Qualcomm will now be known for platforms not processors.

Qualcomm changing from a processor driven model to a platform driven model. All talk and just semantics or really a change in the way they operate ?

Get credits for Amazon Alexa skills

Get credit for building
Amazon Alexa Skills.

I might have to try a combination of Jupyter Labs, Microservices and Amazon Alexa Skills.  Maybe this could do something useful for my startup or just a new cool skill to add to Alexa. 

I will follow up later. 
Try it out.  Get Amazon Credit. 

AI creative Ad Director

http://www.businessinsider.com/mccann-japans-ai-creative-director-creates-better-ads-than-a-human-2017-3

Some amazing things being done when it's about business use and value over just another optimized algorithm. 

Blockchain for shipping containers

http://www.coindesk.com/worlds-largest-shipping-company-tracking-cargo-blockchain/

Blockchain for container ships

5G and MWC and how?

http://www.businessinsider.com/5g-speed-network-lte-2017-3

5G is fast and coming. But when and where and how ?

Blockchain as a service IBM and Microsoft ?

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-blockchain-choices-may-come-down-to-ibm-vs-microsoft

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out , but the decentralized aspect is lost in all of these new prototypes, experiments and alliances. 

IOT + AI equals cost transformation

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-hershey-used-the-cloud-to-deploy-iot-and-machine-learning-without-a-data-scientist/

And they didn't even have a data scientist. The IOT world plus AI for Twizzlers.

The complicated nature of confusing 5G

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/10/what-is-5g-the-laymans-guide/

And Verizon is doing a 5G test pilot in these cities. 
Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bernardsville, Brockton, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Sacramento, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

What that actually means and how Verizon defines it are unknown.  But 5G is interesting and challenging and exciting.  And coming. 

What are Smart Cities and how are they actually built?

  This youtube webinar goes over what is and what isn't connected in Cambridge, so it's a good primer to what might be the future of smart cities.  The bigger question becomes how do SMBs connect to this ever expanding smart world?