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Posts posted in October 2011
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7DEE Analytics Kicks Off Tuesday at 2 PM ET
Editor's Blog  
10/31/2011   6 comments
Join us for 7DEE Analytics. Courses begin Tuesday at 2 PM ET.
AT&T to Sell Two LTE Phones November 6
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/31/2011   2 comments
AT&T Mobility LLC plans to release two Android smartphones with LTE on November 6.
A Review of Cloud Lessons Learned
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/31/2011   10 comments
It's time to review the learnings gleaned from IE's Cloud Month -- with an eye to Analytics Month in November.
Watson to Take On Harvard & MIT
Todd Watson  
10/31/2011   2 comments
IBM is headed to Harvard with Watson.
A 'Scary' App Based on Your Private Facebook Info
Joe Stanganelli  
10/31/2011   66 comments
If you're worried about your private information on Facebook, "Take This Lollipop" won't make you feel any better. Happy Halloween!
The Midmarket Heads for the Cloud
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/31/2011   8 comments
The cloud makes increasing sense for fast-growing, agile midmarket enterprises.
Social Sites See Games as Key to Power Grid Savings
Robert McGarvey  
10/31/2011   23 comments
Gaming is one way some social networking firms anticipate inspiring users to start monitoring and adjusting their energy use.
Google TV Rides Again
Editor's Blog  
10/28/2011   22 comments
The relaunch of Google TV shows a dismaying lack of ambition.
Android Apps, New GUI Highlight Google TV 2.0
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/28/2011   1 comment
Google has announced a major software update to Google TV, which should help the company keep pace with the online TV trend.
An Epic Game
Todd Watson  
10/28/2011   1 comment
Measuring social sentiment during a great baseball series.
Klout Gets Clobbered for Tweaks to Scoring System
Joe Stanganelli  
10/28/2011   22 comments
Klout, a social media influence measurement service, is taking a beating from users irate over changes to its scoring algorithm.
Extortion Claims Against Yelp Dismissed
Editor's Blog  
10/28/2011   13 comments
Claims that Yelp extorts businesses for advertising dollars have been dismissed.
A Closer Look at Facebook's Arctic Site
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
10/27/2011   16 comments
Well, it's nearly arctic: Facebook's plan to build a datacenter in northern Sweden has the industry buzzing.
Slideshow: Humanoid Robots Evolve
Charles Murray  
10/27/2011   36 comments
"Uncanny valley" refers to the revulsion that humans feel when they see a humanoid robot.
Report Highlights Unlikely Internet Speed Winners
Ron Miller  
10/27/2011   28 comments
Greece? Poland? According to Akamai, the fastest Internet connections in the world are turning up in unexpected places.
Bitly Scientist Talks Hopes & Hurdles for Analytics
Editor's Blog  
10/27/2011   9 comments
Bitly's Hilary Mason talks reputation management, real-time search, and using analytics for greater purposes than targeted advertising.
Digg Founder Joins Online Ratings Game
Michelle Manafy  
10/27/2011   18 comments
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has launched Oink, a ratings site with a few twists that may -- or may not -- catch on with consumers.
Tapping Credit Card Info for Tracking Purposes
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
10/26/2011   27 comments
Credit card companies have astonishing plans to package and trade your personal information, from your purchasing behavior to your DNA.
Information on Demand 2011: A Data-Driven Conversation With Michael Lewis & Billy Beane
Todd Watson  
10/26/2011   2 comments
Michael Lewis and Billy Beane take the stage at Information on Demand 2011.
'Smart Clouds' Form on Enterprise Horizon
Mary E. Shacklett  
10/26/2011   7 comments
As cloud services become more widespread, clouds tailored to specific vertical industries and skillsets will evolve.
Nokia Debuts Nice, Not Spectacular, Windows Phones
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/26/2011   4 comments
Nokia two new Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) handsets are nicely designed and have good specifications, but they face significant challenges.
Can You Afford to Waste Resources on Inefficient Systems?
Bernie Spang  
10/26/2011   1 comment
Here's how to save money by using systems that are optimized to run a specific type of business workload.
The Wisdom of Executive Boundary Busters
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
10/26/2011   8 comments
IBM's new CEO is one of several IT leaders who have opted out of traditional divisions of products and services, with great success.
A Multi-Account Approach for E-Business Users
Daniel P. Dern  
10/26/2011   7 comments
There are a few good reasons to open additional bank accounts and credit cards for online payments and e-commerce.
