Plant-based and lab-grown meat startups are delivering on a promise of a safe and sustainable food supply that is located closer to consumers. The post Meat alternatives show real progress toward market viability appeared first on Venture Chronicles.

The recent tragedy of an Uber autonomous vehicle killing a woman in Tempe, AZ casts a light on how autonomous vehicles are quietly achieving legal status as an entity, exposing the driver and passengers to legal perils they may not realize. The post Autonmous vehicles, accidents, liability and fault appeared first on Venture Chronicles.

Experiences with home automation and IoT The post Living with IoT & home automation appeared first on Venture Chronicles.

Over the next 10 years it is estimated that the number of autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads will become a mainstream force. The rate of progress to this goal is accelerating, building on the success of technology-enabled safety features such as lane assist, adaptive cruise control, and emergency braking. We first saw these technologies come …...

I hate going to the gas station. It not a painful experience but it's never convenient, it's one of those things that I'll do at odd hours to try to make it as painless as possible. For a few months now I have been using Filld. This startup has a fleet of roaming gas delivery … The post Convenience as a Service appeared first on Venture Chron...

Microsoft admits defeat in pulling back Windows Mobile in the face or reality The post Microsoft Acknowledges the Obvious with Their Smartphone Business appeared first on Venture Chronicles.

5 months in with the 12" iPad Pro, here is my review on it in general and on it as a laptop replacement.

Do you want machines that conform to a corporate-defined standard of behavior and do not evolve according to human interaction but instead shape humans to the behaviors they are programmed to deliver?

We are entering a prolonged period of machine intelligence that will be defined by a rapid evolution of capabilities and human-like emotional responses.

The implications and consequences of autonomous vehicles are far-ranging and deep.

Simple tactics for reducing the amount of unread email in your inbox.

It's been quite some time since I last wrote about an artist I like. Today I'd like to get back in the habit of writing about something other than tech, and the subject of my attention is Naomi Edelberg Janches. I can't say that I have ever had a particular focus on stained glass but …

Disruption happens when you don't have anything to lose, and in every case disruption is the result of bringing together extraordinary people unified by a sense of purpose. Put another way, disruption is not a strategy, it is a consequence.

The OPM hack gets worse with the disclosure that 5.6 million fingerprints were disclosed in the hack

VW is in a brand death spiral in the U.S. because of a widening scandal involving emission control defeat devices.

Apple shutters Hopstop, an app that fundamentally altered how people got around urban mass transit systems.

NASA kicks off 4th mission studying long-term habitation in confined environment

The hack itself is an old story; Ashley Madison was hacked and profile information stolen. What is new is that the group behind the hack, Impact Team, dumped all the data. It has now been made available by many legitimate folks who created searchable online services against the data. As much as I could enjoy …

I purchased an Amazon Dash button recently. It?s a clever product concept and an example of a headless device that will be a major theme in the emerging Internet of Things movement. The Internet of Things represents a massive shift in how we will consume services. I would assert that we will reorganize the existing …

The internet outrage about a lion killing dentist contrast to the deafening silence about the slaughter of human beings in Syria.

A study of Navy SEAL training candidates revealed that they don't quit during the grueling training but at intervals in between

de Blasio continues his string of losses after taking on Uber and then having to back down.

How automation can solve the labor crisis in fast food and deliver a better customer experience.

On the wrong side of history yet again, Hillary Clinton has decided that her road to the White House is tearing down one of the great economic movements of the last decade, the sharing economy.? In an economic speech she is planned to give, Clinton will highlight the stagnating wages of the middle class and …

Google screwed up new Nexus devices by forcing encryption on by default.

There is obviously a lot of good tech that comes out of Russia but their is an intractable problem when going global and that is the ambiguity about the extent to which Russian government activities encroach on the activities of commercial companies.

Flipboard introduces private group magazines and instantly becomes an effective enterprise communication tool.

I gotta give Nike credit for this, it's edgy and pushing a boundary of what athletic apparel for women should be. Predictably, the outrage factory spun up and without a hint of irony this BI piece (well it is BI) has decided to represent all women in the headline. I have no doubt that Nike …

Race relations in America will take a hell of a lot more work to improve than cute slogans on Starbucks coffee cups can muster.

My experience with the Moto360 and general thoughts on smartwatches

Okta Trust pages jukes the stats with a synthetic measure of uptime and "minutes up" that includes days that have not yet elapsed.

