Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
In a bit of twist, Google topped its own search ranking lists this week with the release of Google Instant, which is essentially predictive text that guesses the user’s intent and offers search bar auto fill options and short-tail “instant” results. But, the reviews are mixed. Some hailed it as useful, particularly for mobile where…
That provocative question splashed across the cover of the Atlantic Monthly last summer, headlining a story penned by controversial technology analyst and pundit Nicholas Carr, who argued that the climate of instant information and supreme distraction that permeates the Web has chipped away at the more focused, intellectual pursuits like reading a book. Fast forward…
As we enter 2009 in a financial crisis, companies may be tempted to scale back and wait for a better day. Is this the right approach? Perhaps not, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Cameron, who predicts the recession will end in the second half of 2009,…
In my last post I promised this time I would describe my search for a definition of “our kind” of architecture that was not a fancy synonym for design and that could encompass varieties of architecture as diverse as enterprise, information technology, information systems architecture, solution architecture, infrastructure, network, software, application, management, security, process, service-oriented…
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira wants to make one thing clear to people who think it’s more effective to juggle multiple tasks at once: “There’s no such thing as multitasking,” Spira said. “We’re switching between tasks, but we [human beings] are not capable of multitasking.” The comments came during a recent…