Posted February 7, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 7 comments
On Sunday the many people from around the world watched as the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, something considered one of the largest televised events in America reaching around 90 million viewers. While many watch the event for the game, one thing that has become synonymous is the
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Posted February 2, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 9 comments
As many will no doubt have followed, yesterday Facebook filed their S-1 with the SEC stating their intent for an IPO and by doing so made transparent much of the organizations strategy. To many it came of no surprise when reading through the document that the business generated almost all of its revenue from advertising
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Posted January 30, 2012 by Jon Wallace | 14 comments
As an organization that has lead and dominated technology innovation Microsoft today finds itself at a precipice as the user landscape changes at a rapidly evolving pace… Microsoft have been technology leaders for more than three decades, not only defining how personal computers are used but setting standards within the industry which others have sought
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Posted October 25, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I came across an interesting tidbit today when I was messing with my iPhone. There have been various posts made about the (perceived) insecurities about the iPhone over the past few weeks however most of them have been disproved. This little issue on the other hand seems to be somewhat of an overlook and although
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Posted October 14, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 3 comments
I finally got around to updating my various iDevices to IOS5 and was really interested to try out the iMessage functionality. If you’re not aware, iMessage is technology that is built into iOS5 that allows all of your iDevices to exchange short messages (similar to SMS messages) between themselves and other iOS5 users without using
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Posted September 29, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I thought I would break with my usual technically focused posts and instead take a look at an area of company management that every growing organization faces at some point in their life cycle, the introduction of corporate policy. When I take a look at the broader business landscape I often find myself wondering how
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Posted September 24, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
As many who follow me know, I use the open source media center software XBMC quite extensively throughout my home – quite simple, XBMC is fantastic software. Today, my home was featured on the XBMC website where my setup was documented from my Drobo storage to the embedded HP Slate 500 which provides whole house
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Posted September 14, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 2 comments
The title of this post was inspired by Paul Thurrott’s tweet from the Windows Build conference and it pretty much sums up my own impression of what I saw Microsoft present on Tuesday. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from the keynote but what I did see was above and beyond, and without
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Posted September 4, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 5 comments
I presented a breakout session at VMworld 2011 on user virtualization and why it was important in the cloud. I thought I would put a post together to summarize what I spoke about and to go over some of the key points of the presentation again… Understanding user virtualization… Before we get into why it
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Posted August 31, 2011 by Jon Wallace | 2 comments
Its been a while since I wrote a blog post so I thought I would resume activities by looking at the latest Citrix development, namely their acquisition of RingCube and the impact that it has had on the desktop virtualization space. It always amazes me the amount of activity that can come from what is
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