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By Kevin Tea May 19, 2011
When a company achieves the status of a giant it is easy to assume that they have sold the corporate soul to the devil to...
By Kevin Tea May 17, 2011
The killing – I’ll leave the tags of murder, assassination etc up to you – of Osama Bin Laden it became clear that the media...
By Kevin Tea April 28, 2011
As I type this the huge crash at Amazon that took a lot of hosted sites like HootSuite, Four Square and Springpad offline rumbles on....
By Kevin Tea April 28, 2011
Last month I had one of those moments of insight that can change a man forever. OK, it wasn’t on the scale of a Road...
By Kevin Tea April 26, 2011
Before we go any further do you have a good first aider close by? Preferably one with defibrillators. Right, let’s continue. Do your staff have...
By Kevin Tea April 11, 2011
All leading enterprise software vendors, as well as large cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings this year, making 2011 the year of PaaS,...
By Kevin Tea April 06, 2011
On Monday I looked at AceProject, a fully featured heavyweight project management tool in the first of two features for this week on online collaboration...
By Kevin Tea April 01, 2011
Among the uninitiated there sometimes lurks the suspicion that the IT department in their organisation is not unlike a secret society. Within this dark and...
By Kevin Tea March 31, 2011
If you thought the fuss around the appalling launch of Google Buzz – however many light years away that was – has died down think...
By Kevin Tea March 25, 2011
One of the hot potatoes for CIOs at the moment – and believe me it isn’t going to get any easier – is how much...
By Kevin Tea March 25, 2011
The use of social media in real word situations has exploded during the last few weeks. First we had the revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and...
By Kevin Tea March 23, 2011
If you want all the benefits of an open cloud computing platform but none of the possible security headaches you might be tempted to wander...
By Kevin Tea March 21, 2011
Corporate use of social media is entering the mainstream but often in a haphazard and suck it and see manner, a new survey reveals. The...
By Kevin Tea March 17, 2011
It has always been a habit of mine to launch Firefox as my browser. It’s just something I have done for so many years I...
By Kevin Tea March 16, 2011
The recent Gmail outage where a small percentage of users lost their emails for a matter of days highlighted the fragility of the emerging cloud...