Touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word. Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.

This technology measures the shape of real-world objects, and automatically adjusts the coordinate systems for the camera, projector, and real world. In this way, it can coordinate the display with touching, not only for flat surfaces like tables and paper, but also for the curved surfaces of objects such as books.

Visualizing the world’s Twitter data

Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people’s lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. In this video, former New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorp imagines what uses we can devise from this wealth of information.

The Layer Information App

One of the fundamental challenges of a transformation program is to achieve a strategic business goal. The Layer Information App (LIA) is a Program Management tool that supports strategic business programs.

LIA aims at ensuring transparency by providing real-time information ease of data accessibility, and supporting transformation. With a view to achieving these objectives, LIA provides exhaustive information on Budget, Milestones, Planning and Issues and Risk, but also progress on overall program management.

LIA has the functionality of providing project updates by using memo videos that can be created using iPads. The memo video is automatically centrally uploaded, where everyone using LIA within the organization can see this video. This results in increasing transparency within your organization, engineering in flexibility, and fostering ease-of-communication amongst your employees. Importantly, it also means that you no longer need to read those cumbersome status reports.

EU’s strategy to tackle internet privacy risk

The European Union is in the process of re-drafting its pre-internet laws on data protection to take account of the explosion of personal data online and the risk of its misuse. The FT’s Josh de la Mare reports on the tensions between privacy campaigners and business over the draft rules.

Moo’s NFC business card: The last one you may ever need

Tired of carrying hundreds of business cards? What you only needed to carry one? That’s the idea behind this Moo card with embedded NFC tag inside it. You just tap it to a phone with NFC-capabilities and it share just about any information you want.

Cryptoparties teach privacy to the public

Once the secret domain of hard-core hackers and the military, encrypting data has entered the mainstream with a series of gatherings designed to share data privacy with everyone.

Big Data Approach To Security Adversary

Crowdstrike is still mostly in stealth mode, but it is more than hinting that its approach will be to sell a service that helps organizations identify and thwart (and maybe even pursue) adversaries.

Figures of Progress: How Data is Driving Decisions

In sports just as in business, data can mean the difference between winning and losing. In basketball, new ways of recording and synthesizing sophisticated information can create game-winning plays. Want to learn more about how data is turning the game into a greater art?

Interview with SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight

InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen interviews Dr. Jim Goodnight, the CEO and co-Founder of SAS, one of the industry’s leaders in data analytics.

Business Analytics & Big Data: The Next Battleground for Competitive Advantage

The volume of data available to businesses today is staggering. In our “always on” world, there are more and more sources of that data — from RFID chips and online transactions to QR code scans and social media chatter.

But it’s not enough to understand what has happened — for true competitive advantage, you need to understand what is going to happen in the future. This is where Capgemini’s Business Analytics solutions can help. 

Paul Nannetti, Group Sales and Portfolio Director and Richard Brown, Global Program Leader, Business Information Management (BIM) Service Line talk about the importance of Business Analytics and Big Data in the current market and highlight Capgemini’s skills and experience in this area.