Analysis The Coming Opportunity of BYOD A few weeks ago, RWW Channels Editor David Strom posted Why BYOD Isn't a Trend. He skewered the notion that BYOD is new, noted that IT leaders have dealt with user-purchased tech for generations, and declared the "consumerization of IT" a new name for an old trend. Strom's take away: BYOD has been around since the '80s, and the only change is that… Enterprise George Watt View comments
Analysis The Robot Takeover of Work & the Rise of Online Learning Tools provide leverage for people to get work done; in many cases they enable us to do new kinds of work. Now consider robots in the workplace. They seem like bad news but do they have to be? What if robots weren't a threat to humanity, only intended to steal human jobs, but were tools that enabled all of us to do new things and live life… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
2011 Redux 5 Things Apple Can Learn From Third Party iPad Web Browsers For all the wonders of Apple's iPad, one feature that's always been a little underwhelming is its native Web browser. Like on the iPhone, Safari for the iPad definitely gets the job done and is overall a pretty solid browser in terms of performance, but there are few features that are inexcusably absent. Fortunately, there have been a number… John Paul Titlow View comments
APIs Filer.js: A UNIX-Like Wrapper for the HTML5 Filesystem API Eric Bidelman, an engineer on Google's Chrome team, has released a JavaScript wrapper library for the HTML5 Filesystem API. Called filer.js, the library is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License. If Bidelman's name is familiar, it's because he wrote the book on the HTML5 Filesystem API, literally. Bidelman also worked on the Python… Hack Joe Brockmeier View comments
Twitter DA Subpoenas Twitter User Info Twitter appears to have forwarded a subpoena requesting user information to at least one of the owners of the accounts in question, despite a request from the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney's office that the request not be disclosed "to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the ongoing criminal action" regarding the hackitivist… Social Dave Copeland View comments