Not totally sure about the conclusion you made, but I absolutely agree that there is no need for another sharing app. Truly, this is no different than having your images feed directly to Dropbox -- they've just created a...
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The growth of the IoT is a very exciting thing, Jeff, but it also heightens the need for proper security and network timing. Connecting more devices mushrooms the entry points for hackers. In theory, a hacker only needs...
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Nadella calls Excel the most ubiquitous data analytics product in the world -- also likely the top contributor to the multiple versions of spreadsheets problem -- leading to the multiple versions of the truth problem. BI/data...
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So, IBM is offering DRaaS without supporting the No. 1 (by a mile) hypervisor in use by enterprises? Am I missing something?
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Rob, I think the biggest joke will be on the GOP in 2016 when Hillary rolls into the White House ;->
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This is one of the few IT projects I've heard about where half the people responsible for governance wanted it to fail and pretty much did everything in their power to make sure it failed. Yet, in spite of those efforts,...
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I have heard people discuss the connected refrigerator concept since the 90's, but I have met few people who actually want one.
In reply to: Re: Footdragging on the Internet of Things
Yes, I believe that in developing countries it may have an advantage that other companies will lack. I also am not as worried about fraud per se, but about their glitchy systems that inadvertantly expose information followed...
In reply to: Re: Facebook not secure
Anyone that had a Blackberry on a company network knows that this feature has been available for a long time with BES. As an admin I've wiped many stolen blackberries by remote and restored new ones the same way. It's...
In reply to: Blackberry Enterprise old feature
Intersting look at future car technologies. What current technology in your car gives you the most trouble, readers? And what's missing?
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High display costs affect most mobile devices, not just this one. Not a terribly competitive part of the supply chain.
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I agree with you. This is not bad, but good. Very, very good. Notice that this voluntary group includes most of the major carriers. What they're saying is that they will give up monthly fees for this type...
In reply to: Re: This is bad. Very, very bad.
No doubt ... hackers will bypass it ... sincerely I don't like the idea to have a kill switch pre-installed on my mobile. We have also to consider that a similar feature could be abused by a bad actor.
In reply to: Re: Parsing?
Once again, it's internal threats that are outweighing the external threats and causing monumental problems for companies. Doing the basic due diligence - background checks, credit checks, employment references, drug testing...
In reply to: Re: Identifying unhappy employees
Whenever the government does stuff, we want to know everything, and bad news moves the media. When it comes to private, we're lucky to hear anything at all, because only good news (and a little skin) pays for media. As...
In reply to: At least ACA is an attempt at something
At first impression this seems like a rehash of an old idea. I would have to ask how this is relevant moving forward if there is a law similar Moore's Law which applies to bandwidth and storage? If you are dealing with a...
In reply to: Is this really new?
Dell's Sam Greenblatt, chief technology evangelist of the Enterprise Solutions Group, said at the Red Hat Summit this morning that Dell will produce x86-based network gear with Open Daylight baked in. It's trying to wedge...
In reply to: Can Open Daylight disrupt networking?
I don't like it. What's next - kills switches on your car and house? Pretty soon the hackers will be hacking into your phone when it's not stolen and killing it.
In reply to: What's next
To President Obama:
Success. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- Inigo Montoya
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