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Apple doesn't play well in the shallow end of the market

Apple tried to expand its market with the low-ish end 5C, but the market appears to have rejected the "unapologetically plastic" phone in favor of the high end 5S and all its spit and polish. Apple clearly doesn't play well... Continue reading

Posted Jan 30, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Open Source and Open Standards make a great pairing

Open source offers organizations all kinds of benefits, but when you combine it with open standards, you create a free software and interoperability juggernaut that businesses are going to love. http://bit.ly/1dOxnca Photo Credit: opensourceway on Flickr. Used under CC 2.0... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Seems Apple can't win for losing

Apple released its quarterly numbers this week, and by any measure they were impressive, setting quarterly sales records for iPad and iPhones and overall revenue, yet when all was said and done it wasn't enough for Wall Street. Seems no... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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The ugliest side of personalization

We have all heard the party line on Customer Experience Management. It allows you deliver the most meaningful content to your customers, but while we gather all this information on our customers, sometimes, it doesn't go as planned -and it's... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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More apps, more devices. What's a developer to do?

Let's face it, trying to navigate various mobile operating environments along with an exploding number of devices (which will soon include cars and appliances), is a huge challenge for developers today. Telerik has come up with a solution they think... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Gmail outage was much ado about nothing

Twitter blew up on Friday afternoon when Gmail, Google + and Google Calendar went down briefly, but it turned out to be just a temporary glitch and it was back up and running in about a half hour or so.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Super Bowl ads are so 20th century

Super Bowl ads are so 20th century Many brands will spend tens of millions of dollars on Sunday night to deliver an ad most of us will forget about by the next day. Really smart companies don't want to preach... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Cloud 5: Cloud's IT paradox, cloud has won and PaaS isn't dying

This week, we explore the paradox of cloud computing for IT pros, why the cloud actually isn't a threat to IT jobs and the real reason PaaS lags behind other forms of cloud computing. Photo Credit: Ron Miller. Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Okta CEO: Soon, cloud services will give both IT and users what they want

There is an inherent tension today in organizations between IT which still has a job to do and end users and business units that want to simply do their work with the best tools possible. Is it possible for these... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Apps aren’t just for your smartphones anymore

We tend to think of apps as those nice discrete little applications we download to our smartphones and tablets, but over the next few years that will expand to other devices too, and as it does, the amount of data... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Why VMware just spent $1.54 billion for AirWatch

VMware shocked the world this morning when it announced it was buying AirWatch for $1.54 billion. I spoke to a bevy of mobile experts including Brian Katz, Benjamin Robbins, R "Ray" Wang and Chris Hazelton about the purchase and why... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Android's next target could be the desktop

Android has more than 80 percent worldwide mobile marketshare, so it makes sense it would see the desktop as the next logical target, but just because they want to do it doesn't mean the market is looking to have an... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Every company brings its own agenda to open source

Every company and individual joins an open source project for any number of reasons. Some are altruistic, but many times it's about about a business agenda. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it can lead to tension and a... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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To get data to work for you, package it to answer the most important questions

While many companies understand the power of big data, putting it to work is another matter. You could actually learn a lot by paying attention to how companies in the data business package it and sell it --and apply these... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Cloud 5: Five cloud myths, Dropbox outage and PaaS winners and losers

Time for my weekly feature, The Cloud 5 where we scour the web looking for the most interesting and compelling cloud links. This week, five cloud myths, the real reason behind the Dropbox outage and IBM makes a billion dollar... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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The next cloud-mobile battle ground may be your car

When we think of cloud and mobile, we tend to think of our computers, tablets and smartphones, but the next great cloud-mobile battleground won't be any of those. It will be in your car, a device that might not be... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Infographic: SMBs need to prepare for data loss and recovery too

It's easy for SMBs to think of data loss protection and recovery as a big company problem, but it's really something every company regardless of size needs to be considering. And your managed service provider can help you come up... Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Moving beyond Snowden: What kind of country does America want to be?

We've pretty much exhausted the Edward Snowden debate. He may be a hero or a villain or none of the above, but none of that matters now. At this point, knowing what we now know, we have to decide what... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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iOS is the most lucrative mobile OS of them all

Recent data from IBM proved once again that iOS users were much more active during the holiday shopping season than their Android counterparts. It's unclear why this is the case, but I wondered if this kind of activity also translated... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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The cloud isn't just for geeks

In an article on cloud myths one big one was the notion that it's just for geeks. I would say it's just the opposite. In fact, the cloud has been the great equalizer giving ordinary users easy access to services... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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FCC CIO David Bray discusses government IT challenges

I've been meaning to play more with Storify, which lets you pull in various social and web elements into a conventional news story. I had an exchange last week on Twitter with several people including FCC CIO David Bray and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Cloud 5: Disruptive tech, a SaaS ancestor, and the top outages of '13

Cloud 5: Disruptive tech, a SaaS ancestor, and the top outages of '13 I have a new client and a new Friday Feature called the Cloud 5 for 2014. We look around the web for the most intriguing and poignant... Continue reading

Posted Jan 10, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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The paradox of big data: It's only useful if you break it into small data

There is an inherent paradox in big data says Digital Clarity Group's Allen Bonde in that end business users can only make sense of it when it is broken down into chunks they can make use of. Data scientists may... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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How will Google Glass be used with cars? Hyundai has some ideas

In an effort to differentiate itself from the rest of the pack, Hyundai went a step beyond the companies announcing smartphone integration at CES in Las Vegas this week. Instead, it announced direct integration with Google Glass with its higher... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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Why Google Gives Android Away

You may wonder why Google decided to give Android away when they could make so much money charging even a modest amount per phone. I think it's because they knew they were two years behind Apple when they launched Android,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2014 at by Ron Miller

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