Trust is a cornerstone of the Apple brand? the company that pioneered the notion of ?the stuff just works?. The damage the brand has suffered this week is yet to be calculated and the ?hey it?s not our fault, users should manage passwords better? statement didn?t help. All this a week to the day before …

On average I get 10-15 vendors calling me each day to sell me stuff (marketing is a services, content, and systems heavy business these days). I pay a lot of attention to the details of how people sell and try to incorporate effective tactics into our own SDR function. Here's my rundown on the most …

I've been using Wingz to get to/from the airport. The idea is simple, black car service like Uber but exclusively for airport transportation, and a big advantage is that you can schedule the rides in advance. With a web-based and mobile app, it's alway available and convenient. Wingz is aggressively priced, about 40% less expensive …...

This week the crazy internets have been abuzz with the story of AOL executive Ryan Block, who attempted to do something rather mundane, cancel his cable, and was subjected to an excruciatingly long ordeal with the customer service representative at Comcast. This is well covered, I don't need to relive it… and more to the …

I just finished watching True Detective, which by any measure is an impressive piece of work. There is a scene?in one of the final episodes really struck a chord with me. Cohle: Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. Hart: If that long. Cohle: Yeah, so?be careful what you get good at. …

This was a surprisingly interesting op-ed, not interesting because it is penned by a glam celebrity but because op-eds are typically not insightful and rooted in facts, as this one is. Yes, the entertainment industry is changing, as it has always done, but in this case the influence of social media – the broadcast medium …

Wow, I think this is the longest stretch of non-writing that I have done in my history of blogging. Nothing in particular drove my absence, just been busy with work and family. A lot of my time the last few months has been spent on a website redesign project, which I took over last December. …

Ping Identity has gone through a top to bottom transformation in marketing over the last year. A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. My interest for the last decad...

The lynch mob mentality that put Mozilla's CEO out of a job has been well covered and while shameful at every level, I didn't expect to comment on how badly Mozilla stumbled on this… but here I am. What really got under my skin is the self-righteous indignation expressed by those calling for Eich's ouster. …

A report is out today suggesting that up to 1/3 of wearable computing users are abandoning the devices. That observation is strengthened by?research from Endeavour Partners?in the US, which found that one-third of American consumers who have owned a wearable product stopped using it within six months. What's more, while one in 10 American adults [&...

One of the reasons why I joined Ping Identity is that the identity market is undergoing a significant transformation as a result of changing user behaviors. The demands that mobility and APIs are putting on businesses, and how architectural limitations in traditional IAM stacks mean their relevance in the market will invariably decline. This is [&#...

Twitter is having a bad day. They did put up some good numbers, indicating real progress on their revenue management, which is just another way of saying they are now a successful ad platform. Great, but that's only as good as your ability to drive audience growth and engagement, and here Twitter is having a […]

I love advertising, not the advertising business but the ability of good advertising to tell a story, tap into emotion, inspire us, motivate us, and create a sense of purpose is powerful. Sure, advertising is selling stuff and it would be easy to be cynical about it, but the art of advertising done well transcends […]

Jeff Jordan has an interesting post that looks at long terms trends in retail and more recent news, suggesting an acceleration that is itself a tipping point to the benefit of online. It's hard to argue with the trends he is pointing out, however that is not the entire story, or at least the interesting […]

I always take predictions posts with a grain of salt because they reflect the aspirations of the author as much as a qualified and objective forecast of what will happen in year ahead. but to quote Bill Gates: We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change […]

Last night I was leaving my office in Denver to head to the airport to come home. It was 7:10pm and my driver was waiting for me at the corner of 17th and Arapahoe. I patiently waited at the light and then stepped into the crosswalk. bam. A car turning left hit me and the […]

With the well covered healthcare.gov fiasco in it's second full month and no relief in sight, certainly not before the self-imposed end of November deadline that the Obama Administration set for itself, I can't help but think back to the President's proclamation that he would bring the "best and brightest of Silicon Valley" to bear […]...

I read this today and thought "yes, it's about time". When a tab is streaming audio in Chrome 32 Beta, an indicator will appear next to the close tab X. The indicators will change depending on the source, so streaming audio will be denoted by a speaker icon, a red circle will indicate a Web […]

My very good friend Nenshad Bardoliwalla launched his latest company, Paxata. Nenshad is an amazing entrepreneur who co-founded Tidemark in addition to literally writing the book on implementing performance management with analytics. What is really interesting about Paxata is that they are focusing on the fundamental problem anyone attempting to pe...