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Tom Nolle
Tom Nolle   2/9/2010   5 comments
If you’re a slightly gray, mid-level manager who travels a lot, you may be on the way up and worthy of professional respect, but one thing you most definitely are not is “cool.” Still, while today’s youth may think you just crawled out of a paleolithic cave, there may be hope. The iPad from Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) (supreme arbiter of coolness) just might make you older guys (or actually old guys like me) cool.
Rob Leathern
Rob Leathern   2/9/2010   5 comments
As we well know, the online echo chamber and its increasingly viral and social components can magnify the propagation speed and distribution of stories and rumors, whether true or false.
Robert McGarvey
Just when you despair that mobile apps are drowning in triviality -- Sticker Jam Hearts, Cookie Doodle, and Love Jive are all top iPhone apps, incidentally, and Calm Candle isn’t far behind -- know that hardworking, serious apps now are clawing their way onto our phones.
Mary E. Shacklett
Corporate IT has made great strides over the past few years in addressing a broad array of issues relating to Web assets. But now, as Web-based IT enters maturity, it’s time to rethink at least one key issue -- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
David Vellante
Lately, I've been hanging around some cloud technologists, cloud service providers, virtualization customers, and security practitioners. I've been asking a lot of basic questions, trying to understand when and how cloud computing/virtualization will be ready to support any application or workload. UPDATED 2/2 4:00 PM
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Allen_Falcon
Allen_Falcon   1/24/2010   1 comment
Back at the University of Michigan, my first Comp Sci professor defined Infinity as a tangle number:  "One more than you will ever need".  The theory is that if you built a computer that would last 10 years and could only use each...
Ankykile
Ankykile   1/2/2010   5 comments
Some auto companies are now offering wi-fi access to the Internet on some models. While this will keep the kids happy in the back for long drives I believe it will only be a matter of time before an entire computer system will be architected...
Jason_13
Jason_13   10/12/2009   3 comments
Sometimes the poor reliance on technology creates problems such as this. Another area is the use of automated filtering to try to detect fraudulent use of credit/debit cards. I know that a filter was tripped recently when one of my cards...
Allen_Falcon
Allen_Falcon   10/11/2009   1 comment
    Over the weekend, out of the mainstream press cycle, Microsoft and T-Mobile acknowledged that the server in Microsoft's Danger group earlier in the week would like result in total data loss for users impacted by the failure. Some...
Lippencotte
Lippencotte   9/24/2009   2 comments
In reading some information I found on another net I read this article that basically says; can't tweet at work here is a solution to work around this so that you can prove how valuable the service is.  It is configured to look like an...
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Congress Hits the Snooze Button With China
Ira Winkler
In his
recent Congressional testimony, Dennis Blair, the U.S. director of national intelligence, stated that the U.S. is "severely threatened" by cyber attacks and that the recent Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) attacks should serve as a wake-up call.

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