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Archive for January 2012

Google’s new privacy policy: what’s changed?

Posted by: altabel on: January 31, 2012

There are many opinions about Google’s new privacy policy among bloggers, journalists and friends. After studying all of them I have some questions left: Is Google’s new strategy of replacing separate policies for each application with one shorter policy — one which allows them to share our data across all those applications with no way [...]

CES 2012 – the Cloud Electronics Show

Posted by: altabel on: January 26, 2012

Overall, there was very little “outstanding announcement” to report from CES 2012. It isn’t just one of those years in which we see radical changes. The largest firms (like Microsoft) didn’t participate at all. In fact it was a year when existing technologies just improved significantly in their features, performance, aesthetics, capabilities, and we saw [...]

Social Media is a tool on the Internet. It is not a business. Like any tool, it can be used to enhance and promote an enterprise if you have a niche, a target market, a business plan and ambition. Let’s have a look at the preferences of LinkedIn community. «I wanted to be flippant and [...]

How SharePoint can learn from Windows 8

Posted by: altabel on: January 23, 2012

During the course of 2011 Windows8 was presented to the. Could the current proposed – ‘Windows 8’ – provide the basis for major future changes to Microsoft SharePoint? SharePoint has been an enormous success for Microsoft in recent years. Let us take a speculative look at three areas where SharePoint can learn from Windows 8. [...]

Android Apps will be developed by the “Style Guide” Book

Posted by: altabel on: January 19, 2012

It’s well known that Android is fragmented or, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt contends, “Differentiated.” In a bid to codify design principles for the operating system’s look and feel, Google unveiled Android Design at CES 2012. This website seeks to help app developers create apps with a more uniform look and feel for Android 4.0, [...]