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The future is closer than you think
Geek In Disguise —
... any scepticism about the Microsoft 2019 video I’ve talked about on this blog, you’ll love this talk. He brings Minority Report to life though that’s really underplaying the work Johnny and his colleagues are working on. He covers mixed reality devices, input devices and output devices. There is some breathtaking stuff in here….go to 13:38 for my favourite demo with the newspaper. All this takes us neatly on the first in a series of pieces from VentureBeat titled Conversations on Innovation. The ...
Not everyone’s ready for the cloud: 8 roadblocks software developers face
VentureBeat —
[The following story, by web and cloud platform maker Gizmox's head of biz dev, Gil Mor, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.]
Over recent years, major software developers have started offering their applications in the cloud. In the cloud model, instead of selling their software, they’re simply charging customers based on usage, turning themselves, to some degree, into utilities. The promise to customers is easy scalability and low infrastructure cost. The promise to ...
Realizing Microsoft’s potential in the cloud
VentureBeat —
[The following story, by Amitabh Srivatsava, Microsoft's vice president for Windows Azure, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.]
Cloud computing is democratizing the internet in the same way that personal computers democratized computing itself decades ago. With the greater efficiency and agility of the cloud, running internet-scale applications is now within the reach of any company. Just like the advent of the personal computer, the cloud is creating brand new opportunities and ...
Health care: It’s time for technology
VentureBeat —
This is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.
Here’s a sobering thought: I can walk into any local car dealership and buy a $30,000 piece of merchandise, leaving nothing behind but my signature — but if I show up that same day at the hospital, unconscious after a collision in my new car, there’s not a soul in that emergency room who will know what medications I’m taking, what allergies I have or where my living will is stored.
Even the most partisan players in the ...
