Technology Innovation: To Whom It May Concern: Home matches and challenges I love presenting to techies – they’re my folks, and speaking with them and exchanging ideas comes as naturally to me as gathering around the kitchen table with the family and shooting the breeze. (Recent SAP Inside Track Netherlands in Eindhoven, organized by the fabulous Twan van den Broek and others, where I hosted two sessions, was such an event.) I also love a challenge – so it’s nice to present to a crowd where it’s not necessarily a home match. A difficult audience The most recent instance, which prompted me to write this blog post, was just yesterday. They aren’t technologists and don’t care much for technology as such, but as product owners of the suite of SAP-based business applications my employer creates, they prioritize all change requests to the applications suite and decide which features will be implemented, and in which release. I, on the other hand, am 100% a technologist and technology strategist. What technology means to non-techie audiences
MiKandi making Google Glass porn, app imminent Leading adult Android app creators and distributors MiKandi (mikandi.com, link NSFW) have confirmed it is busy making Google Glass porn. The first Glass app will be in the MiKandi app store as soon as this week. MiKandi Co-founder Jennifer McEwen told me, Google Glass Porn has been making its rounds, and while studios are intrigued, no one seems to be doing anything about it. So I wanted to let you know that we picked up our Glass and, yup, we're making content for it.As far as I know, we're one of the few, if not the only, adult companies with the device right now. So far, it's really fun! Personally, I can't wait to see what they do. MiKandi (Twitter link) quickly became the top Android adult app provider when Apple dumped over 5,000 previously-approved "naughty" apps, and MiKandi seized the moment. Ms. We’re experimenting with the features of Glass. The merging of Google Glass and adult content was as predictable as the ending of every porn scene, and so is the zomg-porn hyperbole.
SAP's Big Mobile Plan SAP, the enterprise software company, has a crazy ambition. It wants to get a billion people using its software by 2015. That's about double the footprint the company has now—and a lofty goal for a company that, despite its reach into the innards of businesses, is hardly a household name. The plan largely rests in the hands of Sanjay Poonen, who heads the company's mobile division and is also responsible for its analytics, database, and technology products. Poonen talked with Business Insider this week and told us how SAP's going to do it: mobile apps, mobile apps, and more mobile apps, with a little cloud mixed in. Just to give that billion-user goal some context: Apple has sold about a half a billion iPhones and iPads so far, although at the rate it is selling them, it should hit the billion mark by 2015, too. Still, it's one thing for the beloved gadget maker to get a billion mobile customers. So here's the plan: SAP is revamping a lot of its enterprise apps to run on mobile devices.
Google Glass : en test, une utilisatrice des lunettes intelligentes de Google livre son avis Alors qu'elles sont au centre d'une nouvelle polémique concernant l'identification faciale, les Google Glass, actuellement en test chez les développeurs, ont pu être essayées par quelques invités au programme Google Glass Explorer. L'un d'eux explique son expérience. Avez-vous déjà partagé cet article? Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Twitter Elles s'appelle Margo Rowder, elle est écrivain de science-fiction et cycliste. Google Glass : des étapes préalables au port des lunettes Accueillie par une douzaine de représentants de Google, la jeune femme a dû retirer ses lunettes et porter des lentilles de contact, nécessaires pour utiliser le dispositif. Ces dernières sont composés en cinq éléments : un cadre de titane, deux plaquettes qui supportent le châssis, un contrepoids sur le côté arrière droit de l'appareil, un pavé tactile, et un cube de verre, qui abrite le petit écran. Google Glass : un petit temps d'adaptation necessaire ? Google Glass : sur la route du succès ?
Will Apple's Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt? By now it’s almost inevitable given the company’s track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design. But the elephant in the room will be Apple’s software, which many inside the company believe has evolved for the worse in the last few years. Despite consistently glowing reviews from critics and consumers alike, iOS and OS X, Apple’s operating systems which tie Macs and iPads and iPhones together, have rubbed some the wrong way in recent years with their design directions. "Visual Masturbation" What’s skeuomorphism? In software, skeuomorphism can be traced back to the visual metaphors designers created to translate on-screen applications before users were accustomed to interacting with computer software: virtual folders to store your documents, virtual Rolodexes to store contacts. Inside Apple, tension has brewed for years over the issue.
Google Glass: what you need to know Update: Google has halted production on its experimental wearable, but Google Glass 2 may secretly be making rounds. Matt's original review is below. Google Glass is the controversial wearable that still has its sci-looking beta testers turning heads and being peppered with questions. The increasing number of Google Glass invites has led to Project Glass being open to everyone in the US and now the UK, so curious, tech-savvy early adopters can answer most of these questions on their own. It's a little easier for them to say "yes" to Glass now that it's been upgraded with more memory and new apps. But there's one query all prospective Glass owners all struggling with right now at checkout, and it's a question I get all of the time: is Google Glass worth it? To answer that burning question, I turned a critical eye to Google's wearable computer and tested its Explorer Edition of Google Glass for eleven months. Still, this new Project Glass model is better at addition than subtraction.
The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store Steve Jobs giving a speech at the 1983 IDCA – Courtesy Arthur Boden In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech to a relatively small audience at a somewhat obscure event called the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA). The theme of that year’s conference was “The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be”, which looking back seems all too fitting. Circumstances being what they are, very little is available on the Internet regarding this Steve Jobs speech. First, I’d like to thank one of my oldest clients, John Celuch of Inland Design. [Update - Read The "Lost" Steve Jobs Time Capsule article now] Here is the cassette tape I digitized this recording from. After listening to the recording, I did some research in an attempt to find some pictures of this speech. Regarding the speech, it is amazing to hear Steve Jobs talk about some things that were not fully realized until only a handful of years ago. He mentions that computers are so fast they are like magic.
En attendant les Google Glass, serez-vous tentés par les Recon Jet ? En attendant les Google Glass, la société canadienne Recon Instruments prépare ses propres lunettes high-tech. Elles sont d'ailleurs déjà en précommande pour 499 dollars, pour une disponibilité prévue en Europe, en Amérique du Nord, au Japon et en Australie pour le mois de décembre prochain. Recon Jet sur George Hincapie. Déjà de l'expérience dans le marché des lunettes high-tech Les Google Glass, les fameuses lunettes high-tech de Google, ne seront pas disponibles au grand public avant 2014 sauf surprise de dernière minute. Et leur tarif n'est toujours pas connu, bien qu'il ne faut pas s'attendre à un produit à très bas coût. Dans le passé, Recon s'était déjà illustré en proposant des lunettes de protection high-tech pour les adeptes du ski et du snowboard. Caméra HD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS... Avec la Recon Jet, la société vise à nouveau les sportifs, mais plutôt sur route. Recon Jet with George Hincapie from Recon Instruments on Vimeo. Nil Sanyas
IBM unveils computing architecture based on the brain | Cutting Edge IBM scientists unveiled an all-new computing architecture on Wednesday that's based on the human brain. In an announcement tonight, IBM Research said that its new software ecosystem was built to program silicon chips whose architecture is directly inspired by the brain's size, function, and minimal use of power. The company hopes that its breakthrough may support a next generation of applications that could mirror what the brain can achieve in perception, cognition, and action. "We are working to create a Fortran for neurosynaptic chips," IBM principal investigator and senior manager Dharmendra Modha said in a release. "While complementing today's computers, this will bring forth a fundamentally new technological capability in terms of programming and applying emerging learning systems."