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Quantum Cryptography: Harnessing the Quantum Properties of Electrons to Secure Communication

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly we are seeing that the achilles heel of modern digital technology is security. JP Morgan, Sony, Target, Anthem, and Uber are just a few of the examples of businesses that have all been headlined in the news because of…

Digital Businesses Without Borders: Blurred Boundaries Bring Cross-Industry Competition

By Dick Weisinger

Since 2007, Apple is no longer ‘Apple Computer’.  The company is no longer focused on just making personal or business computer.  Apple is a multi-national company that sells both consumer and business electronics with expertise in both hardware and software…

Apache Spark: Turbocharging Past Hadoop’s MapReduce

By Dick Weisinger

Apache Spark appears to be igniting Big Data projects in 2015.  Spark is an Apache open source engine built for Hadoop to perform sophisticated data analysis and analytics.  Compared to Hadoop-only applications, Spark applications are as much as 10 to…

3D Printing: 2nd Generation ‘Animated’ 3D Printing Disrupts Existing Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

2015 has brought in with it a slew of announcements that spell major disruption for existing 3D printing technologies.  Advances in the technology are being fueled by investment in the technology and expectations that the 3D printing sector could grow…

Business Intelligence: Business Analysts and ‘Citizen Data Scientists’ Help Make Easy-to-Use BI Products Market Leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Revenues from Business Intelligence software grew at a 9 percent rate in 2013 and that level of growth is expected to stay constant through 2018, averaging 8.7 percent.  Within the next two years a majority of business users and analysts…