Forget the IPO: Why Twitter should try to emulate Facebook
Everyone's crowing about how Twitter managed to avoid Facebook's notorious stumbles out of the IPO gate. Unlike Facebook's widely planned public debut last May, Twitter's public debut last week seems...
View ArticleI was right: Phablets are taking over the world!
I was right. Phablets are taking over the world! IDC's latest mobile market share research shows big Android gains. Can you guess the reason? The latest smartphone research from IDC shows significant...
View ArticleWith big data comes big responsibility
Big Data is the buzzword on everyone's lips these days - promising to change the world through deep insights into vast and complex sets of data. But amidst the optimism at the recent IEEE Computer...
View ArticleDropbox is winning the storage wars - get used to it
If you needed more proof that the future of storage lies in cloud-based online services like Dropbox and its competitors, the financial markets have 8 billion reasons for you to consider. At least, $8...
View Article4 reasons email will never die
Forward-looking social media enthusiasts like to predict the end of email as we know it. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that millennials, in particular, prefer other methods of electronic...
View ArticleGoogle Glass is about to get a lot more useful -- and it has nothing to do...
In my very first TechWatch post for Network World, I took Samsung and other smartwatch makers to task for creating supremely ugly devices that only the geekiest of the geeky would actually wear in...
View Article8 tech developments to be sorta kinda thankful for
It's always useful to spend a few minutes appreciating some of the good stuff in the world of networking and beyond. But we don't want to be too, too Pollyanna-ish, do we? So here are a handful of...
View ArticleGoogle Compute Engine's biggest challenge
I've been following the development of Google Compute Engine (GCE) since it was announced at the company's 2012 developers conference.
View ArticleThe week NSA surveillance finally jumped the shark
This week saw a high-profile We the People petition calling for the United States to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
View ArticleEucalyptus Systems and Dell tout cloud-in-a-box
Amid a slew of much higher-profile partnership announcements at Dell World in Austin, Texas, this week, cloud platform provider Eucalyptus Systems joined the Dell Technology Partner Program to provide...
View ArticleHow will going private really change Dell?
The one thing Dell folks couldn't stop talking about at this week's Dell World 2013 conference was how stepping away from the public markets was going make all the difference for the technology vendor.
View ArticleInside Dropbox's plans for enterprise domination
Last week, Dropbox announced a deal calling for Dell's global sales team to sell its Dropbox for Business cloud-based storage and file-sharing services, with or without Dell Data Protection encryption,...
View ArticleMeet the 18.5 million people who rule your world
Earlier this week, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that there are 11 million professional software developers around the world, and another 7.5 million hobbyists. Here's the thing: That...
View Article'Minority Report' meets PC support
In the 2002 sci-fi flick Minority Report, the so-called "pre-cogs" could supposedly predict crimes before they actually occured. In 2013, Dell claims its technical support opereations can predict...
View ArticleWhy web companies point the way for everyday IT in 2014
Once upon a time, there were two very separate worlds of technology.
View ArticleThe one New Year's resolution that really matters to IT
As we roll into a new year, it's all too easy to get caught up in the promise and challenge of new technologies, like software defined networking, hybrid clouds, faster Wi-Fi, and so many others....
View Article3 reasons AT&T's sponsored data plan isn't the end of the world
AT&T rattled some cages this week when it announced at CES a plan to let companies sponsor network access to reach specific websites or streaming content. The idea is that such deals would allow...
View Article3 Things enterprise IT can learn from the 2014 International CES
The International CES trade show that inundated Las Vegas and dominated tech headlines last week is no longer called the Consumer Electronics Show, but it's still all about consumer technology. That...
View ArticleIt's official: Tablets are replacing PCs in the enteprise
Two pieces of PC-related news crossed my desk late last week, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the connection.
View ArticleWhy even ISPs will regret the end of net neutrality
On Tuesday, the The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit said the FCC doen't doesn't have the authority to enforce its net neutrality rules. The ISPs and carriers typically maintain...
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