The future of mobile commerce could be in the car. Honda teamed with Visa to demonstrate at the 2016 Mobile World Congress that apps embedded in its infotainments system could soon be used to pay for items without leaving the comfort of their car.
Investor’s Guide To IOT Part 4 – Adding Value In The Fog
This is the fourth and final installment of a 4-part series titled “Investor’s Guide to the IoT (Internet of Things)”. The four articles focus on the following topics:
Mobile Operators Can’t Roll Out Digital Services Fast Enough And Entrepreneurs Can Capitalise
Mobile operators are unable to roll out digital services fast enough to meet growing demand and this spells opportunity for smaller, more agile content providers as well as more modern services like Facebook and Netflix, says a new survey commissioned by telecom and IT solutions provider Tecnotree and carried out by analysts at mobilesquared, who provide data and intelligence on the mobile industry.
Why The Tech Industry Loves ‘Automation’
Not all software needs to be newly reinvented today. We can automate and reuse certain elements of functionality such as a word processor’s spellchecker intelligence. The same kind of thing might happen for a clock, a calculator, a currency converter or some other ‘element’ of software that has the potential to be used elsewhere. Automation intelligence in virtualized abstraction layers across software-defined cloud computing services is the new shape of IT.
Can This Guy Fix The 200-Million Unconnected Car Problem?
Parallel parking on the mean, crowded streets of San Francisco is a grueling rite of passage most newcomers can’t avoid. They soon learn that their 18-foot vehicles don’t fit neatly into 14-ft. parking spaces, but that doesn’t stop many SUV owners from trying, repeatedly bumping whatever cars parked unfortunately in front and behind them in the process. As a witness to such offenses, Chris Carson searched for a DropCam-like solution that would alert him if his street-parked Porsche was ever victim of similar assaults. When he didn’t find one, he did the typical Silicon Valley thing: he made one. In the process, he possibly solved one of the biggest transportation hurdles looming on the horizon: connecting all those unconnected cars on the road.
Antoine Blondeau – The CEO Of The AI Company With The Highest Valuation In The World
Sentient Technologies has patented evolutionary and perceptual capabilities that provide customers with highly sophisticated solutions, powered by the largest compute grid dedicated to distributed artificial intelligence. The company also has a war chest of $143 million in venture investment, the most of any artificial intelligence company. Antoine Blondeau founded Sentient Technologies nearly nine years ago, though it was in stealth mode for the majority of that period.
Infosys Innovation Is A Grassroots Movement
“We started hoping to mine our 8,000+ current client projects for innovation,” said Ravi Kumar S., EVP & Chief Delivery Officer for Infosys, a leading tech consulting and IT services firm. “After looking at 4 or 5, we got excited because we’d found numerous ways to improve client outcomes,” he continued. “Also, we realized it would take a decade to review the rest of them.” Instead, the company decided to unleash a grassroots effort to encourage, tee-up, and vet the best innovative ideas emerging at the points where its people interacted with their clients. The program, launched last April, was appropriately titled Zero Distance. “Most ideation frameworks are anti-innovation,” Kumar explained. “So our initial phase was to provoke ideation and participation with a call to action, informed with just enough design principles to guide the process without dictating it.” To prompt that internal peer momentum, it identified 300 or so influencers across the company who’d serve as initial evangelists for the first 5 weeks after the program was launched last April. The team, dubbed them “The Jedi,” helped encourage incremental, adjacent and cross-functional ideas that could be subsequently celebrated. “Once we had that momentum, we added a social tech platform for posting and sharing the templates, which pushed the conversation further along,” Kumar said.
WhatsApp Is Ending Support For BlackBerry
In a major blow to BlackBerry’s turnaround efforts in mobile, the world’s biggest messaging service won’t work on its phones by the end of 2016.
