| What the BlackBerry Tablet and New Developer Tools Mean for Enterprise Mobility At the BlackBerry Developers Conference today, RIM announced its first tablet, called the BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as new initiatives designed to make BlackBerry development easier and more profitable. As previously reported elsewhere, the tablet will run on QNX, a UNIX-like operating system RIM acquired earlier this year. Notably, RIM will support the "full web" - including Flash - on the tablet as well Adobe's... Continue Reading »    What Can IT Do To Stimulate the Job Market? Last week I revisited some concerns about cloud computing putting IT staff out of work. This week I want to look at the broader issue of technology displacing workers - and whether IT can do anything about it. On his blog, Gartner VP and fellow Tom Austin asks where the new jobs are for those displaced by automation, where the improved work-life balance is for those that run the machines, and "How are all the IT... Continue Reading » Top 10 Best and Worst Technologies to Stem Data Breaches According to Security Professionals A survey conducted by Securosis and financed by data security vendor Imperva of 1,100 security professionals yielded some interesting and conflicted results. The survey evaluated perceived effectiveness, not actual effectiveness, of several technologies (not specific products). The responses came from professionals across all major verticals and from organizations of varying sizes. Job titles included IT manager, IT... Continue Reading » MindTouch Offers a Platform for Selling Guides and Creating Support Networks Platform development - it has to be one of the most discussed topics in the past few months and an exciting space to watch as the world of the open Web shifts to the emerging micro app universe. Recently we have noticed that platforms with specific purposes are faring well as they provide ways for developers to connect the Web to the mobile universe in manners that are specific to a community. For example,... Continue Reading » 15+ Enterprise Apps for Android Android has seen astounding growth in both the consumer and enterprise markets, but the iPhone and BlackBerry have dominated enterprise-specific app development. That may be starting to change. Today Box.net released its cloud storage app for Android, and other enterprise-focused apps have been released recently as well. Given the enterprise interest in the iPad and the fact that several Android tablets are... Continue Reading » Does "Big Enterprise" Have an Unfair Advantage? Do big enterprise vendors depends on market inefficiencies to give them an unfair advantage? That's what Bob Warfield is saying at Enterprise Irregulars. It's not a particularly shocking idea, or as potentially explosive as angel investors engaging in price fixing and collusion (allegedly). But it's worth considering, especially as SaaS and freemium pricing continue to proliferate in the enterprise. Warfield... Continue Reading » | 
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