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With the presentation of the iPad there has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of a closed system. But once you look at it from the perspective of an Enterprise, the iPad, iPhone and iPod Operating System (iPOS) is a robust, secure and trusted platform. While these attributes may be good for consumers, they are very important, if not mandatory to protect businesses from the following threats: Read more

Having some experience with the twitter API as a developer I know that as easy as it might sound to create a twitter client, there are quite a few things that make it quite a lengthy task. API limits, api downtimes and even wrong or inconsistent results can make developing a twitter client more time consuming than expected. It shifts attention to issues you have not considered before. It often takes away resources from usability engineering and the design process in general. But these steps are critical for creating something successful. Successes like the ones of  Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop are seldom. Read more

So I have been playing around with suse studio. I was happy to get access while the product was still in beta. Nat and his team really created a great product. It’s an extremely well thought through web service which delivers a great user experience. Testing your build in your browser and overlay files are extremely helpful if you want to quickly get an appliance going. They did a great job at lowering the barrier of entry to cloud computing. Now it’s easy to create an image without knowing the tricky details of linux.

But… Read more