Generation “Jones” – the generation that followed the “Baby Boomers”
Everyone has heard of the “Baby boom” generation, defined as those born between 1946 and 1964. The grouping was arbitrarily by measuring the birth rate when it shot up in…
There will be fewer professional coders in the future
That is the actual future of software development: It will become so easy and second nature, that for ordinary tasks you won’t even have to think about it. Source: Dear…
Coding Boot Camps produce coders, not software engineers
“Google, which has hired workers from Flatiron and other academies, recently studied the efficacy of coding camps. The company found that while the camps have shown promise, most of their…
Big opportunity for #IoT in marine shipping industry
Applications include improved navigation and efficiency, asset tracking, and equipment monitoring for maintenance scheduling (a huge money saver): The industrial internet of things has found its way to sea, with…
The role of the CIO in the future
With high tech readily available “off the shelf” and probably from an outsourced cloud service, what is the role of the CIO in 10 or 15 years? A world where…
AT&T will use small radio controlled “drones” for cell tower inspections #Drones #IoT
AT&T is now using drones to inspect its cellular towers and foresees them as a way to beef up its wireless LTE network on the fly. Source: AT&T deploys drones…
Real-time power usage meters will help customers adjust demand
At our homes, we generally have no idea how much electricity, gas or water we are consuming – until we receive a bill in a month or a quarter. IoT…
FCC Allocates 11 Ghz of spectrum above 24 Ghz for #IoT and 5G applications
“The FCC today adopted new rules for wireless broadband operations in frequencies above 24 GHz, making the United States the first country in the world to make this spectrum available…
The “Industrial Internet of Things” #IoT will be profound
The Internet of Things (IoT) is often marketed as a consumer-based technology phenomenon that will combine the potential of low-cost sensors and big data with wide-scale internet connectivity. …. But…
Is IoT the Next Industrial Revolution?
Depends on how you define Internet of Things! Broadly defined, “smart devices” in business and the home will be a large market that likely causes disruption to many of our…