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An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven University...
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I stumbled across this HP site talking about the use of HP computers in ham radio . I've been a ham radio operator for almost 40 years, and was pleasantly surprised by this alignment of my interests. Being able to communicate with people from all over the world without relying on standard telecommunications...
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I was sitting in on a meeting of the Information Technology and Operations Management ( ITOM ) curriculum committee at SMU the other day. One of the interesting things that has happened at business schools across the country is that they have reduced the number of core hours and increased the amount...
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Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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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. They also announced an effort to coordinate...
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Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a few years ago. I've blogged in the past about...
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I was in a discussion the other day with HP's research lead Prith Banerjee . One of the research areas he talked about was Taxonom a data classification SaaS . This project is focused on deriving taxonomies from data. This is always an area I find fascinating, since it is having the computers automate...
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A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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That may be a bold title, given that virtualization , and anything related to it, was all the rage just a few years ago. But lately, I have been pondering the implications of native cloud application architectures on the underlying infrastructure . A true cloud application is designed with multi-tenant...
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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 method. This article in IEEE spectrum talks...
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At its June meeting, the Object Management Group has considered the issue of a draft RFP of case management modeling. The pending vote sparked considerable discussions and proposals of changes to the draft RFP resullting in postponement of action until the September meeting. Case management modeling...
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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 power plugs with a USB port, running Linux. There...
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We have seen the early versions of Cloud Computing models, with the promise of rapid service invocation, pay-per-use, ease of scaling, and simplified service-to-service interaction, and one can only help but think back to the mid-‘90s when the Internet and the Internet Protocol , HTML , HTTP ,...
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Darrel Thomas
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05-15-2009
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Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services
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A few weeks back, I was talking to EDS marketing. They interviewed me for some thoughts on technology innovation during a downturn in the economy . I spoke with them about the intersections of technology and how those possibilities grow exponentially. This week, while reading and working out (that's...
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I've heard some discussion of Google Voice changing the telecom industry in fundamental ways . I personally don't see how it could have as much impact as Skype and other VoIP related approaches had, but I may have missed it. This new Google Service (essentially a re-launch of GrandCentral, which...