Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an editor for SiliconAngle and lives a charmed life in Portland, Or.

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IBM to Launch IBM Docs with a Collaborative Service Similar to Google Apps

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

IBM is set to launch IBM Docs as part a collaborative service similar to Google Apps that it is calling the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. As part of the effort, IBM is placing its LotusLive services under the SmartCloud name, which …

Data Storage on Arrays the Size of Atoms

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Look sat the size of a smartphone compared to the orignal cell phones. Really, it is size that matters. These days we have wafer thin tablets and Ultrabooks. Now can you imagine what things will look like when storage fits on arrays …

Verizon Wireless to Strip Apps From Android Tablets and Replace With Private App Stores for Corporate IT Shops

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Verizon Wireless plans to strip Android tablets of GMail and other apps and replace with a private app store that customers can use to deploy pre-approved apps. IT shops everywhere find more of their time gets spent pre-configuring the tablets that people …

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop is Talking about Community? Oh Man, Get This Guy to Monki Gras!

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

At CES this week, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said this about the new Lumia smartphone: “We believe the industry has shifted form a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems. Across our portfolio Lumia is engaged in the heart of our …

The Ultrabook’s Achilles Heel is Its Pointless Diversity

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

I at first had this idea for a post about why the Ultrabook will become an enterprise favorite. I wrote down five reasons in less than 15 minutes. Man, this post was going to be easy. Here they are: The Right Combo …

Consulting Services Will Boom in 2012, Fueled by Increasing Network Complexity

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Consulting firms are cashing in as networks get more complex with the advent of mobile, video and cloud services. IDC estimates that service firms will attribute a whopping 40% of revenues to consulting activities around networking. The types of consulting to come …

5 Technology Advancements That Define This Year’s CES Gadgets

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

The reduced technical complexity in a camera, ultrabook or smartphone means stripping out mechanics. These stripped down gadgets are for the most part connected devices with a simple UI that people can touch and swipe. They require a long battery life so …

Ballmer Says in Final Keynote That Windows 8 Will Launch in Late February

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

Steve Ballmer just finished his last keynote by announcing that Windows 8 will launch in late February with the full Metro user interface and integrations with Kinect, available February 1. “Metro will drive the new magic across all the user experiences,” Ballmer said. …

AT&T Joins OpenStack Becoming First Major Carrier to Join Open Cloud Effort

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

First we had Rackspace and NASA form OpenStack. Then we started to see companies like Cisco and Citrix join in. They were followed by companies like HP which made its entrance this summer. And today marks the most important news in months …

Ubuntu TV – The Potential CES Dark Horse?

NEWS By ALEX WILLIAMS15 YEARS AGO

We don’t know what Canonical will launch next week at CES. For its part, Canonical is saying that it will show the latest in desktop, cloud and demonstrations on Ubuntu One, plus an exclusive Ubuntu concept design which will be announced during the …

Alex Williams

Latest from Alex Williams

IBM to Launch IBM Docs with a Collaborative Service Similar to Google Apps

Data Storage on Arrays the Size of Atoms

Verizon Wireless to Strip Apps From Android Tablets and Replace With Private App Stores for Corporate IT Shops

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop is Talking about Community? Oh Man, Get This Guy to Monki Gras!

The Ultrabook’s Achilles Heel is Its Pointless Diversity

Consulting Services Will Boom in 2012, Fueled by Increasing Network Complexity

5 Technology Advancements That Define This Year’s CES Gadgets

Ballmer Says in Final Keynote That Windows 8 Will Launch in Late February

AT&T Joins OpenStack Becoming First Major Carrier to Join Open Cloud Effort

Ubuntu TV – The Potential CES Dark Horse?

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