by Susan Schreiner | Aug 19, 2019 | Business, Innovation, Technology, What's Hot
Shoppers today expect convenience, immediate gratification, first-rate customer assistance, easy checkout and a shared transactional cart across channels. Retailers are responding by leveraging artificial intelligence with sensors, automation, machine vision, beacons,...
by Susan Schreiner | Jun 12, 2019 | Health, Innovation, Technology
AI is transforming the way we prevent, manage and treat illness in new ways. It will maximize efficiencies and harness an increasing volume of data and knowledge, but AI is different from human intelligence. It uses machines with algorithms to ingest and analyze...
by Susan Schreiner | Apr 16, 2019 | Innovation, Technology, What's Hot
Imagine getting around New York City, and instead of using Uber or Lyft, you could avoid traffic congestion by hailing a flying taxi, soaring above the traffic. This scenario is moving out of science fiction and closer to reality, as we saw at CES 2019 with the Bell...
by Susan Schreiner | Aug 16, 2018 | ARTICLES, As Seen in i3 Magazine, C4 IN THE NEWS, Innovation, Technology, Trends
Smart, connected technologies are developing at an exponential rate. These innovations – including cloud computing and platform technologies, big data and analytics, mobile solutions, Internet of Things (IoT) technolÂogy, speech and artificial intelligence (AI)...
by Susan Schreiner | Jun 21, 2018 | ARTICLES, As Seen in i3 Magazine, C4 IN THE NEWS, Innovation, Technology, Trends
Eliza, one of the first chat bots, was introduced more than 50 years ago. But it wasn’t until Siri in 2011, Alexa in 2014, and Facebook’s Bots launch in 2016, that the mass market noticed controversial assistants. Chatbots are ushering in a new era of...
by Susan Schreiner | Oct 4, 2013 | As Seen in i3 Magazine, Innovation
In the late 1990s, Internet radio first began to attract attention. But it was not until 2001 that Apple transformed forever how we listen to music with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes. While there were already MP3 players on the market, Apple’s...
