Saturday, January 18, 2014

Wearable Lens War


For those who have been following the recent announcement from Google about the Lens that will help detect Glucose levels, a boon for Diabetic patients, there is another article from Microsoft claiming a similar research that started almost 3 yrs back.

The following post is from Desney Tan, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Tan manages the Computational User Experiences group in Redmond, Wash.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/01/17/smart-contact-lenses-emerge-from-basic-research.aspx


Monday, January 06, 2014

Article: Wearable technology set to take the workplace by storm

Some applications of wearable technologies in the workplace in 2014..
Wearable technology set to take the workplace by storm
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/05/wearable-technology-set-to-take-the-workplace-by-storm/

Sunday, January 05, 2014

Article: What to Expect at CES 2014

With the consumer electronic show right around the corner, some cool anticipatory ideas around what to expect...

Article: Orbotix Announces The $99 Sphero 2B, A New Super-Fast, Programmable Robot


Orbotix Announces The $99 Sphero 2B, A New Super-Fast, Programmable Robot
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/05/orbotix-announces-the-sphero-2b-a-super-fast-programmable-robot/



Sunday, December 29, 2013

Road ahead for Indian IT

With so many technology advancements that have become mainstream in 2013, serious questions about how the Indian IT sector should tackle these advances had begun to crop up. In this article,  Vivek Wadhwa outlines how this could be achieved while still keeping the tone optimistic. Not sure how much time the Indian IT sector has but it sure isn't a lot..

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131229234111-8451-why-i-have-become-pessimistic-about-indian-i-t?trk=object-title&_mSplash=1


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Goodbye Year 2013

As the year draws to a close, some recaps of the happenings in the ear provided by popular engines:
 Facebook - gives an overview of the Year gone by.
 Predictions and Recaps in the tech world:

Sinofsky's predictions
http://www.businessinsider.in/Former-Windows-Leader-Steven-Sinofsky-Presents-10-Mega-Trends-In-Tech-For-2014/articleshow/27743422.cms

Zinnov prediction for 2014
http://www.ciol.com/ciol/features/204645/top-technology-predictions-2014-zinnov

Gartner's predictions for 2014 through 2016 (too long a duration for my comfort, but documented)
http://www.alibabaoglan.com/blog/gartners-technology-predictions-2014-2015-2016/

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Apple Will Require App Submissions to Be Optimized for iOS 7 by Feb. 1

More work coming up for IOS developers...the optimized version for IOS 7 must be listed by Feb 7

  http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/KIR5IjAnlhk/

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Article: 3D print extra-tall models with the Deltaprintr

With 3D printing catching steam, another printer that can be used in the practical world of today's day to day scenarios.. 
3D print extra-tall models with the Deltaprintr
http://gigaom.com/2013/12/06/3d-print-extra-tall-models-with-the-deltaprintr/


Monday, December 09, 2013

Article: Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014

Some wishful tech world predictions for the year 2014. We sure hope at least some of these become a reality..

Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/07/top-10-predictions-for-technology-in-2014.html

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Friday, December 06, 2013

Hacker Makes Drone to Hijack Other Drones

Sounds like zombie stuff straight from a Sci fi movie but after Jeff Bezos talking about possibility of
drones delivering packages, there are others who have already punched holes in this idea through kidnapper drones...

  http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/SdwshGt72c4/
 

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Article: How LinkedIn is evolving its media business

Interesting to know what LinkedIn could do next in terms of a business model.
How LinkedIn is evolving its media business
http://research.gigaom.com/report/how-linkedin-is-evolving-its-media-business/

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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

How Facebook Went Mobile, In Before And After Org Charts

An interesting insight into how Facebook transformed into a strong mobile force. From being a website that also ran on the mobile, reorg to a mobile first company was interesting..

  http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YGzDGmp0W-M/

Article: Fragmentation lives: iOS 7 now on 74% of iPhones, while KitKat has only reached 1% of Android devices

An interesting percentage split over the adoption of latest OS versions.
Fragmentation lives: iOS 7 now on 74% of iPhones, while KitKat has only reached 1% of Android devices
http://gigaom.com/2013/12/04/fragmentation-lives-ios-7-now-on-74-of-iphones-while-kitkat-has-only-reached-1-of-android-devices/

Tuesday, December 03, 2013

10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps

Found a list of platforms that are really efficient in creating Mobile applications..

  http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/BLpFEY5qvCQ/
 

Monday, December 02, 2013

Smartphones: The Tech Guru Gift Guide

For those getting confused about what Smartphone to buy or gift, here is a nice decision
tree mechanism. 
 

Friday, November 29, 2013

What Tech CEOs Are Thankful for This Holiday

Wishing all my friends a very Happy Thanks giving. During this time of the year, CEOs of top technology companies are thankful for a lot of things. A small snippet of what each of the top
CEOs are currently thinking is at the below link

  http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/tYZpJMARiUE/
 

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science

For those who have worked or learnt Statistical programming languages/ packages, R has been pretty popular. Now a new breed of apps using Python for data science applications is coming up.