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A little taste of an apocalyptic scenario occurred last Friday when a large chunk of the Internet was unreachable for up to an hour. Similar to the plot of a Hollywood horror movie, this was an experiment that went wrong -- on one of the most important protocols of the Internet system.
The Internet in all its forms has become a core part of how we communicate, socialize, and handle very personal business every day. But protection of individual privacy is spotty at best, and it seems to be getting worse every day. As we become an increasingly digital nation, do access to, and privacy on, the Internet become civil rights?
At Apple’s announcement fest Wednesday, among the launch of the new iPods and the $99 Apple TV box, was the announcement about Ping, a music-based social network that out-of-the-gate has more than 160 million users, all with credit cards. Of course, it’s only about music today, but there’s nothing to stop Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) from expanding it if it suits its purposes down the road.

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Re: Dale Fuller, CEO, MokaFive: @Michael The movement of apps to cloud is happening and is a great one since it gives access from any device anywhere. But there are certain apps that need to be executed locally - like powerpoint or other...
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Re: Dale Fuller, CEO, MokaFive: The fear is that unless IT thinks about endusers productivity and choice we will fall back into the same traps IT suffered us in the 1970's
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Re: Dale Fuller, CEO, MokaFive: And my question: How fast is cloud computing growing? Is the growth of desktop virtualization a reflection of that, or not?
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Re: Dale Fuller, CEO, MokaFive: @kenton MokaFive gives a knob to the admins adjust the security as tight or as loose as they need based on the user, risk profile etc. For the browser LivePC, if you choose to, you can make it so tight...
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Re: Dale Fuller, CEO, MokaFive: Let's start more of this conversation by asking of @Dale and @Purnima about their take on the influence of cloud servies and SaaS on desktop virtualization. What can companies do to improve their mobile...
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