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File Format: A Replacement for JPEG?

By Dick Weisinger

Roughly two-thirds of all bandwidth on the Internet today are photos and images, and JPEG lossy-compressed images make up the bulk of that.  Google now has a open-source candidate replacement for JPEG, and they are calling it WebP (pronounced weppy).…

Cloud Computing: CIOs & CSOs Worried about Security

By Dick Weisinger

62 percent.  That’s close to two-thirds of the CIOs and CSOs from a group of 12,847 business executives that said that they had no faith or confidence in the security of the cloud.  Of the 49 percent of the executives…

Social Media: Has Social Media plateaued?

By Dick Weisinger

Research results from Forrester are being spun to suggest that Social Media may be hitting a ceiling.  Forrester has categorized Social Media user types into groups, something Forrester calls Global Social Technographics: Creators Conversationalists Critics Collectors Joiners Spectators Inactives Creators…

Cloud Computing: How Safe? How Much Trust?

By Dick Weisinger

The reason repeated over and again for why many organizations are reluctant to use cloud computing is the risk.  There is the risk that sensitive data will be remote to the organization, that cloud data can be easily compromised or…

Cloud Computing: IT Dollars Shift To Utility Computing

By Dick Weisinger

The reliance of organizations on cloud computing continues to rise, as supported by a new survey by Gartner Inc.  The global survey found that a little more than ten percent of all spending on external service providers (ESPs) is going…