If you snickered at Apple’s “walled garden” approach to controlling the hardware and software stack, there should be no doubts to its effectiveness after what was probably the craziest month of consumer technology news we’ve seen...

If you snickered at Apple’s “walled garden” approach to controlling the hardware and software stack, there should be no doubts to its effectiveness after what was probably the craziest month of consumer technology news we’ve seen in a while. The month of June has indicated that Microsoft and Google believe the Apple approach to consumer technology is the most profitable one...

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 Thanks for listening to this week's Consumerization Nation . Here's what Colin and I talked about: Citrix is hinting that CloudGateway might include...

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 Thanks for listening to this week's Consumerization Nation . Here's what Colin and I talked about: Citrix is hinting that CloudGateway might include some MDM features in the future MAM can't control SaaS The two different types of MAM AT&T Toggle We'll be off for July 5th, so join for...

HP announced a new feature called "HP Velocity" that's now available in all their thin clients. Based on technology they licensed from LiveQoS (formerly called "iPeak,"), Velocity technology can reconstruct network packets that are lost or damaged in...

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Consumerization Nation will be live Thursday, June 28, at 1 Eastern / 10 Pacific. Colin and I have a big list of things to discuss, including: Citrix may add MDM to CloudGateway AT&T Toggle now uses OpenPeak instead of Enterproid App stores, MAM, and SaaS (from Is an app store really mobile application management and 6 things to think about when SaaS and MAM cross paths ) We talked about the Microsoft...

While on vacation last week, I had a chance to put on my consumer hat and take a look at cloud storage solutions for my mother's relatively small needs. A few things caught my eye, and while I was supposed to be helping her out, my mind wandered into...

While on vacation last week, I had a chance to put on my consumer hat and take a look at cloud storage solutions for my mother's relatively small needs. A few things caught my eye, and while I was supposed to be helping her out, my mind wandered into that place it goes when it's time to write an article. Now that I'm back, here's what I'm left thinking about with regards to cloud...

I've written quite a bit in the past that VDI is about not about making your desktops easier to manage —it's really nothing more than a form factor change that delivers some new capabilities. In our book The VDI Delusion , we talk about how the...