Retail Technology Study [PDF]

RIS News and Gartner have completed their 14th annual technology study of the retail industry. The study polls the retail industry and compares the findings with past technology trends to give a view of how the industry invests in and employs, technology. The study concludes that for the first time, "retailers are linking technology with core business processes and making capital investment based on a fully aligned strategy." This "new era of alignment indicates the role of the CIO and the corporate view of technology continue to grow in importance." Other key conclusions that emerge from the data include:

Real-time retailing is gaining importance

IT budgets will continue to grow

POS upgrades remain a focus for stores

Self-checkout will emerge in new retail markets

Stored-value cards are reaching maturity

RFID continues to gain momentum.

Metisse

Check out Metisse -- an experimental X desktop -- or a 3D GUI desktop for Unix. "3D?" you say. Yes, 3D. The desktop simulates a 3D environment on you flat monitor. Not sure how much this will catch on, but if it does, expect Microsoft to have it in a future version of Windows.

US DoJ's Scary Database

This is a funny one. The Bush administration has denied a freedom of information request seeking the Justice Department's database of foreign lobbyists. According to the DofJ, the act of copying the database would bring the system down and cause devastating data loss. In other words 'no.' Hmm -- copying a database would cause it to crash -- why is the government trying to hide the lobbying activities of foreigners from the American people?

Recent Movies

I've been to a few movies recently:

Fahrenheit 9/11 -- saw this with some of the guys from work tonight. The movie was, as expected, quite leftist. Michael Moore did use the facts to the best of his advantage of portraying Bush and his inner circle as sometimes buffons, sometimes evil, selfish, calculating men who are manipulating the American public for their own financial gain. While some of it may be true -- and I believe the truth is somewhere in there -- I think he gives Bush a little too much credit -- Bush is not that smart. Regardless, the American public should see this movie.

Blood: The Last Vampire -- I saw this movie on DVD, on my laptop instead of sleeping. It didn't seem that long -- I found out afterwards it was about 45 minutes only. The characters didn't get that well developed. The movie is an anime, set in 1966 Vietnam, and is about a mysterious girl, one of the originals, that hunt down and kill vampire monsters -- and she does it hack-and-slash, with a sword. The movie is quite stylized -- the animation is cool -- but the story too short.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- saw the latest Harry Potter movie with the family. This time around, with new direction, the movie is darker and more geared towards the summarizing of the book. It was still a good movie, but a lot of the finer points that the first two movies captured seemed to have gone. Hopefully, these will make it into the DVD release. The movie also didn't focus so much on Voldemort as I thought it would have. It all seemed to happen too fast -- including Harry Potter's realization that the Prisoner of Azkaban was actually a friend.

Troy -- the story stayed pretty true to the story I read when I was a kid -- or as memory serves anyway. It also served as an opportunity for Brad Pitt to show off his well buffed nude form. Eric Bana was great in the movie, and Orlando Bloom shot arrows yet again.

The Day After Tomorrow -- seeing the world end (well not really, just the next ice age) occur in movie time, with spectacular effects of New York subjected to the elements, was great. To believe that this would in any way serve to get people to take climatic change any more seriously is far fetched. It made for nice entertainment while it lasted though!

Ready? Secure? Disclose

Regulatory compliance. The very utterance makes businesses squirm -- and there's more coming. Businesses may soon have to make their data and processes secure against cyberterrorists in the name of securing the national infrastructure -- I read somewhere that 85% of the public infrastructure is under private control. Trying to stay ahead of government legislators, businesses are hoping to regulate themselves by creating guidelines that they can adhere to. Read more at Baseline.

Toronto Trek 18

Toronto Trek is here this weekend. The cost for admission though is pretty steep. If I go, it will be on Sunday, and it will be for the entire day -- why spend $40 and not be able to get your money's worth? Money's worth -- the whole exercise seems designed to rip you off of all cash. Even the stars that are attending the show are charging for autographs! I've been out of the loop for quite sometime. Since when was this the norm? Anyway, the show isn't just about Star Trek -- it's really SciFi in general. And the entertainment value in seeing some freaks can't be passed up.

