By Andy Marken

After three days immersed in technical/business sessions at this year's Flash Memory Summit (FMS), we're absolutely convinced we live and work in an RDF (reality distortion field).

You know, where the impossible is so distorted that you honestly believe it's possible.

By Andy Marken

Now that we can easily get the information, we love to classify people according to one of the many categories the industry has developed over the years -- Boomers, Millennials, teens, pre-teens; white, Asian, Hispanic, African-American; as well as bosses, us, politicians, honest people.

By Andy Marken

Since the mainframe days, people have complained that IT was slow to respond, slow to deliver, over budget.

Unisys' latest report that IT people are willing to ignore the consumerization of IT only reinforces this old saw.

According to them, IT has its collective heads in the sand.

By Andy Marken

Social networks and social marketing get a lot of attention, especially when someone "liberates" a ton of names and passwords as they did recently with LinkedIn. You know the site with all the marketing, communications resumes on it.

By Andy Marken

Perhaps the Boston-area English teacher's commencement address a few months ago was right.

The graduates aren't special or exceptional, just different.

They're different significantly from him, from Gen X/Yers, boomers.

By Andy Marken

ZDNet's Ken Hess recently gave Apple a backhanded compliment, saying that OSX, Mountain Lion, was the world's first transgender operating system aimed directly at Cougars, middle-aged women.

By Andy Marken

All around the globe, kids are about the only things that don't come with halfway-decent instruction manuals and detailed warning labels.

By Andy Marken

The Twitlympics has been almost as exciting, interesting, breathtaking as the event the IOC (International Olympics Committee) put on in London.

But judging was mixed, tough and argumentative on the world stage.