Category: Technology

  • C Programming Use Continues

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    C Programming Language The C Programming Language was developed by Dennis Richie and Ken Thompson at Bell Laboratories between 1969 and and 1973. It was the successor to B and used to create Unix. The recent bad experience with the Multics time sharing operating system development had made Bell Laboratories sensitive to that sort of cost…

  • The State of Embedded Systems Safety

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    Embedded Systems Safety In The Internet of Insecure Things we got a glimpse into the source of some of those security issues. Today we benefit from another infographic reproduced courtesy of the Barr Group. This time it is a look at the underlying Software Security that is so important to improving the future and no making it even…

  • The Internet of Insecure Things

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    Insecurity in Cyberspace This is not one of those topics that makes you feel better initially. In IoT Security we looked at how the emerging IoT world needed to protect itself against attacks. This is a different problem to pure Software Security which has its own challenges.   It was with recent interest that I…

  • Light L16 CES Award Winner

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    Light L16 Wins CES Award Yesterday I wrote an update on the Light L16 and how it was a good example of Disruptive Innovation in Photography.    Today I learn that CES agrees and awarded it the CES 2018 Best of Innovation: Digital Imaging. There are now several industry articles recognising the significance of the multi-camera technology.…

  • Disruptive Innovation in Photography

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    Disruptive Innovation Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma showed us that the business drivers of our current customers blinds us to emerging but currently unsuitable technology that eventually takes over our market. This has led to a focus on Innovation that looks to be disruptive as its primary goal. And I have come to the conclusion that this…

  • IEEE Collabratec

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    IEEE IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is the largest professional engineering body in the world and has a world wide focus. I am a Senior Member and have always found it worthwhile. In the days before the Internet was as useful as it is now, they were the best source of regular…

  • CES 2018

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    CES 2018 The annual Consumer Electronics Show has wrapped up in Las Vegas and a lot of exciting announcements were made. IEEE Spectrum CES2018 put together a summary. Here are some that I found particularly interesting.   5G 5G is expected to launch ahead of schedule with phone manufacturers supporting it toward the end of…

  • Top 100 Global Technology Leaders

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    Top 100 Global Technology Leaders Thomas Reuters have released their list of the Top 100 Global Technology Leaders and here is a summary. The original article appears at Top 100.   Top 10 Global Technology Leaders Microsoft Intel Corp Cisco Systems Apple Alphabet IBM Texas Instruments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing SAP Accenture 10 Global Technology Leaders…

  • IoT Drives Change

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    IoT Change Catalyst The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to break new ground. Although there are still many things to be worked out, there is no doubt it will create new opportunities and enable value propositions previously unimaginable.   So I was please when Garrick Stanford from RS Components sent me an infographic looking at…

  • Intellectual Property Strategy

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    Intellectual Property The first step is to determine what Intellectual Property you actually have. This is usually broader than you initially think.   Intellectual Property Audit So before you can have an Intellectual Property Strategy, you will need to do an Intellectual Property Audit or IP Audit. IP Australia has an excellent guide to how…