Technology for Good – episode twenty five with SAP Mentor Chris Kernaghan

Welcome to episode twenty five of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode we had cloud architect and SAP Mentor Chris Kernaghan as the guest on our show. This was not Chris’ first time co-hosting the Technology for Good show, so as an old hand, I knew this was going to be a fun show, and so it was. We covered a lot of topics in the show, including the repeal of carbon tax in Australia, IBM and Apple’s enterprise partnership, and Microsoft’s shedding of 18,000 employees (and a platform!).

Here is the full list of stories that we covered in this week’s show:

Climate

• Australia kills off carbon tax

Renewables

• Microsoft announces 175-megawatt wind farm deal, broadens renewable energy commitment 

Big Data

• IBM to clean China’s air with big data analysis 

Mobile

• IBM, Apple forge enterprise app pact: Watson, meet iPad 
• Microsoft’s relationship with Android just got less complicated 

Apps

• Learn to Think Like an Android Developer
• Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads 

Internet of Things

• Nest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home 
• The Internet of Things for seniors 

Comms

• No signal? GoTenna has a messaging gadget that will work in the middle of nowhere 

Wearables

• Jawbone’s new Up app makes healthy eating a whole lot easier 

Cognitive Computing

• Microsoft Challenges Google’s Artificial Brain With ‘Project Adam’ 

Misc

• Blue Plains to turn your poop into energy 

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