There’s an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about Big Data in
Manufacturing. Manufacturers are now leveraging sensors and scanners
throughout the factory floor to collect data about everything from screw
turns to temperature and humidity in an effort to improve quality. My
favorite part is actually this line:
In the past, some of that data had to be typed in, creating the risk of
errors.
This is the future of software: invisibility. The days of us sitting in
front of a computer typing in data are numbered. With the cost of data
collection, storage, and analysis all plummeting, the software of the future
will gather data seamlessly from your activities. You will no longer have
to tell your software what to do — it knows. You will no longer have to
put in strict relationships between data (this email is for this order) —
it can figure it out.
On... (more)
Yesterday’s WSJ.com video “Tablet Wars: How Are People Using Tablets?”
had a shocking statistic: 98% of the web traffic from tablets comes from
Apple’s iPad. Further, most of mobile commerce is from Apple’s iPhone:
Translation: No matter what the sales figures for Android, people just
aren’t using them. This is a far cry from the early days, when many
thought that an army of Android mobile devices would slay Apple’s mighty
iPhone:
Source: dailypicksandflicks.com
Most importantly, if this is true, then Google’s Android strategy has
failed.
Google’s strategy with Android is ve... (more)
We’re looking for developers who’d like to work with on server-side OSGi
Java, client-side Javascript/CSS/HTML5, and MongoDB database back end
applications. (See opentaps 2 framework.)
If this sounds like as much fun to you as it does to us, please contact us
right away! We’re really flexible and can accommodate part-time or
full-time, remote or on-site.
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In this edition of the quarterly update, I’m happy to tell you about the:
opentaps 1.4 Release New opentaps.org website, forum, and training video
store opentaps-Magento integration Development goals for opentaps 1.5 A proof
of concept for opentaps 2.0 based on OSGi, Spring dynamic modules, and maven
Amicon Technologies and IntegratingWeb join opentaps as opentaps Partners
opentaps in China
opentaps 1.4 is Released
opentaps 1.4 was officially released in March 2010. This release features
many new features in CRM, manufacturing, supply chain management, and
financial accounting; i... (more)
Windows 8 not only feels clean and refreshing but also illustrates a new user
interface paradigm which makes a lot of sense.
For as long as we’ve had “windowing” user interfaces, we’ve had
desktops with icons which opened up to an application taking up the entire
screen. The desktop and the icons themselves, though, are static, so
nothing much happens until you’ve launched your application.
With Windows 8, however, you now have a desktop of tiles, each of which is
automatically refreshing with the latest updates. One window is showing you
the latest news headlines, another is s... (more)
Si Chen is the founder of Open Source Strategies, Inc. and Project Manager for opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM (www.opentaps.org).
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