Article: Microsoft’s Smart Fitting Room Is Like A Robo-Shop Clerk

As technology around this application matures, personalized shopping and clothing can bring forth a bunch of new areas..
Microsoft's Smart Fitting Room Is Like A Robo-Shop Clerk
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3031689/microsofts-smart-fitting-room-is-like-a-robo-shop-clerk

Article: 6 small changes in Android L that make a big difference

6 small changes in Android L that make a big difference
http://www.androidauthority.com/android-l-small-changes-398560/

Article: Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2014 in one handy list

Google announced some really cool features in the I/O conference ..a summary..

Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2014 in one handy list
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/06/25/everything-google-announced-google-io-2014/

Article: Microsoft Is Adding Machine Learning to Azure

As machine learning becomes increasingly popular, Microsoft is working on adding this capability to Azure. This will be an interesting space to watch.

Microsoft Is Adding Machine Learning to Azure
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/06/16/microsoft-adding-machine-learning-azure-cloud-platform/

Article: Facebook just made its boldest moves yet to become the Google of mobile apps

Looking at the latest F8 conference updates, looks like FB has finally come off age as a company understanding the Mobile ecosystem.

If you look at the announcements in the Conference:

• Move to develop their own mobile advertising network
• Audience Network
• Committing to two-year API stability for its core developer platforms
• Handful of other improvements such as anonymous log-in that lets consumers try an app before having to fork over their personal info and deep linking.

Doesn’t look like it is doing an OS or any Mobile Phone yet, but its strategic moves in the past couple of yrs should make people, sit up and take notice. They had missed the boat early but have caught up I think. They could serve as a bridge between the AAPL and GOOG ecosystem.

Thoughts ?

Facebook just made its boldest moves yet to become the Google of mobile apps
http://qz.com/204805/facebook-just-made-its-clearest-moves-yet-to-becoming-the-google-of-mobile-apps/

Article: Google Helps You Find Your Parked Car

Like all other apps, that Google brings out to simplify day to day difficulties of people, this simple car finder in a parking lot Android app can go a long way ...

Google Helps You Find Your Parked Car
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2014/05/02/google-helps-you-find-your-parked-car/

Cloud usage patterns

Recently on all our projects, I am seeing a trend in Cloud usage that conforms with the below article:

http://research.gigaom.com/2013/11/three-emerging-cloud-computing-trends-for-2014/

Cloud data integration and loading has been a consistent theme in the last 3 months and have a solid roadmap for the next year. This is an area which will see a lot of action but does not have enough governance and best practices defined at this point in time.

Storm

I recently tried Storm (http://storm.incubator.apache.org/), a very nice distributed realtime computation system. Use cases for Storm include  realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC and ETL. I was impressed with the way it could do analysis of data streams in complex ways and get results..

Article: Here’s everything you need to know about the Heartbleed web security flaw

A newly found issue that could affect 2/3rd of the internet transactions using SSL
Here's everything you need to know about the Heartbleed web security flaw
http://gigaom.com/2014/04/08/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-heartbleed-web-security-flaw/

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How GOOG picks its people

A nice article on how GOOG picks the best talent that really differentiates it from the rest in the industry.
Some of these traits are seemingly contradictory but it is very much possible to have them in the same person. How we get them combined in the same person is an interesting case study.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2014/04/07/how-google-picks-new-employees-hint-its-not-about-your-degree/

Article: Meet Philadelphia's Top IT Pros

Congrats to LiquidHub CTO Rajul Rana for being named in Philly Top IT professional. 
Meet Philadelphia's Top IT Pros
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2014/03/24/meet-philadelphias-top-it-pros.html

What it takes...

It is becoming increasingly important in this day and age to be able to unlearn and relearn newer techniques at a rapid pace. Contrary to the older belief that GPA and percentages were barometers for success, a new approach is to measure how quickly a person learns new items. The below article explains some of the points in details

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140313201538-281874400-what-thomas-l-friedman-didn-t-report-about-getting-hired-by-google

Article: Pebble Opens Its Appstore For Android And Unveils Some Cool New Apps

The Pebble Appstore now features new Android app. The killer Mercedes car application alerts for vibrations, car limits and other location based warnings..
Pebble Opens Its Appstore For Android And Unveils Some Cool New Apps
http://readwrite.com/2014/03/08/pebble-appstore-androids-apps#awesm=~oxWxYRMBdGT4WX

Article: Apple's CarPlay: What You Need to Know

Apple introduces one more angle into the IoT strategy through auto based CarPlay. With so many players in the market, interesting to see how IOS carves itself a niche.
Apple's CarPlay: What You Need to Know
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/apple-carplay-need-to-know/

Article: Facebook May Use Drones to Provide Worldwide Internet

Facebook possibly jumping on the drones bandwagon this time to provide worldwide internet.
Facebook May Use Drones to Provide Worldwide Internet
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-drones-provide-worldwide-internet/story?id=22775018

Article: Blippar's Google Glass App Recognizes Objects, Makes Them Interactive

As the world gets ready to augmented reality becoming mainstream, this application from Blippar helps explore possible applications.
Blippar's Google Glass App Recognizes Objects, Makes Them Interactive
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026945/fast-feed/blippars-google-glass-app-makes-everyday-objects-interactive?partner=rss

Article: Twitter's Crashlytics Helps App Developers Abandoned By Apple

Some help to developers in analyzing app crash scenarios...
Twitter's Crashlytics Helps App Developers Abandoned By Apple
http://readwrite.com/2014/02/27/twitter-crashlytics-beta-distribution-tool-ios-android

Article: The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence

While a lot of expectations were on AI for the longest time since 2000, it is only now that we are really seeing the applications of this promising technology. 

The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/283730/

Article: The 'Internet Of Things' Will Be Bigger Than The Smartphone, Tablet, And PC Markets Combined

There continues to be a lot of buzz around the internet of things. A report outlining the potential for such applications in the tech world talks about taking things to a different level since it could be more than both mobile and PC combined...

The 'Internet Of Things' Will Be Bigger Than The Smartphone, Tablet, And PC Markets Combined
http://www.businessinsider.com/growth-in-the-internet-of-things-market-2-2014-2

BitCoin

As the bubble around the Bitcoin phenomena grows, some really good reading articles that debates why this "Platform" could go despite the validity of the actual eCurrency...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/15/bitcoin-platform-currency/1/

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/why-bitcoin-matters/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0