Government Federal CIO Vivek Kundra Resigns The federal government is losing its first-ever chief information officer. Vivek Kundra, the man behind Data.gov, the government IT Dashboard and the federal initiative to reduce data centers and move to the cloud, will leave his post in August, according to Politico. He is reported to be going to Harvard to join the Kennedy School and the Berkman… Dan Rowinski View comments
Facebook Facebook Users are More Trusting, More Connected & More Engaged, Says Study Online social networking sites have often been accused of separating people from the real world, and providing them with the illusion of connection through virtual relationships which aren't the equivalent of their offline counterparts. But that's not actually the case, a new study says. Facebook users actually have more close relationships than… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Apple Yahoo Debuts App Search Engine & AppSpot, an App-Finding App Today, Yahoo introduced two new search tools, one a new online search engine for finding new mobile applications, and the other a mobile app called AppSpot (iPhone, Android), which does the same. According to a Yahoo blog post, the goal of these new services is to help you better sort through the some 425,000 mobile applications on the iTunes… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Apple Facebook Project Spartan: Web v. Native Apps Can Facebook unseat Apple at its own game, within its own ecosystem? There are reports that the social giant is working on an HTML5 version of its platform that would become a distribution mechanism for Web applications through Apple's mobile Safari browser. In many ways, this is what people have been predicting for a while -- HTML5 will kill… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
RWW 2WAY 2011 RWW2Way Summit Lessons Learned (II) This is the second half of my thoughts about what enterprise IT folks need to takeaway from attending and speaking at our 2WAY conference this past week. You can find part 1 here. I'll cover some of the breakout sessions on the second day as well as additional thoughts gleaned from the keynote presentations. Enterprise David Strom View comments