Robert Mitchell

IT's new concern: The personal cloud

computerworld.com — Computerworld - Bring your own device is so 2012. The next big push in the consumerization of IT is bring your own cloud. And just as when consumer devices poured into the enterprise, many IT organizations have already responded with a list of do's and don'ts.

Teens growing cool on Facebook but warming to Twitter, Pew study finds

computerworld.com — IDG News Service - Some teens are growing tired of the excessive sharing and "drama" on Facebook and more are turning to sites like Twitter and Instagram to express themselves, according to a new study. "Many teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook," the Pew Research Center said in a study released Tuesday, based on interviews with 800 teens conducted between July and September last year.

IT's new concern: The personal cloud

computerworld.com — Computerworld - Bring your own device is so 2012. The next big push in the consumerization of IT is bring your own cloud. And just as when consumer devices poured into the enterprise, many IT organizations have already responded with a list of do's and don'ts.

Google Glass didn’t make me a dork

blogs.computerworld.com — It wasn't what I expected. That's what I walked away thinking after I tried Glass, Google's new computerized eyeglasses, during last week's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. To be honest, I'd expected to feel like a total idiot when I put Glass on. Total dorkdom.

CIO of the future: Innovator or ERP baby sitter?

blogs.computerworld.com — As infrastructure and applications continue to migrate to outsourcers and into the cloud, IT should be taking the lead in business process innovation. CIOs should be playing a key role in identifying opportunities and figuring out how to drive products to market sooner.

Dell dumps its public cloud offerings

itworld.com — Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud ambitions, announcing today that it will no longer invest in its OpenStack and VMware-based cloud services. Network World's Brandon Butler just last week suggested Dell might discontinue its OpenStack cloud and now Dell has essentially confirmed it.

John McCain Tim Cook Questioning

businessinsider.com — Screenshot Senator John McCain just interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company's taxes and offshore profits. But the kicker came at the end, when McCain stopped his line of questioning by asking, "Why the hell do I have to keep updating apps on my iPhone?" McCain does have a point.

IT's new concern: The personal cloud

computerworld.com — Computerworld - Bring your own device is so 2012. The next big push in the consumerization of IT is bring your own cloud. And just as when consumer devices poured into the enterprise, many IT organizations have already responded with a list of do's and don'ts.

Here’s a sign mass-market drones are about to take off: Google just invested in their future

qz.com — Drones have a terrible reputation, mostly because they have become a byword for death and destruction. But drones can be used for non-lethal as well, such as this project to protect rhinos from poachers in India. Many expect those non-lethal uses to spread-but Google believes it more than most (even if Eric Schmidt might disagree).