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satya nadella microsoft ceo Microsoft is about to release a new kind of search tool that it’s been working on for years: Delve. Delve is central to CEO Satya Nadella’s new vision to turn Microsoft into a “productivity and platform company.” That means less focus on devices, more focus on what people do with the devices. He describes a world where your phone/tablet/PC/TV knows you, understands you, and caters to your needs even before […]
Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky started Numenta nine years ago to create software that was modeled after the way the human brain processes information. It has taken longer than expected, but the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup recently held an open house to show how much progress it has made. Hawkins and Dubinsky are tenacious troopers for sticking with it. Hawkins, the creator of the original Palm Pilot, is the brain expert and co-author of […]
Gray Matter By AMY WRZESNIEWSKI and BARRY SCHWARTZ THERE are two kinds of motive for engaging in any activity: internal and instrumental. If a scientist conducts research because she wants to discover important facts about the world, that’s an internal motive, since discovering facts is inherently related to the activity of research. If she conducts research because she wants to achieve scholarly renown, that’s an instrumental motive, since the relation between fame and research […]
Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the store. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on gas? What would happen to your productivity? We all recognize the inefficiency of this approach. And yet surprisingly, we often work in ways that are equally wasteful. The reason we keep a shopping list and […]
Big data means many things to many people, but how broad is its impact? Consider these figures on big data and the gurus who splice it. Almost everything will be connected The Internet of Things will include many strange and wondrous devices, many of which are new to the world of big data. That’s why analysts at ABI Research predict more than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected by 2020. Health-related data collection […]
After years of revving their engines, many companies are gaining momentum with their digital initiatives. Executives say their CEOs are more involved in digital efforts than ever before and that their enterprises are now investing enough to meet their overall digital goals. Yet McKinsey’s latest survey on digitization 1 also finds that many respondents say their companies must address key organizational issues before digital can have a truly transformative impact on their business. This […]
Cisco Market analysis The amount of video on the internet and on our networks is growing significantly. Here is a view of the business market from Cisco and projections for total traffic growth from 2012 to 2017. Video, represented by the light blue colour, will grow from 2,519 PB (petabytes) in 2012 to over 12,000 PBs in 2017. It will be bigger than the other two areas combined – ‘Web and other Data’ (darker […]
The Cisco® Visual Networking Index Services Adoption (VNI SA) Forecast provides a unique view into global and regional trends of next-generation end-user services and applications. The study also reviews the underlying addressable markets (subscribers and users) and the relevant devices and connections that support the projections. The forecast provides projections for 24 select end-user application and service penetration rates in three primary user categories: residential, consumer mobile, and business. What You Will Learn The […]
Editor’s note: Video conferencing adoption is growing, and IT departments must install and integrate the technology to their best advantage. Whether it’s room-based video conferencing, desktop video conferencing , telepresence or a combination, this Expert Lesson will guide you through the decision matrix to choose the best solution for your business needs and technical environment. It will also cover how to evaluate your network needs, technical requirements you may be overlooking, and how to […]