Talk of Many Things – Page 52 – Personal Blog of Ketharaman Swaminathan

When Does Analytics End And Hair Splitting Start?

2 May 2014

Advances in Big Data, Internet of Things and other technologies are contributing to an ever-increasing deluge of information in today's digital world. Not surprisingly, analytics has once again become a…

Coin Solves A Pain. But Is It A 100 Dollar Pain?

25 April 2014

In Mobile Wallets Should Fix What’s Broken – And It Ain’t Payments, I'd highlighted why paying with plastic cards comes naturally to most people and why mobile wallets are not offering…

If Doctors Can Google, Why Can’t Patients?

18 April 2014

In this article, many leading doctors complain that by resorting to Google for diagnosing themselves, patients are eroding the traditional doctor-patient trust. In this article (click here to read it online or…

Google Search – Upheaval Does Not Equal Abuse

11 April 2014

Every update to Google's search algorithm - Penguin and Panda to name the latest two - is accompanied by major upheavals in the rankings of websites on the Google Search…

Don’t Fall For The ‘Invisible Versus Unseen Ads’ Charade

4 April 2014

The author of the Digiday article titled Don’t Fall For The ‘Invisible Ads’ Charade concedes that digital ads are sometimes invisible. Despite that, he urges marketers to spend more money on…

FAASO’s Wins “QR360 Code Of The Week” Award

28 March 2014

FAASO's is the winner of "QR360 Code Of The Week", the award series we kicked off with Precious Platinum last month. The winning QR code appears on the upper right…

Three More Ways How Tech Can Help Banks Accelerate Legacy Transformation

25 March 2014

In How Tech Can Help Banks Accelerate Legacy Transformation, I'd described three issues with open systems that hold banks back from migrating their legacy applications to open systems. Here are…

Eight First Impressions Of Starbucks India

14 March 2014

Starbucks marked its entry into India by opening a few stores in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune over the last few months. I visited one of these stores recently. Here are…

How Tech Can Help Banks Accelerate Legacy Transformation

7 March 2014

During a meeting with the CIO of a Top 5 bank in Germany, I was introduced to a lady who was retiring that same weekend. The CIO averred that she…

Precious Platinum Wins The First “QR360 Code Of The Week” Award

21 February 2014

We're seeing an explosion in the use of QR codes lately, especially in magazines, posters and B2B newspaper ads. However, we're also seeing a drastic difference in the way different…