Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:53 PM/EST

Jailbroken iPhones Could Mean Trouble For Enterprise IT

By Tony Kontzer The Copyright Office decision to allow jailbreaking of smartphones has significant implications for the world of enterprise mobility.

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Friday, July 09, 2010 1:39 PM/EST

Oscar Grant and the Role of Citizen Video

By Tony Kontzer If there's a technological angle to the Oscar Grant tragedy, it revolves around video and mobile devices. While Oscar Grant was meeting his end at the hands of an Oakland, CA, policeman, countless passengers were recording cell-phone video of the events unfolding on the Oakland BART platform. These various citizen views were quickly uploaded to the Web and watched by millions, eventually becoming compelling evidence. Yet, these live videos were apparently not compelling enough to convince a jury to find Mehserle guilty of second-degree murder, or even voluntary manslaughter

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Friday, July 02, 2010 4:12 PM/EST

Cloud Computing ROI Is Sky-High For One SMB

By Tony Kontzer Cloud computing enables small U.K. firm to become a global player, doubling revenue in the process.

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Monday, June 28, 2010 3:25 PM/EST

The Cloud Debate: Public Versus Private

By Tony Kontzer What does the legal battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft really mean for the future of cloud computing?

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:40 AM/EST

Killing the Internet

by Tony Kontzer If you aren't worried about the preservation of the Internet's frontier spirit, maybe you should be. The Internet--our Internet--is facing a fast-growing array of assaults that threaten to shake it to its core. No, I'm not talking...

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Monday, June 21, 2010 10:40 AM/EST

BP Mismanages Data Flood

by Tony Kontzer Another gusher is giving BP headaches. For nearly two months, the nation has watched in horror as BP has flailed from one ineffective attempt to another in an effort to plug the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and...

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Monday, June 14, 2010 10:51 AM/EST

Warming to the iPad

by Tony Kontzer Several months ago, I went out on a limb in predicting that Apple's iPad was a tweener device that didn't fill enough of a need to be an instrument of change. While I'm not prepared to give...

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:42 PM/EST

Got Cows?

by Tim Moran Would you like to save some big money running your data center? Got Milk? Well, not milk, exactly, but Got Cows? About 10,000 of them? An HP Labs research paper presented at the ASME International Conference on...

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:08 AM/EST

John Wooden's Words For IT

by Tony Kontzer One of the things that distinguished legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, who died last week at the age of 99, was the wisdom he showered upon his players. A thinking-man's coach, Wooden believed more in success...

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

Prepare For the Data Center Massacre

Here in Guilford County, NC, we're pretty excited about the announcement of a pair of new American Express data centers, to be built along the I-40/85 corridor at Greensboro's eastern fringe. The huge construction projects and eventual tax receipts are...

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