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Traveling Light: Mobile Computing and e-Publishing
I am a long-time user and advocate of e-books, going back to the advent of PeanutPress (now eReader.com, a division of Barnes & Noble) on the Palm PDA platform more than a decade ago.…
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In the Virtual/Cloud Age, Computing Services Replace Applications
Virtualization is part of the strategy that internal IT needs to adopt for competing against Cloud services. A second important part of that strategy is to package and price what it provides as services.…
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Virtualization a Key to IT Survival in the Age of Utility Computing
We are clearly entering the age of utility computing, in which computing will be delivered as a set of packaged services out of a plug in the wall (or increasingly often wirelessly via WiFi…
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Apple iPad Stolen in Big Apple: Tablets’ Physical Security Issues
Some things never change, and one of those is that if something is valuable someone wants to steal it. The first report of a stolen iPad was published recently in The Huffington Post. I…
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The iPad & the End-User Computing Revolution
With more than 2 million units sold in its first two months the Apple iPad is clearly a phenomenon. And with at least three competing thin neo-tablets — the WebOS-based iSlate from HP and…