One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014 – eMarketer.
Growth will slow to double digits beginning in 2012, but the number of users will rise to nearly 90 million, or 35.6% of all internet users, by 2014.
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Welcome to EquusCS.com
Equus is proud to be one of America’s largest computing system manufacturers. Since 1989, Equus has delivered more than three million build-to-order and ready-to-ship computing systems. Equus has prospered because of its ability to boost efficiencies, adopt the latest technology, leverage its global suppliers, and provide the highest quality solutions with loyal service and support.
They build custom systems.
Phidgets Inc. – Unique and Easy to Use USB Interfaces
Phidgets are a set of “plug and play” building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control from your PC.
ZaReason, Inc. Your Linux hardware builder!
Linux servers — Built for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Edubuntu and others. Why ZaReason for your Ubuntu server? (or Debian server or Mint server or other) Because we build Linux servers that just work.
Chicago UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X Small Firm IT Support Firm and Support Outsource
$3/minute = $180/hour
Nice website. If I needed help I’d try them out.
How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? – Slashdot
Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma
By taking this approach, Apple bent all the rules of disruption. To disrupt yourself, for example, Professor Christensen’s research would typically prescribe setting up a separate company that eventually goes on to defeat the parent. It’s incredibly hard to do this successfully; Dayton Dry Goods pulled it off with Target. IBM managed to do it with the transition from mainframes to PCs, by firewalling the businesses in entirely different geographies. Either way, the number of companies that have successfully managed to do it is a very, very short list. And yet Apple’s doing it to itself right now with the utmost of ease. Here’s new CEO Tim Cook, on the iPad disrupting the Mac business: “Yes, I think there is some cannibalization… the iPad team works on making their product the best. Same with the Mac team.” It’s almost unheard of to be able to manage disruption like this.
via Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma – James Allworth – Harvard Business Review.
What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates?
Currently, there’s no way for a cloud storage service provider to directly migrate customer data to another provider. If a service goes down, the hosting company must return the data to its customer, who then must find another provider or revert back to storing it locally, according to Arun Taneja, principal analyst at The Taneja Group.
via What happens to data when your cloud provider evaporates? – Computerworld.
This is only a problem if you don’t have a physical backup of your own data somewhere under your control. Expecting the cloud to be the end all be all for all IT needs is a mistake IMHO. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The cloud does serve useful purposes.
One Smart Phone, Two Personalities
“People want to use their own smart phones and tablets for work, but that practice can create major headaches for businesses’ IT departments,” says Chris Hill, part of AT&T’s Advanced Mobility Solutions group. “Toggle helps resolve the issue in a simple, affordable manner.”
via One Smart Phone, Two Personalities – Technology Review.
No doubt someone will get a patent for this — for multiple users on a single device — something that has been going on since the first mainframe.
Interesting discussion about this over on Slashdot.