Exercise Equipment Maker Gets Fit With Cloud Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 6 comments Precor built cloud applications to deliver customized fitness programs and entertainment to users of its exercise equipment worldwide.
APIs Hurl Corporations Across Digital Divide Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 2 comments Organizations quick to adopt APIs, digital marketing, apps, and data analytics are gaining big advantages over their slower competitors, a new study finds.
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon 5/22/2013 9 comments Machine-to-machine communications are improving and adoption is increasing, but computers still need human intervention.
Interstellar Travel 'Almost Inevitable' Editor's Blog 5/21/2013 9 comments While it'll take amazing investment to build a starship, human progress makes the outcome extremely likely, according to a speaker at the Starship Century symposium.
MOOCs Gain Momentum & College Credits Maria Korolov 5/21/2013 15 comments Organizations and individuals should take advantage of today's wide-ranging, free online classes in technology, business, and everything in between.
Finding the Fast Bus in Dublin Todd Watson 5/17/2013 3 comments Dublin City Council is collaborating with IBM to use big-data in developing optimal traffic and transit strategies.
How Mother's Day Went Mobile Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 5/16/2013 36 comments Mother's Day is a major annual commerce event, and in 2013 it happened online -- and specifically on mobile channels -- as never before.
L'Oréal USA Gets Makeover With IBM Cloud Analytics Todd Watson 5/15/2013 Post a comment IBM announced a major three-year agreement today with L'Oréal USA USA for expert procurement services using an advanced cloud analytics solution that will transform how L'Oréal USA buys from its network of North American suppliers.
The New & Smarter Customer Todd Watson 5/15/2013 1 comment Todd previews the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit next week, where attendees will have a unique opportunity to learn how companies around the world are adapting to the new and smarter customer.
Dose of Telehealth: 10 Caplet-Size Updates Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 9 comments Collaborative apps, high bandwidth networks, and mobile devices empower healthcare professionals to deliver better care, faster, to more patients. Yet telehealth adoption is not widespread -- at least yet. Here's why.
BlackBerry CEO Is Right About Tablets Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 24 comments People laughed at BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins's prediction that the tablet will soon be obsolete. But BlackBerry may get the last laugh.
Feds Aggressive on Yemen, Stuxnet Leaks Security Clan Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 11 comments The government's hunt for whistleblowers is heating up, with journalists' phone records being secretly seized by investigators.
Bloomberg Should Get Its Story Straight Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 13 comments Bloomberg LP's attempts to explain away the practice of news division reporters tracking subscribers' terminal use are unsatisfactory.
MGM Resorts Bets Big on WiFi Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 37 comments The Las Vegas hospitality company sees WiFi as a key marketing and communications channel, not just a customer convenience.
Recovering From Disaster in 140 Characters or Less Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 18 comments Celina Insurance once used a telephone tree to notify employees about disasters and emergencies. Now the carrier uses Twitter and tells everyone at once, with one click.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
