IBM Next 5 in 5

IBM Next 5 in 5 is the title of a fantastic video that IBM guys have developed to show us what technologies will have more success in the next five years. The future of innovation can not be predicted but it’s possible to analyze the most interesting technologies in an effort to know what will be the way of the technology in the next years.

The innovations that IBM analyze are those that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play. This technologies are:

• Energy
• Security
• Mind Reading
• Mobile
• Analytics

Energy: IBM believes that in the future everybody will be able to create their own energy. How? Well, anything that moves can generate energy, if advances in renewable technology and energy go on this way, it’s possible that we can empower our houses with our self-created energy.

Security: Passwords won’t be needed, or at least, not as we know them nowadays. IBM believes that the passwords of the future will be composed by different data of our biological composition. Different information such as retinal data, can be used to build a unique password that you don’t need to remember.

Mind Reading: IBM believes that in the next 5 years we are going to see how mind reading is used in PC games and helping to cure diseases. Just think.

Mobile: In 5 years 80% of current global population will have a mobile device, this can help to break the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Mobile technology is cheaper so a lot of people with economic problems around the world will be able to access information like other people with better economic status.

Analytics: SPAM will not exist in the future thanks to technological innovations. This innovations will be able to filter and find the data that is important and relevant to you, bringing you information without you having to ask for it.

What do you think about these predictions from IBM? Will they change our lives?

E-commerce and M-commerce

E-commerce is evolving really fast, a few years ago companies like Amazon were just starting their business, nowadays Amazon is one of the biggest retail companies in the world. This fast evolution don’t stop, and new technology developments helps the e-commerce industry to be better and bigger.

The next step on the e-commerce revolution is the m-commerce, the way how we buy things is going to change forever. No problem where we are, we will have what we want, exactly in the moment that we want it. This new reality is based on new technologies that make this possible. We have to think in new business models to bring support to the new way of shopping.

This video made a few years ago shows us the importance of m-commerce. An important fact that is shown on the video is that the mobile device will be the world’s primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020. Ready for the future?

Oink: Rate it all!

Kevin Rose is a really active Internet entrepreneur, he is the co-founder of Revision3, Pownce, Digg and Milk. Milk, his latest creation is a company focused on creating mobile applications. The first application designed by Milk is Oink a really intereseting application where you don’t rate places, you rate the things inside.

The community around Oink is growing very fast and a lot of investors are interested on Milk’s projects. Recently Google Ventures has invested $1.5 million in a seed round.

In the next video you can see Erick Schonfeld from Techcrunch interviewing Kevin Rose and testing Oink with Kevin in Milk’s headquarters in San Francisco.

New risks for companies

Thanks to a recent survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers has detected that social networks and mobile devices are the most important new risks for the company’s information security. Companies have to adapt their security strategies to a new reality that comes in a difficult economic time, this complicates the possibility to develope quick and effective strategies to improve security

To conduct the survey PWC have interviewed more than 9600 executives responsible for security and technology, someof the most interesting is that for example 57% of respondents did not have a security strategy on Social Media or mobile gadgets, in Spain this percentage rises to 62.5% quite remarkable percentage considering the penetration in Spain of social networks and mobile gadgets.

On the other hand 54% of respondents believe that cloud computing is improving security systems, this is an interesting fact that reflects the favorable reception that is taking the cloud in the business.

Organized attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) are one of the most important emerging risks, these attacks target international organizations systems, they attack systems vulnerabilities and seriously damage the computer systems of large and important organizations. Overall (72%) respondents trust in their security systems, and a half of the respondents estimate that the budget on security will be increased on their companies in the next twelve months.

Companies are facing hard times, the information leakage risk is increasing due to staff cutbacks and low cost strategies, this facts makes it difficult to achieve desired security objectives for companies.

Security systems have to be adapted to this new reality, a lot of people in the staff of different companies are using social networks, the messages sent by them contain professional and personal information and this messages can cause an impact on the company reputation or can damage the security of the company, a new reality has born and companies must be prepared for it.