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Friday, 16th March 2012

What's In Your Mobile Wallet?

PayPal's Astonishing Arrogance

Everybody that follows the payments industry knows that there is a massive albatross that hovers over every innovation that comes to the market: PayPal. In its mind, there is no realm of payments that PayPal cannot conquer and control. The company chafes when other payment innovations, like Square or the Google Wallet, gain press acclaim. PayPal is…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Accidental Time Capsule: Moments from Computing in 1994

If you ever have your friends and/or relatives help you relocate, be sure to keep the security cameras rolling. There will be packing and unpacking decisions that are made for you, some of which you will never be aware of unless there's evidence in front of you. Sometime during the late summer of 1994, I lost a small briefcase. It had no…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Neudesic Pulse Integrates Social Streams With Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics

If you are in the market for an enterprise social networking tool and haven't yet considered Yammer or Jive or Socialtext or the dozens of other competitors out there, there is a new version 3.0 of Neudesic Pulse that might be worthy for you. It will be announced next week at the Microsoft Convergence conference, and the reason is clear: they offer…

Enterprise David Strom comments

Thursday, 15th March 2012

The New Blueprint for App Provisioning: VMware's Application Director

The presumed "elasticity" of cloud technology tends to fall apart whenever the bindings change. That is, when a virtual machine or virtualized application relies upon the specific configuration of the hardware providing its infrastructure, it isn't exactly cloud-like when you have to migrate that element to a new host. You often find yourself…

Scott M. Fulton comments

iCloud, Not the New iPad, is Apple's Real Key to the Post-PC Revolution

Apple's new iPad goes on sale today. People - already lined up around the world - will likely buy more than a million of them this weekend, and tens of millions this year. And there will be much talk about Apple's "post-PC" revolution. But the real key to Apple's post-PC dreams - slipping past Windows and becoming the dominant consumer electronics…

Dan Frommer comments

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