Ben Gladstone is an entrepreneur and CEO and founder of IT services firm, Conosco. Ben did a stint with Coopers & Lybrand, and then co-founded Obongo, a Silicon Valley software company, leading the team that invented, patented and developed the technology for managing online passwords and credit card data. Then in frustration at the lack of high quality computer support for small businesses, he set up Conosco in the mid noughties.
By Ben Gladstone June 30, 2011
Now that Office 365 has launched, how do the two leading web-based Office suites compare? Background The expensive Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications defines...
By Ben Gladstone February 23, 2011
In a Register interview, Google’s Enterprise boss David Girouard challenges Microsoft’s blended web + desktop view of cloud computing and says that, after four years,...
By Ben Gladstone June 10, 2010
Microsoft went live with Windows Live Skydrive, the competitor to Google Docs which lets you edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint presentations. Too little, too late...
By Ben Gladstone June 10, 2010
You’re in the old world, you’ve got your new iPad and after the first rush of excitement you might be feeling a little deflated, especially...
By Ben Gladstone March 11, 2010
Google Apps is a threat to much more than Microsoft Office/Exchange. As Apple’s App Store swept the iPhone into markets as diverse as gaming, satnav...
By Ben Gladstone February 17, 2010
Murdoch and Cuban, get over it – we’re all getting our news through filters these days. And now Facebook is joining Twitter, Viewsflow, Google, blogs...
By Ben Gladstone January 20, 2010
2010 sees the start of not just a new year, but a new decade. After one of the most difficult economic periods in memory, especially...
By Ben Gladstone December 01, 2009
There’s a lot of talk about this term virtualisation, but does anyone know what it means and how it works? Used the right way, virtualisation...
By Ben Gladstone November 27, 2009
Chrome OS is a triumph: from the chaos of the open-source bazaar its champion, Google, is building a tightly-controlled cathedral—one that will shield people from...
By Ben Gladstone October 21, 2009
Apple’s bumper latest profits are being explained partly by the old saw that Macs are expensive. Old assumptions are worth kicking and this one is...
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