When I look over all the books I read last year, one stands out as having reformed my world view more than any other: “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshanna Zuboff. Continue reading
I have had several sites hosted at GoDaddy for many years. When I got them, I found GoDaddy to be a nice improvement over Network Solutions. Today GoDaddy exceeded my level of patience. I was told that my web site can not have any .ZIP files on it. What? the purpose of the web site is to make files available to others, and some of them are ZIP files. What do they imagine a web site is for? Continue reading
Selling big complex products is always a challenge. I recently was asked why not make the product simply available on the cloud for free sign-up and access so that people can try it out for free. Here is my response. Continue reading
Big data is a style of data analysis that reflects a return to large, centralized data repositories. Processing power and memory are getting cheaper, while the bandwidth among all the smart devices remains a barrier to getting all the data together in one place for analysis. The trend is for putting the anaytics into the swarm of devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT) Continue reading
Fujitsu is announcing today XWand Cloud, a new online server for financial information exchange. What is it? Why is it important? Continue reading
I think it might be Ben Franklin who said “A paper bill is the worst way to get your account statement, except for all the other ways.” Or maybe not. Whatever. I still get a lot of bills on paper delivered through the (physical) mail, and here is why. Continue reading
The bane of social networking sites is the need to register one more username, one more password, and once more to fill in some sharable details. That is sooooo 2008. I am registering with a conference so I can select interesting presentations, and reminded once again how much I hate registering for sites. Continue reading
I am attending the Fujitsu Labs of America Technology Symposium again, and today’s topic is one very dear to me: how clouds and ‘Ambient Intelligence’ can be distributed to transform the human experience. Here is a summary of a couple of talks. Continue reading
So many top buzz words are wrapped into a single title because I am moderating a panel session on Thursday at the Fujitsu Technology Forum 2013 on exactly this topic with some members of the Big Data working Group, of the Cloud Security Alliance. Continue reading
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