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Mobile Programming: Apple’s New Swift Programming Language

By Dick Weisinger

In an attempt to ease the pain of writing Apple iOS mobile apps, Apple has introduced a new language that is targeted to replace Objective-C. Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, announced that “we have a new…

Unstructured Data: Using Analytics to Make Sense of Dark Data’s Secrets

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is electronic information that isn’t rigidly divided into small bits of data and stored in data structures like the tables of a database or the elements of an XML document.  Because of that, unstructured data is difficult to…

Customer Communication Management + Content Management = Delighted Customers

By Dick Weisinger

How can businesses improve the experience which they provide their customers?  The analyst group Strategy Meets Action (SMA) suggests that technology can help.  While SMA’s advice was addressed specifically to the insurance industry, but it likely would resonate with a…

Open Data and Health Care: Medicaid and Drug Interaction Databases Released

By Dick Weisinger

While the US Federal government may not be moving as quickly as many would like to see in releasing Open Data sets, the FDA earlier this month released a four million record data set of information about drug and medication…

Technology: Internet Trends for 2014

By Dick Weisinger

Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) analyst, recently reported on her take of internet trends for 2014. Some of her insights include: Cheaper Computing – The costs of computing have dropped about one-third every year over the last 20…