Showing posts with label jelly bean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jelly bean. Show all posts

July 25, 2012


Is Big Data big hype?
Management guru Peter Drucker saw increasingly available IT as a threat to corporate decision making, not due to cost or some perceived evil, but because IT made it so easy for management to focus on the past rather than attempting to determine and react to future trends.

NSW Govt SAP roll-out to be cloud test case: Ovum
Ovum Asia Pacific research director for IT, Steve Hodgkinson, said that government departments around the country (Australia) would be watching the deal to see if cloud services will be a better way of providing shared services.

Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
“If you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat, it’ll boil to death — it’s a nice analogy,” said Mr. Crabb, who oversees learning and development at Facebook. People “need to notice the effect that time online has on your performance and relationships.”

EC opens cybersecurity consultation
The EC is seeking the views of governments, businesses and citizens about their experiences and possible EU responses to cyber incidents that disrupt essential networks and information systems.

Compliance In The Cloud Era
The bad news is that we can't get too comfortable. The dynamics of compliance are changing as we grant third parties more access to sensitive and critical data, and the damage if there is a major security breach at one of your key external partners.

Top 50 Innovation Tweeters of 2012
We knew we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of the great Innovation Excellence authors) and were curious to see whom should be followed to learn most on innovation. Read on to see the list.

The Future of Customer Relationships: Where is all this heading?
Dr. Michael Wu, Chief Scientist, of Lithium Technologies, has been doggedly trying to uncover the meaning of influence, its impact on relationships, and ultimately corporate profit structures. Target the influencers, and you can move the crowd. There are seemingly vast opportunities in understanding and leveraging influencers within networked communities.

Java Vulnerabilities Increasingly Targeted By Attackers, Researchers Say
One clear trend is that Web exploit toolkit developers are increasingly focusing on Java exploits, Jones said. They are also integrating exploits for new Java vulnerabilities at a much faster pace than before.


5 Features in Android Jelly Bean To Drool Over
Google has released a worthy successor to Android 4.0, which brings improvements in fluidity and responsiveness, a cool predictive keyboard, better notifications, offline maps and Apple Siri's nemesis --Google Now

5 Things That Keep App Developers Up At Night
Compounding the stress: The ever-present possibility that a bug will be detected by a journalist, potential investor, or a celebrity with a large Twitter following.



Quote for the day:

"Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail" --Elliott Smith

July 02, 2012

You won't be left too far behind without it, but Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is a worthy update that brings improved voice search, notifications, and sharing.

Tips for Entrepreneurs Seeking the Next Big Thing
Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan.

Microsoft Cloud: Cooperating and Competing With Partners
“The question is… Is Microsoft a partner or a competitor in this space,” Staples said. “I want to answer that question honestly and directly…The answer is yes. Microsoft is a partner and a competitor in this space.”

Dave McCrory Unveils Initial Formula for Principle of Data Gravity
Data Gravity is a theory around which data has mass. As data (mass) accumulates, it begins to have gravity. This Data Gravity pulls services and applications closer to the data. This attraction (gravitational force) is caused by the need for services and applications to have higher bandwidth and/or lower latency access to the data.

IT firms face talent crunch in emerging business areas
"Analytics and big-data skills do not exist in adequate numbers in the industry right now," said Munshi, whose analytics institute in Bangalore boasts of having over 100 students, including several top-level executives. "Top IT firms are spending a lot of money and time on training employees on these skills. These areas are just beginning to boom."

Amazon Web Services: A guide to Amazon's cloud
ZDNet's complete guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its runaway cloud looks at how the company has built up a huge lead in its sector, from its hold over the modern developer-led web and how it applies its retail skills to the cloud arena. - Download requires free registration

10 Ways to Find Your Breakthrough
Breakthrough moments rise up and grip you by the throat. Resist them and you’re stuck. Navigate them and you’ll achieve new levels of success.

Agile and Offshoring - the Twain shall meet
There is enough evidence that Agile works … in most cases much better than waterfall. Even when you are working in an enterprise scale, distributed, multi-vendor and strong regulatory environment – agile works better than any other method.

Quote
"It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower" -- Paul Graham