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PaaS, SaaS, Platform, Nervous System, Risk Management, Incident Management. The human body is an awe-inspiring feat of a responsive global system. Cut your finger and a cascade of message systems are actioned within nanoseconds to protect from the initial threat (drop the knife), to start to resolution of the impact on multiple levels (immune initiation, pain reduction, bleed reduction), triggering a global response (you put a plaster on it), and enabling future mitigation (the cognitive ability to think to stop watching the TV while cutting your onion).

This all happens in moments. Local signals release natural pain killers and anti-inflammatories. An immune response is triggered. In the time it takes for you to react to the cut, multiple systems have been put to work in perfect synchronicity. For a second imagine that you can get close to this ultra-low latency signalling, high-fidelity system in your organisation. Governments attempt to get better at this year on year. Government and armed forces apply huge budgets to make this happen. Lego Could Use 3D Printing To Make Personalized Bricks. 4.1 Breaking Games Down (7:51)

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Restaurants. Business intelligence software revenue to hit $13.8bn this year | MyCustomer | Enterprise Knowledge. GE13: Shahrizat: Mix knowledge of young and old good for business - The Star Online | Enterprise Knowledge. Welcome to the Data Driven World - GovExec.com | Enterprise Knowledge. Tom Davenport: big data is too important to be left to the 'quants' - ZDNet | Enterprise Knowledge. Apple Acquires Indoor GPS Startup WiFiSlam For $20M. The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, an indoor GPS startup that enables a smartphone to pinpoint its location — along with that of your friends — in realtime up to 2.5 meters in accuracy. Apple paid $20 million to acquire WiFiSlam, although the specific terms of the deal have not been shared as of yet. However, Apple has confirmed the acquisition, telling Macrumors: The two-year-old startup has developed ways for mobile apps to detect a phone user’s location in a building using Wi-Fi signals.

It has been offering the technology to application developers for indoor mapping and new types of retail and social networking apps. WiFiSlam seems to be part of Apple’s continued plan to build up its location capabilities, and is likely a sign that indoor GPS is just starting to get hot. But no matter what the tech, GPS is still spotty when it comes to the indoors. World Wide Maze - Not Supported. Technology and Markets for Knowledge - Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Exchange within a Growing Economy (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation Volume 22): Bernard Guilhon: 978079237202... | Enterprise Knowledge. Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It's Just Changing How We Tell Stories - TechCrunch | Enterprise Knowledge. Is it possible to describe BigData in one sentence (not getting too cute on punctuations etc.) Things I Carry: A Pebble (Not In My Shoe)