Augmented Reality Shows VW’s EV Efficiency Compared To Regular Household Items[Video]

May 29, 2012

The electricity used to make yourself a fruit smoothie with a blender, can power the Volkswagen Golf EV for up to 11 kilometers. This is just one of the facts presented with the VW augmented reality app as it showcased the electric vehicle in Hong Kong.

As consumers waited to test drive the energy-efficient Golf, they were shown just how little electricity the car actually uses. At the Electric Cafe, users were presented with iPads installed with an augmented reality app. When the device was held up over a computer, fridge or blender, an animation would appear on the screen. Watch the video below for a demonstration:

via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2012/05/volkswagens-ev-efficiency.html#ixzz1wGqbvDZC


How Pinterest drives online sales (infographic)

May 28, 2012

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The above infographic highlights how Pinterest is driving online sales, some really interesting stats for the retailers out there one of which mentions that the average order value from a Pinterest referral are more than double that of Facebook.


VIDEO Glasses-Free 3D Display

May 28, 2012

Head-Coupled Perspective on Mobile Devices. We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities of interaction. It does not use the accelerometers and relies only on the front camera.” — DocteurCube


The business of data panel with IA Ventures

May 24, 2012

A video reference data entrepreneurs. It features Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, Joe Fernandez of Klout and Sean Gourley of Quid. The speakers are terrific and it’s a solid introduction to the topic — since this panel was part of a broader entrepreneurial conference, it is slightly higher level than panel conversations you’d hear in specialized Big Data conferences.


Data point: Mobile disrupts most media

May 24, 2012

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As smartphone adoption grows and attention spans attenuate, people are increasingly multitasking their media consumption. According to recent research published by Google, almost 9 in 10 smartphone owners in the U.S. use their mobile while doing other things, whether watching a movie, playing a video game or reading. We highlighted this phenomenon in our recent report, “15 Ways Mobile Will Change Our Lives.” And our latest report spotlights how marketers are taking advantage of the second screen as more TV viewers sit on the couch with smartphones (or other mobile devices) in hand. Google’s research finds that more than half of U.S. smartphone owners use their device while watching TV. The spike in connected screens and services that link them with the big screen is creating intriguing new possibilities for TV broadcasters and marketers alike.

Google’s report also looks at how people are turning to their mobiles for a growing roster of functions, behavior that will become increasingly prevalent. The data shows that 35 percent of smartphone owners expect to use their device to access the Internet more often in the future. And as more marketers lead shoppers onto their smartphones, m-commerce will become increasingly important to retail. As yet, more than a third of Google’s respondents said they have purchased a product or service on their smartphone, and more than two-thirds of those did so in the previous month. Mobile-optimized sites and location-specific deals will become crucial for capturing shoppers via their smartphones.


Our Experts Solve the Branch IT Problem—What They Found Can Save You Money

May 23, 2012

It is not good when an engineering firm has to fully equip 20 branch offices with expensive hardware and store up to 1TB of data in each branch. But for many companies that is the reality because operational restraints have made consolidation to the data center impossible—until now with the new Riverbed® Granite™ appliance edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI).

The benefits of data center consolidation are tremendous

Consolidation to the data center lowers costs by eliminating branch infrastructure. It frees IT personnel for other important projects. Consolidation keeps data more secure and manageable. And it is much better for backing up data and DR planning.

“By consolidating servers and storage, eliminating local backup policies and procedures, and reducing if not eliminating local IT support, organizations that embrace an edge-VSI strategy may reduce costs up to 50 percent compared to traditional approaches,” says Zeus Kerravala in WAN Optimization Gives Rise to Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (PDF). (ZK Research, 2012)

No solution for these situations until now

It has been an accepted fact that you cannot consolidate branch infrastructure into the data center when any of the following is true:

  • You have write-intensive applications
  • You create or manipulate large files or many small files
  • You need to access data even when the WAN is down
  • You rely on custom applications—especially those dependent upon local storage

“Too much infrastructure remains in the branch, and too many staff members are required to support it.” – Riverbed Extends from WAN Optimization to Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (edge-VSI) (PDF) (The Taneja Group, 2011)

Why you can consolidate now

Now the Granite appliance edge-VSI approach changes everything. For the first time ever you can bring edge servers and storage home to the central data center—and, most importantly, end users in the branch will see no difference. That is possible because the Granite appliance addresses performance challenges low in the technology stack, at the block level.

