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CEOs Embrace Digital Transformation, Compete in New Industries
CEOs no longer question the need to embrace technology at the core of their business in order to create value for customers, but 58% still see the rapid pace of technological change as a challenge. So we learn from the … Continue reading
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Health Care and IT: The Long Road to Wellness
“The development of our information processing industry is basically governed by longer term super-cycles… Analyses of what computational environments will facilitate can be mind-boggling. To offer just one example, health care delivery will be revolutionized by 1990, with most large … Continue reading
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The Apple Watch, Uber, and Robotic Car Service
Tech Crunch: “When you open the Uber app on your Apple Watch, it goes straight to a screen showing how long it’ll be until a car can come get you — no pulling out your phone to drop pins or … Continue reading
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The Hadoop Bubble Quivers As Hortonworks Misses
Last month, Hortonworks announced quarterly results for the first time as a public company and they came below expectations. It had revenues of $12.7 million (up 55% year-over-year), but average Wall Street estimates were $13.42 million. Similarly, Wall Street expected … Continue reading
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Big Data and Healthcare (Infographic)
From Steve Lohr’s @SteveLohr profile of Jeff Hammerbacher @hackingdata in the New York Times On the Case at Mount Sinai, It’s Dr. Data Jeffrey Hammerbacher is a number cruncher — a Harvard math major who went from a job as a Wall Street … Continue reading
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The Age of Context Quantified
Ambient intelligence is a relatively new term in the technology lexicon, yet ABI Research forecasts that it will become the major evolution in technology-based consumer services and quality of life applications over the next 10 years. Essentially, ambient intelligence … Continue reading
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Growing the digital business (infographic)
Source: Accenture Mobility Research 2015
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Net Neutrality Means Different Things to Different People (Infographic)
Source: Defining Net Neutrality Without the Politics and Net Neutrality’s Technical Troubles
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15 Most-Funded Crowdfunding Projects On Kickstarter And Indiegogo
2014 was a great year for crowdfunding. Kickstarter had 22,252 projects raising a total of $529 million, up from $480 million raised in 2013. Indiegogo had 1,000% increase in funds raised over the past two years and both Indiegogo and … Continue reading