Smart factory productivity boosts of 20% are achievable, new video shows – M2M Now (press release) (blog)

28 August, 2015 at 12:30 PM Posted by: Marek Maroszek A new video from factory shop floor management experts Forcam packs powerful insights into the benefits of Industry 4.0. It shows how their pioneering Forcam Force software will help manufacturers achieve shop floor transparency and…

Networks Are Like Mullets – Light Reading

Remember mullets? The unfortunate late-20th-century men’s hairstyle was neat and trimmed around the face and long and flowing down the neck. “Business in front, party in the back,” was the slogan. Service provider networks have become mullets. The parallel occurred to me during a panel…

How London man may have helped trigger the ‘flash crash’ – WAND

By BERNARD CONDONAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) – He operated from a modest suburban London home he shared with his parents, far from the city’s glamorous financial center. He used off-the-shelf software anyone can buy. Yet, if U.S. authorities are correct, Navinder Singh Sarao,…

Fitness trackers should fear the Apple Watch – Mashable

I’ve tested a countless number of fitness trackers, and typically after a few weeks of use, each one ends up in a box on my desk. My collection has become tracker graveyard, and I’m not alone; studies show they often get shoved into drawers not…