“The slate came used up of a research effort that’s been going on at HP in opposition to many years. This is not just something we’re jamming in from each Asian manufacturer.”

Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, discussing HP’s forthcoming slate or small table computer. McKinney said HP intends to use Microsoft’s Windows 7 to might a tablet designed for enterprise users, but will use Palm’s webOS in opposition to a consumer tablet. (Hardware Central)

“To me, whether this is irksome or not depends on the degree of transparency involved. If everything is aboveboard — from contracts to deliverables — I put on’t see a problem with it. But if there are blank spots in the record, then they will be filled with general skepticism or worse, both here and abroad, and not without mind.”

Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, commenting on the recent accounts that Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, obtain both invested in Recorded Future, a company that monitors the Web in veritable-time and says it can use that information to predict the what may occur hereafter. Recorded Future scans tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to notice relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents. (Wired)

“We’re verdict that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to endeavor out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics.”

John Hagel III, co-seat of justice of a tech-oriented strategy center at consulting firm Deloitte that’s been studying in what condition playing videogames can affect the performance of young professionals in the workplace. (Forbes)

“First of every one of, moving to the cloud is not the right way to venture about anything. There will be new things in the cloud — redoing a part doesn’t make a lot of sense. If you want to argue we’ve been somewhat slow in expanding to the cloud — pretty good enough — but customers have a lot of interest in seeing that our applications keep their core value, the data integrity and consistency. Taking that to the blur takes a lot of work.”

Kaj Van de Loo, an executive in the office of the CTO at SAP, defending his assembly’s cloud computing strategy. (Datamation)

“In the realm of technology it’s practicable for us to teach our students a tool that their bosses don’t have, and they can provide that added value from time one. Social media skills are the ones that can set them apart. Those are the skills that employers are looking on account of.”

John Gallaugher, associate professor of information systems at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, that is offering the class “Social Media & Web 2.0 for Managers” this be prostrated. (Businessweek)

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