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Okay, enough with cool new technology, at least for one post. I asked our @exectweets followers over on Twitter what the oldest tech still in use at their businesses is. (I’m not sure what the most ancient item I’ve got is–unless you count my Bose desktop speakers, which aren’t plugged in at the moment–I got [...]
By Marc Schiller This post is republished with permission from TechRepublic, ZDNet’s community for IT pros. Check it out for blogs, white papers, videos, forums software, and more. It seems that whenever I talk to businesspeople about IT I hear the same old, never-ending refrain: IT people are too technically oriented. They don’t speak in [...]
The consumer Web needs no introduction here. It’s our connection space, replacing almost all other forms of communication by a scale that will only multiply in the years ahead. But how do you get a grip on consumer technology and determine how it applies in your work? One way is to start exploring consumer APIs. [...]
In the most recent piece in this series, we discussed some of the potential security benefits of cloud computing. Despite the potential advantages, cloud computing has definite security risks. This second article focuses primarily on specific technical hurdles with cloud computing, while the last part will address more conceptual issues and conclude. From a direct [...]
The folks who follow ExecTweets on Twitter love to read wise sayings about business and life from famous people. But enough with celebrity advice givers for the moment–I asked our 1.29 million followers for their single best piece of career advice. Lots of them chimed in. And here are some highlights (thanks to everyone who [...]
A decade ago, whenever Intel would switch to a new, smaller manufacturing process we’d get more performance, lower power and more features (e.g. larger caches). Getting all three at once were nice, but those days are long gone. Thanks to a few basic laws of physics and running into that pesky power wall, we tend to only get one [...]
Let’s look at more great products that didn’t survive–-and why they flopped. The first commercially-available personal computer to come with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse–the Apple Lisa–was released in 1983 and was a huge fiasco. The cause? Its outrageous price tag: $9,995 ($21,250 in today’s dollars–O-U-C-H!). The solution? Dumping unsold Lisa computers [...]
Power users have a tendency to look to hardware upgrades to enhance their PC’s performance. After all, faster processors, graphics cards, memory and drives can have a measurable impact on system performance, one that’s easily quantified using a number of different benchmarks. Some users, however, confuse increased PC performance with increased productivity. What I mean [...]
The Internet community is extremely excited about the official arrival of Apple’s remarkable iPad. People are talking about how great it will be to get and use familiar applications from Apple’s App Store, and how unique the experience will be compared to the Windows and Mac platforms. But the iPad has the potential to change Web apps [...]
At first blush, Twitter seems remarkably simple. You follow people, read their 140-character messages, and send 140-character messages of your own to people who follow you. Not a very complicated concept, right? Actually, Twitter, like any good communications medium, is remarkably rich and subtle. Complicated, even. (That’s part of why ExecTweets exists–to make it easier [...]
