Image via Wikipedia So one of the big new issues on the SaaS market is, how to integrate cloud to cloud? Or to cut some of the jargon, how do you integrate your applications you use every day when they are hosted by different companies? Hosted customer relationship management, hosting billing, hosted POS system, Hosted [...]
Image via Wikipedia In retail, the Point of Sale (POS) system is one of the most important and useful data system for their entire business. Being able to interface this with video is obviously extremely valuable. But it isn’t exactly easy to get value without a relatively deep integration. Beware that a lot of vendor’s [...]
Does your video management system link directly to a network operations center with technicians standing by to help you? Envysion video does. Sure we have online help, tips and tricks and that sort of thing. But with a click on the web, you can get a technician dispatched to any of your locations and have [...]
Envysion has developed it’s own reporting development language designed to help make it easier to find exceptions in the vast sea of customer point of sale data. We’ve been adding capabilities and building reports with it for some time now. We affectionately call it “Troyport” after the developer who initially created it. We decided [...]
Due to customer demand, Envysion Video now has support for Firefox and Windows 7 in addition to Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 on Windows XP and Vista. We’re currently working on support for Firefox support under Linux as well.
Refering back to my blog on SaaS being around for 114 years, Herman Hollerith didn’t get everything right. According to IBM archives, Hollerith resisted new ideas for the operation of his machines and wasn’t working well with one of his best and original customers, the US government. To quote the IBM archive of their employee publication [...]
I’m reading a new book called “The Future of the Internet and how to Stop It” by Johnathan Zittrain. In the early part of the book Zittrain examines some of the history of the computer and data communications industry. It seems to me that one of the first “computers” was sold as a service. It’s [...]
Computers use a lot of power. A typical home PC might use between $5-$10 a month in power if left on 24×7 without any power savings functions turned on. Video recording systems based on PC’s which are encoding video and constantly writing that to hard drives puts a heavy load on computers and normally defeats [...]
Half of the physics prize will be shared by two researchers from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. While at Bell Labs, Willard Boyle and George Smith invented the charge-coupled device, or CCD, which takes the place of conventional film in many of today’s digital cameras. The CCD also powers a lot of surveillance cameras [...]
Image via Wikipedia Today’s 40th anniversary NASA will broadcast the best available footage from some recordings engineers made of the video received on the ground as opposed to the original tapes from the moon. These are reported the highest quality images published in 40 years since the lunar mission. Some original tapes from the lunar [...]