Recent articles by Mark Gibbs
May 20, 2013
There are jobs that robots might be able to do in the near future. Gibbs has ten that they're unlikely to steal from meat machines.
May 16, 2013
If you're doing serious Web content engineering you might well choose an all-singing, all-dancing product such as Adobe's Dreamweaver. The latest version of Dreamweaver in Adobe's Creative Suite 6 (released just over a year ago) was really impressive with new features such as an improved user interface, support for jQuery UI widgets, better cascading style sheet Version 3 support and support for PhoneGap. All in all, a very cool and comprehensive Web development platform.
May 10, 2013
On the ISS, Linux is in and XP is out and open source is the way of the future
May 09, 2013
Have you had a IT project go astray? Maybe you were lucky and it was a brief hiccup with minimal financial consequences. Or maybe you had a disaster of biblical proportions, such as the one that befell Levi Strauss in 2008.
May 06, 2013
Some enterprise vendors try to keep what they are offering away from what they think might be the wrong eyes. This is never a good idea.
May 02, 2013
How would you like to build a global enterprise-scale data access infrastructure? A daunting prospect, yes? Imagine creating a system that could make any subset of any significant data resource in your organization available where it's needed without incurring insane implementation and maintenance costs ... sounds too good to be true?
April 25, 2013
Last week here in Backspin I discussed how real-world "things" that aren't easily augmented with digital instrumentation, such as bicycles, cars and even dogs, can be indirectly connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) using physical ID tags and online proxies. This is, as I pointed out, a powerful concept.
April 24, 2013
This week two outstanding products: The Jynxbox Android HD and Seagate Wireless Plus
April 22, 2013
Not everything needs to, or can, connect to the Internet of Things by IP
April 19, 2013
Considering the enormous webcam market and the number of products available it's hard to believe that anyone could come up with anything new, novel and useful but, impressively, that's just what Logitech has managed to do with its Broadcaster Wi-Fi Webcam, a really well-designed webcam for OS X and iOS only.
The Connected Enterprise
