I believe is a great idea to combine the windows phone OS with RT. But now that the Surface 2 and future tablets are dropping the RT moniker, isn't a little confusing? Now both tablets run Windows 8.1, The difference is...
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Along the lines of "there's an app for that," perhaps we should be saying more often, "there's a brain for that."
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The logic in this article is flawed. Customers enter into a 2 year contract in order to save mony on the inital device purchase, instead of buying an iPhone for $649 they get it for $199. When your contract ends...
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Plus, you can install Android on your Nook, and have a full fledged, compatible tablet!
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I agree with Mr Williams that the gov is not in the business to provide a spectacular customer experience, nevertheless, it doesn't mean they can not provide a pleasant experience, I recently renew my driver licence online...
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The problem with any pronouncement about encryption is that is has to be taken on trust, something that has already been violated. How does anyone know the encryption Microsoft (or Google or Apple) provides will function...
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Mike, you make a few excellent points here. IMHO, the two things are feasible, i.e. a lowering of margins, say to something a bit more in line with other LOBs but at the same time, there will be a shifting happening...
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Google's ambition when it grows up is to look like Apple and operate like Amazon.
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If it's not flash, it will be something else. Content has to be able to migrate to survive.
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Susan, there already some service providers getting their feet wet with SDN. I would split the user groups in 3 categories: enterprise, carrier, and web 2.0/cloud providers (such as Google). Google did their own thing...
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Lorna, this is a very valid question... SDN as a Service is not quite there yet, but I'd say from the current service provider deployments out there, perhaps the closest to this is NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud Service....
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These passwords were detected - "recovery" implies getting the horse back in the barn.
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Pundits have been saying tape is dead for a decade or more and it's still around. Flash vendors shouldn't get too worried.
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In the future we will all lounge around in floating seats while robots bring us cold beverages. Humans can spend their time being creative when we're free of the drudgery of things like cleaning bathrooms and assembling...
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If a surgical robot can be controlled nine feet away, it's practical to control it from 9,000 miles away. On the one hand, that's great for patients in areas without skilled surgeons. But what happens when hospitals in...
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I couldn't agree more @geoffarnold. The balancing act between keeping both product users and developers happy is a real challenge. Dev's interested in open source don't really like guidelines and restrictions. But...
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One of the best U.S. sites for No-Contract Tablets and Smartphones that work on the AT&T and Straight Talk wireless networks is -- TabletSprintThe new 8.9" Pipo M7 Pro - 3G HSPA+ tablet is on sale for $279 -- with built-in...
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not all services give it up to the NSA. social networking org Glom.com does not comply with any NSA, PRISM, or other government demands for people's data, no do they sell people's data, track searches, chats, messaging,...
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This is a great read Ira. I agree that just because a counter measure isn't effective 100% of the time, doesn't mean it is time to scrap it. There is no cure-all solution to security. I've also seen a lot of companies that...
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Without having seen any examples of Excel, Word, or Powerpoint, I have used the touch version of OneNote on a Surface RT device. I can say it is not as fully capable as the desktop version but it is capable enough to get...
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Microsoft can always go corporate raiding for its touch screen technology. Every company does it.
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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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