Separating branch computing from storage

Indeed, with a Granite appliance IT managers can separate branch computing from data storage, eliminating the need to purchase and support storage traditionally hosted in branch offices. Users and applications in the branch experience local performance while data is consolidated securely in a central location.

Projecting large CAD and GIS files to the branch

At the aforementioned engineering firm, for example, large CAD and GIS files and slow WAN transfers meant too much infrastructure was kept in branches supported by too many IT staff. And local storage meant that each remote office had to be equipped with a backup server.

But with a Granite appliance they now store data in the data center and project CAD and GIS files from data center storage over the WAN to local offices without impacting the end-user experience.

Steps for adopting an edge-VSI strategy

It is easy to get started with the Granite appliance edge-VSI:

  1. Leverage virtualization technology by virtualizing the remaining applications in the branches
  2. Migrate these applications and data to the data center or private cloud
  3. Deploy the Granite appliance at the branch-office level
  4. Project centrally managed applications and data across the WAN to the edge-VSI infrastructure

Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Microsoft Dynamics GP

May 23, 2012

Microsoft Dynamics® GP is a comprehensive ERP solution that goes beyond basic business management and reporting to help your people—and your organization—work at peak performance. Designed for rapid implementation and ease of use, Microsoft Dynamics GP gives all your people fast, familiar ways to access and work with business information and processes, and it delivers ongoing innovation that can work for you now and into the future.

Download the following Top Ten PDF:

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Why Microsoft Dynamics?

May 23, 2012
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Microsoft Dynamics™ is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that enables you and your people to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft software, automating and streamlining financial , customer relationship and supply chain processes in a way that helps you drive business success.

Business Management Solutions

Familiar to Your People:

What if business management technology could free up you and your employees to focus on what’s truly important? What if technology reflected the ways in which people throughout your company actually work? Microsoft Dynamics is the answer to those questions. Microsoft Dynamics works like other Microsoft products you and your people are familiar with, helping reduce the time required to learn how to use it, and freeing up time to focus on what matters most. Designed with a focus on the roles people play throughout your company, Microsoft Dynamics delivers an individualized, task-based user experience and allows your employees to easily customize and automate based on their own preferences and work style. That means less training and development time and a quicker return on your investment.

Fits with Your Systems:

When a business management solution works the way your current technology works, it fi ts easily and seamlessly into your existing systems and helps you maximize your technology investment. Microsoft Dynamics works the way your current technology works so it fi ts easily into your systems, helping to maximize your investment in Microsoft technology. This in turn allows your employees to use a powerful business management solution within a familiar environment. Take advantage of BizTalk tools for data mapping, partner configuration and improved security. Or, integrate with other Microsoft product innovations, including Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Dynamics – built to work with and maximize the potential of other Microsoft technologies.

Fuels Your Business Productivity:

Microsoft Dynamics helps fuel your productivity by automating your business-critical operations and adapting to fi t into your type of business helping ensure the most relevant insight. How? With a user experience modeled around tasks and roles and integrated with familiar productivity tools like Microsoft Office. With integration between Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Collaboration is fostered among your employees, vendors and customers. And, by integrating financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes to help maximize both internal and external efficiencies, costs are reduced and performance improved.

Enables Confident Decision-Making:

The business landscape in which you thrive is demanding. You need to be able to respond and have the confidence to make informed decisions that have an impact. Microsoft Dynamics helps you respond rapidly to the changing demands of your business, providing you with more complete insight across your organization so you and your people can make timely and informed decisions with increased confidence. With Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Excel Analysis tools and Microsoft Dynamics together, you gain to critical data. That data can be easily analyzed and your employees get the information they want out of the system in the way they want and need, using a tool that is already familiar to them

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Video: YouTube’s 7th Birthday Celebration

May 22, 2012

Youtube is now a part of life but it is only 7 years old.

May 21st 2012 marks the 7th Birthday of YouTube, and to celebrate they’ve compiled a video showcasing everything that has made them great to this very day, including a host of great statistics about what happens on YouTube. Thanks Alicia. Here’s just a few YouTube stats for 2012:

◦There are over 4 Billion Videos viewed per day
◦Kony had 30 million in just 24 hours
◦72 Hours of video uploaded per day


New technology from Apple “introducing leap”

May 21, 2012

This takes computer interaction to a whole new level.Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements. just imagine the possibilities with things like gaming, web surfing or even producing music


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