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Cisco WebEx: Now on an iPad Near You
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Just a few months ago I posted as my Facebook status: “I work in the Bermuda Triangle of WebEx. If you want me to see the slides, email them to me in advance.” The free online meeting application that Cisco acquired two years ago would crash my browser or…
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Coming to an Enterprise Near You: Consumer PCs
One of the changes that analysts and other observers are talking about as potentially a major trend for the next several years is the “consumerization of IT,” or end users buying their own technology and using it for work—laptops, smartphones, netbooks. A recent Gartner survey of enterprises showed that 10 percent of respondents said that…
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Ubercool, Uber-fast, Uber-tired — Trends for This Century
If your customers seem to be moving at a more frantic pace, they are not alone. Overall, everyone is more pressed for time these days, says uber-cool trend spotter Michael Tchong, who spoke to VARs about the quickening pace of all things and how that fits into the uber-trend of being unwired. Tchong, founder of…
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Windows Mobile 7: Do Delays Impact Your Business?
If we’ve learned one thing about Twitter, it’s to watch what you say out loud, in any forum, or your words might become fodder for tweeters everywhere. Even closed door meetings with no journalists present aren’t safe. Just ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Now Ballmer’s pretty candid even when reporters are around, but he probably…
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The Perils of Cameras in Mobile Devices
Last week, Motorola launched its new MC9500-K handheld device with a list of features that would have made Ron Pompei envious. The device that looks like a cross between a Star Trek phaser and tricorder includes an infrared bar-code scanner, Windows Mobile, motion-detection technology, GPS, a cell phone and a 3-megapixel camera. It’s the camera…