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Wireless Charging in RF
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless Charging in RF

New developments in wireless charging.  Most methods today use inductive technologies  these use radio frequency.  I wonder about RF interference here.  We examined...

Big Data Requires Small Steps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Requires Small Steps

In E-Commerce Times:  A reasonable piece.  The idea requires both handling the data and the application of the analytics that result.  Analytics requires you to...

Ontology and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ontology and Big Data

An interesting case of combining Ontologies and big data, in a slide show. Using health data as an example. Ontologies are shared vocabularies as they relate to...

Wi-Fi Enabled Services in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wi-Fi Enabled Services in Retail

Interesting post in the Cisco Blog.    Consider the potential for added services in retail contexts.   " ... That situation is changing through the growing availability...

TIBCO Spotfire for Developers
From The Eponymous Pickle

TIBCO Spotfire for Developers

Brought to my attention.  TIBCO Spotfire for Developers by Manuel XavierLooks to be of interest, have yet to see any book on Spotfire, which we used for Business...

Qualcomm Gimbal for Location Detection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm Gimbal for Location Detection

More on another ability to detect, track and engage people in physical retail settings.   Qualcomm's Gimbal.  With similarities to Apple's iBeacon.  Another quickly...

R Extracting Data from Google Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

R Extracting Data from Google Analytics

Specifically using R.  A good case study for using R as well." ... How to extract custom data from Google AnalyticsYou can use a programming language like R to...

Grace Hopper at 107
From The Eponymous Pickle

Grace Hopper at 107

I see that it is the 107th anniversary of computer Pioneer Grace Hopper's birth.  I wrote about my brief encounter with her while I was working at the Pentagon,...

Supreme Court to Decide on Software Patents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supreme Court to Decide on Software Patents

Reuters: Need this, finally.  Lets hope for some sanity" ... The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to rule on the divisive issue of what kinds of software are eligible...

Neurogames are here
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurogames are here

Correspondent Ron Wright, President / CEO Sands Research Inc. writes:Dear Neuromarketing DG Member:Just a quick note to alert you that I have set up a new Discussion...

Memories are Geotagged
From The Eponymous Pickle

Memories are Geotagged

In KurzweilAI:   Memories may be geotagged with spatial information about the location where the information was acquired.   Applications to retail engagement?"...

TDWI Conference Live
From The Eponymous Pickle

TDWI Conference Live

Following is interesting, there are a number of ways to connect to it without being there.   Nice Oppurtunity.   I am following.TDWI World Conference Videos,Live...

Big Revolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Revolution

Imagine a world without shops or factoriesWhen you are in the middle of a torrent of change, innovation eclipsing innovation, it can be hard to know what is passing...

Using Mind Control in Medicine, Manufacturing.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Mind Control in Medicine, Manufacturing.

In KurzweilAI: Mind control of systems and devices.  . It has been around for a long time.  With various levels of imprecision.  But it is now moving quickly and...

Shopping Pattern Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopping Pattern Tracking

In the WSJ: (May require registration)   An area we experimented with for some time.  Determining shopper behavior. Not necessarily tracking personal information...

Tableau Software Reports
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau Software Reports

Tableau reports that Tableau is tops in business intelligence.   I have used them since nearly their beginning, and I agree they are very good.  But they do have...

Neuromarketing Paper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Paper

A new paper.li of interest: Neurmarketing by Daniel Ladieu.  Neuromarketing and associated interest in its hype cycle has increased sharply of late.  Includes some...

Coke Marketing Turns to Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Marketing Turns to Storytelling

A recent interest through a startup.   So what can be done to create a story?   Contructing ideal template and storyboards?   Modern advertising has always been...

Future of Computing at Intel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Computing at Intel

Wave fingers, making faces: The future of computing at Intel, from  CNET Mobile.  We had early connections with Intel Corp at our innovation Centers, including...

Principal Components Analysis in R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Principal Components Analysis in R

Principal Components Analysis and other Factor Analysis tools came up in a recent discussion. Here a discussion in Linkedin about such capabilities in R.  Good...
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