How Will the Internet of Things Impact Business?
Think about all the devices you own, or all the appliances that help power your home. For example, what about the control on your heating and air conditioning system? Chances are, it might be connected to the internet, and also connected to an app on your phone, enabling you to control it easily no matter […]
Customer Loyalty in the Time of Covid
Small brick-and-mortar retailers depend heavily on foot traffic from local customers who purchase everything from specialty items to necessities. And there are over 130,000 small retailers nationwide! Small retail not only makes up a significant portion of the US economy (worth $34 billion annually), they drive innovation. To these businesses, loyalty programs are important. Acquiring new customers […]
Technology and the Brick and Mortar Retail Revolution: An Interview with Intel’s Joe Jensen
2020 was a rough year for brick and mortar retail. A record 12,000 stores closed in the US last year, a 20% increase over the number of store closures in 2019. But for as disastrous as the pandemic has been for brick and mortar, the future may prove to be a golden opportunity for the industry. The […]
Technology and the Brick and Mortar Retail Revolution: An Interview with Intel’s Joe Jensen
2020 was a rough year for brick and mortar retail. A record 12,000 stores closed in the US last year, a 20% increase over the number of store closures in 2019. But for as disastrous as the pandemic has been for brick and mortar, the future may prove to be a golden opportunity for the industry. The […]
Context Continues — Dell Wake on Approach (WOA)
I was recently surprised to discover that my seminal work on the Context Sensing system at Intel has continued to make waves in the computing world. Over five years at Intel, I orchestrated, planned, and led multiple teams around the key concepts in context awareness for personal computing. Exciting to see our work now installed […]
SnowShoe Introduces Spark Card™, First IOT Paper Product for Customer Authentication
PORTLAND, Ore, Feb 9, 2021 – Portland-based SnowShoe, the leading developer of physical presence systems for mobile authentication, releases the world’s first Internet-of-Things (IOT) paper product. The new Spark Card™ allows for physical verification through a unique technology that interacts in real time with all capacitive touch screens. Spark Card™ brings ShowShoe’s proprietary check-in technology […]
Ethics and AI: a mindful perspective
A fascinating perspective from Jeremy Kahn at Fortune’s Eye on AI and Ahmer Inam, the chief A.I. officer at Pactera Edge. Note that the ideas behind Mindful A.I. were coined by Orvetta Sampson, the principal creative director at Microsoft, and De Kai, a professor at the UC at Berkeley. | (republished from Fortune’s blog) | Lately, Inam has […]
IOT Sensors (Part 4) — A Future of Sensor Dust
The fourth and final part of the IOT Sensor story… from past to present to future predictions. Looks at the emerging markets of “sensor dust” and ultra-pervasive computing systems. Download IOT Sensor Whitepaper by Ned Hayes – From Embedded to Pervasive […]
IOT Sensors (Part 3) — The Problem with Proliferation
The third part of the IOT Sensor story… covers large tech’s inability to capture a viable footprint in fast emerging marketplace. Download IOT Sensor Whitepaper by Ned Hayes – From Embedded to Pervasive (2020) Read Part 1 : IOT Sensors: From […]
IOT Sensors (Part 2) — The Emerging Sensor Ecosystem
The second part of the IOT Sensor story… from past to present to future predictions. Covers the emerging ecosystem. Download IOT Sensor Whitepaper by Ned Hayes – From Embedded to Pervasive (2020) Read Part 1 : IOT Sensors: From Embedded to […]