Old dogs, Old tricks, and Windows 8

New laptops are exciting. They’re personal; they become uniquely our own, in some ways they are an extension of our beings, our hands, our words. We know the laptop’s quirks, sounds and touch. Cue … new job. When I started my job with Neuralytix, I was...

Combating the Big Data Skills Shortage

OK, so you and your company have decided that this Big Data is more than a buzzword, and that you’re going to jump feet first into this. You’ve worked with various business leaders, planned out a pilot project, and set aside a budget. But then things come to a...

Stop The Windows 8 Bashing! Progress And Change Is Not A Bad Thing

There are simply too many negative Nelly’s out there. Windows 8 is a great operating system. Yes, it does require some learning, but technology is about new things. If it wasn’t for the likes of Ashton-Tate (who wrote MultiMate), Ron Barnaby (who wrote WordStar), WordPerfect, Microsoft for Word, and of course IBM for revolutionizing the typewriter, we would all still be typing on a Royal typewriter and flinging platens across a room!

The Day I Needed Virtual Reality

Have you ever had a failed laptop for two weeks AND be overseas? This is a tale of why user virtualization (such as the user virtualization platform [UVP] offered by AppSense) can be particularly useful.