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Thursday, March 10
Is Pepper The Future Of Companionship And Customer Service?
I was fortunate to meet Pepper at Mobile World Congress a few weeks ago in Barcelona. Pepper is a personable robot created by SoftBank, one of Japan’s biggest telecommunications companies, in collaboration with its subsidiary, the Paris-based humanoid robotics experts Aldebaran.To be ...
Launching Your Company with Crowdfunding
You have an amazing idea for the next big thing, but how do you launch your startup? Not too long ago, the traditional start-up path involved accelerators, incubators, tons of networking and pitching to VCs that would tell you no 9 times out 10. Today, entrepreneurs have another option to launch ...
"A lot of the data at rest will also move to data in motion as this technology matures."
Yesterday was the opening day for the Structure Data Conference in San Francisco, and one of the first panelists was Neha Narkhede, the co-founder of Confluent. She and the company are preaching the value of real time data processing, and are deploying it themselves with Apache Kafka, a highly ...
Wednesday, March 9
Smart City Projects Rumbling to Life Around the World
A new report from boutique research firm Navigant Research shows the global smart city technology market is expected to more than double in the coming years, from $10.4 billion in 2015 to $27.4 billion by 2023. The firm tracks a complex matrix of issues, solutions, technologies, operations, and ...
Virtual Reality Will Change Business as We Know It
The next five to ten years will be huge for virtual reality. Already, VR promises to connect us, making geographic locations irrelevant and changing our ability to experience something that would otherwise be out of our reach.To understand how it will be used by businesses in the coming years, a ...
Industrial IoT Could Be Multi-Trillion Dollar Godzilla Market of the Future
Getting a handle on the size of the industrial IoT market is a challenge, mainly because more and more participants arrive on the scene daily - and defining what's connected and what's to be connected is a challenge. Issac Brown, IoT analyst at Boston-based Lux Research, says while “estimating ...
Tuesday, March 8
Big Data Investors Put a Premium on Proprietary Software
Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 "open source startups" had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since ...
Flexport takes on freight world
Technology is disrupting traditional industries from printing to manufacturing - and now you can add freight forwarding to that list. Usually, freight forwarding is an industry where global supply chains are clouded by lack of visibility, confusing paperwork, complicated regulations, rampant price ...
"It’ll take until someone actually dies in an autonomous vehicle due to a hack...usually, there needs to be an actual event..."
We spoke with David Miller - Chief Security Officer at IoT and identity cloud platform company, Covisint - at last week’s RSA Security Conference, in a two-part discussion about the security future of autonomous vehicles. In part one, we talked about the perils of hacking your ride and how our ...
Monday, March 7
HP Re-invents the New Office
In the rush towards the Internet of Things, it seems everyone is announcing breakthroughs in connected devices every day. However, the device that we connect with on almost a daily basis seems to get less attention every day. And that is strange, because your printer may be the hardest working ...
Samsung and Six Flags to launch first VR roller coasters
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation and Samsung Electronics America recently announced a partnership which names Samsung as the “Official Technology Partner” of the world’s largest regional theme park company. The partnership includes the debut of ground-breaking experiences coming to nine Six ...
HP’s Re-invents the New Office
In the rush towards the Internet of Things, it seems everyone is announcing breakthroughs in connected devices every day. However, the device that we connect with on almost a daily basis seems to get less attention every day. And that is strange, because your printer may be the hardest working ...
"Used car, good condition, low mileage, only hacked by one previous owner...."
Autonomous vehicles grab a lot of headlines these days, with Audi announcing their plans, Tesla downloading new features, and Google’s first self-caused fender bender. We caught up with David Miller - Chief Security Officer at IoT and identity cloud platform company, Covisint - at ...
Friday, March 4
Webroot talks about Data, Cloud, and IoT Security
With the data and security circus that is the RSA Security Conference heading out of San Francisco, we sat down for one more time, this time with John Sirianni - Vice President of Strategic Partners, IoT - for Webroot.So John, how has Webroot approached this new world of IoT from a security point ...
Noveto Systems Changes Sound As We Know It
It's not that often that you witness a product demonstration that absolutely blows your mind. But at last week's Mobile World Congress, Israeli company Noveto Systems did just that. They are developing the next-generation of human-machine vocal interface, enabling sound-emitting devices ...
The New Digital Divide
Buried beneath all the news about Apple this week, another story about digital privacy broke in Maryland -- less glamorous, but arguably just as impactful to many people. On March 1st, the Washington Post reported that the Maryland Senate again delayed action on a bill that would have clamped down ...
Thursday, March 3
My Dog is More Connected Than Your Dog
Does your love of tech extend to the pets in your life? When you look into the pettech world, there's a bewildering plethora of mobile apps to aid our furry friends from adopting a dog, deciding on a pet name, administering first aid and choosing a pet-friendly holiday location - and we ...
Amazon Echo Getting Kudos Among Its Competitors
The Smart Home market competing ecosystems is frustrating customers, according to a new report from Argus Insights. The report looks at the top current options for home connectivity and finds consumers less than delighted with an old tech theme - a lack of desire of competing technologies to ...
"There are fundamental reasons for building constructs...that are inherently secure and difficult to break into."
Kurt Stammberger has been to the RSA Security Conference for more years than anyone, because even though he is now the CMO at Fortscale, 25 years ago he put on the very first RSA Conference. With this year’s version attracting over 40,000 people, it seemed the perfect time to sit down with him, and ...
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