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A new decade: From consumerization to commercialization of technology

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“I would rather compete with Sony than compete in another product category with Microsoft.” Steve Jobs said that to Time magazine soon after launching the iPod in 2001. It signaled the start of a trend Gartner would later call “consumerization.

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Time passages

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"Well I'm not the kind to live in the past The years run too short and the days too fast The things you lean on are the things that don't last Well it's just now and then my line gets.

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The realistic cloud?

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Purists will scoff but I liked this interview with Hyatt’s CIO Mike Blake as he commits to Microsoft mail/Sharepoint in the cloud “Cloud is a direction we’re already at. We don’t have any apps or solutions that aren’t hosted by.

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HP: At the crossroads?

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Reading about the HP webOS event in February I wonder where Palm fits in its future. Reading about the marketing change at HP – trading ex-Disney exec Michael Mendenhall for SAP exec Bill Wohl – especially during CES week I.

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Eight Biggest Areas of Risk for Buyers of Outsourcing Services

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Nice title to this article, but a bit misleading since no buyers appear to have been actually interviewed. It does provide a variety of vendor perspectives - cites executives from 9 service providers. Ironically, in a fragmented outsourcing sector where.

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Consumerization: Pushing the limits at CES?

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I have celebrated last decade as that of consumerization of technology and I dedicated a chapter to the topic in my book. But I must admit this time of the year, when CES convenes, the noise around consumer tech gets.