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The iWatch won’t be what you expect it to be…

Sep06
by on September 6, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Roundups

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They say that the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. With the highly anticipated and expected launch of the ‘iWatch’ (or whatever it ends up being called) next week, everybody has an idea of what to expect, and competitors are already rushing products to market. Maybe I’m getting old, but it feels like a deja-vu. It reminds me of the lead-up to the iPhone announcement in 2007. A lot of people were predicting an Apple phone. It seemed like a logical next step for the iPod line-up. Looking back though, the predictions…

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Why complexity is enterprise’s biggest debt

Sep06
by on September 6, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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Jean-­Pierre Pequito is a product designer at Cupenya. As internet pioneer-­turned-­VC Marc Andreessen famously pointed out, “software is eating the world,” and it is becoming inevitable that enterprises today are deeply interconnected with software. During the last decade enterprise IT has been satisfying more requirements to improve organizational performance. It is dealing with larger volumes of data to support the functions of a complex organization. But complexity is a problem. Complexity is invisible and presents itself everywhere across organizations, and it gets worse and worse as companies grow. We have been adding more layers of management and sophisticated processes that…

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Nest to launch its thermostat and smoke alarm in France, Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland

Sep06
by on September 6, 2014 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google

Google’s Nest connected home platform will expand across Europe later this month with the release of its learning thermostat and smoke alarm in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Nest’s products will be available in 400 retail stores across the continent at launch, followed by another 150 stores by the end of the year. On the utility side, the company has partnered with energy companies Direct Energie, Essent and Lampiris. Previously, Nest was only available in the US, Canada and the UK, though the company says that users have installed its thermostat in over 120 countries. While the Nest thermostat…

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