.    3 winners will be selected among all the entries.

10. Announcement of winners will be done in the Grand Launch event at January 16, 2013 at iZone-iHUB Tech Site.

11. Judge’s decisions are final and binding.

12. By participating, you are giving iZone-iHUB the right to use the blog in any marketing promotions, including announcement of winners of publicity purposes.

iZone-iHUB © 2012 iZone Technologies Corporation Philippines, All rights reserved.

Blogger's Conference - iZone-iHUB

Blog about iZone-iHUB and win!

Calling all amateur and professional bloggers! Turn that golden hand to great prizes by attending our iZone-iHUB Bloggers Conference and by simply blogging about what’s to come for iZone-iHUB!

Mechanics:

1. The contest is open to all amateurs and professional bloggers. It starts upon completion of attendance to our blogger’s conference.
2.  Bloggers will be invited to attend the iZone-iHUB bloggers conference this January 4, 2013 at iZone-iHUB Tech site. Slot reservations are a must. Venue: Penthouse 12th floor 1 Agustin Building, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Business Center, Pasig City 1605.
3.  Each blogger will publish a post (not more than 600 words) in their blogs regarding the events and what to expect from iZone-iHUB.
4.  Theme of the contest: iZone-iHUB as a beacon of innovation in the Philippines. Note: entry should stick to the theme and the blogger’s knowledge/understanding of iZone-iHUB and the activities they have planned for. Bloggers are allowed to use a maximum of 5 photos and these photos should be relevant to the topic. 
5. Contestants are required to fill up the online registration form in order to join the contest. To register they need to visit this link: http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com. They will be required to fill up the required fields and provide the URL link of their blogs. (The registration form will appear on the site on the date of the Bloggers Conference) 
6. The entries must be published on their own respective blogs on or before the (Date) or for amateur bloggers you can contribute your entries to technology driven blog sites for exposure of your content. Again blogger must be registered in order to qualify. 
7. Deadline of submissions will be at January 14, 2013. ( 2 days before the Grand Launch) 
8.  All entries will be judged following this criteria: 50 pts – Traction of Blog (Unique visits, number of visitors from the time frame of the contest) b. 30 pts – Quality (includes writing style / ability to understand iZone-iHUB and its goals) c. 15 pts – Creativity ( Includes choices of words and overall layout of the entry) d. 5 pts – Technicality (Should be written in English, use of Filipino and /dialect must be provided with English translation enclosed with parenthesis, word limit and number of photos in the entry. 
9. 3 winners will be selected among all the entries. 
10. Announcement of winners will be done in the Grand Launch event at January 16, 2013 at iZone-iHUB Tech Site.
11. Judge’s decisions are final and binding.
12. By participating, you are giving iZone-iHUB the right to use the blog in any marketing promotions, including announcement of winners of publicity purposes.

10 game-changing business innovations for 2012

image compliment of smartplanet.net

Is business at an inflection point? The economy continues to wring its way through a major, pain-inducing shift, and organizations are emerging from the other side of the recent downturn looking very different than before they went in. There’s a greater reliance on information technology, more global approaches to problem solving, and a greater willingness to try more unconventional ways to innovate.

Here are 10 disruptive forces that stand out as game-changers for the year ahead:

1) Analytics. Analytics is seen as the competitive differentiator — perhaps the only competitive differentiator — between companies competing in the new global realm. A global survey of 4,500 executives, managers and analysts, released earlier this year by MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value, finds the information ‘haves’ — companies with in-depth experience with analytics technologies and methodologies — increasingly saw competitive advantage, and were more than twice as likely to have outperformed their analytically challenged peers over the past year. (Full report available from MIT SMR or IBM.) Overall. adoption of analytic capabilities has been rapidly proliferating as of late. Fifty-eight percent of organizations now apply analytics to create a competitive advantage within their markets or industries, up from 37% just one year ago, the study confirms.

2) Watsons. Earlier in 2011, IBM’s Watson defeated two reigning Jeopardy! champions, demonstrating that artificial intelligence has matured to a point where it can address queries in areas relating to business intelligence, medicine, engineering, and more. Expect to see more systems capable of responding to natural-language queries supporting decision-making across a variety of disciplines and industry areas.

3) Do-it-yourselfers. The New York Times’ Tom Friedman described it as the emerging DIY economy, made possible through “the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how business is done.” It’s all about self-service, and the ability to start, fund and staff businesses through online resources. The barriers to entry have fallen dramatically, and expect to see a boom in startups with very low capital requirements. This may offer a partial explanation as to why the actual size of the workforce has remained flat over the past decade (declining 1.1%), while corporate profits, GDP and productivity have risen.

