How much room is there for the manufacturers to differentiate their versions of the Chromebook? Is Dell claiming any particular distinguishing characteristics?
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CMS is extending the time for MU attestations under Stage 2, and allowing vendors more time to test out under Stage 2 either using 2014 test criteria or a new 2015 criteria set (far from ready for prime time).For...
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Do the changes happening now really feel like they're happening at a faster rate? Every 2014 tech tech and market forecast proclaims big changes, often exaggerated, but is healthcare different? Big changes or incremental...
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I confess I've never gotten the Google Drive offline mode to work, although I've futzed with it several times. Not intuitive (or maybe I'm just dense)
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How many erases/writes before the SSD becomes unreliable? That number has been improving, hasn't it? I know there are workarounds, minimizing the number of erases through management software but the reliability factor used...
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I look forward to seeing how Microsoft accounts for paying Android patent royalties to itself, once the Nokia acquisition is complete.
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Here's a good test of the utility, or lack thereof, of a wearable device. Substitute the words "smart human" for the object in question... "The [smart human] can also be used to control a number of smartphone...
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I'll believe the government is committed to transparency and openness when I see it.
See InformationWeek's The Freedom From Information Act
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SSDs are so much better than traditional hard disks in terms of user experience. They're much more responsive.
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>So the big unanswered question is how society will deal with ever-increasing pools of people who want to work but really have no place to go? I hope there's an answer beyond war, disease, and/or gated communities. Given...
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This is a great article. The challenge I see in the adoption of the NIST Cyber framework will be the lack of a reward mechanism to enable small and medium businesses to embrace the framework. Large businesses will...
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The NSA isn't paving the way in gathering online intelligence. It's merely following in the footsteps of Google, Web advertisers and others who feel they have a right to any information available on our online activities....
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Those who want to collaborate with others in a familiar spreadsheet interface, but also want/need collaborative features like file sharing, auto reminders, and the ability to share a sheet, or just a single row, along with...
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As a boy I borrowed books from the James Watt Memorial Library in Greenock. It is not a coincidence that the River Clyde (on whose south shore Greenock sits) became a major force for (steam) shipbuilding in the 19th and...
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I agree with Joe's number 3, Amazon's April 21, 2011, Easter outage is the poster child of cloud collapses. A human error of unplugging a main trunk network and replugging it into a backup net was compounded by automated...
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And make it work on tablets, too. App quirks that force me to put down the tablet and move over to the laptop are getting old quickly.
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I absolutely think that cloud deployments are less prone to downtime; NSA hacking I don't have a good enough sense of things. But we do give up control when we go to the cloud, which amplifies the cloud fiascoes.
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Since I got hit with that TROJAN, I'm not taking any chances!
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