Why should vendors play along? They don't voluntarily. Dominant vendors don't adopt a standard as long as they have any hope of setting a defacto standard and getting the world to adopt its way of doing things. Amazon has...
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Why is Windows ANYTHING running these systems???
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One of the most ingenious apps yet on a smartphone are those that can scan a bar code and know exactly what product you're trying to price compare. It's also fantastic for evaluating food products for their nutritional...
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There is a laundry list of laws and statutes still on the books that were written long before the age of cloud phones, smartphones, and Google and Facebook. It's time to at least update the laws to reflect this new...
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Another way at looking at how the car business has changed: Today's high end automobilies now rely on nearly 100 million lines of software code to run each car's climate control, transmission and other electronically-controlled...
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As is typical with these people who became billionaires with many technoligies we really never needed. Soon to be proven as the mom and pops, local farmers and artisans retake main street and leave these drones to their...
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Another reason why it's time we move beyond passwords to protect our privacy.
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Okay. ..Real quick. Most of the experienced spectators expected just what they have seen... An amateurish product delivered by a hands-off amateur. His two claims-to-fame are low level legislative "voting present"...
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So what if your facebook account is hacked. Don't you know that facebook is already scanning your information and making it available to other businesses and government? Everyone should consider using privacy-based services...
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We are [intending] to create a page, so users can check whether their account was compromised Instead of creating a page with almost 1.6 million stolen website logins, isn't it easier to contact the companies involved (Google,...
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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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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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