Robert L. Mitchell's Most Recent Posts

The decision used to be an easy one. Now the tables are turned.

It outlived every other piece of equipment in my office. But after ten years and nearly 50,000 pages it's time it's time to look for a replacement for my HP LaserJet 1200. Can any new printer possibly measure up?

Current e-textbook distribution models, if successful, could let publishers control prices and eliminate the used textbook market.

Mcor's Matrix is more eco-friendly than other 3D printing technologies, and could be less costly to use in a busy design shop.

Want to watch a television channel from Disney? You may need to buy a cable television bundle from Comcast first.

The technology is almost ready to break out into the mainstream. What's needed now is a little imagination.

Need your TurboTax Online tax return data file from a prior year, perhaps to file an amended return? Chances are you don't have it --and you won't find it online. Here's how to get it -- and what Intuit is doing to make the process easier.

By the time I realized that I needed to file an amended tax return TurboTax Online had dumped the data. Here's the secret to backing up your TurboTax data file, not just the PDF of your return.

As of January 1, Google's idea of using a public cloud-based service as the aggregation point for highly sensitive personal health data is dead. Will other initiatives follow?

Clouds that aren't clouds, why you'll learn to accept cloud insecurities, the ascendance of mobile over the PC, how big data will kill your data warehouse and other sundry topics raised at ITxpo this week.

In a world that equates cloud with SaaS, the benefits of infrastructure as a service go largely unnoticed by CIOs, according to Rackspace CTO John Engates. Insider (registration required)

The rise of the contextual data aggregators will soon have businesses scrambling to exploit it for competitive advantage -- and will change how we view privacy in the age of context-aware computing.

The Walmart of the e-commerce world has an ingenious strategy to keep its competitors right where it wants them. Insider (registration required)

Blue Cross wants to use predictive analytics to cut costs and improve health care outcomes. But will doctors be willing to accept an insurer's prescription for success? Insider (registration required)

Forget the fancy stuff: Many attendees at BI & Analytics conference this week say they're still working through some pretty basic BI issues. Insider (registration required)