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2011: Year of the Tablet
If 2010 marked the tablet eruption, then 2011 will be the year the tablet hits the mainstream. Info-Tech estimates that the tablet market will explode to 40-50 million units in 2011 – somewhere in the...
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The Invasion of Consumer Tech – It Doesn’t Have to be The Wild West
I thought it was about time to do a quick post of the invasion of consumer technology in the enterprise. Our colleagues call it the “consumerization of IT”; Info-Tech has been talking about it for...
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Busy Week in Mobile Culminates in…Microkia
It’s been a busy week in mobile news. HP revealed the fruits of its Palm acquisition from last April – the WebOS powered 10″ TouchPad tablet, Pre 3 “full sized” smartphone, and the diminutive Veer...
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Lying, Cheating, Stealing – Most 4G is a Lie
Funny thing, all of the sudden every wireless carrier in the Western world has 4G. How the hell did that happen in a matter of a few months? Well, let’s take a step back, shall we? (Thanks for the...
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Taking Bets: iPad 2 is a stop-gap – iPad 3 in September
When the iPad 2 was introduced this past Wednesday I thought it looked pretty darned compelling. Thinner, lighter, faster, front and rear-facing cameras, HDMI out…and the list stops there, doesn’t it?...
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Busy Day for RIM
It may just be a coincidence, but Research in Motion (RIM) decided to have its biggest day of announcements in a long time on the same day as the Canadian Federal election. I’ll give credit where it’s...
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HP Canada Analyst Day – webOS
A key part of HP’s future is webOS. CEO Léo Apotheker broke the news earlier thisyear that HP would ship webOS on basically every device it sells – that’s over 100 million devices per year. If the...
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Infrastructure Managers: Manage Consumerization Now, or Pay Later
It’s expected that by 2013, every worker will bring a personal or unmanaged device (PUD) into the workplace. This additional number and variety of devices (tablets, smartphones, laptops), as well as...
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CES 2012: Day 1 Wrap
Day 1 of the 2012 International Consumer Electronics show is behind us, and boy, are there going to be a lot of ultrabooks coming out this year. Ultrabooks were one of the key themes of Microsoft’s...
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Choose Your Consumerization Strategy
The consumerization of IT is a topic that has seen a lot of coverage in the IT world in the past few years. In spite of this, there are still many CIOs who aren’t sure how to respond to all of the...
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How Mobile Consumer Devices Drive Cloud Applications in Enterprise IT
While everyone was out buying tablets and e-book readers over the holidays, I happened to dig up “The Coming Age of Calm Technology,” by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. Weiser and Brown wrote it...
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iPad at Work: the Good, the Bad (or not-so-good), and the Ugly
Enterprises are adopting iPads faster than anyone could have anticipated two short years ago. Why are we talking about iPads and not tablets in general? The answer is Apple absolutely dominates as the...
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Mobile Development Strategies
Mobile devices are here to stay, and with that comes a myriad of newer mobile operating systems, and hardware form factors. From all the hype you’d think we’re entering into some brave new uncharted...
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Office 2013 is awesome….sort of.
Over the course of my multiple careers; scientist, consultant, educator; Office has been a core tool. It is like the little brother that Mom makes you take everywhere; yeah its sometimes helps but most...
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CES 2013 In Review
Image courtesy of CEA The Annual Consumer Electronics Show tends to be a great indicator for what trends will be coming to enterprises in the near future. The rise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices),...
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