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Technology: 2014 is Shaping up as the (first) Year of the Connected Home

By Dick Weisinger

At this year’s 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, manufacturers rolled out a slew of new devices targeting home automation and control. Actually the market for connected home appliances isn’t new.  It’s already estimated to…

Manufacturing: Technology to Reshape Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

The top 10 IDC Predictions for the Manufacturing Industry in 2014 are as follows: Manufacturers will begin to build 3D value chains Operational, information, and consumer technology will converge to reshape the nature of manufacturing technology Operational resiliency will be…

Office Productivity: Businesses Continue to Make Workers More Productive

By Dick Weisinger

Office workers are five times more productive today than workers in the 1970’s, and productivity is on track to increase by another 22 percent before 2020, according to a report from the UK Center for Economic and Business Research and O2 Business. …

The 2014 IT Market: Software Takes the Lead as IT Growth Improves

By Dick Weisinger

Globally, organizations will spend $2.22 trillion on IT technologies in 2014, up 6.2 percent over 2013 spending, according to Forrester Research.  The increase in spending is attributed to investments in mobility, cloud computing, analytics, big data, and smart process applications.…

Technology and Computing: Today’s Software Paradigm will Break Down with Next-Generation Exascale Supercomputers

By Dick Weisinger

Both governments and businesses are working to develop the next level of supercomputing: exascale computing.  Since 2008 supercomputers have been operating in the petascale range.  Computerworld estimates that supercomputers will reach the exascale computing range by 2018, and most analysts…