It's great to see Avira and Bitdefender respond to the transparency question about NSA malware from Dutch digital rights foundation Bits of Freedom. Now its your turn, Microsoft, Symantec, and McAfee!
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...when you're looking for a reason to do so. Most often (as a professed "old guy" myself), I've found the reasoning is financial. It's always easier to justfiy adding people to your team when they don't cost as much to...
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Update: two more AV vendors have come forward -- and we've updated the story accordingly. Avira's CEO has sent Trail of Bits a letter saying it hasn't, and won't, block any malware, full stop. Ditto for the CEO of Bitdefender,...
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This would be more annoying than useful for me, but I can see better applications down the road: coupons for shoppers based on kiosks or stores they're near, exclusive deals, that sort of thing.
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@rgruia, thanks for your response. Great details on the specific carriers, which I have found difficult to find on my own.
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A mix is a necessary in the workforce: Younger ones bring a fresh sense of enthusiasm and ideas; older workers bring experience to execute, all of which are invaluable and keys to business success.
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PeterG, I remember VerticalNet! I guess we are talking about online versus offline business processes. But I think a lot of that is merging as more internal company processes become networked to branches, partners and suppliers....
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Nature often punishes monocultures, and an all-young person team may be a kind of monoculture. The mature person knows where the pitfalls in the trail lie, having traversed it before. Language skills in particular can weigh...
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In answer to your question about why some hospitals aren't making progress, @David Carr, I'd say the answer is organizational roadblocks, not technology. It's interesting, I think, that Lakeland (a Stage 7 institution) made...
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^This is a good reminder of how necessary it is to know your audience.
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The dynamics of open source software have always seemed at odds to me. Is there any opportunity to align with a very established organization like the IEEE or the IETF to get some objective oversight? I know the IEEE is...
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The old guy brings the voice of experience, even when the young guy or gal doesn't want to hear it.
What else does the old guy bring to the table? What about the old broad (not to leave her out)?
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We mostly asked about project management strategies. The architectural specifics are hard for anyone outside of the project to know in great detail, although this is an interesting resource: http://www.civicagency.org/2...
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The development team and IT managers need to reach full agreement on how PaaS will be implemented on top of IaaS, as companies convert their data centers to private cloud. Some of the real gains of private cloud flow out...
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Interesting that some hospitals seem not to be making progress, according to HIMSS measures. What do you suppose is holding them back?
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Whoopty, don't even get me started on display screens! That's one case where "better" is truly subjective. I plug my very expensive laptop into an old monitor because I just can't deal with Apple's Retina displays. What...
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Yes, short-sighted vendors won't play along but experienced vendors know that lock-in via their own de facto standard usually doesn't pay off in the long run. If the technology in question is significant/important, eventually...
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Wow, a positive comment about the DMV! Glad to know they've got something on the ball in your state.
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The advent of the smart phone as a personal computing device, capable of hosting patient-selected applications, is going to change all this. It provides a direct link that was missing before. The patient is also used to...
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While social networking is undoubtedly a big deal for consumer focused businesses, I think we'll keep seeing these sorts of meltdowns from social media coordinators being fired from businesses they just aren't needed in....
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
Multicloud Infrastructure & Application Management
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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