Howard’s rules for which projects to kill, which to preserve, and how to live to fight another day. You have a problem. Your project budget has been decimated. The suits are under serious budget pressure and are mouthing expressions like “shared pain,” which is never what you want to hear. So you will have to … Continue reading
If your company qualifies as a covered entity under HIPAA, now is a good time to review your compliance efforts and fill in any gaps — before the feds come calling. We expect to see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — the unit within the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for … Continue reading
Enterprises of all sizes demand 24/7 application delivery. Server failures, maintenance downtime, and acts of nature are no excuse. If keeping key applications online is your job, you should consider yourself lucky: You have more options for keeping apps up than ever before. With the tools available today, organizations have few excuses — not even … Continue reading
Discussions of cutting-edge energy always come down to a technology that’s more than 200 years old: the battery. Modern versions are much more powerful than Alessandro Volta’s pile of copper and zinc discs and brine-soaked cardboard. But they’re still not up to 21st-century tasks like powering the autos of 2020 or storing solar power for … Continue reading
‘Batteries are holding back the portable revolution,’ says the CEO of a firm that’s developing an answer: a pocket-size fuel cell. My new 3g iPhone is a wonderful device, but it has one very serious short-coming. The battery life stinks. I never get through a day without needing to recharge. Sometimes the low-battery warning shows … Continue reading
Whether you’re pinging a person’s location to provide traffic information or using it to chart consumer behavior, privacy quickly becomes an enormous concern. For this reason, Pentland (a cofounder of Sense Networks) has called for a “New Deal on data.” That means, in part, treating data a lot more like personal property—it is owned by … Continue reading
The aim is to combine GPS, Internet and personal data with smart software to tailor information to the individual. Who wouldn’t want a personal assistant? In theory, a gadget that could provide instant advice on where to eat, when your train will pull out and where to find that gift for your husband’s birthday would … Continue reading
Tired of hitting the 123 key to toggle on the numeric keyboard? Well, obviously some ingenious iPhone hacker was and whipped up this interesting little Jailbreak app to change the standard 4-row virtual keyboard into a five row with numbers surfaced right on top (or symbols, if you tap the shift key). via the iPhone … Continue reading
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Up until today, it’s been a little tedious to send large or multiple attachments with an email. You had to select each attachment individually and you never knew how long it would be before those bigger files were ready to send. Today, we’re making some changes to the way Gmail attachments work. If you want … Continue reading
