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  • IoT Operating Systems

    A recent paper from the Cornell University has been published that covers a “Survey of Operating Systems for the IoT Environment“. (IoT = Internet of Things).  It looks at the Operating Systems produced for the chipsets used in IoT sensors, RFID and devices. The paper lists the following Operating Systems and provides an overview of their…

  • Email Overload

    Having just had a few days off I have come back to the usual full mailbox and a quota that’s blown so need to clear items out before I can send anything. This is a very common place occurrence for people now, but how do we actually behave with and use email? A recent study “Evolution…

  • Do you know Big Data?

    Whilst looking into some suitable questions to ask about Big Data, I can across an excellent poster titled “Do you know Big Data?” produced by Altamira. The poster covers a set of questions that help you question Big Data and a Big Data project. What is Big Data? What types of Big Data are there? How…

  • Microsoft e-Books on MVA

    Microsoft have added a couple of new titles to their collection of e-books on MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) this month. These titles add to a good collection of information on Microsoft products. There are lots of other titles available and it is worth checking out the collection. Microsoft System Center Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined Storage…

  • Open Source, Open Human, Open Data, Open Sesame!

    Open Source is a term that is now common place  meaning access to the inner workings of a thing to allow a wider community of people to help develop and take it forward. A good example of this is in software. The Internet is full of Open Source Software projects that people are developing and…

  • Professional vs Personal Social Media

    Having read an article from HBR on “How to Separate the Personal and Professional on Social Media” I decided to look at the Social Media tool I often use and in what part of my Professional and Personal life they fall. Working on from my Personal Knowledge Management System there are a couple of others shown…

  • 16 Ordnance Survey tools – Open Maps

    The Ordnance Survey (OS) have released some more tools as part of their Open Mapping products which are free to use. This takes the products up to 16 available for the UK geographical areas The new products are: OS Open Map Local OS Open Rivers OS Open Road The opportunities for using the data with…

  • Query LinkedIn with RlinkedIn

    A good article has appeared on R Bloggers on how to analyse LinkedIn using R. It shows how to analyse using a package called RlinkedIn to create a Wordcloud/TagCloud. Rlinkedin can also be used to query a number of Linkedin API’s Connections API Profile API People Search API Job Search API Company Profile API Groups API Share API

  • Lunch? No I’ve got a meeting!

    A recent study from the University of Toronto looked at Restorative Lunch Breaks and the effect of having a good relaxing lunch break on employees. The study found that relaxing activities during lunch, freely-chosen by workers, led to the least amount of reported fatigue at the end of the day.  Getting work done resulted in employees…

  • Race to the largest Raspberry Pi Cluster

    The humble Raspberry Pi has been around for some time and its popularity is growing again with the latest release of the Pi and is a great development platform for the Internet of Things both cost wise and its sheer versatility from basic programming and running Minecraft, to hosting a Docker server. GCHQ have recently announced…