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...
View ArticleYahoo 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleEspionage - 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...
View ArticleLong 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,...
View ArticleCloud 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...
View ArticlePress 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...
View ArticleBYOD 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...
View ArticleTechno-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...
View ArticleGet 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...
View ArticleBusiness 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...
View ArticleLEAN 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...
View ArticleProtecting 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...
View ArticleinContact 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,...
View ArticleNothing 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...
View ArticleDesktop 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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleInfrastructure Virtualization
By James E. Gaskin Server virtualization begat desktop virtualization begat software defined storage and networking, the software defined data center, and, wrapping up...
View ArticleServer 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...
View ArticleJudge 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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