July 2008
9 posts
change you can believe in
More on IT Departments & Apple products.
I did some reading over the long weekend and found some interesting articles on online publications that echoed my sentiments with respect to IT departments and their view of devices such as the iPhone. In this article: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/iPhone-vs-IT-Clash-of-the-Culture-Titans/, there is an interesting quote by Daniel Reiss, president and CEO of Automated Terminal...
A flawed IT department mindset
I work for a small software company who operates in a space with few true competitors. We employ maybe 150 - 175 people. As a result, we have a small IT department of 2.5 people (one resource is shared with marketing). The other day, in passing, I asked one of the full-time IT guys if our Exchange server was going to support ActiveSync for the iPhone and what I got back was a very condescending...
SSD goes mainstream?
Solid State Drives or SSD as they are more commonly referred to are about to change laptops in, well, not such a big way. Moore’s Law is at work here folks. Apple today announced a massive price cut in their MacBook Air line that comes with an 64GB SSD cartridges. Why should we care? Well, it’s like what happened with LCD’s. When they first came into the market, they were...
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Verizon and the iPhone
There are quite a few interesting articles about Verizon’s response to the iPhone, and as a current Verizon subscriber, I feel I should share my $0.02 worth.
I dugg this article titled “Verizon: Steve Jobs has no monopoloy on innovations” and I couldn’t help but feel a bit bad for the CEO of VZW. Personally, I always thought Ivan Seidenberg was a good CEO who ran the...