Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
New Zealand blog site Voxy.co.nz drilled down on the implications for the IT and finance departments of employees bringing their own technology devices to work in David Silversmith’s post BYOC – Bring Your Own Computer. The article quotes Sam Gross and results of the recent Unisys online poll which asked the question, “What percentage of [...]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
You might have read how Delta Air Lines recently became the first in its industry to let customers book tickets on Facebook. With a population of more than 500 million, the Facebook community is now larger than that of the United States. Socially savvy Facebook users want to do business through Facebook and other social [...]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Does social computing, like other technologies, follow a defined life cycle in the enterprise? I think so, and recently wrote on the subject in an article I contributed to ComputerWorld. The gist of the article is that social computing has both a technology adoption life cycle and a technology adaptation life cycle. A technology adoption [...]
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Forrester Research recently issued a report stating that Apple’s iOS has reached the point where iPhones and iPads can be safely deployed for most enterprises. The report should spark great interest among enterprises caught up in the consumerization trend. But a more basic question should be asked. Why are people so interested in the iPhone [...]
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
Yesterday, InformationWeek featured a second story about the Unisys-IDC research. Esther Shein’s article, “IT Pros Willing To Buy Their Own Tech,” includes the finding that about 75 percent of enterprise employees are willing to fund all or part of the cost of workflow-related technology. But there’s one catch: They’ll only pay if they can choose [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
The recent release of new generation devices like Apple’s iPad, which is expected to sell almost 10 million by the end of this year, has started a new kind of race among the computer manufacturers that we have not seen for a long time. Other news that captured the headlines in the past month was [...]
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