Powerful state-owned enterprises, used to cheap credit, land and energy, will resist threats to these privileges.

ECONOMIST: China's succession

That makes managed mobility powerful enough for most enterprises and certainly most startups and smaller firms, while delivering all of vaunted upsides of cloud: low cost, low pain.

FORBES: Managed Mobility Gets Even Better, Exposes Dithering IT Managers

Nicole Motter, a member of the bar in the state of Georgia, unravels misperceptions about a powerful tool that can unlock additional financing for social enterprises: program-related investments.

FORBES: Why Program-Related Investments Are Not Risky Business

More pervasively powerful than solo social media marketing, such bold initiatives for transforming whole enterprises, from the inside out, into social organization will have far more pervasive effects on us as workers and as consumers.

FORBES: From Inside Out, Speed Your Company's Social Transformation

The hardware progression has been from the mainframe to the personal computer to more powerful clustered servers, with cost and access moving back and forth between large enterprises and corporations to small businesses and individuals.

FORBES: How Cloud Computing Can Boost Developing Nations

The Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP is an important step in giving developers and enterprises an opportunity to evaluate Windows 8 technologies for connecting specialized devices to powerful back-end software.

ENGADGET: Windows Embedded Standard 8 preview now available for download

She took on Britain's then-powerful labor unions and whittled the size of the state through sweeping privatizations and the closure of unprofitable state-owned enterprises, from coal mines to steel plants.

WSJ: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Dies