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Yearly Archives: 2016

Intellectual Property: Alice Ruling Limits Patentability of Business Processes

By Dick Weisinger

During the last two years “software patents” have become extremely difficult to obtain because of a 2014 court ruling called ‘Alice’.  Just taking a business process and reimplementing it in software isn’t enough to be able to claim originality and patentability.  These…

Augmented Reality (AR): Lower Cost and Technical Barriers Propel AR Market Ahead of Virtual Reality

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are leaving reality behind.  Surprisingly, 88 percent of the 500 US mid-market executives survey by Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services said that they are already using some form of virtual or augmented reality (VR & AR) in their business. What’s…

Open Government: Feds try to Reduce Duplication and Encourage Innovation with Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Once shunned by governments, open source code is becoming a priority within federal government.  A new policy introduced by Federal CIO Tony Scott calls for all software written within the government to be available to all other federal department or agency.…

Security: Visual Hacking Has 90 Percent Success Rate

By Dick Weisinger

Visual hacking is the use of confidential information seen on the screen or desktop of someone else, like a desktop, laptop or smartphone, for unauthorized use. Visual hacking can be an easy an effective way to break into networks and systems…

SaaS and Security: Closing the Security Gaps Brought on by the Public Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are adopting cloud and SaaS tools that promote business agility.  But the flip side of this benefit is that use of the cloud often bypasses standard corporate security.  Gartner estimates that in five years that more than one…