Monthly Archives: March 2016

Kevin Steele Of Cars.com Runs IT And Product

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Cars.com is a web 1.0 company, having launched in 1998. It receives roughly thirty million visits per month, and it focuses on the merchandising of new and used vehicles. Kevin Steele leads IT and product for the company, and as such has typical CIO responsibilities, but also is responsible for the Cars.com website, the products the company sells to dealers, the features the company presents to consumers. Therefore, he has an unusually strategic set of responsibilities. Within the past three and a half years, Steele has shepherded in the rise of Cars.com’s mobile presence to reflect the fact that customers increasingly wish to access the site on their smartphones.

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Introducing The Winners Of The Forbes CIO Innovation Awards

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I have had the privilege of being a judge on a number of awards bestowed upon leading chief information officers. Many of them have an innovation theme of one sort or another. I have also had the opportunity to speak with a great number of CIOs, and for those who have an innovation mandate, I have had a chance to speak with them about what constitutes innovation.

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Three Things You Need To Know About The Google Cloud Platform

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Over the past two years we have seen the market for public cloud become hyper-competitive. The field of players has expanded and retracted exponentially. Industry stalwarts like Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Inc. Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Corporation Azure have solidified their dominance in this space. Others have entered this market only to retreat and focus on either hybrid, private, co-locating/hosting, or any number of cloud service machinations. Each public cloud provider has its strengths and weaknesses. For example (and a gross over-simplification), AWS is strong on compute and infrastructure, Microsoft Azure on applications and OS, and Google in the data analytics and storage.

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Taken off shelves last year, LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE is now back on sale

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If you recall, LG halted sales of its Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE in November last year, something which happened just a week after the smartwatch was launched. At that time, the company said that the device has a a faulty component which can potentially bring down the wearable’s image quality over time.

Looks like the South Korean company has fixed the issue in question as the timepiece is now back on sale. It’s currently up for pre-orders on AT&T, which is selling it for $360 outright, or $18 a month for 20 months.

Alternatively, you can also purchase it for $100 on a 2-year…

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Is Samsung Looking At Social Media Innovation To Boost Its Mobile Phone Revenues?

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Samsung Electronics recently announced that it will showcase three previously secret projects at this year’s South by Southwest festival. All three are from C-Lab, the innovation program the company operates to help its employees to nurture their own creative business ideas. The first is Waffle, an innovative social media platform that is designed to enable collaborative content creation on smartphones. The second is Hum On!, a mobile app that notates and plays back hummed melodies in a range of instrumentation. And the third is Entrim 4D, a virtual reality headset that allows users too sense and feel a motion as actions are seen and heard. The company aims to gather feedback and assess the market potential of these products by showcasing them at SXSW. For Samsung’s mobile phone division, in particular, these new products offer the potential to increase market traction against competing platforms. Across its consumer offering, Samsung is using innovative software and hardware designs to boost potential growth.

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