Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly
Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
How SaaS is Transforming IT Management
IT management isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days when an IT manager's success was measured by the size of the network he was responsible for.
Thirty years of spreadsheets
It was 30 years ago this week that the first electronic spreadsheet began shipping. Here are some things to put that event into context, along with a new service from Socialtext that is worth looking at.
Don't Blame “The Cloud” or SaaS for Microsoft and Sidekick Stupidity
By now, you probably heard about poor Sidekick users who have lost their contacts, calendar entries, and other information due to a massive fail by T-Mobile's Sidekick division and the Microsoft subsidiary providing data services. People who hate “the cloud” or those selling local disk storage (often the same people) are cheering the loss because it seems to bolster their complaints about Software As A Service not being trustworthy. But a little digging shows the blame sits squarely on management stupidity, where you can usually find the root of all business problems.
A weak Webmail offering from Lotus called iNotes
Lotus has been busy creating various Web service offerings for collaboration. The newest one, iNotes, isn't impressive.
Don't Blame “The Cloud” or SaaS for Microsoft and Sidekick Stupidity
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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