The News Salesforce Buys AI Calendar App Maker Tempo The AI-based contextual calendar tempo, which has become a first class replacement for the native iOS calendar was acquired today by Salesforce. Tempo was started as an SRI incubation by Raj Singh, and launched into the market …
Download the PDF Product Brief: Bloomfire by Daniel W. Rasmus, Principal Analyst What is it? Bloomfire focuses on content collaboration and knowledge-based content and communities. Who makes it? Bloomfire, Inc. 1717 W. 6th Street, #100 Austin, TX 78703 Phone: (877) 483-2777 Email: info@bloomfire.com http://bloomfire.com What …
Join knowledge workers all over the world in learning how to make collaboration better. Over the last year, Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus has worked with vendors and consumers of technology to understand why collaboration technology doesn’t provide the business value it should. …
The Apple Event Tim Cook and company, as expected today, announced a bunch of stuff they already announced for about 30-minutes (iPhone 6, Yosemite, i?Cloud, iOS 8 updates, Apple Watch, etc.), and then announced a number of products for which features were already leaked. This …
Download the PDF here. Additional and related research: http://www.seriousinsights.net/what-we-wont-learn-from-ibms-watson-playing-jeopardy/ http://www.seriousinsights.net/watson-and-jeopardy/ http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Features/Analytics-FOR-THE-REST-OF-US-94274.aspx What is it? The Watson Academic Initiative offers collaborative investments of time and resources between IBM and universities designed to encourage learning through experimentation and application of IBM’s Watson cognitive computing platform. …
Download PDF here. What is it? MightyCall is a Internet telephony service that offers IP-based telephone numbers, including toll-free and local numbers, and call routing and management through the web and mobile devices. Who makes it? Mightycall What does it do? MightyCall offers what …
Angry Birds Layoffs Rovio announced layoffs today as reported in Wired Rovio Layoffs Prove Mobile Gaming Is an Industry of One-Hit Wonders (October 2, 2014,) and elsewhere. I don’t believe, however, that Rovio’s issues stem from the inherent nature of mobile gaming. If we look at …
Download PDF here What is it? Microsoft Delve is an machine learning technology that integrates with Microsoft Office 365. Delve discovers patterns within Office 365 using analysis from documents, calendars and communications, including e-mail. The technology provides personalized, contextual awareness of information that …
Big data wants to know how you will vote in November (it also wanted to know how voters would lean in the Scottish national vote and other exercises in democracy around the world). Well, not big data exactly but other bigs: big business, big campaigns. But …
With the announcement of Apple Watch on September 9, 2014, Apple formally entered the consumer market known as wearables. As analysts, buyers and consumers ogle the leather and steel, magnetic charger, digital crown and host of other features, they are missing one key point: Apple …