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Better Living Through Artificial Intelligence: Applications That Can’t Come Too Soon

February 7, 2017 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

You probably heard last May about the owner of a self-driving car who was killed because he failed to keep his own eyes on the road. More amusingly, you may have read recently about the six-year-old girl who innocently asked Alexa to deliver a dollhouse, or the toddler who asked for a song and got offered porn instead. Here [&hellip...

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Disruptive, Maybe Not – But Still Very Cool

October 23, 2015 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

“Disruptive” has entered every technologist’s vocabulary and, as invariably happens with a popular buzzword, the term is now as overused as the “f” word in a Tarantino drama.  To be disruptive, a technology needs to upset a business model, not a...

CIO, Remember We’re In Business

August 9, 2015 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

The H1-B visa can be a political hot button, with some people saying there are too many issued and decrying the jobs lost to foreigners.  Others who have difficulty finding employees with technical skills join the annual calls to raise the cap.  All...

Surrounded by Mail

Ending Email

January 8, 2015 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

I was all cranked up to rant against the swelling tide of email.  “How long, oh lord, how long must we put up with this evil scourge?” and so on.  I was only away from my desk for two working days over Christmas yet it took most of a morning...

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CU Soon, Women in Tech

December 6, 2014 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

In support of a worthy cause, no question, but even most of those who come to “Women in Technology” events must question their point.  What are women to gain from the lectures, panelists and kumbaya?  It’s the men who have something to...

Chullora Railway Canteen

EMV Crosses the Ocean

December 4, 2014 • Innovation, News • • Comments (0)

Americans are usually indifferent to global standards but they’re embracing EMV, the smartcard technology that has dominated Europe for a decade.  Just under a year from now, any merchant (except for gas stations) that isn’t on board will be...

Treasures in St Peter

Net Neutrality Goes to Washington

December 1, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

What is an IT executive to think about net neutrality?   The internet is often compared to a highway, a common infrastructure available to all.  The current debate revolves around how strong we’d like to make that analogy.  While consumers and...

Managing the Number of Managers

July 6, 2014 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

Michael C. Mankins writes on HBR’s site that a VP makes work for two other people.  By implication, the cost of hiring a manager at that level is not just that person’s employment costs but those of the two others as well.  Mankins’ graph shows this...

Gibbs and Emerick, signwriters, household painters, plumbers, glaziers and paper hangers

The Advertising of Things

May 26, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

You’ve probably spent a little time thinking about what it will mean to have an “internet of things”.   Maybe within your industry you’ve even mapped it out, but outside of one’s own domain the follow-on consequences are...

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Drone, Sweet Drone

May 17, 2014 • Business Models, News • • Comments (0)

Entrepreneurs take note: the FAA is taking a business-friendly tack on the rules it applies to commercial drone use.  This includes plans to accelerate the permit approval process.  Granted, it will be about a year before the rules have effect, but...

There I fixed it - Heartbleed

Managing For Heartbleeds

May 17, 2014 • Management Practice, News • • Comments (0)

So you had your corporate web servers updated with the patch, pow-wowed with your vendors and other partners to make sure everything was contained, and when you caught a breath you changed your online banking passwords (I mean, you did, didn’t you?);...

Heartbleed

Heartbleed Demands OpenSSL Surgery

April 8, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

An especially dangerous web vulnerability was discovered and made public yesterday, known as Heartbleed.  You should read no further and simply change your critical online passwords without delay.  Seriously.  Do it now. You can get details in this...

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