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Yearly Archives: 2015

Manufacturing and IoT: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturing businesses are increasingly equipping their plants with sensors to monitor their processes and activities.  Manufacturers are already collecting vast amounts of data.  A recent survey by Frost and Sullivan found that data collection for manufacturing, or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) now…

Android Fragmentation: App Development and Security Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

The Android market is seriously fragmented.  Fragmented because there are so many different vendors that have adopted it for many different devices and form factors.  A recent survey by OpenSignal of 600,000 actively used Android devices found that of those…

High-Speed Optical Devices: Research Shows Progress in Developing Plasmonic Materials

By Dick Weisinger

An ultrafast light-emitting device that can switch on and off 90 billion times a second was recently prototyped and demonstrated by engineers at Duke University.  The device uses semiconductor quantum dots.  The goal of the research is to create a…

Freemium Pricing: Unsuited for Most Business Applications

By Dick Weisinger

In the freemium model, a base product or service is given away for free, but proprietary features, functionality or virtual goods are available only for a fee.  The term Freemium was coined by Jarid Lukin in 2006.  The freemium model…

Mobile Data Traffic: Gartner Expects 52 Million Terabytes to Be Transmitted Over Mobile in 2015

By Dick Weisinger

The popularity of mobile devices is driving a dramatic surge in the amount of data traffic that originates from mobile devices.  In 2015 alone, mobile data transmissions have increased by 59 percent from the previous year to 52 million terabytes.  Gartner estimates…