Posts Categorized: System development

New iPhone Conceals Sheer Magic

Posted by & filed under Apple, smart phones, smartphones, Software, System development, telecomunications.

Description: What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Apple’s new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S. But what people really wanted was the iPhone 5. Source: NYtimes.com Date: Oct 11, 2011 The rumors online had predicted the second coming — or, rather, the fifth coming. It would be wedge-shaped! It would be completely transparent! It… Read more »

Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Digital Policy, Ecommerce, healthcare, Human Resources, System development.

Description: The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Feb 26, 2011 The long-range vision is that computerized patient data is a step toward what… Read more »

Computer ties human as they square off on ‘Jeopardy!’

Posted by & filed under Artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence, Functional Information Systems, System development.

Description: Watching these “Jeopardy!” episodes, I thought of one of cinema’s most devilish control freaks, HAL the computer from the sci-fi masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” I wondered what Watson, seemingly so genial as he played the game, would have said had someone ordered him to “open the pod bay doors.” Source: CNN.com Date: Feb 17,… Read more »

When the Assembly Line Moves Online

Posted by & filed under Cloud Computing, M-commerce, outsourcing, Supply Chain Management, System development.

Description: DO one assigned task on your computer. It shouldn’t take you more than two seconds. Repeat 14,399 times. Congratulations! Your eight-hour work day is complete. Source: NYT.com Date: Oct. 30, 2010 No such workplace yet exists, but with the fiendishly clever creation of standardized two-second tasks, delivered to any computer connected to the Internet,… Read more »

Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web

Posted by & filed under online education, System development.

Description: Online education is best known for serving older, nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of “distance learning” are now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses, especially public institutions hit hard by declining state funds. Source: NYT.com Date: Nov 4, 2010 Across the country, online education… Read more »

I.B.M.’s Hybrid Strategy in Business Intelligence

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, Software, System development.

Description: I.B.M.’s announcement Monday that it is buying Netezza for $1.7 billion highlights how much the fast-growing field of business intelligence is increasingly both a hardware and a software technology. Source: NYT.com Date: Sept 20, 2010 The term “business analytics,” of course, is the branding upgrade that has been given to business intelligence. Whatever. Both… Read more »