In mid February, Notion Ink released completed specs on their Adam tablet (here). It did not receive the attention that Steve Jobs did with the Apple iPad, but in my estimation it is the far superior device. Apple has the ecosystem to back their products with a large application catalog. Apple also has...
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The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe’s top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap.
The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided with...
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If you have a few minutes I would really appreciate you checking out an application I wrote. The application automates some actions common to US Military staff planning by building a dynamic, interactive decision-matrix. I’ll discuss the use case for the application and then end with links to the source code for...
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I’ve long sought to track disruptive IT on the CTOvision.com site, and have featured several firms on the CTOvision.com Disruptive IT list. A new feature on the site is the CTOvision.com Technology Titan List, where I’ll more closely track the activities of the Information Technology firms with the largest market cap. This is the...
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I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this post I’ll mention a book that helped me do that: Google Apps: The Missing Manual.
This book does a great job at capturing the core functionality of Google Apps. However, no book can keep up...
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Good conferences can really help you get things done. You connect with people you need to meet, learn new trends, gain insights into customer perspectives and keep improving your own abilities. But you already know that. You probably also know that you can go overboard with conferences. You can spend so much time in...
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Adobe MAX 2009 will be held 4-7 October 2009 in Los Angeles. Please check out the conference agenda and consider attending (see http://max.adobe.com). The conference looks like a great way to continue advancing concepts like rich internet applications, social computing, and the leveraging of existing infrastructure in delivery of modern applications. Since your enteprise...
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The DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held in Orlando Florida this year, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. I really like this conference. It is filled with folks I like and centers around a hard enterprise mission that cries out for strong IT solutions.
The theme of this years conference is “Empowering Decision Advantage.” The...
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What do you think of when you hear the word Adobe? Many folks immediately think of the open standard Portable Document Format (PDF) that was created by Adobe Systems for document exchange. PDFs are everywhere and so is Adobe’s free PDF readers, so it is commonly the first thing that comes to mind.
But things...
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Carahsoft is a fantastic company in Reston, VA run by the hardest working, most modest, ethical, business leader I have ever met. His behind the scenes style means he would probably not want me to mention much more about him, but if I have your curiosity up about them you can read more...
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