August 2012

Integrated Systems & Virtualization for Midsize Business – IBM #expertsyschat

Leave a Comment / Cloud / By mcutler

Earlier today @IBMPureSystems held a #ExpertSysChat discussion on Twitter; they run these periodically about a variety of issues surrounding Cloud & Virtualization adoption. Obviously they have a product in this area but the discussions tend to be interesting. Generally they get an independent expert to chair the discussion and propose questions, a selection of IBM staff are …

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Is Google infringing on my patent?

Leave a Comment / Intellectual Property / By mcutler

Firstly I should qualify post by saying I’m not a “patent troll” nor do I agree with the mess that is “software patents” in the US. However in my previous life I worked in R&D at British Sky Broadcasting and part of my job was to create Intellectual Property that Sky could turn into new …

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Social Picture Sharing: Instagram nears 60% market share

Leave a Comment / Social Media / By mcutler

Highlights Instagram‘s massive surge in April is likely due to; release of their Android app publicity around the Facebook aquisition Twitpic, Yfrog, Lockerz were already in decline before Instgram’s surge and are flattening out Pinterest (very slowly) increased its share from 1% to 2% for the year to date Background The Twitter “spritzer” stream – a random …

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Winning with Big Data – IBM Research

Leave a Comment / Big Data / By mcutler

Earlier today (10th August 2012) IBM Research (@IBMResearch) ran a webinar titled “Box Office to Front Office – Winning with Big Data in Sports & Entertainment“. It was split in two halves, one Entertainment focused and one more Sports focused. I tuned in primarily for; Todd Yellin, VP of Product Innovation, Netflix Ray Elias, CMO, …

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It’s not how big your data is, it’s how you use it!

Leave a Comment / Big Data / By mcutler

Over the past couple of months I have met and talked to a lot of new and interesting people. Everywhere I go I encounter the same questions about Big Data, it’s like some sort of mass hysteria around what on the face of it is a simple concept “volumes of data”. Example questions; “How much …

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