DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Will Google's Android Sink or Swim?

Kevin Hoffman's Blog I've been poking around at some of the documentation for Google's Android project. I've seen a couple of the code samples, read through a lot of the SDK documentation and I've even checked out a couple of YouTube videos, including this one: I also highly recommend that you check out the 3 architecture videos that you can find on YouTube. One of the engineers on the Android project takes us on a detailed walkthrough of the architecture of the platform, how applications work, and even shows us how memory, processes, activities, and state are managed. So here's what I've been able to take away as highlights from what I've read and seen: Notifications. Application code can be woken up when certain important events take place. This is something that I really liked about PalmOS in that it could wake your code up and do things necessary and then shu... (more)

Approaching Cloudsizing

You've heard of downsizing and rightsizing, so how about Cloudsizing? As properly defined, Cloudsizing is: The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the selective use of computing resources that are delivered over the Internet Simple but powerful, and fairly obvious, considering all that's been written about Cloud Computing recently. However, what is not obvious is how you approach Cloudsizing, or how you get started. Thus, the purpose of this column/article, and the next three, is to introduce you to both the notion of Cloud Computing and how to drive your enterprises in that direction, and to do so through understanding and not just following the hype. How the heck do you figure out what needs to be in the Cloud and what needs to be local to the enterprise? As with all things related to enterprise computing, it depends on your ente... (more)

links for 2009-10-29

Design Blog :: SPGRA | 6 Most Amazing Crafts Made from Pakages Creative pepole really do produce arts out of anything… These are all made from packages of daily commodities.They are called Package Craft and created by Mr. Kazuma TAKAHASHI. (tags: art creativity packaging papercraft) Email + CRM + LinkedIn + Twitter = Hustler's Power Drill – ReadWriteEnterprise All of the tools in the world won't beat the chemistry and aligned motivation that come from creative win/win deal-making. The tools are like a hammer for a carpenter. You have to have them, but carpenters are not defined by their tools. However, something substantively different is happening online at the tool level, thanks to social media. A good carpenter with a power drill will beat a good carpenter using muscle alone. A bad carpenter with a power drill is, of course, just a dangerous maniac! But we don't ... (more)

links for 2009-11-13

Top 5 Must-Read Social Media Books (tags: socialmedia books recommendation) danah boyd :: Publications Publications by Danah Boyd, a social researcher. Papers are mostly on social networks & trends among the youth. (tags: research web2.0 socialsoftware social socialnetworking culture papers) Make: Online : Weekend Project: Lost Screw Finder (PDF) A nice do it yourself lost screw finder using CD spindle case & similar stuff (tags: diy projects) International Vegetarian Union | AD | Gear Interesting way to represent the human organs using vegetables (tags: photo advertisement vegetarianism campaign) Posted in bookmarks ... (more)

A Firsthand Account of the Blackbird in Service

SAVEVIDEO.ME: download video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Veoh, Flickr, Google, Blip.tv easily! Supports quite a bunch of sites including not so common ones. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird A firsthand account of the blackbird in service (tags: flight military engineering history aircraft blackbird sr-71 cool article) Search for the Beale Treasure The codes are there on the site too. Decipher them & get hold of the treasure. As simple as that. (tags: culture history treasure) Get your shovel! (5 still hidden treasures) « A Whole Lot of Nothing Interesting list, but too bad no one's likely to find anything (tags: treasure wealth hidden) Dave Devries' The Monster Engine – A Journey Into Children's Imaginations "The Monster Engine is a book, a demonstration, lecture and a gallery exhibition. The premise for all three came from one single question: What would a child... (more)

Genpact to Manage Finance and Accounting for Centrica, One of the World’s Leading Energy Companies

Plans to Drive Effectiveness and Continuous Improvement in Centrica's Finance and Accounting and Management Reporting Processes NEW YORK, November 6, 2012 - Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global leader in business process management and technology services, today announced a five-year agreement with Centrica, one of the leading energy companies in the world. Centrica is a top 30 company on the FTSE 100 Index with operations predominantly in the UK and North America. Under the terms of the agreement, Genpact will streamline and manage finance and accounting (F&A;) and management reporting processes for British Gas, which serves 13 million households and 1 million businesses in the UK, and for its sister company, Direct Energy, which serves 6 million customers across Canada and the United States. Genpact will drive end-to-end process excellence through its proprietary ... (more)

Sports Photographer Andrew D. Bernstein to Partner with Tamrac for Exclusive Photo Seminar “Behind the Scenes of an NBA Photographer” - 3/21/13

Los Angeles, CA, February 06, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Legendary sports photographer Andrew D. Bernstein will share insight on his 30+ years of groundbreaking sports photography during the new and exclusive photo seminar “Behind the Scenes of an NBA Photographer” presented by Tamrac, Samy’s Camera, and Nikon. The seminar will be held at Samy's Camera EDU Department located at 475 S. Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, directly across the street from the Los Angeles Samy’s Camera store on Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 7 to 9 p.m. A veteran of over 30 years of sports, commercial and venue photography, Andrew D. Bernstein has photographed the NBA and NHL since 1980, as well six Olympic teams for USA Basketball. He and his company, Andrew D. Bernstein Associates Photography, Inc., have served as official photographer for almost every major team and venue in Southern California. Curre... (more)

How to Be More Productive at Work – “It’s Not Complicated”

The following “It’s Not Complicated” AT&T; commercials may be fun and cute, but they also are full of advice on how to be more productive at work. In politics and in sports the... Follow The Fast Track on Twitter: http://twitter.com/intuitquickbase & Google+ at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106377964303068533661/+quickbase ... (more)

South Yorkshire solicitors choose Kodak i4600 production scanners for archiving and collaboration solution

May 31, 2013 — Kodak announces today that Parker Rhodes Hickmotts, a local firm of solicitors in South Yorkshire, has purchased two Kodak i4600 production scanners and Kodak Capture Pro software to provide an enterprise archiving and collaboration solution to save physical storage space and make it easier to share court related legal information among the various parties in cases - document bundles which are often 500 or more pages thick. The scanners were sold by Kodak reseller, BMI Solutions. Founded in 1895, Parker Rhodes Hickmotts provides a range of legal services including residential and commercial conveyancing, wills, probates and trusts, personal injury claims, family and child law, as well as handling a wide variety of immigration and asylum cases. It employs a team of 70 staff including solicitors, advocates, paralegals, secretaries and administrators, a... (more)

Who’s the Real Social Network: Email, Text, Facebook, or Twitter?

Ever wonder how people really connect these days?  Here are the numbers: Daily volume of email, facebook likes, text/sms, tweets Emails: 182.9 billion per day Text: 6 billion (Note: this is declining.) Facebook: 4.75 billion Likes Twitter: 0.5 billion Even with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, old-fashioned email is still how most of us connect online most of the time. Sources: radicati (emails), Expandable Ramblings/Facebook (Facebook), Forrester (text/SMS), Twitter (tweets).   ... (more)