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GDPR: Few Fines Levied During First Year

By Dick Weisinger

May 25, 2018. The day that the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulation went into effect. Six months ago we did a post where we noted that many companies weren’t in compliance. During this first year there have been…

Computing: The Mainframe Strikes Back

By Dick Weisinger

Do companies still use mainframes? Do people even remember what a mainframe is? The answer at least to the first question is ‘Yes’. A Forrester report found that, of those companies that still use mainframes, they’re using mainframes even more…

Cloud Robotics: On-Demand Remote Brain Power for Mobile Robots

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud robotics tethers remote cloud services with robotics. The cloud offers large-scale computation and storage capabilities that can be used for off-loading tasks from the robot. Cloud robotics is particularly useful for mobile robots because in that case there is…

Big Data: Automotive Data Collection and Analytics is Big Business

By Dick Weisinger

The market size of Big Data has gotten too big. Increasingly analyst reports are breaking Big Data into smaller market segments and creating separate reports for segments of the total Big Data space, like for “Automotive Big Data“, “Manufacturing Big…

Semiconductors 2019: Trade Tensions and Supply Glut Cause Declining Revenues

By Dick Weisinger

Trade wars and a glut of semiconductor product is expected to impact semiconductor companies adversely the rest of this year. IDC predicts that semiconductor revenues will decline by 7.2 percent in 2019, to a total of $440 billion. The decline…