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mattydread23 writes:
The PC isn't dead. But Microsoft tried ambitious and ahead of the curve with Windows 8 and got a resounding "huh?" from the mainstream market. If the next version plays it safe, tones down the vision, and makes enterprises comfortable with the more secure and easier to mobilize WinRT runtime, while accommodating cheap tablets for people who don't want to pay for iPad and want something more powerful than Android, Microsoft can hold onto its 14% while it builds out cross-platform versions of its apps to take advantage of the services where it's actually doing something exciting — like Power BI and Project Spark and Skype Translator and Azure ML and lots of things that have nothing at all to do with Windows.
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Gamoid writes:
I talked to Matrix, an open source initiative that's trying to build a new, open, federated standard for chat, voice, and video that enables rich applications to be built but that still allow users of different clients to talk to each other. It's only two weeks old, but Matrix has a lot of potential.
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rfran writes:
It used to be CIOs would just say no to any new technology. But now users are smarter and have forced CIOs to find middle ground in accepting new technologies.
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mattydread23 writes:
Apple has added a list of rules about how developers can use HealthKit, HomeKit, and keyboard data, and they demonstrate Apple's commitment to ensuring that the most private and personal data of its users is respected and protected. In a year where Facebook admitted that it experimented with the mental state of hundreds of thousands of its users, it's refreshing to see a company that remains focused on what its users want and need, and doesn't rely on selling information about them.
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rfran writes:
These tips help you manage your selection of devices, OSes, apps, services, and content to move as fluidly and reliably across platforms as possible.
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rfran writes:
Microsoft is examining the 'experience' before flooding the market with another device.
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Gamoid writes:
At VMworld today, VMware introduced the Workplace Suite, a platform for securely delivering applications and content across desktops and mobile devices from the cloud. The really cool part, though, is a partnership with Google and NVIDIA to deliver even graphics-intensive Windows applications on a Chromebook. I was on the scene.
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mattydread23 writes:
Jawbone published a chart this morning showing its customers in the Bay area waking up during the recent earthquake. While many people thought that was a cool use of fitness data, it's a good reminder about how much data is being collected.
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rfran writes:
Consumer products will be far more than just inanimate objects. They will be part salesperson and part customer service rep. They'll even do a bit of cross-selling and upselling for you if the situation is right.
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rfran writes:
How easy is it to find a shared workspace of any whether you're on vacation, traveling for work, or need a coworking community in your hometown? Maybe it's easy in major cities, but what about the smaller cities and towns that dot the U.S. landscape?
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rfran writes:
Check out these real life uses of wearables.
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mattydread23 writes:
Venture capitalist Brad Feld recently argued that Amazon's cloud dominance is over, and said that it's a good time to be Microsoft or Google. In this article, CITEworld editor Matt Rosoff argues that Microsoft is in fact in the driver's seat — Azure is a core part of its strategy, not a low-margin side business like Google Cloud Engine is for its parent company.
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Gamoid writes:
Building a mobile app is easy. But you need to measure and monitor performance and quickly build to improve it or users are going to ditch it and go back to Dropbox and Gmail.
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mattydread23 writes:
The BlackBerry Security Summit gave the company a chance to announce its acquisition of Secusmart and affirm its commitment to delivering and expanding highly secure devices and services. While there were high points, it also demonstrated that BlackBerry is still out of touch in some key areas.
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Copy that 2 writes:
Frank and Oak, an online men's clothing retailer, requires that users sign up to shop, offering them a new collection of clothes to choose from each month. With 1.5 million members, the company's previous BI platform wasn't cutting it and it soon ran into a bottleneck problem that will sound familiar to many users of such tools.
