Accenture and Avanade, two global providers of business technology services and consulting, showcase in this video business solutions using the latest touch technology, simplifying the way you interact with information and offering exciting, new opportunities to engage and empower customers.

Er zijn weinig sectoren binnen de overheid waarin zo sensitief wordt gereageerd als de jeugdzorg. Sneeuwvlokjes leiden tot wisselstoringen en chaos in het openbaar vervoer. De Amsterdamse Noord-Zuidlijn had het jaar 2011 als oorspronkelijke opleverdatum. En de Mexicaanse griep heeft ook in Nederland toegeslagen. Maar geen onderwerp lijkt meer emoties op te roepen als het ‘zeilmeisje’. Iedereen heeft er een mening over.

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Today we launched our new advertising campaign.

Using bold and surprising visual metaphors, this new campaign extends our longstanding High Performance Business brand positioning. The campaign highlights some of the key drivers of high performance: sustainable success, innovation, organizational agility, and operational excellence.

On accenture.com we’re sharing a selection of the new ads.

As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost the internet is evolving towards a pervasive ubiquitous medium. Last decennium was a strong witness of the rise of social computing where people share, influence and create knowledge. Crowdsourcing such as Wikipedia, but also folksonomies, and social networks are the proof that the collaborative and participative computing platform generates and manages new ideas more effectively. And it does not stop with just knowledge, but extends to many other things such as music (mixmatchmusic.com) and even galaxy shapes (galaxyzoo.org).

And also in 2010 social computing continues to be in focus. But 2010 will go much beyond that. We will also see a much stronger increase in the rise of semantic web applications obtaining more information from combining and linking data from various sources and websites. Mashups of text information will converge towards mashups of different formats lees verder…

Geniet u ook zo van de mooie witte winterplaatjes buiten? Wat leuk toch om weer zoveel sneeuw te zien. Ik ga zelfs mijn eerste witte kerst meemaken!

Al die sneeuw heeft uiteraard zijn keerzijde. Er rijden al dagen bijna geen treinen, bijna geen trams en bussen en wie de auto pakt komt terecht in lange files. Los van alle vertraging en verlies van arbeidsproductiviteit zorgt dit ook voor half lege vergaderzalen. Jan van de boekhouding en Piet de projectmanager staan immers vast in het verkeer.

Dit alles schreeuwt om betere faciliteiten voor effectief vergaderen en beter gebruik hiervan. Voorbeelden zijn videoconferencing, telefonisch vergaderen of gewoon het gebruiken van een webcam - naast handig voor dit soort situaties zijn deze manieren van vergaderen ook vaak heel leuk, veel effectiever en natuurlijker ook goedkoper. En juist voor overheidsorganisaties zijn dit soort oplossingen interessant! Met de voortrekkersrol die de overheid immers heeft in het maatschappelijk verantwoorde werken en het flexibel werken zou ook een dergelijke manier van vergaderen gemeengoed moeten zijn. Idee?

December only just started, and the first RFID predictions for next year already appear on the web. So what will 2010 bring us for RFID?

• Luxoft predicts that further improvements in RFID tags (besides other things) will bring the world of social media onto a higher level.
• Jack Uldrich predicts that a new iPhone app interacting with an RFID chip embedded in the arm of an elderly Alzheimer patient will save the man from freezing to death after he strolled away from his residence in the middle of the night and became disoriented.
• Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray from predits the iPhone 4G with RFID reader
• ABI Research is predicting things that will not happen in 2010, including a decrease in overall 2010 RFID spending (their other ‘what will not happen in 2010’s are better formulated).
• Mark Roberti (RFID Journal) is optimistic about 2010, but thinks RFID vendors will have to get smarter about the way they market, just as end users have to get smarter about how they use technology to reduce costs and improve the way they do business.
• A more vivid prediction is made about 2030, when RFID will be ubiquitous, according to the RFID Journal writers and editors.
• AIM Global looks forward to 2010 as a year in which RFID implementations will continue to grow - while making use of the latest security measures.

In the past few days several posts appeared on the Web regarding iPhone and RFID; it started with the post on Near Field Communications World – where they correctly indicate that this not the first news on iPhone and RFID: in July this year it appeared that Apple filed an RFID patent. And earlier, in April 2009, Touch showed their RFID add-on.

But… if I had an iPhone with RFID, what would I like to do with it?

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Hello everyone! It has been 3 weeks since I have posted my last blog. In the meantime the school is close to being opened officially! In my earlier blog posts you can read and see how it all started in November last year. Please see some pictures below of the end result! Happy children:

There are still some small things to do but it looks really great! The school also has sleeping rooms where children, who have to walk for hours (!) to school, have the opportunity to sleep over. Thanks to lees verder…

It was already possible for owners of a Privium card, but now it will become available for everybody with a chipped EU passport: Automatic border control. Just scan your passport, and ‘the system’ will check if you are you, using face recognition (your passport picture is stored on your passport’s RFID chip) and then do some additional checks, like they already do with with Privium card. Cool! Sounds like a good way to do something useful with that RFID chip, as on busy days the queues can be enormous at Schiphol’s border control.

‘The Joker’ will probably be happy that his ID card (on which he had a ‘clown face’) was confiscated; saves him a lot of make-up preparation every time he wants to travel…