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The Weekly Hash - April 12, 2013

Posted April 12, 2013 - 10:56 am

Reviewing the week’s top tech stories, today featuring Austin getting hipper, NASA getting Armageddony and T-Mobile getting more desperate
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5 technologies for Democrats and Republicans to fight over

Posted November 6, 2012 - 12:52 pm

The election may (almost) be over, but that’s no reason for Democrats and Republicans to stop fighting!
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The Accidental IT Administrator

Posted October 2, 2012 - 11:50 am

I never wanted to be in IT support; now I am - at home
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BYOD in school not as easy as ABC

Posted September 11, 2012 - 12:44 pm

Schools have lots to think about before letting students BYOD
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Is mandatory BYOD coming?

Posted September 4, 2012 - 12:29 pm

Government agencies are being encouraged to consider implementing BYOD and requiring employee participation. Is that a good thing for workers?
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BYOD from the employee's POV

Posted August 28, 2012 - 11:53 am

BYOD for the employee has lots of benefits - and drawbacks.
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Fake movie trailer shows the dark side of BYOD

Posted July 13, 2012 - 11:06 am

Watch as one unauthorized smartphone takes out the entire planet. Oh, wait, it's a fake movie trailer. Never mind.
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Smartphone cameras will crash the cloud, smother the Internet

Posted June 26, 2012 - 7:00 am

Gartner predicts the amount of consumer data stored in the cloud will increase 1,080 percent by 2016, potentially smothering the cloud, the Internet and every advance in storage and bandwidth between now and then in a flood of useless, redundant pictures of cats.
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Why will IT STILL not support BYOD?

Posted May 8, 2012 - 4:08 pm

Despite years of experience showing cloud and mobile computing not only increase productivity, but make end users happier and reap otherwise-lost hours of work while employees are at home, many IT shops still won't support work using personal devices.
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The tablet that changed the whole market for tablets, and isn't a tablet

Posted April 27, 2012 - 11:58 am

In three months, Amazon's Kindle Fire went from zero to 54 percent share of the Android tablet market. Its cost and power have changed the choice from iPad vs. everything, to iPad, Kindle Fire, or long justifications of why another choice isn't an obviously bad one
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Microsoft's quietly huge moves into Apple's ecosystem

Posted December 16, 2011 - 9:00 am

Add up Microsoft's SkyDrive app for iOS, and the rumored Office suite for iPad, and they signal a marked shift in their mobile direction.
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Big dangers from more secure end users

Posted March 8, 2011 - 11:19 am

End users trying to secure their private computing time on work machines are getting savvier, meaning the problems they cause for IT will be more complex.
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Consumerization of IT - good, bad, or just the way things are now?

Posted February 24, 2011 - 6:15 pm

Consumer technology has become a staple in today's workplace. Android phones, iPad, netbooks, social media - you name it. Managing these technologies is part of IT's responsibilities today and it isn't easy to say whether this shift has been overall good or bad for IT departments.
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The expanding ways to handle employee-owned mobile devices

Posted February 21, 2011 - 12:46 pm

Employee-owned mobile devices are becoming a fact of life in most workplaces, but the pose some questions for employees and some big challenges for IT. Luckily, the number of options for handling the situation is growing and those options are diversifying to offer a range of solutions.
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