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Startups Continue to Seed IT Innovation

Posted August 18, 2009 | | Amplify

Unless you have been buried under a rock for the past eight years, you have probably noticed that practically all of the revolutionary IT products and hot services that get the big buzz are being developed directly for the consumer sector. Think about all of the great new products -- wireless LAN, instant messaging, Web 2.0, social networking, MP3 players, PDA technology, flash drives, and cloud computing (yes even cloud computing, which is mostly a means for Google and Amazon to recoup some of their excess capacity investments).

About The Author
Beth Cohen
Beth Cohen is President of Luth Computer Specialists, Inc., a consulting practice specializing in IT infrastructure strategy. She has more than 25 years of experience building strong IT delivery organizations from both the user and vendor perspectives. Most recently, Ms. Cohen was Operations Director for Dossia, a company building a portable medical record Web portal designed to handle millions of records securely and transparently. Previously,… Read More
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