Category Archives: Misc
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
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
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
Net Neutrality Means Different Things to Different People (Infographic)
Source: Defining Net Neutrality Without the Politics and Net Neutrality’s Technical Troubles
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
4 billion people buying phones every 2 years instead of 1.6 billion buying PCs every 5 years
Source: Benedict Evans
Bring Your Own Glass (BYOG): 90% of smart glasses will be sold to enterprises in 2015
ABI Research expects 2015 to be a big year for smart glasses with unit shipment growth of nearly 150% in 2015, almost of all of which will be in the enterprise and public sector. The market intelligence firm expects over … Continue reading