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#Data is the new platform, and #social is the intelligence — #Tech News and Analysis

By ⋅ 24/06/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Michael was on hand to present the Accenture Technology Vision 2011, a cross-industry research project that takes stock of the evolving trends in IT and how they will impact business and society as a whole. The research team looked into 400 hypotheses based on input from scientists, architects and engineers. They found fifty that held [...]

The Advantage of Cloud Infrastructure: Servers are Software – ReadWriteCloud

By ⋅ 29/03/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Software applications traditionally differ from server environments in several key ways: Guest author Joe Masters Emison is VP of research and development at BuildFax, the only national provider of building, remodel, and repair records on homes and businesses. He designed BuildFax’s cloud infrastructure and Pragmatic Extract-Transform-and-Load (PETL) data-processing pipeline. Traditional servers require humans and hours–if [...]

Why #PayPal Doesn’t Care About #NFC | Fast Company

By ⋅ 17/03/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

You’d think that wave-and-pay smartphone technology would be top priority for PayPal, one of the biggest competitors in the mobile payments space. But while big retailers love NFC for its hyper-targeted marketing potential, small businesses that run on payment services like PayPal may actually be interested in mobile payments for something far humbler: customer loyalty. [...]

Four New Types of CIO for the Future

By ⋅ 04/03/2011 ⋅ One comment

Wang is a global traveler who meets with CIOs on a constant basis in his role as principal analyst and CEO of Constellation Research, an independent firm with a key focus on the transitions the enterprise is experiencing. In the report, he proposes four new types of CIO: Chief “Infrastructure” Officers, Chief “Integration” Officers, Chief [...]

Free Space Optics :: Technology

By ⋅ 08/02/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

How it Works FSO technology is surprisingly simple. It’s based on connectivity between FSO-based optical wireless units, each consisting of an optical transceiver with a transmitter and a receiver to provide full-duplex (bi-directional) capability. Each optical wireless unit uses an optical source, plus a lens or telescope that transmits light through the atmosphere to another [...]

360 degree video with augmented reality on top – Immersive Media

By ⋅ 23/12/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

via immersivemedia.com a little convoluted but still very impressive..

You have to watch this: Introducing Word Lens

By ⋅ 17/12/2010 ⋅ One comment

via youtube.com Reminds me of the “babel fish” from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.. Fantastic idea.. I’m guessing this would b far more useful for non-latin character languages.

Why TIME’s 2010 Person Of The Year Means Nothing In 2010 | Gizmodo Australia

By ⋅ 16/12/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

How was this Zuckerberg’s year? It wasn’t. For a roundup of entities that actually made 2010 the strange contortion of good and awful it was, you can look, ironically, at TIME’s “Runners Up” list: The Tea Party. Hamid Karzai. Julian Assange. The Chilean Miners. Well, maybe not so much the Chilean Miners. But to think [...]

JWTIntelligence – 10 Trends for 2011 in 2 minutes

By ⋅ 10/12/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

via youtube.com

Smartphones and Tablets Will Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say – NYTimes.com

By ⋅ 03/12/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The PC-centric era is over,” the IDC report says. Within 18 months, it forecasts, non-PC devices capable of running software applications will outsell PCs. In tablets, IDC adds, Apple’s iPad will remain the leader, but lower-cost tablets will begin making inroads, especially as demand for tablets really takes off in emerging markets. via bits.blogs.nytimes.com

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