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Smart Phones: A Smart Idea or the Death of Dialogue?

By Rory J. Thompson Let’s just put it out there from the get-go; I’m a late adopter of all things technical. I don’t own an iPod; hell, I never even had a CD player until I...

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Yahoo Chief's a Hit - But She Missed This One

By Rory J. Thompson The dust still hasn’t fully settled from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent pronouncement that starting in June, telecommuting employees will have to report...

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The IT Guy

By Rory J. Thompson On Day One of a new job, eventually the company’s IT guy will shuffle over to your cube, introduce himself ( Hmmmm; something to ponder. Why is it always...

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Espionage - How Things Have Changed

By Marcia Kaplan It's 1955, the height of the Cold War. A dapper man in a suit is sitting in a bar in the capital city of a western European country, drinking a martini and...

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Long Live Smartphones and Tablets in Healthcare

By Chris Dawson The pager is dead...Long live smartphones and tablets in healthcare Just this season, the doctors on America’s favorite medical drama gave up their pagers,...

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Cloud Services for Mobile: An App Roundup

By Chris Dawson Excerpt: Tablets and the cloud go together like macaroni and cheese. Here are some great apps to really make use of the anytime/anywhere power of both the...

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Press Release - Foxit PhantomPDF 6.0 Makes PDF Editing and Form Generation Easy

FREMONT, Calif. – March 26, 2013 – Foxit® Corporation, a leading provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents, today launched...

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BYOD Strategic Survey

The BYOD Strategic Survey is an ongoing effort to better understand the needs of business and IT decision makers. As such, Ziff Davis is trying to learn what's most important...

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Techno-Babble Moves Into the Mainstream. Are You Keeping Up?

By Rory J. Thompson It’s funny how business terms comes to life, and then suddenly seem to dominate every conversation. Case in point: “Think outside the box.” The earliest...

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Get the Kryptonite Lois. Is Wireless Safe?

By Kelly Mackin “ I think there was a grain of truth in all of it. Every time you've been affected by red kryptonite, it hasn't changed who you are. It's just stripped away...

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Business Writing for IT

By Kelly Mackin “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” – Mark Twain A food scientist I once knew was a fabulous cook. He could whip...

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LEAN IT: If The Shoe Fits Or Not, Will You Wear It?

By Kelly Mackin “When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.” -ZEN Proverb I love Japanese culture. What makes it special to me is its emphasis on paying...

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Protecting the Supply Chain from Sabotage and Espionage

By Marcia Kaplan Failed bolts made in India caused a wind turbine in North Dakota to crash. Chinese manufactured drywall made thousands of people sick and forced them to...

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inContact Solutions Go Mobile Across All Devices

By Lesley McCreath An IDC study of the last quarter results from 2012, shows that global smartphone shipments rose 36% worldwide. Over 700 million phones were shipped,...

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Nothing to Hide: The New Privacy Movement and IT

By Kelly Mackin “...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative..." Yevgeny Zamyatin...

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Desktop Virtualization

By James E. Gaskin If everything old is new again, people might consider desktop virtualization a return to days of Big Iron, popularly known as mainframes. After all, the...

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"I Can See Cleeeearly Now, the Rain is Gone."

By Rory J. Thompson “Are you getting Google Glass? I’m thinking of getting Google Glass. Google Glass seems like a GREAT idea; it’s like a computer IN your eyeglasses. It’s...

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Infrastructure Virtualization

By James E. Gaskin Server virtualization begat desktop virtualization begat software defined storage and networking, the software defined data center, and, wrapping up...

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Server Virtualization

By James E. Gaskin Small companies make a big step toward becoming successful growing companies when they install their first server. Signpost of progress, as it were. But...

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Judge Not, Lest Ye Shall Also Be

By Rory J. Thompson Customer service is a tricky thing. If you’ve got some workers on your team who always go the extra mile when dealing with customers, you’ll know it. But...

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ZD Project Management and IT Strategy

By Kelly Mackin “If the adage, “it is better to give than receive,” rings true to you, then the long run gains associated with an open system will also be obvious to you. If...

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Keeping Mobile Devices Safe

By Rick Cook Generally speaking, laptops are more likely to be stolen. Smartphones and similar devices are more likely to be forgotten somewhere (and stolen by someone who...

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Real Names and Human Nature

By Kelly Mackin Anonymity and the use of pseudonyms are as old as time. In prehistory and through the present day, people have had more than one name or even no name at all....

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Software Defined Networking

By James E. Gaskin Imagine your physical network layout could be changed as easily as that of a toy train. Even easier, since instead of physically picking up tracks and...

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Key Trends in Human Capital

By Lesley McCreath PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently published their annual report on the Key Trends in Human Capital. For 2012 they focused on how the nature of the...

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