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Fog of definitions hides hybrid cloud's truth

Fog of definitions hides hybrid cloud's truth

...computing, but surveys paint a different picture. So in the absence of mass adoption, the focus has switched to on-premise cloud computing in the... Read more

20 August, 2010 by Lori MacVittie
What if cloud computing never matures?

What if cloud computing never matures?

...and providers have dismissed concerns about the readiness of cloud computing for mass adoption, arguing that the technology is part of an evolutionary process. They... Read more

29 July, 2010 by Lori MacVittie

Texting's successor fails Asian adoption test

Multimedia messaging services remain years away from mass adoption in Asia, according to IDC Read more

5 January, 2004 by Winston Chai

Intel predicts imminent SSD mass adoption

...right capacity, SSDs will cross the floor price of hard disks, driving mass adoption into the corporate market." At that point, said Saleski, SSDs' lower... Read more

24 September, 2009 by Rupert Goodwins
White Paper: Near Field Communication

White Paper: Near Field Communication

...NFC) offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it... Read more

3 December, 2007

Laws and Myths of Usability & Interface Design

Introduction Usability and relevance have been identified as the major factors preventing mass adoption of Business Intelligence applications. What we have today are traditional BI... Read more

19 December, 2006
EV-DO Rev. a and B: Wireless Broadband for the Masses

EV-DO Rev. a and B: Wireless Broadband for the Masses

Wireless phones are found in virtually every corner of the planet. The mass adoption of wireless technology has brought voice communication to more than 2... Read more

1 December, 2007
Microsoft gears up for victory in the virtual battle

Microsoft gears up for victory in the virtual battle

...customers, you can give the flexibility to the customers, [and] it enables mass adoption. So that is it. We have a large portfolio of products... Read more

9 October, 2008 by Colin Barker

Smaller firms take a shine to cloud computing

...time, and our report proves we are at the tipping point for mass adoption among small and medium-sized businesses," Easynet Connect managing director Chris... Read more

7 January, 2010 by Toby Wolpe

Raining on the cloud

...security disclosed over the last few years and we haven’t seen mass adoption of encryption or endpoint management as a result, because they can... Read more

1 January, 2010

Firefox gains 30m users in eight weeks

...has over 48 percent of market share in Poland. In addition, the mass adoption of information technology over the past four years in Eastern Europe... Read more

27 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner
Google Wave: a First Look

Google Wave: a First Look

Google Wave is about to break. So what is Wave, and what does it actually do? We bypass the hype with a hands-on look at the Wave Developer Preview. Read more

23 September, 2009 by Simon Bisson

Small Business: Mobile Payments Big Money or High Risk?

...is a developing niche that has not reached a tipping point for mass adoption throughout the world. There are pockets of users that have been... Read more

9 April, 2009

LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability

...as them as "friends". Elegant it ain't, but ahead of the mass adoption of standards for data portability it's a method used by... Read more

2 April, 2009

Next-gen m-commerce: wonder wands or worrisome wormholes?

...in this space right now. In short, the message is: without security, mass adoption of m-commerce will never take off. Given my regular calls... Read more

17 December, 2008

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