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Report: Cloud and data centers join forces for a new IT platform for internet applications and businesses
Our library of 1700 research reports is available only to our subscribers. We occasionally release ones for our larger audience to benefit from. This is one…
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THE INTERNET OF EATS
It was the Three-Course Dinner Gum that served as Violet Beauregarde’s downfall at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and also introduced multiple generations…
Read MoreWelcome to the Post-Email Enterprise: what Skype Teams means in a Slack-Leaning World
Work technology vendors very commonly — for decades — have suggested that their shiny brand-new tools will deliver us from the tyranny…
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AI for an Eye
While they predate the warm and fuzzy moniker that is “wearables,” contact lenses are one of the more common pieces of technology…
Read MoreIsn’t signing a document just a feature, not a company?
I have to confess that I’ve been surprised by the valuation for DocuSign, which was valued at $3 billion in a funding…
Read MoreWeWork making cuts; Fadell leaves Nest; BitTorrent spins out Sync
All sorts of changes going on: WeWork plans to cut around 7% of its staff, according to Bloomberg’s Ellen Huet, and has…
Read MoreMissive looks like a MVP ‘Social Email’ tool
I’ve written for years about my hopes for a ‘social email’ tool — one in which email threads could be 1. shared…
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There’s only 10 types of people in the world: those who ‘get’ digital, and…
Over the past few days and weeks, a recurring mantra has appeared in conversations I have had, or overheard, with clients. “Well,…
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Why adopt a mobile-first development strategy?
“We think mobile first,” stated Macy’s chief financial officer Karen Hoguet, in a recent earnings call with financial analysts. A quick glance…
Read MoreWork Management in Theory: Context
This is an excerpt of the upcoming report, Work Management Narrative, in which I will be reviewing around a dozen products, including Asana, Azendoo,…
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Mobile Security: putting the consumerisation genie back in the bottle
Since the arrival of the first consumer-bought smartphones, enterprise security has been under threat. That all-important chain of defense against security risks…
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Google+ gets an overhaul, refocuses on communities and collections
Google+ ain’t dead, yet. The moribund social network has received a new shot at life with a redesign focused on allowing users…
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Google Photos reaches 100M users in five months
Google has announced that Photos, the image backup tool spun out of Google+ just five months ago, has already reached 100 million monthly active…
Read MoreDropbox beta tests Paper, a collaborative writing tool
Dropbox has revealed a new collaborative writing tool. It’s called Paper — not to be confused with Facebook’s news reader app, FiftyThree’s drawing…
Read MoreAmazon will stop selling Apple TVs and Chromecasts. So what?
Although it seems pretty cut and dry, there are folks in tech media that feel Amazon shouldn’t actually stay competitive, as businesses…
Read MoreIn praise of the $50 smartphone
It’s time to stop what may be the most offensive, yet generally accepted, bias from smartphone analysts: “don’t get caught in a race to the…
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Why Google is taking a closer look at disrupting health care
In its first investment since the announcement that Google would become Alphabet, Google Capital has put a major vote of confidence into the…
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Google’s ad penalties are more significant than Apple’s ad blocker
“Highly unlikely” would probably be how you’d have responded a year ago to someone telling you two of the largest tech companies in…
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Google’s logo gets redesigned for the Alphabet era
Search giant Google unveiled an updated version of its logo today, which last saw a significant change back in 1999. The redesigned logo…
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‘T’ should be for Twitter
Alphabet isn’t even a week old, but that doesn’t mean we can’t stir the broth and see what might be in store…
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Uber should fear the company formerly known as Google
Google’s restructuring under the Alphabet umbrella means that there’s nothing standing in the way of it taking on every company in the…
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Google becomes ‘Alphabet’ in major restructuring plan
It’s not often that a company with a market cap of over $400 billion announces a massive operational restructuring plan that will undoubtedly…
Read MoreHow to get (and keep) girls jazzed about programming
Much has been written about the need to involve girls in coding, but the best path to success is to get them excited…
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