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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Business benefits of Telematics

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Telematics can provide tremendous value to OEMs and Tier-1 vendors in improving the quality of their products and also delivering a superio...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Ruminating on LoRa technology

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LoRa (Long Range) is a wireless technology developed for the internet of things. It enables long-range data communications with very low po...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Ruminating on IoT datastores

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The most popular data-store choice for storing a high volume of IoT sensor data are NoSQL time-series databases.  The following link con...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Ruminating on Power BI

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We were building our dashboard using Power BI and were looking at the various options available to refresh the data. The following link w...
Monday, May 23, 2016

API keys providing a false sense of security !

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We have seen so many API implementations wherein an API key is the only thing used to secure APIs. API keys are typically long alphanumeric...

Serverless Options for Mobile Apps

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A lot of MBaaS platforms today provide a mobile developer with tools that enable them to quickly roll out mobile apps without worrying abou...

Open Source API Management Tools

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For folks, who are interested in setting up their own API Management tools, given below are a few options: Kong API Management -  https:/...

HTTP proxy tools for capturing network traffic

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In the past, we had used tools such as Fiddler and Wireshark  to analyse the network traffic between clients and servers. But these tools n...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Utilizing Azure AD for B2C mobile apps

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We had successfully utilized Azure Active Directory for authentication of enterprise mobile apps. But can Azure AD be used for B2C apps? Th...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Fundamentals of NFC communication

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NFC communication happens through the exchange of NDEF (NFC Data Exchange Format) messages. An NDEF message is a binary format message that...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Ruminating on JWT

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JWT (JSON Web Token) has gained a lot of traction in the past couple of years and is slowly becoming the standard choice for all authentica...

Ruminating on Biometric security

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Fingerprint scanners are becoming ubiquitous in many smartphones. There are also a few other pure software biometric solutions that are gai...
Monday, May 09, 2016

Ruminating on browser fingerprinting

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I was aware of sites using first-party and third-party cookies to track user activity on the web. But the use of browser fingerprinting to ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Ruminating on User Journey Maps

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Creating user journey maps is an integral part of any UX or design thinking process. There are many ways in which you can create a user jou...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

TeamViewer for screencasting android phones to the desktop

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We were using Android screencast through the ADB and USB connectivity. But a colleague of mine recently told me that TeamViewer is another ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Ruminating on Descriptive, Preventive and Prescriptive Analytics

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Michael Wu  had made the 3 types of analytics famous - Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive. A good article on this is available on In...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Ruminating on Design Thinking

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Design Thinking is a philosophy or a set of principles that can be applied to any creative endeavor. User Experience SMEs have been using s...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Ruminating on IoT revolutionizing the supply chain

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Smart sensors (IoT) are pushing the frontiers of supply chain technology. By utilizing sophisticated sensors, Logistics Providers can enabl...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Ruminating on EMPI

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EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) is a consolidated hub of all patient related information that would act as a single source of truth....
Friday, February 12, 2016

Analysis of Healthcare spend in the US

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The US department of Health has released interesting stats on the healthcare spend across various dimensions. The report is a bit old and a...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Ruminating on Usage based Insurance

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Many Auto Insurance firms have started launching usage-based insurance (UBI) products - i.e. based on how much you drive (miles) and how yo...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Combining NLP with Machine Learning

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SAS has published an interesting article titled - ' Your personal data scientist '.  I have always been a fan of virtual assistants...

Netty at Apple Inc.

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that most of Apple's cloud services run on Netty . Norman Maurer had posted an excellent presenta...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

UX vs. UI

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Found the following good articles that lay out the difference between UX and UI. http://www.onextrapixel.com/2014/04/24/the-gap-between-u...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

List of Prototyping tools

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Found a good list of prototyping tools on cooper.com . Liked the way they have compared the tools on various parameters :)
Saturday, December 12, 2015

PhoneGap vs. Cordova

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Many folks are still confused on the distinction between PhoneGap and Apache Cordova. There are so many articles on the web that further bl...

Building cool hybrid mobile apps - Lessons from Basecamp

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Basecamp has successfully utilized hybrid techniques for building their iOS and Android apps. The following links are worth a perusal to un...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Apple enforcing HTTPS connections using TLS v1.2

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In iOS 9, Apple has implemented a new security feature called as ATS (App Transport Security), which is enabled by default. So what is AT...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Git vs GitHub vs GitHub Enterprise

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A lot of folks get confused over the differences between Git and GitHub and use the words interchangeably. Also when folks talk about GitHu...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Ruminating on the UX Design Process

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Centerline has published a neat infographic illustrating the UX design process. While there are a  lot of UX related infographics on the ne...
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