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Mobile computing is big business and here to stay. Not too long ago telecommuting was a concept to the mobile job seeker which consisted of questionable ‘work at home’ offerings such as envelope stuffing, paid surveys, transcriptions etc..etc… Much of this is starting to evolve today with the explosion of mobile devices, low cost cloud based services and the growing acceptance of BYOD (Bring your own devices). Start-ups can run as virtual businesses hiring mobile workers without the need to spend thousands of dollars on traditional Brick & Mortar infrastructure.

Oh humble beginnings, the days of VCR, tape and floppy are behind us but lets not forget where we came from. Without these, admittedly terrible pieces of technology we would not be where we are today.  Michael Eisner once said "There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

On Monday Kickstarter announced that it had passed $1 billion dollars in pledges to start up projects. How this money was raised is the interesting part.

Since 2009 Kickstarter has been grabbing headlines, asserting itself as the leader of the crowdfunding game.

We have truly come a long way in developing the capabilities of our technology, the past few decades have seen some incredible innovation. But we have dropped the ball my friends, we don't show off how incredible and sexy all of this innovation is nearly enough.

Netflix and Comcast have reached an agreement set to smooth out the streaming of Netflix content to the cable company’s customers. Comcast customers have been reporting poor streaming quality and slow load times for Netflix over the past few months. This agreement settles a dispute between the two that included accusations of throttled traffic.

Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, raised $125 million in a round led by TPG Growth. The total funding for Domo has now reached $250 million. Primary investors include Salesforce.com, T.Rowe Price and Fidelity Investments.

Kevin Ledford has been CIO of Chiquita Brands for five years. This is the company that brings all those bananas and pineapples to your table — and tons of fresh produce to restaurants and food services.

Founded in 1899, Chiquita is proof positive that use of cloud — at least in the form of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products — is no longer just the province of startups and web 2.0 companies.

Mobile security has been a hot topic around here lately. This infographic echoes our latest blog post from Pete Thornhill about keeping your mobile device secure. Check out these stats on mobile malware.

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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all of the social media that surrounds us? Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest the list goes on and on, and it seems like a new company adds to it every year. Now we seem to be in an inescapable whirlwind of status updates, likes, re-tweets and notifications.

IBM came out with guns blazing at Amazon on Friday. The morning after Amazon announced its 4th quarter earnings IBM claimed that it is on top of the cloud, not Amazon Web Services.

An IBM representative gave this statement about how Amazon’s full-year “other” revenue, which includes AWS, was $3.9 billion comparable to IBM’s $4.4 billion.