I will be spending some time for at least the next year working with N2N Services in the role of Principal Technology Advisor for the N2N application suite, especially the mobile platform. N2N has a well-architected mobile solution that provides…
The Careto malware
While we still see almost daily articles with fallout from the Target payment card breach (and other suspected breaches), the news this week brought word of a sophisticated APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) that has been operational for years. This has…
New Chromebox
I have been an advocate of Google’s ChromeOS since first trying it in the summer of 2012 (see my personal blog for several posts on Chrome). ChromeOS is still very much a work in progress, but it is maturing in…
Mobile devices and BYOD
Are mobile devices a panacea that will bring more flexibility to the end user computing experience, or are they a Trojan Horse, just waiting to be pulled inside the gates, where chaos will ensue? It’s important to understand the factors…
Green screens to apps
Use of technology to support both delivery and administration of education has come far since I stepped onto the campus of UNC Chapel Hill as a freshman in 1975. Green screens ruled, as the 3270 terminal, introduced by IBM in…