Snapchat is much more than an app whose popularity has recently been going through the roof. Snapchat is changing behavior on the web and evoking the future of social VR…   When I use social media in my daily life, it more or less involves the following user scenarios: Facebook: I post a picture or a link and think up an amusing phrase to go with it that people will want to share – in the hope of gaining as many likes as possible. The more likes it gets, the…

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At the 2016 Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle unveiled a host of new cloud products, including many SaaS and PaaS tools. Oracle kicked off the 2016 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday with a very clear theme—the cloud. The company debuted more than 20 new products and services for the Oracle Cloud Platform, but what stuck out was the company’s focus on intelligent apps, containers, and analytics. The intelligent apps will be formally known as Adaptive Intelligent Applications, and will leverage data and insights found in Oracle’s Data Cloud, according…

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Intelligent fridge can tell you when you’re out of milk If you thought grocery shopping could hardly get much easier, think again. Microsoft is collaborating with Liebherr’s appliances division to develop ‘SmartDeviceBox’, a communication module that connects Liebherr’s refrigerators and freezers to the internet. Thanks to internal cameras and deep learning algorithms similar to those of Cortana (Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence), Microsoft’s new fridge technology recognises food packaging, and effectively monitors what products you have at home. “This information flows automatically into an inventory list, which lets the customer see quickly…

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You hear it all the time: Mobile is over. The app boom is finished. The average American downloads zero apps per month (okay, maybe 1.5 apps per month) — so it’s time to start thinking about the “next big thing.” Of course, nobody really means that mobile is “over,” just that all the big opportunities have already been grabbed. The thinking is that, with Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp, WeChat, and Twitter out there, and no one downloading many apps any more, there’s just no room for something new. It’s too late. Don’t bother trying to…

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Selecting an ERP vendor involves questions – lots of questions. It’s important to get as much information as possible in the selection process since choosing the right product from the right vendor is one of the most critical decisions in the implementation process. It can literally make or break the entire project. There are a great many questions you need to ask. Here are some of the most important ones. Does this product support your style of operations? ERP systems are specialized by type of business and often by industry.…

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Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn’t in trouble; the officers wanted his help. Jain is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs, fingerprint scanners and tattoo matching; he wants to make them as difficult to hack as possible. But the police were interested in the opposite of this: they wanted his help to unlock a dead man’s phone. Jain and his PhD student Sunpreet Arora couldn’t share details…

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