Sounds like a strange question indeed. Do we really want to compare between Apples from Venus and Oranges from Mars? Should we care about Intel’s launch of its ‘Nehalem’ processor for servers – the Xeon 5500 – or should we be much more...
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Yammer: Social Networking, Micro Blogging, or just a better way to work?
Let me first start by describing my problem: I don’t need more communications, or even more formats. What I need is focus. As a part operational and part knowledge worker, I want to know the issues and questions that matter operationally, and the...
Read moreOpEx Wins; CapEx Loses at CeBit fair in Germany
The annual CeBit fair has always been the BIG one to kick off the European season of events with 27 halls totalling nearly 500,000 square meters of exhibitors – all aspects of technology in the German market are on display. I am not sure what the...
Read moreControlled Uncontrollability
Simon Caulkin wrote in the UK Observer recently that ‘inside every chief exec, there's a Soviet planner.’ Talking about the credit crunch, Simon writes ‘…with exquisite irony, while central planning had been largely discredited at...
Read moreMicrosoft and Virtualisation as the stepping stone for Clouds
I had the pleasure of not just visiting Microsoft last week, but also getting approximately an hour of one-on-one conversation with Ray Ozzie, who I personally regard as one of, if not the most, significant founding fathers of Collaborative working....
Read moreStop the Drooling: this crisis needs technology
Guess we all agree by now: there is no point talking about an economic downturn anymore. It’s a straightforward crisis. Period. And it is an unprecedented crisis too, which is almost impossible to compare with earlier situations. There is obviously...
Read moreAre Wireless Devices out of bounds to IT?
I got quite a few surprising reactions to the post ‘Good news; making new revenues and profits from technology’. To some people I was cheating as they stated that the devices had nothing to do with IT (which funnily enough is also the same...
Read moreThe win-win-win of letting go of communication?
One of the most active debates at the moment is centered around what practical steps the CIO should take to provide the business with the essential access to the world of mass-communication which surrounds it today, while assuring cost, security and...
Read moreChoose: your PC or your Blackberry!
The Mobile World Congress just held its annual event to allow the mobility industry (cell phones, services, providers, etc.) to update the world on the latest developments in an industry that pretty well affects all of us as Smart Phone users. At...
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