NASA Venus Landsail Rover Could Launch In 2023
NASA continues working towards a Venus landsail surface rover that could see launch as early as 2023 and mark the first time in a generation that any probe has landed on the planet’s hot, rocky surface. After a five month journey from Earth, the lander-rover — about the size of a windsurfing board — would begin a nominal 50-day surface mission.
Investor’s Guide to IOT Part 3 – IOT Platforms And Services
This is the third installment of a 4-part series titled “Investor’s Guide to the IoT (Internet of Things)”. The four articles will focus on the following topics:
Gartner’s Top 10 Internet Of Things Technologies For 2017 & 2018
Gartner predicts that low-power short-range networks will dominate wireless IoT connectivity through 2025, far outnumbering connections using wide-area IoT networks. For enterprises to adopt and gain the full value of these technologies, significantly higher investments in training are needed. Gartner’s Top 10 IoT technologies provide a glimpse into what their clients are most interested in today.
Investor’s Guide to IOT Part 2 – Understanding The IOT Vendor Landscape
This is the second installment of a 4-part series titled “Investor’s Guide to the IoT (Internet of Things)”. The four articles will focus on the following topics: Part 1 – Understanding the IoT Ecosystem
Astronomers Create Largest-Ever Catalog Of Cosmic Voids
Astronomers have released the largest and most extensive catalog of cosmic voids ever generated — extending out some 8 billion light years in an area covering a quarter of the sky, mostly observable from the Northern hemisphere.
ZOTAC Expands Its Enthusiast Product Offerings With Ultra-Fast PCIe NVMe SONIX SSD
Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, is an interface specification specifically designed for attaching solid state storage media – like NAND flash – to computers via PCI Express. Part of the reason NVMe came to be is because solid state drives quickly began to bump into limitations of the legacy, and ubiquitous SATA interface. In real world situations, for example, the SATA interface tops out at roughly 550MB/s, which many entry level solid state drives can now achieve with sequential reads. NVMe is not bound by that limitation, and the spec incorporates many other things, like a higher max queue depth, to squeeze much more performance form solid state storage media.
MINIX Bolsters Its Media-Focused Small Form Factor PC Line-Up With Silent, Intel-Powered NGC-1
Small form factor computers have been steadily increasing in popularity for the last few years. Whether we’re talking about ultra-tiny, specialized systems like the diminutive undefinedIntel Compute Stick or sleek, two-in-one systems with clean lines and touch-screens, the power efficiency and relatively miniscule footprint of today’s processors have enabled a wide array of attractive small form factor systems that have resonated with consumers.
Prynt: Transforming an iPhone Into a Polaroid
Two months ago, I previewed in this column several new future-like, functional iPhone cases that were soon coming to market. One of them, the Prynt Case, has hit virtual store shelves. Essentially, it’s a one-inch thick sleeve that your iPhone slides into (note: There is also a version for Samsung phones) and turns your iPhone into a Polaroid camera. The sleeve houses photo paper and acts as a printer.
Sexperts Agree: Mix High Tech And Low Key For A Blissful 2016
Four top sexperts weigh in on 2016’s hottest toys and trends, some long-term favorites, and how to get comfortable enough to lay back and enjoy.
FashHacking Their Way To The Top: The Well Heeled Londoners Behind The Fash-Tech Movement
Anyone who has seen the YouTube video of Bill Gates and senior Microsoft executives celebrating the launch of Windows 95 by dancing on-stage would be hard pressed to make a case for the tech industry being sexy.
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Successfully Launches
SpaceX Postpones Falcon 9 Launch Again
SpaceX has called off its second attempt in as many days to launch the SES-9 satellite into orbit, citing “technical difficulties”.
Incredible Photos Of Pluto From New Horizons
Pluto’s North Pole Is Covered In Frozen Canyons
NASA’s New Horizons has found frozen canyons at Pluto’s North Pole that seem to indicate an ancient period of tectonic activity on the planet.
Be the first to comment on "This $100 Security System Could Protect Your Home From Burglars"