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Big Data and the Algorithm Economy: Disruption Built on Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data and analytics are driving new innovation in businesses and IT.  Data insights are becoming a catalyst for new processes and new businesses.  But it’s not only the data that’s important, it’s the algorithms that analyze the data that bring value. Peter…

Big Data and Security: Misconfigured Data Repos Leave Terabytes of Data Unsecured

By Dick Weisinger

Everyone is scrambling to jump aboard the Big Data bandwagon.  Big Data, data analytics, No-SQL databases are just a few of the technology tools that are popping up for managing, massaging, and measuring just about any kind of data you might have.  The problem…

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…