When I speak to healthcare executives at hospitals and payers, many focus on diabetes when they pilot a technology initiative such as big data, analytics, or other solution. In addition to helping patients manage and cope...
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Further to this thread and between/before Hadoop and traditional DW is IRI CoSort (www.iri.com), which doesn't rely on more machines or big ETL package costs. It combines transforms in the file system on huge file and relational...
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Maybe China should start building iPhones locally...Oh, wait.
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The article implies that you can turn off the GPS on smartphones. You can't actually do that, allegedly because 911 services need to know where the phone is. Even if the GPS could be turned off, very accurate...
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The people you mentioned really are true experts in the field of big data. I will try to follow them as well. I like how each of them try to look at big data in their own way. They also mentioned the challange...
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The big question in my mind is whether a HUD like Google Glass or a dockable like the Ubuntu Edge concept succeed first - or a merger of the two. How awesome would it be if your smartphone could provide a full computer experience...
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Nadella's making some strong moves, but mobile first, cloud first? Does anything else come first? And I find "platforms and productivity" to be an apples and oranges mix. One is a product category; the other is a business...
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Every protable device is a compromise between portability and usability. The difference between a 5" phone and a 7" tablet isn't dramatic, particularly for those of us with older eyes, so having a 7" tablet that...
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Wait I thought "they" told us that tablets were going to kill the PC and now you tell before the takeover is even complete something else is killing the tablet. That is what decreased sales mean isn't that the tablet is...
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Some 75% of the men and 25% of the women actually pressed the button at least once, shocking themselves on purpose. They couldn't sit there for 15 minutes alone with their thoughts, so they broke things up by hurting themselves. Are...
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>> try sitting in a room for 15 minutes without anything to distract you. Report the results here. Did the experience give you a different perspective on some of the issues broached above? Could you handle "the hole?" Yep....
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Again Amazon shows pure greed. If it allowed children to make unauthorised payments using their parents' money then the appropriate court for this to be sorted out is not a civil court but a criminal court. Aiding...
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I don't have any trouble with 15 to 30 minutes of meditation, which some people would consider doing nothing. But then, my attention span can include attention to my thoughts and my heartbeat and breathing.
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Couldn't agree with you more, Susan. A lot of these new C level positions are really more like specialist positions that can disappear when the fad is over. A true C-level position is one that is crtical for the company...
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I'd like to underscore that Cloudwatch has long been there as Amazon's option for monitoring and analyzing your use of Amazon infrastructure, and for that it does a comprehensive job, now matter how much your spinning up...
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There are just too many chiefs out there these days. And a lot of these new fangled C-level positions have people who are too young for the roles. They tend to be faddish instead of functional. A lot of the positions should...
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From what I understand Jobs chose Cook. But there will never be another Jobs so he chose the best candidate available to run the show. I am sure that there is a good talent pool in Apple but you have to wonder if there are...
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That would mean that you would have to change the rules of sport they are playing. Robots would also be only as good as the software that programned them. Unless of course AI has really progressed!
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@Brian Dean. Right, Lanier isn't a household name but he's had an impact on many fronts.
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