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About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

NewVantage Partners Survey: Big Data Now Mainstream, Term Still Widely Disliked

Posted on December 1, 2014 by GilPress

For the third year in a row, NewVantage Partners has conducted a survey of Fortune 1000 senior business and technology executives regarding their companies’ investments in big data. This annual survey (see my summary of the 2013 report here) provides … Continue reading →

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The Web @20: On Magazine Special Issue 2009

Posted on November 30, 2014 by GilPress

[slideshare id=2946002&doc=on-q409-interactive-100119010526-phpapp02]   The special issue of my magazine, published in 2009, celebrating 20 years of the World Wide Web. See also Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones And Zeros To Eat the World

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The Facebook–Apple–Google–Amazon Economy

Posted on November 28, 2014 by GilPress

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More time is spent on mobile apps than all of the Web

Posted on November 22, 2014 by GilPress

[slideshare id=40841467&doc=201410wsjdbe-141028165857-conversion-gate01]   By 2020, 80% of adults worldwide will have smartphones

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15 million+ are ready to buy an Apple Watch–Forrester

Posted on November 22, 2014 by GilPress

 

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Global Mobile Data Traffic 2010–2020

Posted on November 19, 2014 by GilPress

Source: Ericsson  

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What Would You Do With Your Flying Camera? (Video)

Posted on November 14, 2014 by GilPress

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IT Moves to a Utility Model (Wikibon Report)

Posted on November 13, 2014 by GilPress

Enterprise IT Economics in the Microprocessor Era, Wikibon 2014 IT Economics in the Cloud Era – Cloud Services Track Software Economics, Wikibon 2014 Wikibon: Amazon has turned the data center into an API. This trend is having profound impacts on enterprise IT … Continue reading →

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Human level AI has been 15 to 25 years away for the past 50

Posted on November 12, 2014 by GilPress

Human level AI has been 15 to 25 years away for the past 50 years https://t.co/DTP0mvjnaN — Mitch Kapor (@mkapor) November 12, 2014   Source: Armstrong, Stuart, and Kaj Sotala. 2012. “How We’re Predicting AI—or Failing To.”

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400 million connected light bulbs installed by 2020

Posted on November 5, 2014 by GilPress

ABI Research: The market for connected LED or “smart” light bulbs is in its embryonic stage of development, with shipments totaling fewer than 2.5 million units in 2013. However, falling LED prices and the endorsement of ZigBee Light Link as … Continue reading →

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