4) Cloud. Computing power is almost becoming “too cheap to meter” – thanks to the cloud, massive data center power is available for literally pennies. This is a good value proposition for companies looking to expand or needing to expand their IT capabilities. Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index, finds that organization’s data centers will be moving to the cloud in a big way. This also good news for economic growth. Thanks to the availability of powerful and low-cost on-demand technologies, innovators now have access to computing and information resources unheard of even a few years ago. There was a time when launching a serious startup required serious capital for hiring talent, marketing and promotion, office space, and for technology to make it all happen. Thanks to cloud computing and social networking resources, it now costs virtually pennies to secure and get the infrastructure needed up and running to get a new venture off the ground.

5) Crowdsourcers. Talk about outside-the-walls innovation. Many organizations will increasingly be turning to online resources for new ideas or to solve tough business problems. From digitizing library collections to prediction markets, online resources and collective talent will be brought to bear on many areas. One example is prediction markets — there are external markets, but organizations will be increasing applying their own internal markets to help drive decision making. Internally, organizations may have thousands of employees and petabytes worth of information — prediction markets and crowdsourced competitions may help capture that knowledge efficiently.

6) Smartphones. Smartphones will continue disrupting just about everything that moves. A entire new delivery channel has emerged for the delivery of data and services to consumers and partners. The rise of the smartphone is also disrupting an unheard-of number of product markets. Things now disrupted by smartphones include cameras, portable music players, video games, GPS devices, PCs, watches, remote controls, alarm clocks, levels and other measurement tools, thermometers, radios, microscopes, calendars, advertising, and, oh, yeah — cellphones and landline telephones. Who knows shat’s in store for disruption in 2012?

7) 3D printers. Greater efficiencies through IT, combined with eEmerging developments such as 3D printing brings more production back to North America. Research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) suggests that production of transportation goods such as vehicles and auto parts, electrical equipment including household appliances, and furniture will soon return to US shores. The most promising new concept with the greatest implications for manufacturing and production, however, is “desktop manufacturing,” made possible by 3D printing. If 3D printing takes hold, mass production within the US could be far cheaper than producing and shipping products from overseas.

8 ) Games. ‘Gamification’ may be the latest buzzword du jour, but there’s big money now riding on it. A 2011 survey of 755 Internet users conducted by the Pew Research Center confirms the economic viability of the game business: 19 percent of respondents said they had purchased online games in the most recent quarter. Considering the fact that there are about two billion Internet users across the globe, that translates into one big, big market. Gartner predicts that 50% of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes by 2015, 70% of global 2,000 organizations will have at least one gamified application by 2014, and M2 Research predicts there will by $2.8 billion in direct investment in gamification by 2015. (Nice infographic here.)

9) Talent (not enough of). While it may seem paradoxical at a time when unemployment is still running high, many organizations are having difficulties finding the skills they need to move forward with greater automation. A survey of 1,201 CEOs by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), finds business leaders are confident about their growth prospects in 2012, but are not confident they will be able to find enough talented employees to carry that growth forward. As economic worries recede to the back burner, new priorities now occupy the business leaders’ agendas: driving innovation, and finding the right talent to drive that innovation. A majority of business leaders say looming skills shortages is a big issue: Two-thirds say they face a “limited supply of candidates with the right skills,” and 54% cite “challenges in recruiting and integrating younger employees.” Another 52% even report they are having issues with “competitors recruiting some of our best people.” However, organizations have been stingy with support for training — which would close a lot of the skills gaps now being experienced.

10) Social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility will enhance engagement with customers and communities. Companies are far more transparent now, thanks to information technology and social media. This calls for a new type of relationship with the world. As reported by my colleague Heather Clancy, management consulting firm KPMG shows that a vast majority of top companies around the world are now reporting on their corporate social responsibility activities as a matter of course. Areas benefiting from CSR include reputation and brand, ethics, employee motivation, innovation and learning, and risk management.

Article by Joe McKendrick
URL: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/10-game-changing-business-innovations-for-2012/20656

Washable Keyboard

Image copyright is from Zumat.com

Here is another good example of innovation that came from Logitech, a leading brand for manufacturing computer equipment and accessories. 

From the movie Die Hard 4.0 the keyboard that you can fold was introduced now this coming year developers put everything one step forward by developing this one of a kind keyboard.

No more worries with maintenance and cleaning for this keyboard can easily be washed or rinse in water without damaging the device itself.

Logitech guaranteed that it is water proof and easy to clean. It also maintains all the functions of keyboard.

Image copyright is from Zumat.com

This are just one of the things you can expect from innovation. Do you have any great ideas in mind that you can develop? Looking for an avenue to have this ideas and project incubated and developed?

iZone-iHUB is the place for you, they accommodate project that can be globally marketed.

For more details you can visit their website at http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com

iZone-iHUB and what is it all about?

You have questions in mind about what iZone-iHUB is all about? You want to find out more about this tech site and what it offers to techies? Most of all why this great place is being offered for FREE? 

Then here it from the Founder Mr. Daniel S. Peña the spoke person for iZone-iHUB. 

