Irreverent, unapologetically arrogant and uncensored, IT Professional Services industry veteran Jason Perlow muses on a cornucopia of topics on all matters of Information Technology.
With the legal status of medical and recreational marijuana in constant flux, and varying wildly from state to state, the opportunities and risks of this market are mind-alteringly complex. Here are the basics.
CBD can be extracted using marijuana strains, or marijuana's non-psychoactive cousin, industrial hemp. But its legal status is still uncertain.
Opinion: Armonk's $34 billion acquisition of the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source, Linux, and Cloud vendor may be its last chance to return the company to a leadership position in the technology industry.
We now have a great crop of smartphones and tablets on the market with powerful processors but the key issue that seems to be ignored is 4G over-subscription.
This year's iPad Pro is a magnificent piece of technology. But it isn't everything we hoped for, and we may have hit peak advances with this year's model.
Recent antitrust developments in the EU could present an opportunity for a third mobile platform that never really had a chance to mature and develop an ecosystem when it first released.
Make no mistake: What Big Blue wants to do is make its cloud more relevant.
Apple's third-generation iPad Pro is likely to have important but incremental improvements over its predecessor and include technologies introduced in the iPhone X.
Google's Play Store hegemony for Android apps is no longer guaranteed, thanks to a recent antitrust judgment (and a $5B fine) from the European Union.
$350 for a carrier-locked device is too much money for a smartwatch that, well, isn't one and has very little unique value proposition.
Unless Google can rally the developer troops to clean out their crufty code from the Play Store and wholesale adopt Material Design, it will fail with making Pixel Slate and Chromebook a real tablet and desktop application platform.
Google wants to disrupt with its stateless, cloud-focused desktop operating system. But it needs to become much more viral with exploitative apps if it expects it to succeed beyond just being a niche platform for education and light computing tasks.
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is being rolled out in limited markets. But if you have access to it, you need to consider it above other home and small business broadband options.
The new Chrome OS-based tablet convertible seems like a good buy at $600. But the lack of good apps makes it a problematic purchase.
The latest generation of iPhone and Android hardware supports the fastest charge technologies possible. Don't just use the cable and charger that comes in the box.
