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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Legally required by US Law to submit all data to NSA , and then legally required not to reveil that they're doing it , or they all get thrown in jail. This is just shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. The FBI kicked...
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Google Play Store is malware in itself. I have numerous aps that require play store services to be activated. Play store then accesses your phone whenever it wants to. Also play store will not allow aps...
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@Ariella, yes good point, when bitcoin is pegged to the dollar to pay salaries a bit of the volatility is finished, and that to only during the calculated interval, so if salaries were paid on the 2nd of each month and bitcoin...
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Google has watched Amazon run off with the infrastructure as a service market, even though it pioneered some of the concepts that Amazon has successfully implemented in its public cloud. Why can't we do that, must be the...
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Good article, Paul. There's a movement going on to integrate dashboarding APIs into current patient portals. This will help bring the current "plane-jane" look and feel of patient portals to the next level. Cipe is just...
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Yeah, 3rd party, middleware security solutions are the answer. Sure they are. Go watch the old movie The Net and then come back and post some more on this. And, no, don't post about how Sandra Bullock is hottest...
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THIS RACE-TO-THE-BOTTOM, on behalf of unlimited profits, makes the concept of this type of innovation impossible. It is, however, an ideal worth pursuing.
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I think that is great advice to be giving anyone. Generally speaking and in my view, I think economics and technology are the same things. It's like the chicken and the egg. Technology began during the 1st industrial revolution...
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I expect that the buggy-whip making robots will be first... Did you write this on an IBM 8086 PC with a 14" 320x200 tube-type monitor and dual 360K floppies that cost you a few grand? What a historically and economically...
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The problem is that they're still not big enough to get away with it. Sure, Amazon dominates the cloud market, but it's not an oligopoly. There are dozens of large alternatives and hundreds of smaller ones. Verizon, HP,...
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I'm not a big enterprise, but anyone who's read my columns over the past year might know that my primary work environment is Chrome OS (for writing and research) and iOS and Android for communication. The need for a conventional...
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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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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