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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…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Adopt Hybrid Cloud to Achieve Better Agility and Security

By Dick Weisinger

The hybrid cloud market is expected to grow to $84.67 billion, according to a report by Market and Markets.  The report found that nearly two-thirds of IT professionals thought that adoption of the hybrid cloud would enable better agility and…

Drones in the Sky: Regulating the Flights of Small Unmanned Drones

By Dick Weisinger

A future where drones become common-place seems not so far away.  Businesses like Amazon and Google are pushing hard to realize that future.  Amazon envisions that in just ten years there will be hundreds of thousands of drones flying in…

Big Data: Networked Athletes to Generate Huge Data Sets/Stats for Sports Fans

By Dick Weisinger

Starting last week the NFL will be attaching tracking sensors to players to gather a huge wealth of sports data.  The sensors will be embedded into the shoulder pad of each football player and will be continuously wiring data back to…