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Technology: What Will Be the Successor to Flash?

By Dick Weisinger

Web browsers aren’t very good at handling video, if they can handle it all.  Enter the plugin.  The major Web browsers have been architected to be flexible, enabling developers to extend  basic browser functionality by way of creating plug-ins.  …

Technology: Process of Modernization is Difficult for the Government

By Dick Weisinger

In yesterday’s post we saw that many organizations aren’t able to consider adopting newer technologies like Cloud Computing because they are locked into existing investments in legacy on-premise software.  A report by Meritalk and Unisys found that the federal government…

Technology: IT Industry Still Not Recovered, but Poised For Solid Growth in 2011

By Dick Weisinger

Both Gartner and Forrester are predicting a continued growth in the IT industry for 2011.  Of the two reports, the Forrester prediction seems to be the more optimistic.  Gartner sees IT growth being measured more as a result of  currency…

Technology: IT Budgets Up in 2011

By Dick Weisinger

Where did the 2010 Enterprise IT budget dollars go?  Forrester has done an analysis of IT spending in 2010. In terms of new initiatives versus old, the bulk of IT spending typically goes toward maintaining the existing infrastructure: 53 percent…

Technology: File Format Enforces Paperless

By Dick Weisinger

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has come up with an idea they hope will get people to limit the number of documents that they print.  WWF estimates that each person prints 1410 unnecessary pages each year.  The idea is a…