Friday, September 27, 2013

Wearable tech applications

Wearable technologies have taken the tech world by storm and are promising some revolutionary applications in the years to come.Some ideas around where these could be used.

  1. The agent at the boarding gate has a head up display just above eye level, which provides them with status information on the scanner and information on the passports and boarding passes that are being scanned.
  2. They could be used by roving agents who currently carry iPads, or by agents at the entrance to airport lounges to remove the need to physically scan boarding passes and frequent flyer cards.
  3. Airlines or airports offering wearable technology to passengers in the near future, but he does think that “flight attendants, maintenance personnel, flight crew and ground operations staff could benefit” from head-mounted wearable technology.
  4. Locating pallets and boxes in a warehouse. 
  5. Location based or interest based notifications. Offers that are meant for targetted customers. Compare and contrast based on past demand.

Monday, September 23, 2013

MariaDB VS MySQL

Concerns over what Oracle could do with the MySQL licensing and also the DBs limitations when dealing with a highly available/ high performant website seems to have given birth to a new DB ..MariaDB..From the initial creators of MySQL, this is a very good alternative to  MySQL ..

http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/mariadb-vs-mysql-a-comparison/

IOS Nahs and Wows

As the world goes viral about the new IOS release and a record 9 million iPhone 5S get sold over a weekend, I thought it would be a nice idea to summarize the good and not so great things about these. IMHO, a resounding number of opinions point towards not upgrading to the IOS 7 and rightly so..Some issues..

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

http://www.imore.com/heres-why-you-shouldnt-upgrade-ios-7-yet

A balanced view:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/apple/20445/ios-7-good-bad-and-ugly

The developer viewpoint:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016423/open-company/developing-for-ios-7-the-good-the-bad-the-flat-and-the-ugly