I'd be wary of Microsoft's touch-enabled version of Office. For one thing, Office is best compatible with a keyboard to be productive. How is the company going to be able to port that concept over to touch? They have not...
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I agree that we shouldn't give up on OpenStack, but let's not underestimate the magnitude of the change that's required. As I blogged recently OpenStack APIs (and, in some less well defined sense, the code) are intended...
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Anybody else feel like a Butlerian Jihad? I kinda feel like a Butlerian Jihad.
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@Brian exactly, that's why while such high prices make bitcoin appear attractive, in reality, it is detrimental to its use as currency. Before writing an article on bitcoin for CFO, I contacted the companies that made the...
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Chris, my sense is that we're already well on the way to a cloud ecosystem where certain industries/clients will want the ability to work across public and private cloud systems. Security isn't the barrier it once...
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I would like to throw some light on the most important aspect of Social Networks which this Article doesn't focus on. Deep down Humans are insecure with their Social Lives being recorded. This creates the need for Anonymous...
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The fields in a _good_ relational database have been defined by experts to cover the problem. It is restrictive, sort of a waterfall approach to data management. You can easily get around that by using non-relational data...
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No word on Ballmer-inspired mood monitoring hat product for people with high blood pressure.
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Lots of people get their lost phones back because they have one of these tracker tags on them, check it out - mystufflostandfound.com
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Good question. It's possible. Some states that have the in-person exam requirement appear to only require a single in-person meeting to establish a bona fide patient-provider relationship such that the provider...
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People have known for years when you are in a bad mood you may overeat. Do you really need a wired bra and companion smartphone app to tell you to take a deep breath -- and then go for a walk, if possible? Jeez. Let's research...
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I could see something like this working for my middle school kids -- they want a keyboard for writing, but they need a touchscreen for some of the apps (7th grader was studying Spanish last night using a touchscreen matching...
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BS. MS is in bed with the NSA. Same with Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, and the list goes on.
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It is important that more and more software companies protect our data. I am glad to see microsoft try and help protect there useres. It is also nice to see the new apps coming out that are NSA proof for communication. The...
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It's a tragecy for comedy that they're not rushing this into production. I can definitely see it as an item for Dave Barry's Holiday Gift Guide. I would trust Dave Barry to tell us what this says about society. http://w...
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Actually, the VMI - hosting the native mobile apps offers a better experience than VDI on a mobile device given the relative 'weight' (less) of the mobile application. That is important since the primary driver...
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Ariella, the way I see it is that the more bitcoin is in demand the greater becomes its difficulty, currently $1,000+ per 1 bitcoin shows that it is in high speculative demand. This has created a situation where it is only...
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I like it Kristin -- we can start calling this the "absurdity of things." All these health apps face a challenge of motivation, of getting people who would rather ignore our health (most of us) to engage in this way.
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I often tell my young niece and nephew to get good at something a robot can't do. Of course, they just roll their eyes at me. I agree that creativity, personality and generating good ideas are areas where robots are weak...
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I think this one can be filed under "absurd wearable tech." The notion is interesting -- a device that learns your behavior to prevent emotional eating -- but i just can support (ba-dum-chh) this prototype. A bracelet, sure,...
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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