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To Click or Not to Click – Are Headlines all the News that’s Fit for Print?

I am an avid iGoogle user and like the ability to browse headlines and get a quick grasp of the top stories from around the world. I see this as akin to walking around the corner to the newsstand and reviewing the cover stories and newspaper headlines to determine what to buy. The beauty of [...]

B2B Software Trends: What to Expect in 2010

Recently on a national newsmagazine, a segment claimed that the most effective way for terrorists to impact our country would be to target our electronic infrastructure, which would render our computer systems impotent and bring our economy to a halt. That made me think about just how reliant we truly are on computers, especially for [...]

Technology in 2010

Technology is in a state of constant change. Always advancing. Simplifying yet complicating our lives at the same time. Predicting what will happen in the tech industry is next to impossible. Heck, by Hollywood standards we should all be conversing with HAL (for almost 10 years). Clearly, HAL is quite a ways off and I [...]

The Circle | R “Ray” Wang, Altimeter Group

R “Ray” Wang, a partner with Altimeter Group and former vice president of Forrester Research, focuses his work on enterprise applications strategy, vendor selection, software contract negotiations, and emerging business and technology trends. As Web 2.0 technologies change the way people communicate with one another, Ray finds himself on the front lines, working with clients [...]

Will Google Chrome OS Slay the Windows Giant?

Google announced plans Wednesday to enter the operating system business with a new product called Google Chrome OS, an open source project intended for netbook PCs. Details are sketchy, but it appears that a windowing system based on the Google Chrome Web browser will run on top of a Linux kernel and function as the [...]