Consumerization of IT

Two news people got tripped up by technology recently. One got fooled by a fake opinion post, another couldn't figure out how to send an email. One of these people is a fictional character, the other is real.

There will be quite a few challenges in Google's way, but a bet on enterprise Android deployments could pay off.

This year's coolest digital-image display is made from bubbles, not solid materials, whose texture, transparency and other characteristics can be tuned using ultrasound to make a perfect surface for even giant, seemingly unsupported image.

A rush of new products are designed to add "military grade" encryption to email, text messages and corporate data. None are perfect; none are revolutionary. Collectively they represent acceptance, for the first time, that users should have tools to keep their data secure even from their own employers and tech suppliers.

Day 2 of TechEd Europe. While Microsoft didn't reveal anything new at their Windows 8 workshop, they did put more serious effort into explaining how Windows 8 and the ARM-based Wndows RT will fit the enterprise.

Gartner's projection that consumers will own 4.1 zettabytes of content and put a third of it in the public cloud by 2016 raised one very pertinent question: What the heck is a zettabyte? Here's your answer and some tools to convert them into something more reasonable.

It's common knowledge some people make their own decisions and others follow the pack. Even the pack follows decisions made by just a few influencers. Now a new study shows how to pick out those with real influence and who, on average, has the most pull (older, married men).

SwiftKey is a great replacement for key tappers, and Swype is even better if you like to make gestures and say things. Both are free and newly updated for Android.

It's almost routine to see malware packaged and labeled as security software for Android. It's unusual to see the scam hiding one of the more capable, adaptable data-thieving Trojans still found in the wild.

Many in IT have been struggling with changes cloud, virtualization, mobile, consumerization and other computing trends have had on IT, often making it seem as if IT itself is obsolete, even as technology gets more important. The reality is sobering, but not quite that grim.

The best way to keep from allowing a data breach at LinkedIn or another breached site from being a disaster for you is to use a different password at each. Secure passwords are impossible to remember, however, so storing them in a free password vault is the only solution.