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Mobile Security: Security Efforts Shift to Mobile

By Dick Weisinger

While the use of security software on PCs has become a routine operation, the same isn’t true yet for smartphones and other mobile devices.  But that is changing quickly.   In a report by Chenxi Wang, Vice President and analyst…

Business Intelligence: Big Hopes for Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is the rage.  But exactly what are people going to use it for? A recent survey by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and reported in ComputerWorld by Jaikumar Vijayan categorized some of the most common ways people are…

Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Cloud Standards

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem…

Health Care: Slow Transition to Electronic Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

The digitization of health records is proving to be a massive undertaking.  The move from paper to electronic records has been encouraged by a pool of $25 billion of stimulus funding made available by the Obama administration to incentify hospitals…

Technology: What's the Next Hot Technology?

By Dick Weisinger

BlueWolf, a self-described agile business consulting firm, recently released a report that provides a snapshot of which technologies are currently hot, which are cold, and what’s likely to be the direction of technology over the next year.  Visually the report…