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        Google is tackling anti-aging with their new healthcare initiative called Calico. It remains to be seen if it is a threat to anti-aging creams or will increase their potential customers. But seriously, Calico is being led by the former Genetech CEO and current Apple Chairman, Arthur D. Levinson and this new […]

GoBank has been in the news a lot lately with the launch of their new mobile-first banking app.  Their no overdraft and “pay what you want” fee structure prove to be rather compelling for potential customers to switch banks.  GoBank’s single-touch onboarding process and creative design are also indicative of good user experience design and […]

A few days ago when I was browsing some information categorized in data mining and machine learning, I heard that Google had released a large dataset called Wikilinks Corpus which contains 40 million mentions over 3 million entities. What does mention and entity mean here? Apple is also rumored to be working on a new, […]

When wandering through the large HIMSS 2013 exhibit hall in New Orleans this year, I am inspired by innovation and the impact of mobile technologies on healthcare. I was thinking about the article in the Atlantic Wire called “Google Glass Will Be Out Just in Time for a Very Expensive Christmas Present” and what the […]

Many of you may have read in Wired that Google wants to find ways to authenticate without the old messy username and password approach. Google agrees. “Along with many in the industry, we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe,” Grosse and Upadhyay write in […]

Many of you may have read in Wired that Google wants to find ways to authenticate without the old messy username and password approach. Google agrees. “Along with many in the industry, we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe,” Grosse and Upadhyay write in […]

Valeria Arguello published a blog post on 7 tips for those just starting out with Google Analytics.  I won’t steel her thunder but I liked her last tip. Goals Overview Conversion tracking can be added to Google Analytics by clicking on the Admin tab and then on the Goals tab. By adding a goal you […]

I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer.  Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]

In my original XMPP post, I discussed how to troubleshoot TLS errors relating to Lync and the Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 XMPP gateway. If you believe you’re having TLS related issues, please refer to my previous post. This blog will focus on Lync troubleshooting techniques and Google XMPP responses when establishing federation between the two […]

Google announced that they are making Google+ available to companies that have Google Apps for Business through early next year.  I have written before about the potential value of  Google+ in the enterprise.  I personally know of companies that use Google Apps for Business and they champion about how it has changed how they work. […]

There has always been mixed-emotion around Google+.  The user experience, in my opinion, is superior to anything in the social space.  It’s insanely easy to navigate, filter, view posts.  Recently there have been a lot of articles about how brands are using Google+.  There are releases like from our partner, HootSuite, who allows companies to […]

One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. The partner program is designed to extend the use of these applications by allowing integration of other Technology Partner applications as well as expanding implementation options […]