The consumerization of IT has some limits

The consumerization of IT has not gone unnoticed among enterprise vendors, but it's not always clear how they should react to the trend. It's one thing to look at Apple's success penetra…


Consultants and Consulting

Last week I talked about one bastion of the tech industry, the analyst firms; today, we'll hit another, the big consulting firms.

I qualify the consulting firms as "big" because the…


Opera Browser: Just 50% are on desktop computers and laptop computers

Seems Opera browser likes being in the limelight!! Worldwide the software has been able to capture the hearts of more than 100 million users but out of this figure, half of them are on desktop compute…


Trends and Analysts

The big industry analyst firms such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC sometimes seem to exist primarily as a large sieve through which new and innovative ideas generated at the coal face must pass thro…


CIO influence sliding fast

It's no secret that the role of the CIO has been diminished by the confluence of factors stemming from the recession, the increasing consumerization of technology, and the external pressures of ut…