You can check us out as well in our website : http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com

iZone-iHUB also has activities and contest on going were you can immerse yourself and develop you project. You can submit your project to us and we can review this project if its ready for globalization and commercialization,

For details regarding the contest you can check the following link: http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com/how-to-participate

Want to find out more about iZone-iHUB?

iZone-iHUB is one of the technology driven location in Metro Manila. This would be a haven for techies and netizens to hang out and collaborate. The location is situated in the busy district of Ortigas Business Center in Pasig City.

The place promotes freedom and opportunities to all pinoy techies were they can develop and progress the advancement of their projects and ideas. iZone-iHUB can also function as investors and incubators for this project to be exposed to commercialization not only locally but globally as well.

To find out more about this place check out this video coverage of GNN with founder Mr. Daniel S. Pena Sr. of iZone-iHUB:

For more information about iZone-iHUB can you visit our site at http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com or you can send them an email at ihubsupport@izonetech-ph.com.

Top 50 most innovative ideas for 2012

Here is a listing of the top 50 most innovative ideas for 2012:

1. 1

   Apple

   For walking the talk

2. 2

   Facebook

   For 800 million reasons to share

3. 3

   Google

   For expanding its hit lineup

4. 4

   Amazon

   For playing the long game

5. 5

   Square

   For making magic out of the mercantile

6. 6

   Twitter

   For amplifying the global dialogue

7. 7

   Occupy Movement

   For embodying all the traits that make a Fast Company

8. 8

   Tencent

   For fueling China’s Internet boom--and boldly moving West

9. 9

   Life Technologies

   For speeding up genetic sequencing

10. 10

    SolarCity

    For brightening up the sun-power business

11. 11

    HBO

    For being the only TV network to delight with digital

12. 12

    Southern New Hampshire University

    For relentlessly reinventing higher ed, online and off

13. 13

    Tesla Motors

    For boosting the art and technology of electric vehicles

14. 14

    Patagonia

    For selling more by encouraging customers to buy less

15. 15

    NFL

    For stoking insatiable, year-round demand for professional football

16. 16

    National Marrow Donor Program

    For matching technology with critical transplant needs

17. 17

    Greenbox

    For inventing the next-generation Chinese fashion brand

18. 18

    Jawbone

    For rocking the mobile lifestyle

19. 19

    Airbnb

    For turning spare rooms into the world’s hottest hotel chain

20. 20

    72andSunny

    For winning at the intersection of Hollywood and Madison Avenue

21. 21

    Siemens AG

    For its R&D ambitions in energy, transportation, and health care

22. 22

    Dropbox

    For transforming file storage into a very big business

23. 23

    Kiva Systems

    For turning squat robots into e-commerce giants

24. 24

    Starbucks

    For infusing a steady stream of new ideas to revive its business

25. 25

    Genentech

    For making targeted, genetics-based cancer therapies

26. 26

    LegalZoom

    For bringing tech and accessibility to the hidebound legal industry

27. 27

    Tapjoy

    For driving advertiser engagement in a million-app world

28. 28

    Polyvore

    For turning everyone into a fashion editor

29. 29

    Red Bull Media House

    For showing what it really means to transform yourself into a media brand

30. 30

    LinkedIn

    For making itself useful even when you're not job searching

31. 31

    Liquid Robotics

    For going deep in ocean monitoring

32. 32

    Gogo

    For delivering first-class entertainment to the coach-bound masses

33. 33

    Bug Agentes Biológicos

    For breeding a natural alternative to harmful agricultural pesticides

34. 34

    Chipotle

    For exploding all the rules of fast food

35. 35

    James Corner Field Operations

    For creating intimate green spaces out of industrial urban blight

36. 36

    Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals

    For bringing medical care to the masses

37. 37

    Recyclebank

    For making eco-friendly behavior a big game

38. 38

    UPS

    For solving its customers' number-one pet peeve

39. 39

    Networked Insights

    For using real-time social data to make better products and advertising

40. 40

    Chobani

    For becoming a dairy superstar

41. 41

    Kickstarter

    For connecting creatives with fans to raise funds

42. 42

    SoundCloud

    For giving the Internet a voice

43. 43

    PayPal

    For recharging the sale

44. 44

    Berg

    For wildly imagining the marriage of the digital and physical worlds

45. 45

    Boo-box

    For pioneering social-media advertising in Latin America

46. 46

    Amyris

    For driving biofuels into the mainstream

47. 47

    Knewton

    For teaching education a thing or two

48. 48

    RedBus

    For taking the wheel of the $2.5 billion Indian bus-travel industry

49. 49

    OpenSky

    For creating a social, celebrity-powered shopping experience

50. 50

    Y Combinator

    For building the next great Silicon Valley mafia

Your ideas might also be part of this list or the list that it would bring for 2013!

Submit your entries and get it reviewed by iZone-iHUB. Be part of this great opportunity!

For more details you can visit the site at http://ihub.izonetech-ph.com

Source : http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/full-list