| Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | |  | | Kevin Casey | | | Windows 8: Are PC People Out Of Touch? This post-PC era we've embarked on sure seems to have a lot of PCs in it. That's what I think every time I'm in a shared space where people do work--coffeehouses, airports, co-working offices, and so forth. Take the coffee joint I visit a couple of times a week. Unlike some spots, people seem to go here to work. Good luck finding a seat if you arrive much after 9:00 on a weekday morning. They're occupied by salespeople, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, students, and navel-gazing writers. It strikes me as a fairly representative sample of the modern mobile workforce. And although I'm generalizing, they're all using laptops. (Plenty of the laptops are Macs, but that's a different story.) Sure, there's a smartphone on the table next to every laptop. There are also iPads, though they're less ubiquitous than phones. Yet people are still hunting and pecking, pointing and clicking. The laptop is where people get stuff done. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | |  | NEXT VALLEY VIEW: OCTOBER 24 Join us today at 11:00 AM PT for Valley View, our exciting live video show. In addition to a chat with Cisco's John Chambers and Oracle's Mark Hurd, we'll take deep dive into an exclusive report on how technology companies spent economic stimulus money (and what the outcome of that spending was). We'll also feature our Elevator Pitch session, a rapid-fire deluge of information about new technology approaches. One company's elevator pitch we'll be highlighting: Taptera. Taptera is making mobile applications for the enterprise workforce. These are newly-built productivity applications -- the useful everyday stuff that employees have to do. And many of these applications tie into your corporate systems, like the corporate directory and the expense reporting systems. Taptera says they are focused on solving real, practical problems. If anything is going to make mobile devices a staple in the enterprise, it will be applications like these. Other Elevator Pitches featured: Alteryx (big data analytics in the cloud) and Hearsay Social (enterprise social media). Don't Forget To Register For Prizes | | COMMENTARY Gartner: CIOs Begin 3-Year Shift In Responsibilities By Eric Lundquist This year marked the start of a three-year shift in the fundamental responsibilities of the CIO, according to Gartner group VP Mark McDonald, coauthor of the "Digital Edge" newsletter. The shift is marked by the following characteristics, according to McDonald: From a focus on cost to a focus on growth, from automation to amplification, and from IT to technology. Nokia Reports Loss, Desperately Needs Hit Smartphone By Eric Zeman It's hard to believe that Nokia's third-quarter results, which show the company lost $1.27 billion on sales of $9.44 billion, were better than investors expected. Nokia sold 2.9 million Lumias during the third quarter. In the U.S., Lumia sales dropped from 600,000 in the second quarter to just 300,000 in the third quarter--a 50 percent decline. What's unnerving about these numbers is that they reveal Nokia's outgoing Symbian platform is still outselling Lumia smartphones around the world. Next Valley View: Dial C For Controversy By Fritz Nelson It's almost time for our latest live Web TV program, Valley View, on October 24 at 11:00 am PT, and we've got an amazing show planned. Our lineup includes Cisco CEO John Chambers, with CRN's Chad Berndtson, and Oracle's Mark Hurd (and some customers) with yours truly. Oracle is in a dog fight not only with traditional rival SAP but also with a host of software-as-a-service companies. Oracle's Open World Conference featured a few challenges thrown down by CEO Larry Ellison, mostly in the cloud. We'll ask Hurd, and a couple of his customers, about that, and we'll discuss plenty of Oracle's competitive challenges. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By theKman58: "Nothing like reading an unbiased opinion from someone without a dog in the hunt--NOT. So Windows 8 is not mobile? With most of the pundits/critics sighting it's great on tablets and phone they just don't like the modern UI over the desktop. One OS for all platforms sure the enterprise won't like that (LOL). Also most enterprises don't upgrade for 1 to 2 years anyway." In reply to: Windows 8 An Enterprise Dud: Salesforce.com's Benioff View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2012 Enterprise Applications Survey For SaaS and on-premises software vendors alike, configuration is now the favored approach for letting customers tweak application functionality and add industry-specific capabilities. In some cases, vendors make a point of spotting often-customized features and functions and then making them more flexible through configuration settings. But relying on configuration settings doesn't work for every business. This report examines the two approaches to fine-tuning enterprise applications and helps identify the best practices that will help you decide whether to customize or configure. Download Now (Registration Required)
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