Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Infrastructure Takes On Engagement - In Photos: Forrester: Top Technology Trends For 2014 And Beyond - Forbes

  • leading companies are changing silo unified communications and collaboration, mobile device management and desktop computing to more efficiently deliver and foster employee engagement and innovation

• With AirWatch, VMware gets phones and tablets and a toehold in Internet of Things - Tech News and Analysis

  • the desktop category — now under fire as more users make their tablets or smart phones their primary device — isn’t going away any time soon. “They are the devices of yesterday and today, phones are the devices of today and tomorrow and machines and sensors are the devices of tomorrow,

• AirWatch Competitors Happy About Big MDM Exit - Forbes

  • “It’s a good time to be in enterprise mobility,”
  • MDM gives companies a way to set protocols and secure their employees’ smartphones.  The space has undergone consolidation for several years.
  • VMWare’s purchase will put pressure on remaining independent competitors to sell within the next 12 months.

  • Buyers, like IBM, are placing the “economy” of the Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)  to work phenomenon through M&A, said Christopher Clark, president of Fiberlink. “They’re building a mobile IT stack” through serial acquisition-making that allows for “collaboration, sequencing, securing and implementing apps” on employees’ mobile devices.

     

    The AirWatch-VMWare deal “validates how big and strategic” MDM is

• Cloud Computing's Paradox: More IT, But Less IT Management - Forbes

  • Gartner, the analyst firm created by and for technology professionals, has been predicting that IT departments will be dissolved and dispersed into the business units they serve

• The Astonishing Secrets That Zendolphin Never Told You…Exposed! | The Fastlane Forum: Entrepreneur and Startup Discussion

  • Love others. Drop the greed because it will blind you to opportunities for more ice cream around you. When you harness this mindset for a long enough amount of time, you will see the abundance of possibilities and
  • "The moment you stop caring about money is the moment you start making money

• The New Hotel Key: Your Smartphone - WSJ.com

  • Guests at these properties will receive a message on a Starwood app containing a virtual key, which will unlock the door with a tap or twist of their phone through the use of Bluetooth technology. The company says the iPhone 4s or newer models and the Android phones running 4.3 or newer will be compatible

• Ken Braun: Big Labor didn't build the middle class | MLive.com

  • Unable to claim credit for creating actual products, union apologists will fall back on the assertion they “built the middle class.” The UAW example shows this too is a dubiously sourced accomplishment
  • From here forward, middle class jobs will come from smart decisions made by the leaders of American free enterprise - entrepreneurs and executives at companies large and small. Exploitation of workers is most likely to happen when Big Labor bosses cash in the dues money and go to Disney World

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.