Technology
Commercial Drones
The atmosphere surrounding the commercial use of drones is steeped in anticipation. It is like the seconds before a race starts: runners take their stance, the audience holds a collective breath, and the earth stands still. For years, though, there has been no burst of gunfire, no bolt towards the finish line–just anticipation. Technology advances […]
01 / 19 / 17
Blockchain Explained
Imagine that it is the end of the month. It’s time to balance the books. Now, imagine that the entire process is gone from your schedule. Every transaction that your organization made that month was automatically balanced and recorded by an automated, accurate, secure and self-regulated system—completed within seconds. This is just the tip of […]
01 / 11 / 17
Retail Technology
Developing financially successful retail centers is a challenging task anywhere in the world. Investors and managers involved in retail assets must be sound strategic planners who can successfully assimilate a number of disparate factors, such as demographics, macro and micro economics, as well as cultural and political circumstances. Rising e-commerce makes a competitive business environment […]
01 / 02 / 17
Tips for Tips
Editor’s note: The following piece and accompanying graphics are re-published with permission from Home Energy Magazine. Behavioral recommendations, or tips, are an integral piece of many energy efficiency programs, ranging from marketing materials (e.g., brochures) to in-home audits, to Home and Business Energy Reports (such as the report shown below). Though information is known to […]
12 / 30 / 16
Li-Fi
Wi-Fi revolutionized the way we connect to the internet, but it’s not without flaws. Researchers have been busy looking for new kinds of technologies that could offer more reliable alternatives. One is called Li-Fi (Light Fidelity). Back in 2011, a group of scientists led by Professor Harald Haas from Edinburgh University in Scotland introduced the […]
12 / 23 / 16
360 Video
Architecture is one of the great powers to enhance our lives, but it boasts some serious communication issues. Designers, even though they mean well, may present homeowners with tough to understand drawings, or renderings that don’t really reflect how to navigate a finished room. As a consequence, homeowners end up paying for space without knowing […]
12 / 21 / 16
Sin City Streetlights
Hurricane Sandy is a terrifying memory, but out of its darkness, plenty of luminous people came out with innovative ideas meant for a better world. One such company is the New York-based clean tech start-up EnGoPLANET. They signed a partnership with the city of Las Vegas and installed their solar-kinetic streetlights solution at Boulder Plaza […]
12 / 20 / 16
Atlanta’s Geezer Squad
In one Atlanta senior care facility, residents keep IT support in-house, thanks to the Geezer Squad. Tech hiccups can fell even the most tech savvy amongst us. For senior citizens, reboots and restarts are difficult to navigate. While sometimes a wayward grandchild can be corralled into providing IT support, not everyone has access to a […]
12 / 15 / 16
Modular Data Centers
Modular data centers are one of the latest innovations in the IT world. In many cases, they are capable of increasing business productivity while reducing costs. We went looking for answers to some common questions about these data centers and what implications they have for the future. So, what is a modular data center? A […]
12 / 09 / 16
Insights on Innovation
In 1992, the founder and CEO of Realcomm made a prediction. Jim Young wrote an article entitled “The Information Age and the Potential Effects on the Commercial Real Estate Market” forecasting a world in which reporters armed with “personal communicator” devices would relay information to editors, who pass it through an electronic distribution system to […]
12 / 07 / 16
Smart Homes, Dumb Security
On October 21, 2016, many of the world’s most popular websites were incapacitated by a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Users trying to blast off a tweet or listen to their favorite track on Spotify suddenly found themselves stranded on 404-error pages or stalled by perpetual “loading” messages on their browser. The […]
12 / 01 / 16
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