A concept on how a Microsoft Kinect may help us around the house. With JavaScripts starting to connect the web with a Microsoft Kinect, how long until cameras like these are helping us be better cooks, fix things around the house and even help us build things? To elaborate - I can’t wait till the time that I can go to JohnDeere.com and by turning on a ‘Camera Assist’ the website can see what I am doing and help me thru the process. Imagine flipping your lawn mower over and letting the camera look over your shoulder to help navigate you through maintenance. Consider going to FoodNetwork.com and activating your camera so that the website can assist you in cooking more complex meals and keep time from of the other events going on in preparation. With a pair of eyes and a little bit of object recognition, we can start getting help with anything around the house in no time.
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A concept on how a Microsoft Kinect may help us around the house.

With JavaScripts starting to connect the web with a Microsoft Kinect, how long until cameras like these are helping us be better cooks, fix things around the house and even help us build things?

To elaborate - I can’t wait till the time that I can go to JohnDeere.com and by turning on a ‘Camera Assist’ the website can see what I am doing and help me thru the process. Imagine flipping your lawn mower over and letting the camera look over your shoulder to help navigate you through maintenance. Consider going to FoodNetwork.com and activating your camera so that the website can assist you in cooking more complex meals and keep time from of the other events going on in preparation. With a pair of eyes and a little bit of object recognition, we can start getting help with anything around the house in no time.

Why securing at the app layer is the future of enterprise data on a mobile device

I think it is prevalent enough at this point to say that “Consumerization” will be here for some time, and how the Enterprise can adapt is a constantly raised topic. One thing that I do see as moving to the front of this race, is the sandbox approach as stated previously on this site. But what I didn’t raise was how that was handled to not interfere with the user. Security is at the utmost of many larger corporations and their content must be protected - 2 quick ways about this is to secure the whole device, or secure the corporate data itself:
 In the first model, companies like BlackBerry offer end to end encryption with a password upon the opening of the device, to do most anything except make and take a call. In the secondary model, the Enterprise does not impose it’s security policies until the user requires access to company information. To quickly SMS, take a picture, tweet, etc, the company is not in the way of that from happening. 

Granted, it is easy to say for a company that will be offering Corporate Liable devices, that BlackBerry is a natural solution. But when a company looks to expand into the devices that their employees are already carrying, to reduce costs of not only the carrier monthlies, but device purchase and billing/contract management, it becomes imperative that the security policies do not impact the end users experience - it is after all, their device and money that you’re messing with. For this reason, companies like BlackBerry and Microsoft really need a wake up call if they think at their current, lock on opening model will be successful in the next BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) shift.