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A new age of reciprocity is here as Shared Economy is starting to make its imprints. Research from popular French tech conference LeWeb shows that those who have participated in this new trend “have double downed in this market.” Beyond the macro-trends of sustainability, increased population, and access to the internet, the research found that the startups are strengthened with VC funding.For those who don’t know, shared economy is the trend that cloaks up all platforms and ventures that ...
Now that the dust is starting to settle regarding the recent Bitcoin buzz and some interesting bystanders have lashed on to the story as it’s unfolding, where do you stand? Do you want to trade, or are you a newcomer who wants to buy-in for the first time? Maybe it’s a pastime hobby of yours or you’re seeking to invest.For the first time buyersFirst off, you’ll need to download a Bitcoin client on your PC. This client will ...
Google Glass has a promising future -- although not in the markets that Google thinks it's targeting: urban early-tech adopters -- they are a fickle bunch at best.Where Google Glass will make its mark and find a large and loyal customer base is in helping families and communities deal with the ravages of old age.We have a very large population of Baby Boomers. This is Generation A -- Aging on a massive scale, a population that's on a collision course ...
"What the internet has done is to create a space for language that runs and slips over the boundary of public and private language, and so people find themselves gradually using language in public in ways they never would have before.”This quote from James O’Donnell, author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, sums it up nicely. The web has blurred the boundaries between private and public, and consequently has affected the way we communicate online and offline. ...
Jaron Lanier, an early internet pioneer, recently spoke with FT Business about the new digital economies, and why free information is not a good idea.Lanier says he was one of the first in advocating digitizing the music industry and he used to argue that free music would enable artists to make money from live shows and merchandising.He now says that this did not turn out well and that information should not be available for free because it doesn't create the ...
All tech giants seem to be redesigning and creating newer, smarter campuses. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have been undergoing changes to their employees’ work spaces by engineering a ‘smarter’ work environment that could increase creativity and productivity. "Smart buildings will become smart cities," Microsoft's Darrel Smith says. "And smart cities will change everything." Many companies rely on what is called ‘living buildings’ having designed the structure in order to promote as many chance meetings as possible in order to ...
Over the past couple of years cloud computing has proven itself worthy and, although many businesses are still slow to transition, there is no doubt that as legacy SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) are upgraded, more businesses will venture into the cloud in order to reap the benefits that comes with it. There is also a level of maturity from the cloud that some companies were waiting for before they made the transition.We're beginning to see the introduction of more ...
As it stands, we have moved through a few core paradigms in terms of how we interact with computers and software. From the earliest days of physical levers and punchcards, through text (DOS etc.), onto the GUI and windows/Mac OS type interfaces, and recently now touch, gesture and voice. These last three have signaled a major shift towards a more natural way of interacting -- making use of the kinds of behaviours we understand intuitively, either because we have evolved ...
Reading through technology news and opinion articles today, it is pretty hard to avoid the term ‘big data,’ Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, McKinsey Quarterly have all covered it extensively. As one analyst has commented, the hype about it is reaching “the levels of SOA in the early 2000s, cloud in the late 2000s, and social in the past few years.”Yes the topic is hot and there is a lot of noise about it – but ...
The smart city market is at a tipping point. Having been led by IT industry stalwarts such as IBM and Cisco for the last five years, it needs a fresh injection of ideas to take it to the next level. Ovum believes that the developer community will add the required impetus. One of the key discussion points at Ovum’s recent Smart Cities in Europe 2012 event, which was held in conjunction with Imperial College London, was the impact that developers ...
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