Author: Andreas

Infographic: Internet of Things (IoT)

via: Infographic: Internet of Things (IoT) | IEEE Communications Society

January 20, 2016
Working in IT. Mostly.

via: xkcd: Tools

January 20, 2016
Ocedo acquired by Riverbed

Riverbed Announces Acquisition of Leading SD-WAN Provider Ocedo

Acquisition accelerates Riverbed’s strategy to deliver next-generation software-defined networking solutions to customers, and creates significant new growth opportunities

Guess that’s good news for the distribution of Ocedo’s products.

via: Ocedo acquired by Riverbed

January 19, 2016
Dilbert nailed it.

Boss: Wally, did you Uberize the slide deck?

Wally: I harmonized it in the cloud.

Boss: Are we ready for a trans-domain kick-off?

Wally: I put a disruptive mesh network in the microservices of the Internet of things.

Boss: Will that be good enough to “ask the fridge” or do I need to start disintermediating?

Wally: It depends on if we have enough bandwidth to growth-hack the analytics.

Boss: I just hope our clicks-and-mortar strategy staircases.

Dilbert: I’m almost certain that was nonsense.

Wally: Sometimes it’s about the journey.

You can’t have more cloud than this.

via: Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-12-20 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

December 22, 2015
Americans are actually starting to pay with their phones

Americans are actually starting to pay with their phones

Something that is not yet imaginable in Europe, that has not even adopted Credit Cards in large areas.

via: Americans are actually starting to pay with their phones

December 9, 2015
Anybody missing their Boeing 747?

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB), the country’s main airport operator, is seeking the owner of three unclaimed planes left at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

via: The Star Online

December 8, 2015
#learned 6LoWPAN

Just learned. There is a protocol by the name of 6LoWPAN, which is short for IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks. It is a current IETF working group and aims to provide capabilities to devices participating in the Internet of Things.

December 8, 2015
Planning for 2016

David Cummings has a few words on startup planning for 2016. Not only for startups, but also for established mid- and large companies planning ahead is an important activity, in particular planning the next year at the end of past year.

My primary customer has been a company that builds and markets tools for “Business Intelligence”. These tools basically collect data from all kind of sources, process them and generate metrics and calculate trends.

However, it is up to the department to interpret these metrics and make a decision on what shall be done. The business intelligence will help to make a more profound decision, but the strategy has to be crafted manually.

A strategy shall also be the scale against which metrics are measured. And each year or quarter is a good moment to review metrics and strategy, in order to assessing the validity of a strategy. Think of it as a feedback loop.

via: David Cummings: Planning for 2016

December 1, 2015
Raspberry Pi Zero at the price of Starbucks coffee

Just ahead the announcement of NextThing Inc’s 9$ board. The Raspberry Zero will hit the stores at a price much north of 5$ though, given all the required cabling, shipping and, well, merchant margins. Still a nice step forward for those playing in the Internet of Things.

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a tiny computer that costs $5.

via: qz.com

November 26, 2015
Sysyphonian, Infinite Ikea Instruction.

Gregor Weichbrodt built a infinite IKEA instruction manual.

The website of his BÆBEL Project is here.

November 25, 2015