Steven Klebe
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation. Steven Klebe is senior VP of business development at on-demand billing company Vindicia and writes regularly about mobile payments on his Payment Talk blog.
The tech industry’s been talking about mobile payments for years, and I find the whole discussion fascinating. Not just the potential and the rhetoric, but the gap that exists between the two. I even spent a year working … Continue Reading
Dan Reed
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.
Several bedrock assumptions in modern computing are crumbling. Individual processor cores no longer double in speed every two years. Netbook PCs are as inexpensive as smartphones. Scientists and gamers now use the same computing hardware and tools. A single, massive cloud data center or a petascale high-performance computing system contains more computers than the entire Internet did just a few years ago.… Continue Reading
Kimbal Musk
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.
When you search a traditional search engine, like Google, Yahoo or Bing, you are getting a picture of the web as it was yesterday, last week or last month. Nowadays that’s called static search. The search engine crawls the web by following links between websites, indexes those pages, creates a graph of the web, and then let’s you search that graph. Among … Continue Reading
Kim-Mai Cutler
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As Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools have changed the way companies reach out to customers, some are using it internally to upend the way rank-and-file employees relate to each other and management.
They’re harnessing tools like Yammer and Present.ly, which are Twitter-like services designed specifically for enterprise use in that they meet the need for secrecy and hierarchy.
“Twitter is … Continue Reading
Sean Nolan
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This is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.
Here’s a sobering thought: I can walk into any local car dealership and buy a $30,000 piece of merchandise, leaving nothing behind but my signature — but if I show up that same day at the hospital, unconscious after a collision in my new … Continue Reading
Dr. Eric J. Topol
The following story, by Dr. Eric Topol of the non-profit West Wireless Health Institute, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.
In the past decade, we’ve experienced the digitization of our music and our books; the next logical step is to take our health care digital. My friend Don Jones, who leads Qualcomm’s … Continue Reading
Amitabh Srivatsava
[The following story, by Amitabh Srivatsava, Microsoft's vice president for Windows Azure, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.]
Cloud computing is democratizing the internet in the same way that personal computers democratized computing itself decades ago. With the greater efficiency and agility of the cloud, running internet-scale applications is now … Continue Reading
Gil Mor
[The following story, by web and cloud platform maker Gizmox's head of biz dev, Gil Mor, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.]
Over recent years, major software developers have started offering their applications in the cloud. In the cloud model, instead of selling their software, they’re simply charging customers based on … Continue Reading
Anthony Ha
This is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.
Cloud computing has become a magic phrase over the last year or so. Everyone agrees it’s a hot trend, but people are still arguing about what it is, and who should be using it.
Over next few days, we’ll look at the cloud as … Continue Reading
Al Monro
[This piece, written by Al Monro, CEO at touch-screen designer NextWindow, is the third in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will other outside experts.]
After many years in the making, it looks like touch technology on the desktop is finally taking off. Dell and Hewlett-Packard already have delivered touch-enabled PCs to market, and these products have been very well … Continue Reading
Andrew Hsu
[This piece, written by Andrew Hsu (left), technology strategist at Synaptics, is the second in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will other outside experts.]
The mobile phone has evolved beyond its humble voice communication origins and now commands serious attention as the computing platform for the masses. Most people still prefer their phone to fit comfortably in their … Continue Reading
Matt Marshall
[This is the first in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will other outside experts.]
Imagine I walk into a bar, and see three women. A camera on my chest captures their faces, and sends the information to a phone in my pocket. That phone can recognize who they are instantly by using software to check the web for … Continue Reading
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