You can run, but you can’t hide. Facebook’s biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, theFacebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline. And here’s the important part: when you do, you’ll have just seven days to preview what’s [...]
“The future of business is cloudy!” “The cloud boom is well underway in the business world!” “Enterprises are keeping their heads in the clouds!” Any one of these lines could have easily opened this piece…and they would all be lies. Certainly, the business world at large is interested in the benefits of the cloud, but [...]
This morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the ‘normal’ algorithmically-generated results we’ve come to expect. There have been plenty of critiques of the news, including John Battelle’s discussion on how this isn’t actually integrating ‘Your World’, as Google calls it, but rather just its [...]
(1) They live in igloos. They live in houses, and they are very well built houses. (2) Canadians do not have the same technology as Americans. Canadians have access to the same technology as Americans and the rest of the civilized world. (3) There is snow everywhere all year long. Anyone who has spent a summer in [...]
Reputations, money, survival. A lot hangs in the balance in 2012 for the prominent heads of many global companies. Here’s a rundown of a dozen of the more intriguing business scenarios and the executives who will need to navigate through them in the coming year. Tim Cook | Apple In his 10-plus years with Apple Inc., Tim Cook [...]
Just as cloud computing is a game-changer for many companies, it is also changing the nature of jobs – not only within the information technology department, but in other parts of the enterprise as well. For senior-level executives, especially chief information officers, the changes reflect the more strategic role IT plays in the direction of [...]
Who are the top social media influencers? As the social web evolves rapidly it’s clear that some influencers have the same reach and pull as media outlets. Individuals matter in a way that’s never been possible before. I’ve been discussing with personal data specialists PeekYou how we can understand this phenomenon better. PeekYou’s mission is [...]
Whenever we go on vacation as a family and leave the house completely empty, I always worry that someone is going to break into my home, take my desktop computer, and steal my data and my identity. I don’t actually worry that much about anything else in the house, since almost all of our stuff [...]
Much of our computing (including the storage of our personal data) is now being done remotely via the ‘cloud’. But what is it? Here is a brief history of this radical shift while, below, we assess the relative merits of four cloud computing services. ‘Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple used in [...]
Facebook and Google’s privacy issues are well-known. But they’re nothing compared with those surrounding Silk, Amazon’s in-house Internet browser for its newly announced tablet computer, says Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at British computer security firm Sophos, a British computer security firm. “All of your web surfing habits will transit Amazon’s cloud,” he writes on [...]
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