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Roadmap planning: choose the right Linux building blocks
The year is drawing to a close, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to book conference rooms. Everyone is planning, estimating, strategising, agreeing to disagree, etc. So what is the answer? Guest blog by Andreea Volosincu
Software containment in VxWorks
The challenge in hardware consolidation for real-time embedded systems is ensuring that sub-systems don’t interfere with each other. Guest blog by Ka Kay Achacoso.
A year of surprises, but IoT continues to dominate
This is the time of year when many look forward and make a series of predictions and resolutions. Well, what a year of surprises 2016 has turned out to be and it really does highlight the difficulties facing those tasked with planning for the future.
Cable goes mobile – or is it the other way round?
It seems almost laughable now to think that voice was the driving force behind the development of the original telecommunications services. How surprised those early pioneers of telephony and telegraphy, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, would be to find teenagers wandering around, mobile phone in hand, downloading and watching videos as they go.
Machine learning, IoT and streaming take centre stage
The fastest growing segment of the information management software market continues to be big data. New findings released by leading global data, market research, and advisory firm Ovum estimate that the big data market will grow from $1.7bn in 2016 to $9.4bn by 2020, comprising ten percent of the overall market for information management tooling.
Alexa – make my building run better!
This Christmas the Amazon Echo with Alexa, looks set to be one of the best-selling gifts. Once you have plugged it in, these two can practically run your house for you. Here Varun Nagaraj, President and CEO of Sierra Monitor Corporation, explains more about the Echo, and how it can turn the lights on in your home, as well as locking and unlocking doors, without you moving a muscle.
Stepping up to the cloud for the next Industrial Revolution
As a new Industrial Revolution begins, there is a risk that the industry that led the first Industrial Revolution, will be left behind. Manufacturers are ill-prepared for the next wave of technological developments, according to EEF, the manufacturer’s organisation.
Tech predictions for 2017
While 2016 may be remembered for its unexpected political outcomes, technology news has also seen its fair share of publicity. A year that will be remembered for the forced ‘upgrade’ to Windows 10, the short-lived phenomenon that was Pokémon Go and Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone, has left 2017 as a year that must generate more positive headlines. Tech blogger Tom Jardine explains.
Go to sleep with one, wake up with another
According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders. Electronic Specifier’s Daisy Stapley-Bunten looks into the technology that tackles tiredness.
Don’t mention the takeover
Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.