Bill Snyder

The meter's on all the time: Tech's 'greed is good' era arrives

infoworld.com — Service Desk Comparative Report Gartner's recent magic quadrant for IT Service Support Management included no vendors as leaders or innovators. Learn why and how ITinvolve is delivering an innovative service desk solution that empowers IT staff through social collaboration and visualization to improve incident analysis and triage to speed incident resolution time.

Newt Gingrich Has Never Heard of a Smartphone

blogs.cio.com — I'm (obviously) not the kind of guy who'd vote for Newt Gringrich for anything under any circumstances. But I have to admit that the former House Speaker's long-time interest in and advocacy of information technology and space travel is something I respect.

Google Unifies Cloud Storage, Extends to 15GB for Free

blogs.cio.com — If you use more than one Google app -- and who doesn't -- your storage quota has been fragmented among them, making it hard to keep track of how much you space you have left. That got a lot simpler this week, as Google said users can now store Gmail, photos and files in one 15GB bucket.

Should Congress Force Cable Companies to End Bundling?

blogs.cio.com — I have a little brochure from Comcast next to the comfortable chair where I watch most of my TV. On it is a list of approximately 200 channels I can watch. Needlessly to say, I never watch most of them, though I pay for them all.

Adobe Goes All In for Cloud, While Microsoft Stays on the Fence

blogs.cio.com — to Consumer Technology | My friend Jessica makes her living doing Web design, and dressing up photos with special effects. Like a lot of creative professionals, she relies on Adobe's flagship Creative Suite to get much of her work done.

Apple and Samsung tighten chokehold on mobile profits as others' hope fades

infoworld.com — Service Desk Comparative Report Gartner's recent magic quadrant for IT Service Support Management included no vendors as leaders or innovators. Learn why and how ITinvolve is delivering an innovative service desk solution that empowers IT staff through social collaboration and visualization to improve incident analysis and triage to speed incident resolution time.

T-Mobile Comes Clean on Deceptive 'No-Contract' Advertising

blogs.cio.com — T-Mobile has been getting huge props in the tech press for its decision in March to drop two-year cell phone contracts. And the company's boastful ads for the so-called no-contract service have been all over television. At the time, I noted that while the offer has some good points, it " has more gotchas than a box of fish hooks."