World's Fare

Harbourfront Centre's World Fare lands this weekend, starting Friday night. There are dancers, musicians, arts & crafts, and lots, and lots of food! There's actually some dance that I want to see, and as usual, I like to try different music. Friday night I'm interested in seeing Kiran Ahluwalia and Besh o droM -- and maybe even the Nouvel Expose Dance workshop. On Saturday, I'm interested in seeing Tandava and David Murray & the Gwo-Ka Masters. I usually take my camera -- hopefully, they haven't clamped down people taking pictures of the performers.

MIT's Technology Review, May 2004

I posted Nathan P. Myhrvold's article [PDF] from the May 2004 issue of MIT's Technology Review last month. The May issue of the magazine focused on invention and the power of innovation. Here are other articles of interest from the magazine.

Woz Goes Wireless [PDF] -- Steve Wozniak is combining wireless technology with the global positioning system -- the results? You'll be able to find anything, anywhere -- including the needle in the haystack.

Kurzweil's Rules of Invention [PDF] -- Ray Kurzweil has invented many a things, and has come up with the seven stages in the evolution of technology: precursor, invention, development, maturity, false pretenders, obsolescence and antiquity. Inventions become successful not by the inventor knowing this stages, but knowing the right time to introduce your invention.

The Sound War [PDF] -- meet Ed Norris and Joe Pompei. They've both invented the same thing independently -- a way of localizing sound waves so that speakers can direct sound directly at you, without people around you hearing it. Who's invention will become common place? and who will the world forget?

Why Big Companies Can't Invent [PDF] -- why can't corporations invent? Yes, they have large research labs, and drop billions in them, but they hardly seem capable of coming up with the next big thing. Smaller startups with no budget seem to beat them at the finish line repeatedly.

Microsoft's Magic Pen [PDF] -- the magic pen, an invention of Jian Wang of Microsoft's Beijing research lab. The lab was established just a few years ago, yet it's surpassing all expectations of its output. Why? Could it be that the lab is indeed quite different from research labs of big corporations?

5 Killer Patents [PDF] -- TR presents 5 patents from 2003 that they think will revolutionize computing, medicine, communications and security.

Global Invention Map [PDF] -- this is a beautiful piece of work -- it's a graphical representation of the global capacity for innovation. There are some surprises on the map. The US is #1, and Canada #12 -- what's startling are the countries that make up the top 10. Not what you'd expect.

Blogging at Work

Who says you can't blog at work? Well, maybe your boss doesn't like you wasting your time on the internet, but more and more companies are starting to see the benefits of allowing their employees to blog at work. Read the article in BusinessWeek.

Boeing's Women

BusinessWeek has uncovered some disturbing evidence of Boeing's treatment of their female employees and the ensuing coverup to hide evidence of wrongdoing. In 2000, 38 women took Boeing to court alleging pay discrimination. Boeing's response to the class action suit was to deny doing anything wrong, then withhold information from lawyers, the court, and even going so far as to have evidence destroyed. The evidence that Boeing tried to suppress, and later was forced to release, showed that Boeing knew that its hiring and rewarding practices singled women out and discriminated against them -- and further, Boeing did nothing about, suppressed the findings internally, because it was too expensive to fix their discriminatory practices. What I found most shocking about this was that Boeing female senior managers knew about this and supported it. They collaborated in sustaining Boeing's gender bias.

Cyber-extortion

The Register reports of a man trying to extort $17 million from MicroPatent, LLC, an intellectual property firm that packages patent and trademark information for law firms. The man used unsecured Wi-Fi access from a couple of homes and dentist office to send emails requesting the $17 million, for which in return, he wouldn't reveal sensitive patent information. He covered his tracks pretty well. At one point, MicroPatent even tried using a web-bug to trace who was harassing them. All to no avail. Police got their break when the extortion demand requested that MicroPatent to "make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk."

Visiting Springfield?

You would never visit a new place without a handy-dandy map to get you around -- and so, people with too much time on their hands and a good education, have created a map to the Simpsons home town of Springfield. The map has been officially recognized by Harvard College Library, who have added it to its links of interactive maps on the internet. Only in America. Next, I think Homer should be made a candidate for president -- already many people look to him for guidance during his weekly, sometimes daily, addresses to the nation. [Darren, thanks for this one too!]

