Description: Digital Paper will be sold in the U.S. this May through Worldox, a U.S.-based company specializing in document management for legal professionals. Source: TechCrunch Date: March 27, 2014 Sony introduced this device to the Japanese market last year. Since launch the device has only supported the editing and viewing of PDF documents. Word and Excel… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2014
What Is Oculus Rift — and Why Should You Care?
Description: The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that could revolutionize the way we play video games and consume media. Source: Mashable Date: March 26, 2014 The Oculus Rift supports 3D movies and a 360-degree viewing experience — Zero Point will take advantage of both — but the trailer is limited to 180-degree angles for now. The… Read more »
Foodini Is A 3D Printer That Lets You Print Dishes With Fresh Ingredients
Description: Foodini, a KickStarter project, is a 3D printer for foodstuffs. Its Florida-based makers are hoping their time-saving device becomes as ubiquitous on kitchen countertops as the microwave oven has become. Source: TechCrunch Date: March 27, 2014 Foodini is reinvention of the microwave! Instead of forcing people to rely on highly processed convenience food that’s larded with additives and… Read more »
‘Smart tags’ can sense when food or medicine go bad
Description: Researchers have devised tiny color-coded tags that can be placed on food and beverage containers to determine whether the products inside are spoiled or fresh. Source: CNET Date: March 18, 2014 What if you never had to do a smell test for spoiled milk again? Instead of having to take a whiff of the sour… Read more »
Paypal’s CTO On The Bumpy Road To A Comeback
Description: Why Barrese, Paypal’s CTO, decided to drop the original plan to customize Sparta and made the decision to replace it with newer software, starting from the ground up. Source: Fast Company Date: March 20, 2014 A new internal platform called Sparta was built, but progress “bumped along for a few years. By the time it… Read more »
Windowless Jet Will Let You Virtually Ride on Top of Clouds
Description: Spike Aerospace announced plans to launch a windowless supersonic business jet that will feature video displays that take up most of the interior wall space. Source: Mashable Date: March 19, 2014 Adding to the surreal nature of the experience will be the fact that the flights will travel at supersonic speeds of Mach 1.6 to 1.8. According to Spike… Read more »
How Target detected hack but failed to act — Bloomberg
Description: Despite alerts received through a $1.6 million malware detection system, Target failed to stop hackers from stealing credit card numbers and personal information of millions of customers. Source: CNET Date: March 13, 2014 Speaking with more than ten former Target employees and eight people with knowledge of the hack, Bloomberg said that Target already had in place… Read more »
Why You’re Better Off Trusting a Robot Over a Human
Description: Once we move to truly autonomous systems, software will play a much bigger part. We will no longer need a human to decide when to change the route of an aircraft or when to turn off the motorway onto a side road. Source: Mashable Date: March 12, 2014 Robots, and autonomous systems in general, can… Read more »
What Happens When A Company Bans Email And Starts Mining Data About Its Employees?
Description: Klick Health waged a war on email and discovered it was sitting on a goldmine of data about its employees. Here’s how it’s making the most of that information. Source: Fast Company Date: March 13, 2014 Klick’s evolution into a data-driven company was born out of our desire to be more efficient–and a deep hatred for email. It… Read more »
Bacon-Scented Alarm App Gives iPhones a Meaty Overhaul
Description: Bacon is being served up every morning courtesy of Oscar Mayer in this new iOS app and headphone jack plug. Unfortunately they aren’t for sale- you’ll have to win one. Source: Mashable Date: March 6, 2014 Oscar Mayer is giving meat fans the chance to wake up to the sound — and smell — of bacon… Read more »
Leading Titles
Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1-119-13385-8
August 2015, © 2016
CDN $98.95; CDN $114.95