February 2011 ~ The Website 4 Me Blog

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

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"I think this is a great proof-point for Linux. It's an amazing achievement for the whole community. This can be seen as a confirmation of the superiority of the open development model."

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Watson supercomputer

"The traditional boundaries don't really apply anymore. The iPad is a computing device that can run applications. It has a processor, uses memory and has local storage. How many years have consumers been asking for instant on and longer battery life? Apple's addressed that need and consumers have voted with their dollars."

Apple leading the market

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"We have a tax policy that is just broken. It's at an unreasonabl[y] high rate, and then it's the worst of all worlds. The majority of our growth, almost 70 percent of our market, and probably 90 percent of long-term growth is outside of the country and we have a policy that makes us non-competitive outside the country and then not only doesn't encourage us to bring it back, but penalizes it with double taxation."

Cisco CEO John Chambers"> calling for changes to corporate tax policy

"Wikileaks is not surprising to anyone here. The State Department learned what the music and video industry learned 10 years ago -- it's easy to move digital files. I think we're seeing some new business models emerge around secrecy because you can't give access about something to a thousand people and expect it to stay a secret."

Security author Bruce Schneier speaking in a panel discussion on cyberwar at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (eSecurity Planet)

"What you're seeing is this collapse -- this lack of differentiation -- that's going to happen between what is a consumer technology and what is an enterprise technology. What the enterprises really want is manageability, security. There's an entire webOS roadmap to build in all of the security models, so not only is it a great consumer device, but it will be the best and most friendly enterprise device that allows the enterprises to manage it, control it, secure the piece of information that's important to the enterprise -- but all in one device experience.

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$1.2 billion purchase of Palm

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Apple's iPad continues to attract interest in enterprise circles, playing well to an increasingly mobile workforce. The latest example is this week's release ofZendesk for iPad, the first tablet version of the cloud-based help deskapplication.

"This is not a port, it's a hundred percent native iPad application," Zack Urlocker, COO at Zendesk, told InternetNews.com. "It's a really nice interface and fits well with our mobile strategy, which is that you should be able to offer service and support to customers anytime you need to wherever you are. With the iPad help desk app, you could be home on the couch or riding on a train and still be able to check in."

The company said that in addition to moving its help desk app to another mobile platform, Zendesk for iPad also has new features. For example, the mobile help desk app includes access to a real-time list of the tickets assigned to help desk agents and the ability to easily bookmark a ticket to respond to it later, or use it for future reference.

The news comes at a time of growing competition in the suddenly red hot tablet space as a number of companies, including HP, Research in Motion and Samsung, look to take on the iPad. Although pitched primarily as a consumer device by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the iPad has seen fast corporate adoption. Apple claims 80 percent of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying the iPad.

Get all the details on the Zendesk release at Datamation.