Whitehouse Parody

Whitehouse.org declares today to be "June 28, in the Year of America's Lord Jesus 2004" with the smiling George welcoming visitors from the banner pic, and so begins the parody of the Whitehouse and the government of George W. Infused with profanity and a skilled Photoshop artist, the site uses the Bush camp as humor mill fodder. A definite must see, must read for fans of the president.

Old Superstitions

This site bills itself as having the largest collection of superstitions on the net. While the site shows that people have over time invented superstitions for just about everything, the site lacks history. It doesn't capture where the superstitions came from or why they were developed. Only if you're bored check out this site.

Implosion World

Here's a site dedicated to the world of building implosions. Whether it's imploding a building to clear way for a replacement, or just blowing buildings up to reclaim the land, ImplosionWorld aims to chronicle world of buildings coming down -- for entertainment and education.

Toronto's Fringe Festival

It all starts on Wednesday, June 30th, and runs to July 11th. This 16th annual festival features 950 performances of 128 plays in 21 venues. That's a lot of theatre -- and unless you have no job, no life, and have money, you ain't gonna see them all. To get the most our of Fringe, you'll have to plan. First, you'll need the master schedule -- it comes in three parts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Second, you'll need to know where all the shows are located -- so you'll need the Map! Lastly, you can order tickets for your shows online. With some planning, little sleep and your friends to share the shows with, you're bound to have a good time.

IT helps Compliance

As regulators, both public and private, descend on businesses, more and more, businesses are responding by turning to software vendors to be rescued. The sales people of course are out in force, and are promising everything from vapourware to actual applications. Can the software offerings save businesses? Well, not really. Any business looking for a quick fix via software is going end up with a bad surprise. Software can't really help if you don't have the business processes in place to make you compliant. All software does is enable business processes -- automate, give efficiency and provide a digital filing cabinet.

Sharing Data

InformationWeek has an article updating efforts by retailers to collaborate with their suppliers. Efforts have been underway for years with retailers and suppliers spending a tidy sum -- they've met with limited success however. The annual VICS conference usually bring renewed calls for more collaboration, with practitioners taking the podium to elucidate on their latest successes. So why aren't retailers and suppliers seamlessly sharing information yet? The article tries to answer that, and the usual sorry excuses for data synchronization project failures are the culprits. Namely: good clean data is hard to come by; changing processes to ensure clean data isn't always that easy; trust; and realizing the ROI.

IDSA 2004 Awards

IDSA's Industrial Design Excellence Awards for 2004 have been awarded. Check out the 130 winners from the 12 categories. The IDSA site also has some pretty good articles for the design-minded individual, such as: the Design Trend Report [PDF], as well as links to articles else on design.

FreeBSD Motorbike

Here's a dude with too much time on his hands (I'm envious). He's rigged his motorbike with a computer, running FreeBSD -- think of it as case modding to the max! The computer currently only functions to receive video being captured by his helmet-cam, but he's got plans for it to log tracks from his GPS as well as power his iPod. I hope I'm not the only one that thinks this is cool!

Space Elevator Conference

The 3rd Annual Space Elevator conference starts tomorrow and runs until the 30th in Washington, D.C. The conference covers all aspects of getting a space elevator off the ground, with presentations by the scientists working in the field. I'm hoping that the presentations from the conference will be posted to the site after the conference is over. Last year's presentations are online. [Thanks for the link Darren.]

Dark Nights Nationals

If you understand the movie the Fast and the Furious (I didn't see the movie), you'll probably understand this show. It's about pretty cars, fast cars, girls who hang off guy's arms and macho boys. It comes the weekend of July 17-18 to the Markham Fairgrounds. I don't get it. If you get it, explain it to me please. Maybe it's too cool for me.

Pride Week

Toronto is bursting with fruit -- so declares Toronto's Pride Week site. The week long celebration of Toronto's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex and queer people culminates on Sunday with the big parade -- yes, straight people are welcome too. I think it's cool for Toronto to celebrate our diversity -- and here's to the day when there will be no Pride Week, because it just won't be something so different and out of the ordinary.

