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After I read a Wall Street Journal article suggesting mobile wasn't making us more productive, I realized it was a load of bunk because there are countless examples of mobile making individuals and entire businesses more productive. I share some of them.
Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above.
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We've seen a lot of hysteria around Google Glass and the belief that people can secretly record you. I spoke to the project's technical lead, someone who has been working on wearable computers since the 90s, and I'm here to tell you that hysteria is completely misplaced. If someone wants to secretly record you, there are a lot more sneaky ways than Google Glass (which is sitting on your face in plain sight).
Read my full post on Internet Evolution.
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It's Friday and that means it's time for 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros. This week, we have the Science Fiction is Reality edition with stories on 3D printers, hacking pacemakers and controlling computers with our brains.
See all five links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Services blog.
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At the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Conference this week, Gartner chief of research Daryl Plummer suggested we stop calling employees users. He said "drug addicts are users." Your employees are customers for IT services, and that makes them "enterprise consumers." I explore the implications of this semantic difference on CITEworld.
Read my full post on CITEworld.
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A couple of big companies ended up with mud on their faces last week when their public relations gaffes went viral on social networks, but they could have nipped the problem in the bud if they had been monitoring social and listening to their customers.
See my full post on socmedianews.com.
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Apple is facing market pressure on a number of fronts and after years of steady growth, they are finding it's harder to sustain than it once was as margins shrink and competition grows. That means they have to start innovating again, and fast.
Read my full analysis on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
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It's Friday, the sun is shining and the craziness of last week is behind us. Let's celebrate with my regular feature, Five Links for Developers and IT Pros.
This week we look at how to build apps your users will hate, 10 security holes you might have missed and a developer who got 10K downloads in 8 days.
See all my links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Effectiveness Blog.
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When it comes to new collaboration technologies and BYOD, both IT and users are a bit confused these days. I spoke to a Cisco researcher who offered some concrete ways to work together to improve everyone's experience.
Read my full post on CITEworld.
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When I learned Netflix has a Chief Content Officer, that alone caught my attention, but when the number of new subscribers driven by House of Cards came out this week, it really drove home the importance of content in driving business. Maybe your company should have a CCO too.
Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.
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While nobody can deny there is a serious problem with Internet security, it doesn't mean that any bill that comes along that tries to attack that problem should be taken seriously. CISPA is a bad bill written by clueless politicians that runs roughshod over personal privacy and it needs to be stopped. The president could be our last, best hope to do that.
Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.
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