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Auto industry faces existential challenge
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.The giant global auto industry is careening toward unprecedented disruption as its 100-year-old business model is turned completely inside out. That is the big takeaway from a research report published recently by investment banker Morgan Stanley. In Shared Autonomy, equity analyst Adam Jonas...
Big data is becoming a big business
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Businesses have gone data crazy. You can’t blame them. Streaming, real-time data analysis promises to bring the type of predictability that cuts costs, solves problems and grows sales. That seemed to be the unofficial theme of the Strata + Hadoop World conference held the first week of...
Google Tries to Run Your House
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.If we believe Google, the migration from mobile to artificial intelligence is already underway. The future will bring personal search and seamless, portable digital assistants. Two weeks ago, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai presided over the release of specs and pricing for its new hardware...
Cybersecurity 'Cold War' Heats Up
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Someone is trying to take down the Internet. They are systematically targeting the core systems that keeps everything running. Most people take the Internet for granted. It’s where we get our news and how we keep in touch with friends and family. It has become a key part of our culture. Disruption...
Salesforce.com Knows What You Want (Before You Do)
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.If Salesforce.com (CRM) founder Marc Benioff has his way, artificial intelligence software will infuse every facet of the corporate world, making employees faster, smarter and more productive. While that might seem optimistic, Benioff has a history of getting enterprise productivity software...
Big data + artificial intelligence = boom
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.We are on the verge of a very fast rate of technological change. If you think the Internet and mobile communications have changed the world, just wait. Coming years will be even more disruptive and amazing.When most people ponder technology they default to thoughts about compute power and its...
Google's Need for Speed
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.For mobile users the Internet is slow and tedious. Two of the biggest companies have a fix if content providers are willing to get on board with fragmentation.In August Google announced its Accelerated Mobile Pages program would move from a special developer’s preview version to all mobile...
A new era of persistent aerial surveillance
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Surveillance technology that could slash crime rates and topple deadly domestic terror plots is ready. And despite privacy concerns, it’s probably coming to a city near you. It was inevitable. Wide angle camera hardware has been getting better for years. Now those fancy cameras are being...