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Mobile App Development: Despite the Trend to Mobile, Business Developers Still Focus on the Desktop

By Dick Weisinger

Apple has more than a million apps on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and they report that customers spent $10 billion on apps in 2013.  That’s not to mention the app stores of competing mobile platforms. It would seem that the world…

3D Printing: Just one Component of the Up-Coming World of Digital Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

3D printers use a technique called extrusion additive manufacturing to build objects by layering out metal, plastics, composites, and other materials.  3D printing is already having an impact on retail, traditional manufacturing, automotive, aviation, finance, construction, and electronics markets. Gartner predicts…

State Technology: Ranking of Progress by States with Digital Technology

By Dick Weisinger

2014 Digital States Survey The Center for Digital Government (CDG) publishes every two years ranks state government on their ability for using digital technologies to improve internal processes and better serve citizens. The results of the survey are as follows:…

Big Data Analytics: The Effect of Geography on Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Attitudes about technology, like many things, are often heavily influenced by geography and culture.  A survey by Teradata found, for example, that while adoption rates in the UK for Big Data have led the rates for adoption across Europe, the…

Information Security: Businesses Increasingly Adopt Cloud-Based Security

By Dick Weisinger

Information security spending is expected to reach $71 billion in 2014, an increase of of nearly 8 percent, predicts Gartner. Much of the drive in spending can be attributed to new security technologies for protecting mobile, the cloud, and social.…