Spider-Man India

This was surprising -- Spider-Man being redone as the friendly neighbourhood crime fighter for the streets of Mumbai. Spider-Man's mythology will be rewritten for an Indian audience, with Spidey being an Indian. Instead of Peter Parker, welcome Pavitr Prabhaker -- instead of the Green Goblin, menacing the citizens of Mumbai will be Rakshasa. The comics will be published by Gotham Entertainment Group of India, with Marvel Comics possibly publishing versions for North America.

Flash Movies

This came courtesy of one of the comments from my blog. It's a site with lots of cool flash movies! [Thanks 'Nessa!] A few I like: Jesus vs. Muhammad, Super Mario Reloaded, and a whole lot more!

Ibutsa Rwanda

Harbourfront's Summer Festivals kick off this weekend. Starting Friday evening and running through to Sunday is Ibutsa Rwanda: Commemoration & Celebration. Ibutsa means "those who know must tell." It's a reminder of the 100-days of hell in Rwanda in 1994, when over one million people were murdered. Friday night features two films: Journey Into Darkness and The Killers -- both quite depressing. The weekend features arts, crafts, music and dance, as well as films. There is not much happy in the films -- and there's quite a few of them. The unfortunate thing is that those who don't need to see the films -- those that don't need to be moved, will be there seeing the films. Those that hate -- those that are bigots -- those people who really need to see the horror, will not be there. Considering after WWII that the world vowed never to let it happen again, we failed miserably in 1994. The voracity of scourge that descended on Rwanda was terrifying -- more terrifying that it was people, armed with nothing more that machetes, that were hacking their neighbours to death.

Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival

The festival kicks off tomorrow night and will run until July 4th. The festival features more than just Jazz, there's also lots of arts and crafts.

Mailing List

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Water Privativation [PDF]

Read this disturbing report from the Public Citizen, on the policy of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in last couple of decades to use its economic and political influence to force third world counties to private their natural resources, including water. Under the scheme, the World Bank and IMF gets private first world corporations to own the water supply, including rain water, of third world countries. The results have been damning [PDF]. Social upheaval, including riots and deaths; escalating water rates; lack of investments; and environmental disasters. Who does the World Bank work for? Certainly not the poor of the world.

Don't think the third world citizens are going to be the only ones screwed. Read the Center for Public Integrity's report: The Water Barons to see how widespread this has become.

Scientific Objectivity

Drugmakers are being accused of derailing objectivity in scientific research -- well, duh! Let's see: if drug makers lie, withhold negative results, spin results so that they appear positive, or hire consultants to write positive reviews then pay doctors to sign as authors, then they're only doing what's best for their business. They can hardly be expected to be socially responsible. They can hardly be expected to have the interest of consumers in mind. Why are we so naive that we expect this?

The Digital Village

India's educated elite, responsible for India's successful technology industry are also an altruistic bunch. They've been giving back in the hopes of bridging the gap between the rich and India's 700 million poor -- the gap between the lower-caste and upper-caste. They've been the driving force behind getting information to India's mostly illiterate poor. Information that can be used to help with crops, health care, education and dealing with the bureaucrats more effectively. This use of technology for the common good is a grand social experiment that could be a lesson to other third world countries trying to break the cycle of poverty. It also has lessons for the developed world -- instead of thinking of the world's poor and third world counties as a burden, they could be thought of as a 5-billion market. [BusinessWeek's Graphics: The Stats and Tech for the Masses.]

Price of an Open Society

The Athens games will be unprecedented for its security. From terrorists with death and mayhem on their minds, to cyberterrorists and local anarchists out to disrupt the games and gain attention, Greece is readying itself for all potential disruptions.

41,000 police, along with other emergency personnel

10,000 military personnel stationed at venues

Special forces will be on call for emergencies

Unspecified number of bomb sniffing dogs will be on patrol

Ocean floor sensors and frogmen will protect against underwater attack

NATO warships will patrol the coast and guard cruise ships

1,600 surveillance cameras will be in use around Olympic sites

Unspecified number of Patriot missiles will be in place

NATO AWACS planes will scan the sky, while Greek fighter jets will be on call to intercept any hijacked planes

A NATO battalion that specializes in nuclear, chemical and biological contamination will be on call

Open Source Life

Jimmy Rock poses an interesting question about the nature of life and its ownership -- proposing that with recent patenting of different life, perhaps life itself should be distributed under an open source license -- the way it has always been before businesses took over.

