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Technology: Worker Productivity Trapped by Outdated Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Nearly $2 trillion dollars are wasted by US companies using outdated technology which hampers employee productivity, according to a survey by Samanage. More than a third of businesses say they are using technology that they feel is “outdated”.  But when pressed…

IT Spending: Gartner: Spending on IT was Down in 2015, Flat in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the forecasts from early last year, global IT spending in 2015 took a battering.  It was down nearly 6 percent or $216 billion to $3.52 trillion, according to Gartner.  Much of the decline is attributed to a very strong…

Shadow IT: It’s Real — Companies Using Hundreds of Unauthorized Cloud Services

By Dick Weisinger

A study by IBM found that one-third of employees at Fortune 1000 companies share corporate data using third-party apps.  Often they reuse corporate login credentials when setting up these unauthorized accounts. Is it really that bad?  It may be worse.…

Collaboration (IHMC): Intelligent Collaboration Between Man and Machine

By Dick Weisinger

Machines can outclass humans in a number of areas, particularly in performing fast computations, but even today’s state-of-the-art computers don’t really think and aren’t that much help when it comes to generating new ideas.  But what happens when human ingenuity…

Android Mobile: OpenJDK to Power Future Versions of the Mobile OS

By Dick Weisinger

The next major release of Android, Android N, will be based on Oracle’s OpenJDK instead of the Apache Harmony “clean room” implementation of Java.  Many speculate that the change comes as a result of the lawsuit against Google by Oracle.  OpenJDK…