posted by Matt McAdams on August 25, 2010 10:38 AM

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article about businesses adopting Apple’s iPads. The article said that business users seeking increased productivity are spurring IT departments to support the new devices. This isn’t new, the article points out, and cites an analyst from Forrester Research named Ted Schadler:

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posted by Matt McAdams on August 18, 2009 01:52 AM

Yesterday came news that a hacker stole 130 million credit card numbers (no, that’s not a typo) from 7-Eleven, a supermarket chain, and a few other corporate victims. This is the latest in a series of data (in)security headlines, which seem to come along every couple of months. In fact this same hacker was in the news a few years ago, having stolen data from retailers TJ Maxx and Dave & Buster’s.

One thing I find interesting about these stories is that the victims are always traditional offline companies, not cloud software or software-as-a-service providers. There’s a reason for that.

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posted by Matt McAdams on June 5, 2009 12:38 AM

Search is hot lately, with two new search engines being announced in recent weeks. As the world’s only easily-searchable database platform, we’re happy to see attention being paid to finding relevant data easily.

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