Big Data and Global Trend Monitoring: The Language Gap Data traces left by humans both on the internet and elsewhere allow marketers to find trending products; organizations can detect potential [...]

Drones and Flying Robots “I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster… carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.” [...]

Is SaaS For You? The idea of providing software to customers for a fee without the need for investments in IT infrastructure or staff has been around for decades. In [...]

The financial sector has long capitalized on its access to proprietary data. They have been pioneers in digitalizing everything–every single transaction, purchase, ATM withdrawal, website click, and so on. This [...]

How CYOD Helps Hybrid Cloud Recent analysis by IDG/DELL has found that companies are expecting “increased IT efficiencies” and “lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) with optimized application delivery” as [...]

What is 4D Printing? What is 4d printing? Lets start with 3D printing which is formally known as “additive manufacturing”, is being used in an extraordinarily wide range of applications such [...]

Mapping Criminals With New Technologies “He, who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.” – Seneca Computer-based crime mapping has been around for thirty or forty years. [...]

Personal Presence Devices In the past month or so I have been wandering around the desert of IoT (Internet of Things). In that time I created three distinct designations for [...]

Supervised And Unsupervised Data Mining Data mining techniques come in two main forms: supervised (also known as predictive or directed) and unsupervised (also known as descriptive or undirected). Both categories [...]

Graphene Infographic “I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than … intellectual, abstract understanding.”  – Steve Jobs As you may know, in 2013 the European Union’s [...]

A Robust Private Cloud For companies in the midst of planning or reviewing their cloud strategy, the inevitable triumvirate of public, private and hybrid cloud often dominates. Often times these [...]

Classrooms of the Future “Internet of Things will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard.”  Stephen Lawson Increasingly, we are being inextricably linked to high technology tools and [...]

Big Data’s Potential For Social Change A popular article on Huffington Post about homelessness stats sheds light on the fact that providing homeless people with a place of residence would [...]

The Costs For Information Leakages “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” Oscar Wild Year 2014 was marked as the year of Big Data [...]

Smartphone Security Issues Smartphones, with advanced computing ability and connectivity, have dramatically changed the computing landscape. Smartphones run complete operating system software that provides a standardized interface and platform for [...]