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This year ten trends will move from “new concept” to “mainstream trend.” Exploring all should be on your 2012 “to-do” list.

After many years on the marketplace, the benefits of SaaS – especially when compared to owning everything yourself – are obvious and well known: Flexibility to “dial” capacity up or down as needed, pay-as-you-go pricing, access to high economies of scale with low investment… However, SaaS pricing modes often lacks two things that we all [...]

Is Google Priority Inbox an independent product development effort—or is it part of Google’s efforts to compete with Facebook and Twitter in the social media space?

This week the UK airspace was closed for six days due to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. This led me to ask, “What would happen if airplanes could never fly again?” As “necessity is the mother of invention,” I would prefer to focus on how this would affect innovation. Five technology areas stand out…

Last month I wrote about the rise of mobile computing platforms and the need for enterprises to adopt them within the next three years just to stay in line with the grow of mobile traffic for business. Today, Michael V. Copeland, Senior Editor of Fortune/CNN Money, published a segment on five potential iPad competitors. I took a look at these–from the perspective of a current enterprise provider and former enterprise buyer–to see which of them had the potential to win at the enterprise level…

We all know that mobile is exploding. A simple exploration of network data projections shows that we have entered the “Age of Enterprise Mobile Computing.” If your enterprise does not want to fall behind, it needs to begin immediately planning how to enable enterprise functions using mobile devices…