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Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT?

I'm having a bit of a Millennials moment. I'm sick of the coverage about Millennials, also known as Generation Y. Here's the story line: Generation Y will change the world as the first digital natives. They will change business practices and IT as we know it. You must adapt to...

Tags: Generation X, Generation Y, Information Technology, Worker, Millennials, Jason Hiner, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-17

How desktop virtualization will save your company from Generation Y

How desktop virtualization will save your company from Generation YFariy TalesIf an employee doesn't want to earn his/her paycheck by WORKING when on the company clock they know where the door is and there are 10 people waiting in line for his/her job.Not all IT is the sameThe story is...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, media, Generation Y, desktop virtualization, virtualization, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

How desktop virtualization will save your company from Generation Y

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.  Guest Editorial by Rich Mogull Recently I was watching an interesting 60 Minutes episode on the new generation of "Millennials" entering the workforce. I always thought they were called Generation Y, but I guess that term is...

Tags: Desktop, Generation Y, Mankind, Tool, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Productivity, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-25

Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook

Facebook for the Enterprise = FacebookWeb2.0: Beginning of the end for Corporate Computing?The observations of this article are spot on! As the service levels provided by FREE Web 2.0 information infrastructure services utilties surpasses the service levels and functionality provided by corporate IT departments, users will increasingly use and depend...

Tags: Channel management, Generation Y, Facebook, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

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12 terabytes of YouTube data

12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool

Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD's ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems. In an SEC filing, the company said it is offering a driver that keeps fans running to relieve...

Tags: Processor, Notebook, NVidia Corp., Notebook Chip, Chip, GPU, MCP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost

Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What to do with your first generation iPhone (updated)

What to do with your first generation iPhone updatedLOL..How about NEVER buying Apple productsPlease, spare me here. Apple is trying to steal from their customers here. The real solution is to buy a Windows Mobile device and have access to the entire eco-system of fine Windows Mobile software. Mobile IE...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Digital music, Apple iPhone, first-generation, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

What to do with your first generation iPhone (updated)

With the launch of the iPhone 3G a little over a week away and new rate plans published many people are wondering what to do with their first generation iPhones. An AppleInsider story lists a bunch of options including handing it down to a family member or...

Tags: Apple iPhone, First-generation, 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Digital Media, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-02

OMG! texting is so expensive

Amid all the talk about AT&T's data plan fees and the cost of buying an unlocked iPhone perhaps the most notable jump is the cost of texting. News.com's Maggie Reardon breaks it down: Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major...

Tags: Text Message, Text Messaging, AT&T Corp., Object Management Group, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)

(Images: Dubai's skyscraper in motion)Fast Forward, NYC... where the story of the great PIT continues. It just amazes and saddens me how far the US has fallen.When the rest of the world reads about the insurance lawsuits related to the original WTC, the fear of replacing the building with one...

Tags: skyscraper

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Snort Security Platform (Snort SP) 3.0 beta released

Congrats to Martin Roesch and crew for delivering the next in a long line of well respected open source security products.  From Snort's site: Snort Security Platform SnortSP 3.0 Beta We're pleased to introduce our first beta release built on the new Snort 3.0 architecture. The Snort 3.0...

Tags: Snort, Beta, SnortSP, Snort 3.0 Architecture, Databases, Networking, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Apple posts iPhone 3G guided tours

As was the case this time last year, Apple has posted two Web video demonstrating some of the features of the new iPhone 3G. You're host is, you guessed it, the same guy that did the first iPhone videos (Bob?). Last time he was a little more...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Video, 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'knowledge-at-point-of-careGreat review of Mike Lynch's article.ISABEL, a clinical diagnosis reminder system based on Autonomy is a sign of things to come in the vast and underexplored area of point-of-care knowledge and expertise management in healthcare; the current generation of...

Tags: Autonomy Corp. plc, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

A world ruled by Apple

A world ruled by AppleGood post[i]I am perfectly willing to praise Apple or Linux when I feel they are doing something right, and do so on a regular basis in this blog. That’s why I have a hard time understanding the need to believe that Gates did nothing right, in...

Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Web, Industry, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30