Not-so-perfect Flight

SpaceShipOne didn't have an exactly perfect flight, New Scientist reports. Apparently, the craft did a few unusual things, including the lost of attitude control for a moment. Those failures haven't dampened the spirits of the SpaceShipOne team, but there will be no twin flights for the X-Prize until the problems are fixed.

Mac Supercomputer for the Army

I didn't believe this one when I saw it reported by MacCentral -- apparently the US Army is getting 1566 dual processor 64-bit Xserve G5 servers to build a $5.8 million cluster that will be a 25 teraflop supercomputer. The US army using Macs ... I suppose since Windows is going to run their battleships, they might as well use OS/X for research.

Digital Convergence

I found this BusinessWeek article to be a bit ecocentric. It claims the digital convergence is finally happening. Well, it may be crawling in North America, but it's exploding in Asia. It may get to us soon too, unless of course US protectionism curtails it. Asia has a bigger population, booming economies and more early adopters than North America -- we're conservative compared to the gadget freaks of Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and now, China. Digital Convergence refers to the convergence of consumer electronics with computer technology -- the blurring of the walls that separate the living room from the den. It promises to give the world the next innovative spurt and propel the next levels of growth. BusinessWeek has a top 100 list [PDF] of information technology companies that stand to be at the forefront of the innovation -- that doesn't necessarily mean they will gain the most from it -- in such environments, the more hungry, more nimble startups have the advantage -- and nothing to lose.

Beating up on China

Bring out the lawyers, because they're the only ones to make anything from this. China is not considered a market society by international law, and will have to become one for entry into the WTO. It doesn't help China that it today enjoys a $124 billion annual trade surplus with the US either. So lately, the US has been engaged in some really short term thinking and have been challenging China on just about every industry, claiming China is dumping exports onto the US market unfairly. Not that that isn't true -- but it probably is false as well. China has an explosive economy right now, and having a trade surplus is part of having an economy that's growing too fast for its britches. Using trade law to subdue China though is the wrong move. The US needs China to boom [PDF], and they need China to sustain that boom -- the healthier the Chinese economy is, the better for the US. The more Chinese with money, the more people there will be there to buy US export. The US has to realize that on some things, it can no longer compete. If it's not China that's manufacturing them cheaply, it's going to be some 3rd world country. (For a quick lesson on World Trade and the practice of dumping, click here! [PPT])

Wisdom of Crowds

BusinessWeek has a review of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds. The book looks at the age old assumption that crowd behaviour is behaviour of the mindless -- it shows that far from being stupid, groups of people tend to out perform individuals. This tends to make sense of you stop thinking of crowds as a herd of hysterical people and more as a team. Surowiecki references the case of the May 1968 disappearance of the USS Scorpion. The US Navy had a general sense of where the submarine went down, but couldn't pinpoint it. Experts were brought in and asked to give their expert opinion on where to look, based on available data. Collectively, they were off by 220 yards, even though individually, not one of the experts were as close. Surowiecki then extends his analogy to businesses -- if teams tend to perform better, why do businesses still rely on individuals to make key strategic decisions instead of relying on a team effort? Already, such thinking is starting to make its way into public decision making -- mainly in the form of decision markets, such as the Hollywood Stock Exchange, in which wagering on box office returns is a better forecast method of predicting what films will become hits and what will fail.

Bradbury unhappy with Moore

I don't get it -- or maybe I get. Ray Bradbury is apparently upset at Michael Moore for taking creative license on his Fahrenheit 451 book and titling his latest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. I've read on blogs with subjects like:

"Michael Moore Plagiarizes Ray Bradbury?"

