Be aware emerging risks of mobile and cloud computing

Grazed from SeaCoastOnline.  Author: MJ Shoer.

Cloud and mobile computing represent two of the most significant technology developments of the last 50 years.  Dating to the 1960s, we have seen the introduction of the mainframe computer, mini-computers, the PC revolution of the 1980s, the onset of the Internet and now the mobilization of the Internet and global connectivity along with the Cloud. Nothing has seen more rapid growth than the Cloud and mobility. We now live in a world driven by "apps."

Think about the fact that of the 250 million people in the United States over the age of 14, it’s estimated that 235 million of them have a mobile device. That’s a staggering percentage and a technology adoption rate unlike anything we have seen before in human history….

How many of you reach for your smartphone when you wake up each morning to check text messages and/or e-mail? Do you check Facebook on your phone while you are having breakfast? The fact we have had to enact laws against texting while driving says it all. You’d think it would be common sense, but the addictive and real-time information flow represented by these technologies has caused us to need to enact laws to remind us of the obvious. It’s a classic double-edged sword….

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