He has also held staff-writer positions at the San Francisco Chronicle, Red Herring, and InformationWeek.

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Kurt Marko, Application Development In The Age Of Mobility (InformationWeek Mobility Aug. 20, 2012).

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Paul McDougall of InformationWeek sees this spilling into the enterprise sector, like the banking industry.

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InformationWeek estimated last month that there were less than 50 Honeycomb apps for the Android tablets.

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And you can read all about it in a superb analysis by Charles Babcock of InformationWeek.

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Getting social networking wrong can exact a price, as Chris Murphy notes in a post on Informationweek.

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Matthew Schwarz, Are Your IT Pros Abusing Admin Passwords? (InformationWeek Oct. 19, 2011).

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That big data mess is the rule rather than the exception was made clear this week by the InformationWeek 2013 Big Data Survey, which reported that only 9% of respondents rate their companies as extremely effective users of the data they have.

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