top technology 2015 part2

EasyJet broke with the past in a big way in 2015, switching out flight attendants' sensible slacks, scarves and jackets for an Iron Man-esque new collection of smart uniforms laced with futuristic technology. With Uber, Google, Apple, Tesla, BMW and Mercedes-Benz all making waves in 2015 with their respective self-driving car initiatives, the question wasn't who was working on a driverless car, but rather, who wasn't. This trend will definitely continue in 2015 too and will provide the masses with great new features to base their applications on. Google is constantly improving its mobile operating system platform and next year seems more promising than ever. Definitely, Androids will dominate the mobile operating system scenario in 2015. In March, KSS was named one of the Washington Business Journal's Top Minority-Owned Businesses for the D.C. metropolitan area. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization in the next three years. Mr. Cearley said the top trends for 2015 cover three themes: the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the technology impact of the digital business shift. This event delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world's leading IT research and advisory organization, and provides access to the latest solutions from key technology providers. However, Elliptic Labs wants to take this further - and has demoed next-generation gesture control technology at CES 2015. The technology enabled the device to display and shift content depending on the location and distance a user's hand was from the device. Of particular note is the ThinkPad 2015 product portfolio, featuring the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, a 14-inch ultrabook, the ThinkVision X24 monitor and ThinkPad Stack. Roku, maker of radio and tv streaming devices, rocked up to CES 2015 with plans to tackle the TV market. The company unveiled the Haier Roku TV product range, a combination of Haier television technology and Roku's streaming devices, which give consumers access to over 2,000 channels without the subscription fees of traditional cable. While Samsung has been relatively quiet so far at this year's CES, the company has revealed a new Tizen-based television dubbed the 'SUHD' TV. The range will include Samsung's nano-crystal technology and a quality remastering engine in order to provide watchers with 4K Ultra High Definition viewing. XYZprinting demoed a new invention at CES 2015 this week - the firm's first Food Printer. Intel unveiled a wearable processor called Curie, an open source computer the size of a button suitable for wearable technology. The models released at the end of 2015 look much more appealing and have tons of great features. Even though the Fitbits' sales have dropped right after Apple smartwatch was launched in April 2015, they have gone up at the end of 2015. At the moment, Fitbit is again at the top of the fitness tracker industry, with over 13 million devices sold only in 2015. We have identified the top 10 technology trends that organizations cannot afford to ignore in their strategic planning processes. This does not necessarily mean adoption and investment in all of the trends at the same rate, but companies should look to make deliberate decisions about them during the next two years. Cloud computing plays an outsize role, demonstrating just how the transition to the cloud has impacted all aspects of technology. And it's not just the cloud” as a trend, but the means in which the cloud has become the underlying communication, storage and interaction infrastructure facilitating nearly all of the tech trends. This year's trends are as follows, each of which relies in some way on cloud computing to deliver the sort of integrations necessary for success. This technology potentially has the largest impact in hotels, as smart, connected buildings could enhance the guest experience by extending and sharing knowledge across the property while also customization of the guest experience. With the near-continuous cycle of security breaches capturing international headlines, strategic technology deployments in 2015 will be highly specialized on the security front. Given the current landscape, the technology will likely be on this list for awhile, as brands begin to deploy and understand this entirely new connected ecosystem. This lively package of news and information from Tnooz's web site provides a convenient digest of what's happening in technology that drives the global travel, tourism and hospitality market. To be frank, as gamers, 2015 was a phenomenal year for video games… and in order to celebrate, IT News Africa has selected the very best video game titles released in 2015 - which can be found below in non-ranking order. In the video above, Telegraph Technology reporter Sophie Curtis runs through her top picks for a smarter connected home. We could show you a formula, gin up some numbers, and explain how we objectively selected the Top Tech of CES 2015 from a 17-point selection process, but the truth is, we didn't. So until that day, check out the biggest, the fastest, and the most innovative CES 2015 had to behold. Samsung and Panasonic both showed off gorgeous new LED TVs with new lighting technology that enables High Dynamic Range for higher contrast and significantly expanded color reproduction. OLED is simply a superior display technology to LED/LCD, and it doesn't hurt that LG's WebOS 2.0 is our favorite smart TV interface by a wide margin. Perfect black levels, surreal colors and engrossing, realistic motion made LG's EF9500 OLED our favorite Home Video announcement of CES 2015. We're not sure exactly which features are best on the Meme, but we do know that Jins is taking a bunch of the coolest trends at CES and cramming them all into a pair of glasses you wouldn't guess had a wire in 'em. The top lid opens to a basin with a jet stream of water, which is useful for pre-treating, rinsing out a garment, or just washing the detergent off your hands. Any water that's gathered in the top basin drops through a slot when the second lid opens, along with the clothing. The crazy thing is, it actually works, as a brief session amazingly proved to us. You can try it for yourself later in 2015. Getting to the top of the search results page may be harder today than it used to be, but now is not the time to hide your head in the sand! Features like personalized search, real-time search results, and instant previews may be changing how users search the web, but it does not change the need for your website to be optimized properly so it can be read and indexed by the search engines, and ultimately found in the top search results. So no matter where web technology takes us in 2011, these five trends are solid, tried-and-true initiatives that you can implement today to help your business stay ahead of the curve and (hopefully) ahead of your competitors! Lauren Hobson, President of Five Sparrows, LLC, has more than 16 years of experience in small business technology writing, marketing, and web site design and development. Beginning early and planning for the examinations in a organized way can help you crack GATE 2015. Eventually, it is your dedication that will impact your efficiency in GATE 2015. OpenGov - OpenGov cloud technology enables governments to share financial data with elected officials and the public to improve communication and build trust. I predict Glasnost (increased openness and transparency in government institutions) will become a de-facto technology requirement for every state and local government agency. MapR Technologies - MapR provides mission-critical Hadoop technology for enterprise-wide big data initiatives. MapR's technology received the highest score for Hadoop / data warehouse interoperability in Gigaom's latest research. Couchbase - Couchbase provides the highest performing NoSQL distributed database technology.Companies like AOL, Cisco, Concur, LinkedIn, Orbitz, , Shuffle Master, Zynga and hundreds of others around the world use Couchbase Server for their interactive Web and mobile applications. GTNexus - GT Nexus' game-changing technology optimizes supply chain transformation to the cloud. Verimatrix - Chances are you're using Verimatrix's technology and don't even know it. Cable and satellite TV providers around the globe use Verimatrix to deliver and secure video delivery, IPTV and Internet TV. Birst - Birst's cool technology takes advantage of the paradigm shift of traditional business intelligence tools and applications to the cloud. AdRoll - AdRoll's sophisticated bidding technology makes it easy to reach customers as they switch browsers, devices, and apps. Hubspot - HubSpot technology helps businesses get found online, generate more leads, and convert leads into paying customers. Malwarebytes - Malwarebytes infection removal technology has a fanatical following with end user consumers. You can't sell your technology if you don't know who to have key conversations with. Facebook was already ubiquitous in most people's lives before this year, but the company consolidated its gains in 2015, expanding beyond a place where people share news about their families and into one of the top communications companies in the world. Instagram has replaced Facebook as the social app of choice among teens — which is fine, since Facebook owns it. Facebook is turning into one of the top destinations, alongside Google's YouTube, for online video. It's also scaring the pants off of the media industry as it becomes the top way people share news stories. Surprise No. 1: It's profitable Surprise No. 2: It's already massive, on track to book more than $7 billion in revenue in 2015. Its quiet rise is reminiscent of how Microsoft went from an enterprise laughingstock in the 1990s — hard to remember now, but IT departments once considered Windows PCs annoying nuisances or toys and never imagined Microsoft software running in their data centers — to one of the top enterprise-software companies by the end of the next decade. Cord-cutting is real, and Netflix has pole position as the top creator of online-delivered TV-like entertainment. Apple will continue to be a massive cash-generating machine, but 2015 was a building year, or as Nilay Patel at The Verge aptly wrote , this was a beta year. Develop a business strategy and a technology strategy that will help your business grow and develop profitably as trends, technology and client expectations change. It pays for modern businesses to have a technology strategy in place to ensure they remain competitive. The content of your technology strategy will depend on the nature of your business - whether you sell technology or simply use it in the running of your operation. If you sell it, part of your technology strategy will be designed to ensure you keep up to date on available products. If your business is service orientated, the major role of technology in your business is likely to be in the day to day operation of your business. The quality and speed of your service can be determined by the quality of the technology you are using. Philippines (TMPC) claims that in 2015 new Toyota Innova will start its initially gait within the car world. Toyota Innova 2015 is organized for the Philippines is definitely the most up-to-date age group in CKD. The competition, now in its fifth year, seeks innovative ideas from 3rd level students across Ireland on how technology can solve a business problem, create a business opportunity or enhance an existing service offering. Entries can be anything from an idea to a functional prototype, as long as you can demonstrate a passion for technology and an understanding of the types of challenges business face today. Top submissions will be invited to an Interactive Development Day in 27th March where they will receive mentoring and training from Deloitte technology experts and industry leaders, before delivering a short elevator pitch. This would allow companies to identify and track where images of their products or logos have appeared online and on social media channels through the use of image recognition technology. The top mutual funds when the tide turns could be those that don't necessarily follow the crowd. If you are willing to go against the tide and be proactive, the top funds and best investment options for 2014 and beyond are not actually mutual funds in the conventional sense. These funds do not fluctuate in value, and the dividends paid (interest) follows interest rate trends. While each Technology blog is different, they tend to write about interesting technology and hardware. This is strengthened by the fact that technology tends to be expensive and therefore allows for healthy commissions. If you are looking to attract attention from technology bloggers, we strongly recommend including an affiliate program as part of your outreach. If the technology you have is digital, as opposed to hardware, you can provide a free copy as part of the review and potentially couple it with a giveaway, since there is no marginal cost. Health workers attempting to beat back a massive epidemic across Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in west Africa continued to learn that hard lesson in 2015. In 2015 the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) formally decreed that drone pilots—even hobbyists—are aviators and must accept all of the rights and responsibilities that come with that designation. To celebrate general relativity's anniversary Scientific American dedicated its September 2015 issue to the topic. One of the biggest cheerleaders of so-called clean diesel” handed the technology a major defeat in 2015. The Apple Watch was number one on the Wareable 50 for 2015 and that was before it was even announced.