It amazes me that the American sheep are so willing to hold a public hanging of Michael Moore -- the gut hatred they feel for the man is amazing. The man has done nothing than make a documentary, slightly leftist, but one with more truth than the promises of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They're willing to burn a man for his use of freedom of speech (the irony here is just too much -- re: the temperature Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature books burn in Bradbury's fiction), while defending Bush, the lair, that sent hundreds of Americans to their death and killed thousands more innocents in his campaign that was nothing more than a compensation for having a small weenie. I also find it hard to understand Bradbury -- he seemed to have gone senile with age. What happened to the message of his book? If nothing else man, Moore just give you some free publicity! Thank him instead of being an ass who seemed to have forgotten that it is a-ok for an artist to co-opt a title from another work, especially when it's for satirical purposes. Whatever happened to being an artist Ray? Don't you remember the reception Fahrenheit 451 got from the US government in the first place? They wanted to burn your ass too, remember?

Fermilab's Lecture Series

A whack of information is available at Fermilab's site -- animations, streaming video / lecture series and small programs that simulate physics phenomena. The site also contains a rich offering of still images -- photographs and illustrations. I especially like the lecture series, which contains PowerPoint slides accompanied by the streaming RealVideo presentation. Cool presentations:

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Sounds from the Distant Universe

The Search for Extra Dimensions

Quantum Computing

Today's computers obey the laws of classical physics -- the good ole stuff that we all learned in high school -- Newton's apple bouncing off his head, or something like that. Fundamentally, our computers follow the laws of our everyday reality. Underneath that reality however, is another world -- the world of quantum mechanics -- a world that is not as well understood, still hotly debated, and understood with as many theories as there are laws. In classical computers, bits can only have two states -- 1 or 0. Binary. From a macro level (and this includes the nano scale world) the universe is governed by the nature of this duality. Either or. Never and. Quantum mechanics, and correspondingly, quantum computing have more states. A quantum bit, or qubit, can exist as a 1, 0 or both at the same time, with varying probability of being one or the other. These states can be observed only at the quantum level -- which is very, very small. (Click here for an introduction to Quantum Computing.) The promises of quantum computing however, are very, very large. A quantum computer, using just 14 calculating atoms, could perform 16,384 simultaneous calculations, more than the fastest supercomputer out there. Research into quantum computing has been going on in labs across world ever since Richard Feynman speculated in the late 1980s that one way of simulating a quantum mechanical system would be to use a quantum computer (Feynman had such strange notions back in 1959 as well). Since then, quantum systems have been assembled, although they hardly constitute a computer. Recently, there appears to be a wake up call in the US. Darpa has proposed a program, called Focus Quantum Systems, which aims to build a quantum computer capable of factoring a 128-bit number (the common standard of online encryption) in 30-seconds, with 99.99% accuracy. The US government isn't alone in their quest -- yes, university labs having been working on the problem for a while -- but companies are also increasing their research spending in this direction. Microsoft has employed mathematician Michael Freedman to explore the topic. HP is researching the ways to exploit quantum effects in molecular electronics. IBM is looking at ways of generating qubits in the area of spintronics. Whether quantum computers can be built or not is still a question however -- their promises to revolutionize the computing industry and the world as we know it though is too much of a lure for the possibility to be ignored. For more information, check out these links:

Simulating Physical Systems by Quantum Networks [PPT] - a presentation by J.E. Gubernatis of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a technical presentation, but it is illustrative.

Feynman, Einstein and Quantum Computing [PPT] - this is an introductory presentation on quantum computing.

Pig Latin

This is for you Bernadette. And this is a good translater -- click!

SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne is set for its maiden flight on Monday. The vehicle when launched on Monday, will be the first commercial manned space vehicle. Previously, the vehicle took off attached to an airplane, and landed under its own power. SpaceShipOne is on a race to win the X-Prize, which expires in January 2005, requiring a privately funded space craft to go into space with three people on board twice in a couple of weeks.

Disturbing

Don't follow the link, unless you need to be disturbed. When you think that the madness has no end, you find a site like this that is absolutely disturbing. Disturbing because someone made it -- disturbing that he appears to be a kid -- disturbing because he appears to lack any self-respect -- disturbing because you have to wonder where his parents are -- disturbing when you read his guestbook -- girls love him, guys think he's cool. Disturbing. Madness. A psychopath already produced. (Yes, even if it's all fake.)

Transformers Breakdance Video

Check out more about this video in the review at tastypopsicle.com.