The 'Disposable Internet' Bill St. Arnaud 10/29/2007 6 comments Internet service providers may be facing a 'Perfect Storm' of challenges, which may soon render their current business models obsolete
Battlefield Facebook Editor's Blog 10/26/2007 3 comments As Microsoft claims its uno percento stake in Facebook, is Google planning a super sneak attack on the third-party front?
Advancing the All-in-One Personal Identity Card Steve Stasiukonis 10/26/2007 7 comments It’s pretty clear we’re heading toward a future where a single card will carry all your personal information, and it's the Internet that will bring it all together
Best Choices for Evolving Enterprises David Malfara 10/26/2007 3 comments The expanding power of the Internet is causing enterprise on-ramps to be clogged by the burgeoning demand it has spawned
Larry's Router Rant Editor's Blog 10/25/2007 1 comment Internet pioneer Larry Roberts is back with a diatribe on the shortcomings of current IP routing technology
Routing Economics Threaten the Internet Lawrence G. Roberts 10/25/2007 12 comments The explosion of real-time traffic such as voice and video means we'll need to improve packet forwarding design to address quality, security, and economic issues
Some Telcos 'Get It' Bill St. Arnaud 10/23/2007 5 comments The smarter telcos are realizing that new business models are critical to their success. Some, like KPN and Telia, are discovering that open-access and P2P networks are not necessarily a bad thing
SF Chronicle Makes Out With TechCrunch Editor's Blog 10/22/2007 5 comments A blatant piece of toadying in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle fails to demonstrate even a basic understanding of what constitutes successful publishing – offline or on
NGI: From Next-Gen Internet to Next-Gen Identity Tony Rutkowski 10/22/2007 2 comments Next-Generation Identity reflects fundamental shifts that have taken place over the past decade and indicates where network development is now heading
Hey, Buddy! Wanna Buy Some Storage? Drew Lanza 10/19/2007 11 comments The future will be not dictated by what the visionaries want, but by what the engineers produce – and that's virtually infinite, cheap, portable storage
What's the Web Worth? Stowe Boyd 10/19/2007 4 comments The Web is changing things like never before, but can we put a price tag on it? We may equally well ask the price of Newtonian physics or of movable type
Peter & the Bubble Editor's Blog 10/17/2007 3 comments Lack of long term memory amongst Internet startups and VCs does not bode well for the future of our business
Google: Good vs Evil Editor's Blog 10/16/2007 5 comments Attacking pirates and undermining Microsoft; just another day at Google
How to Take Down the Power Grid Ira Winkler 10/16/2007 6 comments Power companies are very slow to address vulnerabilities, because they are afraid that any change can create problems, which means the power grid is less secure than most other computer networks
Herding Cats Parry Aftab 10/15/2007 9 comments Why do leading sites turn to a cybersafety group to help them handle safety issues? It's those damn kids!
The Internet on Iceland Scott Clavenna 10/15/2007 7 comments Microsoft and Yahoo are traveling far afield in search of ample, affordable power sources
Does Orkut Stink for a Reason? Editor's Blog 10/12/2007 9 comments We may poke fun at Google for flopping in the social networking department thus far, but perhaps it knows something we don't
So This Guy Walks Into a Bar, And... Stowe Boyd 10/12/2007 3 comments I believe the things that are happening on the Web are important, and not just because a bunch of media moguls want to figure out a better way to get you to buy breakfast cereals or German automobiles
Curse of the Traffic Spikers Editor's Blog 10/11/2007 3 comments The Internet obsession with traffic referrals from blog aggregators like Techmeme and attempts to game the system are unhealthy for content developers
Web 2.D'Oh! Jack Uldrich 10/10/2007 2 comments The transition to the next stage, or what is sometimes referred to as Web 2.0 or the semantic Web, will be as different as a 7.0 earthquake is from a 6.0 earthquake.
Congdon Gone Stephen Saunders 10/9/2007 8 comments ABC News' decision to can Amanda 'Rocketboom' Congdon is symptomatic of the ongoing failure of TV broadcasters to come to terms with the Internet. What can anyone do?
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
Civil libertarians are outraged at the revelation the NSA is reportedly spying on more than one-third of Americans -- obtaining phone records from phone companies, in case it might need them for later use. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked details of that program, also revealed a second effort dubbed “Prism,” which represented a more aggressive grab of email and other communications. (See: Prism Exposes Unwritten Privacy Rules.)
In the past few weeks, Evernote, Twitter, and LinkedIn have implemented an optional security feature: two-step verification. It's time -- perhaps even past due -- for enterprises to consider offering this feature as well.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
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.
So here we are, the last day of the 2013 US Open Golf Championship at Merion, and Phil Mickelson -- who has been a US Open runner-up five times now but never taken the trophy -- is right up there at the top of the leaderboard.
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