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In his Dec. 8 Jargon Spy column, Dan Woods writes about bouncing between multi-touch and non-multi-touch devices, and how users can get confused when going from something like a touchscreen mobile phone to a laptop that doesn't have a touchscreen. More »

Dan Woods' December 1 JargonSpy column touches on the costs of virtual sprawl, and how "the flexibility of virtualization has led to overspending."

Woods says that as companies have embraced virtualization, a kind of virtual sprawl been created, which is starting to become expensive. More »

Last week, Dan Woods wrote an interesting JargonSpy column in which he says that multi-core processors may actually slow certain applications down, instead of speeding them up.

According to Woods, the problem lies with a situation in which these applications were coded to work on single-core processors, and not the faster multi-core setups. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods writes about new technologies that help businesses monitor social media.

Woods mentions Radian6, which "leads the pack as an aggregator of many different technology approaches, including various kinds of search and some text analytics that can be applied to a wide variety of business processes." More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods begins by referring back to the first JargonSpy column, in which he wrote about Shadow IT, the "the phenomenon of pesky users solving problems on their own using consumer and Web technology." More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods talks about how Google Wave, the "Internet giant's new online collaboration tool," has generated "silly buzz" among developers with developers and geeks alike.

Woods homes in on the Google Wave Sandbox and says that its potential has yet to be realized as "a development platform for serious, distributed applications." More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods examines how to "analyze corporate spending before the fact." The column takes a look at how to analyze spend before it happens. More »

This week Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, moves beyond issues of data quality to ask some key questions about data management in corporations. Some of these questions, especially for your CFO and CIO, include Is the data telling us what we need to know about the big picture? Is duplicate data being gathered in different parts of our organization? Are we collecting or wading through data we no longer need or use? Are we failing to collect data that would really make a difference? More »

This week the JargonSpy column features an interview with SAP's Zia Yusuf about the do's and don'ts of social media.

Yusuf, executive vice president for SAP's global ecosystem & partner group, "has focused on how to make Internet-based communities and social media work for business." More »

Dan Woods' recent JargonSpy article on crowdsourcing, The Myth of Crowdsourcing, has drawn interest from various corners of the blogosphere.

Here are a few of the blogs that have highlighted the article: More »