Microsoft shows off built-in Kinect, New iPad/iPhone rumors with release dates and more

Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Microsoft shows displays with built-in Kinect, predicts future laptop integration – Microsoft is showing off some displays with built-in Kinect capabilities. These could be very similar to today’s “SmartBoards” which are a mix of computer, whiteboard and projector, as well as much more. Moving [...]

What if you had 40 minutes with one of America's greatest data scientists?

How would you like to attend an event that features a presentation by Jeff Hammerbacher providing context and lessons learned on Innovation and Data?  If you are like most enterprise technologists you would jump at the opportunity. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, you don’t have to travel to a conference to hear Jeff, you [...]

NYC replaces payphones with touchscreens,

Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. New York City replaces 250 public pay phones with iPad-like screens - after the effects of Superstorm Sandy, regular phone booths were suddenly hubs for communication. NYC will be installing smart screens that will “provide city information, emergency broadcasts and local business deals.” Via GigaOM, more [...]

Reminder: GovCon 2012 is next week!

The Cloud & Virtualization Conference will provide a forum for showcasing best practices in securely migrating to next-generation computing platforms and developing cloud infrastructures. The Cybersecurity Conference focuses on the essential defensive security solutions from both the executive program view as well as the technical execution perspective. The Mobile Government Conference explores the opportunities and [...]

NYPD and Microsoft Create a Next Generation Law Enforcement Big Data Solution

With an emphasis on surveillance, evidence, and reporting, law enforcement is an extremely data-intensive field and the New York City Police Department, as the largest agency which deals with the largest American city, has the most data to handle. Lately, with the NYPD’s greater focus on counterterrorism and projects like the  Lower Manhattan Security Initiative to [...]

Sense Networks: Indexing the Real World

Sense Networks, Inc. indexes the real world using real-time and historical location data for predictive analytics across multiple industries. Just as pages on the internet have been indexed and ranked in order to enable a better search experience, Sense Networks has developed patent-pending machine- learning technology to index and rank real world places, based on [...]