Category: Connectivity

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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The Coming Age of Cloud Computing

Last October, Steve Lohr reported in the New York Times that Google and IBM were teaming to support research at major universities because they “do not provide the technical training needed for

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Mapping Connections

Every school child learns that there has been an explosion of knowledge over the last 150 years. Richard C. Atkinson, President of the Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, asserts, “We are living

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Africa and the Digital Divide

I have occasionally written about efforts to connect African countries to the Internet (see, for example, Update on Wiring Rwanda to the World]. In that post, I cited an article that indicated

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Mobile Phones in Africa

Occasionally in my posts I have mentioned the fact that the African continent has embraced mobile phone technology at an amazing rate. A recent BusinessWeek Special Report discusses how mobile phones are

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Cutting Connectivity in Myanmar

Few administrations around the world are more brutal than the military regime that controls Myanmar. Unless you’ve been isolated on an island without any connectivity with the rest of the world, you

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Mobile Phone Software and Standards

A couple of my recent posts have discussed mobile phones and the benefits of standardization [Relief, Development, and the Digital Divide] and the challenges faced when such standards are lacking [see postscript

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WiMAX and the Evernet

As a so-called “road warrior,” I spend more time traveling annually on business than I get to spend at home with my family. On the road, however, keeping in touch with my

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