Daily Archives: September 28, 2015

Let’s Get Real About Real-Time Data

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Alan Kay, the Xerox PARC founder and visionary computer scientist, once said, “don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!” 
Alan wasn’t the first* to express the view that the future can, at least in part, be invented, but he was one of its leading proponents laying much of the groundwork in the early 1970s for what would become the personal computer and ultimately, the digital revolution.
For corporate leaders and their companies in the midst of the transition to becoming digital enterprises, that future is real-time computing, or what I prefer to call ‘in the moment’ computing – the ability to make instant decisions based on live rather than stale data.
Real real-time
Technologists have been talking about real-time computing for years, but it is only in the last few years that new technology platforms like SAP’s HANA (which is built around a reimagined database with built-in analytics and other functionality) and in-memory computing have made real, real-time computing possible.

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iPhone 6S Activations ‘Down Forty Percent’ Against iPhone 6

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Now that all the noise and bluster of the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus launch is over, just how well have Apple’s latest smartphones performed out of the gate? Mobile Marketing technologists Fiksu note the iPhone 6S Plus is following a similar level of user activations to last year’s iPhone 6 Plus, but the smaller iPhone 6S is lagging behind the iPhone 6 rate by forty percent.

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Prices for the LG Nexus 5X and Huawei Nexus 6P leak out, will be available online-only

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On Tuesday, September 29, Google is hosting an event where it’s expected the company will unveil two new Nexus-branded smartphones: the Nexus 5X from LG and Huawei’s Nexus 6P. Leading up to that event, though, we’ve already seen a plethora of leaks surface out of the rumor mill regarding both devices, including the different colors each model will come in.

Now pricing has allegedly found its way online ahead of an official announcement. Based on reports published recently by Android Police, Google will price the Nexus 5X starting at $379.99, while the starting price for the Nexus 6P will apparently be $499.99. It’s worth noting that those prices likely reflect the variant with the least amount of memory available, which means the 16GB Nexus 5X and the 32GB Nexus 6P.

It’s expected that the Nexus 5X will be available in a 32GB model as well, while the Nexus 6P will allegedly offer 64GB and 128GB options.

The report also states that sales for the new Nexus smartphones will be online-only, which means there won’t be options available within carrier stores this time around, like there was for the Nexus 6.

The pricing looks to be more on the affordable side this time around, as opposed to the price tag attached to the Nexus 6 last year. That’ll more than likely be a welcomed return to form from Google, so it will be interesting to see how sales go later this year. As far as pre-orders go, it’s believed that Google will launch those tomorrow, September 29, after the handsets are announced. Based on the report, the phones will be available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Ireland to start.

Do you plan on picking up a Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P?

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