Hardware

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Will Google Glass be successful? Only time will tell. When the time comes for products like this to become mainstream, it won’t only revolutionize the consumer electronics industry, but the back-end data processing and handling industry as well.[read more]

New tablet tech on the horizon?

Corning – the "glass company" that came up with the telescope mirror for the Palomar Observatory – has showcased their new, ultra-thin, 100-micron thick, flexible glass. And it could change the shape and form of how next-generation electronics are ultimately designed.[read more]

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Where do our cloud-identities go when businesses fail? What will be the fate of digital personae after we die? We may well confront a paradox: we make more images than ever before, yet in the future, we could have less of a visual inheritance. What lasts in a digital world?[read more]

mobile technology

Apple’s acquisition of WiFiSlam is getting a lot of attention this week. In a nutshell, WiFiSlam specializes in a technology that allows mobile apps to pinpoint users’ locations through the interaction between their smartphones and standard wifi signals – no GPS need apply.[read more]

Big Data travel solutions

Depending on where you are, the words “travel” and “good customer experience” don’t necessarily belong in the same sentence. Big data is poised to change all that: between buying airline tickets, cruises, booking hotels, day trips and more, there’s a wealth of consumer information available.[read more]

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Continuing the discussion on analytical hub design, here's the second part of my post on the architecture principles. The first two principles were that data from everywhere needs to be accessible and integrated, and that building solutions must be fast, iterative and repeatable.[read more]

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Analysts at Forrester and Gartner are seeing a rise in adoption of enterprise app stores. They see corporate app stores moving beyond distribution of corporate-approved mobile apps to provide content sharing, granular discovery, provisioning, and reporting and monitoring services.[read more]

There continues to be a lot of discussion of the trend that's sometimes called "consumerization of IT." I think the trend is really about two things: changing expectations and the source of tech innovation. Consumerization is having a big impact on tech vendors as well as IT.[read more]

Do you know what the greatest operating expense is for data centers? Energy costs. In a year-long examination, The New York Times found that worldwide, data centers use about 30 billion watts of electricity per year. This is roughly the output of 30 nuclear power plants.[read more]

Switching from the iPhone to an Android-based smartphone: unthinkable? Keep an open mind, Apple fans, because Android has a lot more to offer than you might think.[read more]

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If properly configured, the public cloud has potential for every business. Though the cloud is not perfect at this time, it’s important to remember that nothing is flawless. Options should be explored to make sure the correct level of service is selected to meet the needs of an organization.[read more]

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Person of Interest is a broadcast television show on CBS where a “machine” predicts a person most likely to die within 24-48 hours. Then, it’s up to a mercenary and a data scientist to find that person and help them escape their fate. What technology components could be part of such a project? And can you help discover more?[read more]

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The new year approaches, and most IT groups aspire to start out with a completed IT Budget, derived from a well thought out set of short-term Objectives, that align with an IT Strategy – that itself aligns with the overall Corporate Strategy. If your timing is a bit off, and you haven’t established these connections with the process yet – where do we begin?[read more]

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From the talent wars going on in Silicon Valley for software engineers, to the hundreds of thousands of new smartphone applications coming online, it’s not far-fetched to believe that software rules the world today and will continue to rule in the future. However, some hardware makers strongly disagree- that it’s the physical design, construction and production of the device, machine or infrastructure that will take precedence. Who holds the future – hardware makers, software makers—or both?[read more]

The Chrome OS offers a very simple premise – it’s the internet, delivered to you, online and offline. Users can listen to music, surf, create documents and stream their favorite shows, all for the low low price of $250.[read more]