The BBC Weather website has been relaunched after a public beta. The new site is on a three-tier architecture and this move was part of the BBC's wider strategy to move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase cross-product interoperability and data reuse.
We’ve talked numerous times about how technology has changed the way we communicate and interact both in our professional and personal lives. So what does the future look like? How will this same technology evolve and what will be the results of that progress on our lives? The Media Communications panel at the 3rd edition of the World Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “Communication on Top”, will be addressing those questions and more.
It is a fear people have had from the beginning of the technology boom. Actually, it probably started at the beginning of the industrial revolution. People fear that workers will be replaced by machinery and technology. Now, one professor is predicting that rapid advancement in technology will, within a couple of years, eliminate the need for some workers and leave the traditional workplace looking for different.
Speaking about knowledge organizations and referring to monopolies like cable companies, one writer lifts up the challenges of the Internet and the challenges some have of accessing the Internet.
We have all been there at one time or another. You are waiting for a page to load, a photo to appear or an application to respond. The little circle just keeps rotating but nothing ever appears. You jiggle the mouse – as if that ever helps – and wait some more. Is there a problem with the clouds where all your precious data is stored? Or have they become like the mall at Christmas time and are just too full and busy to be efficient?
LoudCloud Systems releases another innovative e-learning feature with mobile accessibility. This platform feature is designed the iPad and will significantly aid students and instructors with their online learning experience.
Food+Tech Connect is highlighting 5 innovative ways technology is being used to improve access to fresh, local food. Among the selection of online marketplaces and management tools are examples of how user centered design, visualizing impact, and crowdsourcing techniques are being successfully used to help small producers distribute and market their products.
The passing of Steve Jobs gives us a chance to reflect on the business in general and, of course, how it affects us. The many incredible things he did and his inventions are very well covered in other more appropriate venues. The world changed significantly on his watch and he drove others to make amazing strides. We always admired the Apple systems and in fact were the first commercial installation of Apple IIe's in (at least in New Mexico) 1980. We bought 22 of the 48K main memory machines with single sided floppy 5.25 inch drives holding 512 K of data at one time. We had one machine with two floppy drives where we would copy the data for safe back up before transferring it to 9 track 1600 bpi tape on the Wang system for eventual conversion and delivery to the clients.
Physicians are notoriously slow in implementing electronic health records (EHRs) within their office systems. The government has been feverishly trying to get doctors to use these systems for some time, but despite assurances of security and ultimately, cost savings, some physicians remain skeptical.
You think the left hand and right hand at your organization doesn’t know what each other are doing? Imagine how much government agencies keep their information “close to the vest.” Territories, power and influence are magnified in the nation’s capital and make your organizational silos look like Lego blocks. Now, don’t you feel sorry for the people responsible for managing government IT departments?