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David Strom's take on important technology and trends to watch.

by David Strom

I am a freelance writer, publication manager, and professional speaker on networking and communications topics. Written two books and countless magazine articles, with topics ranging all over networking, Internet applications and including practical tools and ways to be more productive. You can read more of my work over on strominator.com and webinformant.tv, both Web sites that I maintain.

Free Airport and in-Flight Wifi thanks to Google

Posted Nov 10, 2009 - 11:40 am

From now until January 15, 2010, Google will offer free wireless access in more than 45 different airports around the US, and in all Virgin American flights. The airports, including my home town of St.
Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly

Posted Nov 08, 2009 - 08:38 am

Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
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- Internet, Amazon S3, Google Apps
100,000 apps on the iPhone milestone

Posted Nov 05, 2009 - 09:19 am

Yes, there are more than 100k apps now available on the iPhone. But useful apps? Sponge-worthy apps? Apps that you will use more than once? Not so many
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- Personal Tech, Apple, apps
Five important Windows 7 mobility features

Posted Oct 30, 2009 - 07:28 am

While the marketing phrase "It doesn't suck as much as Vista" isn't probably top-of-mind in Redmond, Windows 7 does have some things that are appealing, particularly in the mobile space.
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- Mobile & Wireless, bitlocker, GoToMyPC
eReader battles will be all about their software

Posted Oct 28, 2009 - 08:03 am

Software is where the eReader battles will be fought and run. And while it is encouraging that Barnes and Noble and Sony have entered the race against Amazon's Kindle, both still have some room to grow if they are going to be effective competitors.
Thirty years of spreadsheets

Posted Oct 21, 2009 - 01:25 pm

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.
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- Internet, Saas, Socialtext
Is email dying?

Posted Oct 19, 2009 - 01:20 pm

David and Dave Piscitello both take issue with a recent Wall Street Journal article that says email is on the way out.
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- Internet, email, email management
Forget the new Pepsi Amp Up iPhone App

Posted Oct 15, 2009 - 11:59 am

Pepsi and energy drink maker Amp delivered a controversial iPhone app this week that has some people in a snit.
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- Mobile & Wireless, iPhone, pepsi
How to extract your LinkedIn contacts

Posted Oct 14, 2009 - 03:38 pm

A new service from Open Xchange allows you to both import and export your contacts and collaborate on calendars and documents across the Internet, all using open source.
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- Open Source, collaboration, Facebook
Behind the scenes at the Cisco AXP Contest

Posted Oct 10, 2009 - 08:58 am

Cisco's contest to develop applications for a new Linux-based module drew contestants from all over the world.
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- Development, Cisco, contests

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