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technology & beyond.
Perspectives and field notes from 30 years in the Apple ecosystem — on security, mobility, infrastructure, and the gadgets that shape how we work.
Death to the Inbox
I don’t know about you, but I am quite afraid of my inbox. Email being one of the first “killer apps” the internet delivered to the...
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Rocket Science 2.0
I’ve been working in California City over the last few months; and while the drive out begins with some lovely terrain through Tehachapi,...
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The New Realities: VR & AR
If you’re anything like me (possibly a product of the 80s) you’ve been waiting ever so patiently for the future to arrive. And while the...
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Energy (and Life) Efficiency Through Gadgetry
I recall a Disneyland visit in the late 90’s where they presented an exhibit demonstrating the “modern, connected home.” While the tech...
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The Case for MDM: Apple v. FBI
While I’ve written a number of articles positioning Mobile Device Management (MDM) as a necessary tool for both corporate-owned and...
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Modern Access Control for SMB
Physical keys are so 3000BC. That’s the ballpark era when locksmiths came on the scene and began creating novel ways to secure access to...
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Invest Like a Millennial
So you want to become a bleeding-edge, millennial-style market investor, do you? Awesome sauce. There are two simple rules. 1: if you...
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Wearables in the Workplace
“Houston, we have a problem.” During the 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon, astronaut Jack Swigert stirred the oxygen tanks in a routine...
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Retail POS Technology
Point Of Sale, or POS, technologies have never been better. With the rise of tablet computers, wireless networks and companies like...
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Conquering Compliance
A few years back I began consulting for a new client working heavily in the petroleum industry. Never having consulted in a...
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Data Privacy in the Enterprise
It’s never fun to take your medicine. And to suggest any type of corporate audit might be the surest way to stop readers from taking part...
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Personal & Commercial Drone Technology
Holiday 2014 could easily be hailed as the “season of the drone” as children (and likely many adults) unwrapped nearly a million of these...
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Bleeding Edge Real Estate Technology
When thinking about the real estate industry, gizmos and gadgets aren’t usually the first things that come to mind. (The last piece of...
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Mobile Merchant Payment Systems
Cash is king. Or so it was for millennia. Not until the 20th century did checks become popularized and employed by ordinary citizens. And...
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Be a Mobile Document Dynamo
Well, kind readers, I bring great news. While tablets began their existence as excellent content consumption devices, content creation...
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The State of The Password
The number of guaranteed, unfortunate realities you could count on in life used to be a short list. Death and taxes were as bad as it...
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