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Wal-Mart Facts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Facts

In Fortune.  It's the largest company in the world, and a number of other fun numbers of impressive scale.   Ending with:  " .... It hasn’t grown nearly as much...

How Fast are Things Changing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Fast are Things Changing?

Potentially very fast,  a simple view  of the rate of change in computing power since 1940 to get to a computer processing roughly to the speed of a human brain...

Tesco Tries in Aisle Rolling Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco Tries in Aisle Rolling Robotics

In CWorld: Six foot tall robots, not really human-like android, more like large vacuum cleaners.  Possibly scaring the Tesco shoppers?  At least this could open...

More on the Apple Metaio Acquisition
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on the Apple Metaio Acquisition

In ReadWrite:  Comparison to other efforts about augmented reality at Microsoft and Google.   Metaio brings in a clear maturity in the space, with applications"...

Wal-Mart Strengthening E-Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Strengthening E-Commerce

In The NY Times:    Registration.  Interesting comparisions and numbers between Amazon and Wal-Mart. " ... Walmart, Lagging in Online Sales, Is Strengthening E-Commerce...

Internet of Things Transparency Ad Targeting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things Transparency Ad Targeting

See EvryThng: The Internet of Things Smart Products PlatformEVRYTHNG is the award-winning IoT cloud platform that connects any consumer product to the Web and manages...

Innovation in the Digital Age Webinar
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation in the Digital Age Webinar

Colleague Suna Polat points me to a free seminar she will be part of.  Link to register.CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Innovation in the Digital AgeFree educational...

Nielsen Doubles Down on Neuro
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nielsen Doubles Down on Neuro

Roger Dooley in Forbes.  Precisely the phrase I thought of when I read of Nielsen's acquisition of Innerscope Research.  At first surprised,  since more recent...

BlueSpring Visual SharePoint Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

BlueSpring Visual SharePoint Search

Have previously known BlueSpring as a BPM vendor.  Have been informed of their capabilities of visual search of SharePoint data.  I remember that search process...

Speak Without Speaking: SmartStones Delivers Prose
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speak Without Speaking: SmartStones Delivers Prose

Startup Smartstones has come up with a means to associate a gesture with snippets of prose.  More here.  " ....  We just released our gesture-to-speech appSmartstones...

Higher Performance Computing and a New Paradigm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Higher Performance Computing and a New Paradigm

Via Doug McDavid,Big data spawns a new scientific paradigm.  From Pacific Northwest Labs, which we worked with on text analytics visualization.PresentationHigh by...

Digital Shopping Booming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Shopping Booming

In Retailwire: More on the emergence of digital grocery shopping.  Delivery versus pickup remains a challenge.

In Search of Value of the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

In Search of Value of the Internet of Things

I am continuing to look at valuation of data as an asset and its valuation. This Forbes article by Joe McKendrick looks at another angle, how can we value the internet...

Examining Marketing Breakthroughs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examining Marketing Breakthroughs

In Adage:  Perhaps obvious, but worth thinking about.  Prompted by recent conversations which started with 'Does this work?'    " ... ....  Best Practices: How...

Recipes for Control: If This Then That: IFTTT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recipes for Control: If This Then That: IFTTT

Brought to my attention: IFTTT.  If this then That.  With connection to Amazon Echo. What is IFTTT?IFTTT gives you creative control over the products and apps you...

Robotic Pets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Pets

Emergence of Robotic pets.    Remember well the Tamagotchi craze, examined it for possible tie ins.  See the tag below.  Are we heading back that way with new robotic...

Analytics, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things

Good overview article.Analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things  ...Our increasingly connected world, combined with low-cost sensors and distributed...

IBM Many Eyes to Shut Down
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Many Eyes to Shut Down

We examined this method when it first emerged.  A kind of crowd sourcing visualization.  It was never used internally because it did not allow for making the results...

Fraud Detection with Graph Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fraud Detection with Graph Analytics

In Analytic Bridge:  A quick look at the value of graph analytics for fraud detection and analysis in retail.

Feeling Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feeling Virtual Reality

In TechDirt: An area we examined to communicate feelings like 'softness' to consumers.    This is a Kickstarter thing, don't know how well it works, but worth an...
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