Tony Kontzer
Tony has been writing about technology and business since a stint at the San Jose Business Journal in the mid-1990s. He began his freelance career in 1996 and over the years has written features, news reports and blog posts for publications such as CIO Insight, Baseline, Investor's Business Daily and Wired Magazine. He has also written white papers, case studies, Web site content, and marketing collateral pieces for companies such as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Computer Associates, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories and Oxford Economics. From 2000-2006, he was a senior editor at InformationWeek, where he covered technologies such as CRM and storage, as well as IT in the travel and hospitality industry. A 1988 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Tony spends his spare time scheming about the future with his wife, playing with his three sons, tinkering around his home in Albany, Calif., and, when time allows, playing saxophone and traveling. His somewhat irregular Twitter posts can be found at http://twitter.com/tkontzer.
Talk Stars: Israeli AI Startup Brings Fluency to Natural Language Understanding
Whether talking with banks, cell phone providers or insurance companies, customers often encounter AI-powered voice interfaces to direct their calls to the right department. But these interfaces typically are limited… Read Article
How AI Startup BroadBridge Networks Helps Security Teams Make Sense of Data Chaos
Cybersecurity has grown into a morass. With increasingly hybrid computing environments, dispersed users accessing networks around the clock, and the Internet of Things creating more data than security teams have… Read Article
Speed Reader: Startup Primer Helps Analysts Make Every Second Count
Expected to read upwards of 200,000 words daily from hundreds, if not thousands, of documents, financial analysts are asked to perform the impossible. Primer is using AI to apply the… Read Article
Need Healthcare? AI Startup Curai Has an App for That
As a child, Neal Khosla became engrossed by the Oakland Athletics baseball team’s “Moneyball” approach of using data analytics to uncover the value and potential of the sport’s players. A… Read Article
How Abyss Solutions Helps Keep Offshore Rig Operators Afloat
As its evocative name suggests, Abyss Solutions is a company taking AI to places where humans can’t — or shouldn’t — go. The brainchild of four University of Sydney scientists… Read Article
To Combat Diabetes-Related Blindness, Taiwanese Med-Tech Firm Brings AI to the Edge
With more than 400 million people around the world afflicted with diabetes, screening for diabetic eye disease has grown increasingly commonplace. But it’s a practice that faces numerous obstacles. Symptoms… Read Article
Medical AI Startup Quickly Shifts Strategy to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the world like few events before it. But for Shukun Technology, a response required “a minor change in our strategy,” according to its chief technology… Read Article
Seagate Provides the RX to Improve Hard Drive Manufacturing
Seagate Technology ships tens of millions of hard disk drives every quarter. Ensuring the quality of each one is a top priority, but not easy. The disk drive manufacturing process… Read Article
Banking on AI: NerdWallet’s Recommendation Engine Matches Customers with Relevant Financial Products
Dating apps may get all the press, but NerdWallet has been refining the art of financial matchmaking for more than a decade. The company provides its members with sound financial… Read Article