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An Exciting Week for Computer Science
It’s an exciting week in the world of tech. First, today is the birthday of Grace Hopper. Ms. Hopper, who would have been 107 today, helped create one of the first modern programing languages, COBOL....
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CIOs Scramble to Plug Their App Gaps
As a former Principal Analyst with Forrester Research, I have an inside perspective on how rare it is that analyst firms agree on big ideas. But the stars have aligned when it comes to CIO responses to...
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Fast Pace Set for Holiday Season eCommerce
The holiday shopping season is in full swing. Despite it being of shorter duration this year due to a late Thanksgiving here in the U.S., it’s looking more and more like the season will be a...
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What Does 2014 Hold for Enterprise Software Development?
In the past year there have been many new additions to the enterprise software landscape, such as the iPhone 5S and C, Windows 8.1 and the launch of countless other new devices and operating systems....
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Smartphones Predicted to (Finally) Exceed the Number of PCs in the New Year
Mobile is on the rise and has been for quite sometime. In fact, mobile has shifted from a phenomenon to a norm, and for app developers having an mobile presence is now not an option – it is table...
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How Tech Can Help Teachers and Students
Earlier this week, IBM announced their “5 in 5,” which are their predictions for technology and advancements in the next five years. The first of these is a prediction that I, personally, would love...
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Wearable Tech: As Big as the Smartphone?
Smartwatches. Google Glass. Undoubtedly these are fashion statements in as much as they are items designed to make users’ lives easier. What’s still unproven – unlike the heads that will turn from...
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Online Readers Still Favor Desktops
News publications and other content producers have been doing all they can to create engaging native apps or responsive websites to capture the mobile-reader crowd. (In fact, USA TODAY likes to have...
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Snapchat Fumbles the Privacy of 4.6 Million Accounts
It hasn’t been a great start to the new year for Stanford. Yesterday, its football team lost to Michigan State in the Rose Bowl. At halftime its band formed the silhouette of a ghost with its tongue...
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Get Ready to Drive Smart
Everything has gone mobile via a smartphone or tablet, and now, it’s entering your car. Smart cars are on the rise and there’s predicted to be huge headway in 2014. First we saw Apple enter cars in...
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Five Takeaways from CES 2014
Get excited gadget-lovers! The consumer electronics chaos that is CES kicked off in Las Vegas this week. Let’s recap five things we’ve learned so far: 1) Smart and connected devices are emerging...
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5 Hot IT Jobs in 2014
As the new year dawns, some of you might be thinking about switching careers. Where should you go? Here are a few hot areas in IT that will likely see job growth during 2014. Web Developers While it...
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How a Tablet App Can Make or Break Your Retail Business
Today there are dozens of options available for those looking for a tablet computer. In fact, U.S. consumers have so warmly adopted this trend that 34% now own a tablet, and in Q4 2013 tablet shipments...
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A Lesson from Apple: Always Ask for User Consent with In-App Purchases
As you might have heard, Apple will be issuing refunds – to the tune of $32.5 million – to customers whose children made in-app purchases without consent. The settlement was made with the FTC who filed...
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The Internet of Things: Good or Bad?
The term ‘internet of things’ is now something everyone knows about – smart TVs, fridges, baby monitors, and thermostats are only a few of the items that will be in all homes in the next few years....
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The Next Google v. Apple Rivalry
Google and Apple have a long-standing rivalry in the tech world. Between iOS and Android – and Google Play and the Apple App store – there is no shortage of comparisons between the two major mobile...
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The Secret to Great Apps is User Input
In last year’s Outside In Awards presented by Forrester, the analyst firm honored two companies for good app design and overall development process. Why were these two applications chosen? They both...
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What Will Emerging Tech & Wearables Do to Data Security
Mobile apps aren’t just a fad, they’re the content delivery and computing future. A recent report from Gartner says that by 2017, users will have downloaded apps more than 268 billion times and...
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Lenovo Acquires Motorola Mobility; Aspires to Become the Second Device...
Yesterday, Lenovo announced that it’s acquiring the Motorola Mobility smartphone business unit from Google. There’s wide-ranging takes on what the acquisition means, but let’s try and clarify some...
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A Wearable Tech Appstore: It’s Here
Developers have been working on apps for Google Glass for as long as Glass has been available to them. But until Glass comes out of its closed “explorer program” and becomes widely available, those...
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