Category: Internet & Culture

Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.

All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.

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
#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
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
The cloud runs on power, too.

However, power failed in a data center in Gutersloh, Germany, this afternoon, bringing down several popular German websites.

November 21, 2015
Here's What Real 3D Touch Looks Like | WIRED

With all the advertisements from Apple about their 3D touch technology, virtually everybody that actually got their hands on the devices was somewhat disappointed with the advancement. There must be options beyond peek and pop, and startup Qeexos develops this real 3D touch technology. Wired has an article on the possibilities.

You may soon be able to do a lot more than swipe, tap, peek, and pop—FingerAngle promises to turn your gadget’s screens into 3D environments.

via: WIRED

November 20, 2015
Wireshark 2.0 Released, UI Rewritten In Qt5

After 2 years of development, Wireshark 2.0 Released, UI Rewritten In Qt5 – writes Phoronix

November 19, 2015
Visual Studio now open source

Microsoft announced it will be open sourcing Visual Studio Code at it’s connect(); developer conference. Code is available over at github. Alongside, MSFT released a preview extension that will allow debugging Linux applications using GDB, too.

Microsoft doubles down on cross-platform software development.

A huge move forward.

Quelle: Ars Technica

November 19, 2015
Inaudible sounds to track you for ads.

Following the recent debate about ad-technology and how annoying it is and advertisers insight, you may have though it could only get better from there. Turns out, it can be worse if these claims about tracking through inaudible sounds from ads hold true.

Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking.

Quelle: Ars Technica

Even though I’d consider this inacceptible from a consumers perspective, I’d be very curious about the (audio) technology and the kind of insight this provides, from a marketing perspective. Just consider a TV-Ad broadcasting this signal to a room full of people, for one the signal would sure be difficult to detect. And then, all devices carry the same cookie, making it difficult to identify individuals…

November 14, 2015
Docker: Swarm 1.0 released

Today is a big milestone for Swarm: we’re taking it out of beta and releasing version 1.0, ready for running your apps in production. Swarm is the easiest way to run Docker applications at scale on…

Quelle: Announcing Swarm 1.0: Production-ready clustering at any scale | Docker Blog

November 11, 2015