Gartner May Be Too Scared To Say It, But the PC Is Dead by Mark Hachman
Gartner has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying.
Except it hasn't said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really
important. The market-research firm predicts a 7.6% decline in PC
sales this year, to 315 million units (including desktops and
notebooks) from the roughly 341 million PCs sold in 2012. The real
knife in the PC's heart, though, is that Gartner is now finally
willing to predict a long-term decline: 302 million PCs in 2014,
falling to 272 million in 2017,...
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Many Free Android Apps Are Starting To Look A Lot Like Malware by
Antone Gonsalves
The money-go-round between app developers and ad networks is starting
to blur the line between many free Android apps and malware. While
these legitimate apps aren't stealing passwords, they're still riding
roughshod over user privacy by gratuitously sucking up your contact
and location information — or worse. What These Bad Apps Glom Onto
Between last September and March, security vendor Bitdefender analyzed
130,000 popular Android apps on Google Play and found that roughly 13%
collected your...
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What Apple's Jony Ive Can Learn From Facebook Home by Brian S Hall
Facebook Home, which Facebook has described both as "a new way to turn
your Android phone into a great, living, social phone" and "the best
version of Facebook there is," won't be available on Apple's iPhone
anytime soon, if ever. Does Apple care? Probably not, although it
should. More than an app, though not quite a operating system,
Facebook Home delivers a highly visual, system-wide presentation of
real-time social data that also makes innovative use of touch-based
gestures. In the process,...
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Why Amazon Isn't Giving You True Cloud Flexibility by Robert Rizika
Guest author Robert Rizika is CEO of ProfitBricks USA. Cloud Computing
is so hot right now that the cloud pretenders are crawling out of the
woodwork. You don't have to look very far to find consultants who know
nothing and "cloud services" that consist of little more than tacking
the word "cloud" onto an otherwise ordinary service. Ironically,
though, some of cloud computing's biggest issues come from the paragon
of the technology: Amazon. For the past several years Amazon Web
Services (AWS)...
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HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs by Matt Asay
Apparently, native apps have won. We even said so right here on
ReadWrite. After all, Facebook apparently likes native more.
Unfortunately, CIOs missed the memo, and the dirty little secret is
that most of the world's software, including apps, is written for use,
not sale. That means that most of the world's software is not going to
follow what Facebook's mobile strategy is, but rather what those
stodgy enterprises do. Those stodgy enterprises? They're all in on
HTML5. I spent...
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Another Battle In The Google Vs. Microsoft Cloud War [Infographic] by
Brian Proffitt
Microsoft is gunning for the online productivity tools user base in a
big way, marketing Exchange Online in an effort to take on Gmail. So,
how do these two platforms compare? If you're looking at uptime, which
is a pretty big number for any cloud-based system, the Google
Enterprise team reported earlier this week that their actual Gmail
uptime percentage for 2012 was 99.983% - better than Google's
guaranteed 99.9% rate. "This translates to an average of just over
seven minutes of service...
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Microsoft Execs Flock To Amazon And Red Hat by Matt Asay
Microsoft may be a distant runner-up to iOS and Android in the
smartphone race, and still lags Amazon EC2 in the cloud wars, but
executives from the Windows Phone and Azure divisions aren't hurting
for respect. In the past week, senior Microsoft executives have joined
disruptive challengers in the mobile and cloud markets, suggesting
that Microsoft's brainpower isn't lacking, even if its market share
is. The first executive departure was Charlie Kindel, the former
Microsoft executive who...
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The 5 Best Nerd Movies Ever by Brian S Hall
These remain the post-glory days of the nerd. From Larry Ellison,
island-owning-cutthroat-businessman-billionaire, to Mark Zuckerberg,
billionaire-coder-CEO-visionary, the once-lowly nerd — with Silicon
Valley serving as his Xanadu — is now creator of much of the world's
riches, seer of the world's future, and the person to whom Presidents
and hopefuls come for money, anointing and benificent manipulation of
Big Data. It was not always thus. Even while Bill Gates was
destroying the...
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