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Monthly Archives: August 2016

Internet Trends 2016: Speech and Images to Challenge Use of Text in Search

By Dick Weisinger

Last month, Mary Meeker, partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, presented her annual state of the internet research. While the results were interesting, there was nothing really unexpected in her results.  Here are some of her findings.

Digital Medicine: Integrating Healthcare Information Systems Crucial to Better Medicine

By Dick Weisinger

The blueprint going forward for digital medicine will be strongly based on predictive analytics and the Healthcare Internet of Things, according to a new report by Technavio.  Medicine based on data and predictive analytics is expected to provide assistance and

SaaS: Vertical-Specific Software is Largest SaaS Segment

By Dick Weisinger

Global Software as a Service market is expected to reach $55 billion by 2026 from $12 billion in 2016, according to a report by Better Buys.  Currently about two-thirds of small and medium businesses have started to use SaaS services

Security: Financial Cost of Data Breaches Continues to Soar

By Dick Weisinger

Data breaches continue to confound businesses.  A new survey by Ponemon and sponsored by IBM finds that the cost of breaches continues to soar, up 29 percent from last year.  Other findings from the report include: On average it takes

Java Language: Difficult Times for the Most Popular Computer Language

By Dick Weisinger

In January this year, the Java programming language was designated the most popular computer programming language.  It was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystem and released in 1995, so it has been around for more than twenty years. Paul Jansen,