Bert Latamore

Bert Latamore is a freelance writer covering the intersection of IT and business for SiliconANGLE. He is a frequent contributor to CrowdChats focused on theCUBE coverage of major IT industry events and site editor at Wikibon.org. He has 35 years’ experience covering the IT industry including four with Gartner, five with Meta Group, and eight with Wikibon. He lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, Moire, and their dog, cat and macaw. In his spare time he enjoys reading, hiking and photography.

Latest from Bert Latamore

Personal Security Issues and Social Media

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Posting your location on social media sites when you are away from home can be an invitation to home robbery. This is not just paranoid imagining -- it has happened. Nothing prevents the local criminals from joining social media sites and then …

Net Neutrality for Wired Carriers Only? I Think Not!

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

The Google/Verizon proposal for a two-class system for Internet delivery differs from previous proposals rejected by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in that it is for cellular carriers only. One thing that makes this interesting is that Verizon is, of course, both …

Google and Verizon Vs. Net Neutrality: Bad News for SMBs

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Lately I have seen a lot of press about how Google has joined Verizon to push a two-tiered Internet system for cellular providers. This is a major reversal for Google, which until this has been a major defender of Net Neutrality. And …

The Dell Streak – Yawn

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Ever since I looked at the iPad and found it not quite what I need, I have been waiting for the promised Android tablets to hit the market, in the hope that they might fit my needs better. So when Dell last …

E-Reading, Multitasking, and a Less Insightful Society, Part 2

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Editor’s Note: This is the second-half of a 2-part series on mobile e-readers. Click here to read part 1. Yesterday I looked at e-publishing from the viewpoint of the publishers and the survival of their businesses. But what does e-publishing mean to …

E-Reading, Multitasking, and a Less Insightful Society, Part 1

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

E-reading, basically the act of reading books, newspapers, and magazines on mobile computing devices, has become surprisingly controversial. From people who cling to the “experience” of reading and say that reading on a screen will never replace the “feel” of a fine …

Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 2: Wireless Networks

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of a two-part piece on mobile computing security measures. See here for Bert’s first article, Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 1: What’s Reasonable and Possible. Where my wife works, no devices with either a WiFi …

Mobile Computing in Secure Environments: What’s Reasonable and Possible. Part 1

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

My wife works in a medium-to-high security U.S. government environment – nothing exciting, just records management, but she does handle genuine secret information, the kind of thing that could compromise ongoing operations or in extreme cases get someone killed. And security in …

Mobile Computing, Security, and the Separation of Personal and Company Applications

NEWS By BERT LATAMORE16 YEARS AGO

I clearly remember back when I first joined META Group in 2000 and was given a company laptop – and IBM ThinkPad as it happens. The tech person in our office told me, “Treat this as your own computer,” by which he …

Bert Latamore

Latest from Bert Latamore

Net Neutrality for Wired Carriers Only? I Think Not!

Google and Verizon Vs. Net Neutrality: Bad News for SMBs

The Dell Streak – Yawn

E-Reading, Multitasking, and a Less Insightful Society, Part 2

E-Reading, Multitasking, and a Less Insightful Society, Part 1

Mobile Computing in Secure Environments, Part 2: Wireless Networks

Mobile Computing in Secure Environments: What’s Reasonable and Possible. Part 1

Mobile Computing, Security, and the Separation of Personal and Company Applications

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