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Central Nervous System for the Earth

The New York Times had an article on HP labs activities to gather information on a massive scale . It's a research and development program to show an example of building a planet-wide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and...

Published 11-23-2009 6:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Energy , Trends, Technology adoption, Analytics

Toronto City Innovation Conference

Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications...

Published 11-05-2009 11:34 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface

Web 2.0 four years later and five years out

There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing...

Published 10-09-2009 3:19 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Social networking, Semantic

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens?

A week or so back I did a blog entry on augmented reality possibilities , and in this month's IEEE Spectrum there is an article on the placing displays right on the eye . This is done by having the display and possibly sensors integrated with a contact...

Published 09-03-2009 11:29 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Vision , Pervasive computing, User Interface

What’s next for wireless power?

As I was packing for my recent vacation, I realized that I needed to take battery chargers for not just my SmartPhone, but also for my camera, two iPods, as well as my wife’s mobile phone. None of these chargers work on any of the other devices...

Published 09-01-2009 12:33 AM by Bill Phifer

Filed under: Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , Mobility

Authentication and automation possibilities

This seems to me the week that I'm thinking about interfaces and interaction. About a year ago I did a blog entry on interface shifts . One area I had not thought about at all was the use of the security interface hardware as a more general interaction...

Published 08-27-2009 3:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Edge computing , Applications, User Interface

Augmented reality moving into general availability

The BBC has an article: Mobile phones get cyborg vision that got me thinking about the number of times I've seen examples of augmented reality demonstration projects recently. This article states: "Via the video function of a mobile phone's...

Published 08-25-2009 1:47 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, 3D

Enabling plants to call for a drink

In a recent IEEE spectrum article a technique was described that allows plants to call the farmer to say they need water. A company came up with the product that measures the moisture level of the plant and then water the plant accordingly. It consists...

Published 06-09-2009 8:55 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Agriculture, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Mobility

A new type of power grid from "plug" computers

I'd like to take consumerization of computing a bit further than I did in the previous post , There are now very low end computers like the SheevaPlug ($99) and the Pogoplug (also $99) coming into the low end of the market. These devices are almost...

Published 06-08-2009 8:09 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Edge computing, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Vision , Applications

Microsoft Zune HD – how can these be used in business?

Microsoft recently announced a new version of its Zune music player , a touch-screen player called the Zune HD . They also announced a Zune extension into the Xbox Live platform, with goal to "create a game-changing entertainment experience"...

Published 06-06-2009 10:26 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Consumerization , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends

IT Everywhere and yet appearing nowhere

A while back, Forrester published a document about waves of technology change that was based on information from the US department of commerce. They've also put out some fairly thought provoking presentations on the implications of the next change...

Published 03-08-2007 11:43 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Mobility , Pervasive computing

Spray on computers

In this blog I've talked about the implications of computers everywhere and having a context aware environment that helps to get things done. This article in emerging technology trends definitely appears to backup the thought of having custom configured...

Published 12-02-2005 3:02 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Edge computing , Trends

The edge and the interconnection of things

This article from the BBC talks about UN predictions about the use of RFID and other techniques for putting computing in things that will change the world. It looks at the issues from more of a global perspective. Discussing how multi-national business...

Published 11-19-2005 3:35 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Singularity

Re-engineered Internet

The New York Times had an article about the National Science Foundation's Global Environment for Networking Investigations project that is intended to fundamentally re-engineer the Internet and overcome its shortcomings. Edge-based or pervasive computing...

Published 09-01-2005 6:20 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Edge computing , Pervasive computing

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