Unstructured Data: The Elephant Enters the Room
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
10/25/2011   4 comments
Hadoop, a framework for running operations on data distributed over many servers, can support analysis of big unstructured data sets.
Information on Demand 2011: New Predictive Analytics for Healthcare
Todd Watson  
10/25/2011   1 comment
Content analytics can be deployed to understand the present and predict the future in healthcare.
Information on Demand 2011: Steve Mills on Big Data
Todd Watson  
10/25/2011   1 comment
More on the big data challenge from Information on Demand 2011.
Slideshow: Teardown of the Apple iPad 2
Allan Yogasingam  
10/25/2011   14 comments
UBM TechInsights conducted a teardown of the Apple iPad 2 3G version tablet.
To Go Social, Google Must Get Social
Maria Korolov  
10/25/2011   43 comments
For Google to succeed in social media, it must open up its platform to developers and become more "sociable."
Sign Up Now for 7DEE Analytics
Editor's Blog  
10/25/2011   7 comments
Our 7DEE sessions on Analytics begin next week. Sign up today!
Verizon Joins Privacy Doubletalkers
John Myers  
10/25/2011   42 comments
In reassuring customers of its privacy policy, Verizon Wireless stirs unintended outrage.
Information On Demand 2011 Breaking News: IBM Accelerates Big Data Analytics
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Today, here at Information On Demand 2011 in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled new software that brings the power of managing and analyzing big data to the workplace.
Social CRM Heats Up as Oracle Buys RightNow
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/24/2011   8 comments
Oracle's $1.5B purchase of the social CRM supplier RightNow could be the start of significant growth in this segment.
Information on Demand 2011 Live: Opening General Session – Data Puzzles
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
The opening session of IBM's conference in Las Vegas included reminiscence about the company's years of contributions to data management and a view of its ongoing participation in managing global information.
Sprint Ending Unlimited WiMax for Most Devices
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Sprint Nextel is ending its unlimited WiMax data plans for all devices except cellular phones.
CaaS Emerges as an Option for the Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/24/2011   2 comments
Communications-as-a-service provides some integrated options for midtier enterprises.
Information on Demand 2011: Big Data, Bigger Insights
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Enterprises looking to turn data into effectual insight through business analytics and optimization (BAO) are headed to IBM's event in Las Vegas this week.
Information on Demand 2011: Let the Interviews Begin!
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Interviews at IBM's conference in Las Vegas reveal key themes in the area of business analytics and optimization (BAO).
Facebook Caught Hanging On to 'Deleted' Data
Ron Miller  
10/24/2011   55 comments
A student in Europe discovered that information he had deleted from Facebook actually lived on in the company's data coffers.
It's Too Soon to Hang Up on Skype
Robert McGarvey  
10/24/2011   25 comments
Microsoft just might make good on its latest big acquisition, despite earlier failures.
Web 2.0 Summit Slideshow: Visualize the Data Frame!
Editor's Blog  
10/21/2011   13 comments
Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin... see them all in pictures from this year's Web 2.0 Summit. Exciting!
A Call to Observe Cyber Security Awareness Month
Karla Marciszewski  
10/21/2011   64 comments
Since 2004, October has been dedicated to raising awareness of our role in online security as US citizens, neighbors, and family members.
Enterprise App Stores: A Complicated Solution
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
10/20/2011   4 comments
Despite the hype, the concept of moving an app store into the enterprise presents IT with a series of challenges.
Creating 'Secondary Identities' on the Internet
Daniel P. Dern  
10/20/2011   34 comments
There are some very good reasons to create new online personas to access your favorite sites.
Yahoo in Play Is Still a Mess
Editor's Blog  
10/20/2011   8 comments
Yahoo is very much in play, but it is creating obstacles for bidders.
Dropbox, Which Rebuffed Steve Jobs, Scores $250M
Jason Mick  
10/20/2011   19 comments
The cloud storage provider Dropbox, which just scored $250 million in funding, reveals how it turned down an offer from Steve Jobs.
Do No Evil… Except When It Pays
Todd Watson  
10/20/2011   8 comments
Google's choice to block referrer and keyword data from search results coming through encrypted connections does a disservice to users and marketers.
Sergey Brin Loves His Google+ Circles
Editor's Blog  
10/20/2011   8 comments
Sergey Brin and Vic Gundotra gushed about the awesomeness that is Google+ on stage at Web 2.0 and confirmed that the service will support pseudonyms in the future.
Google, Samsung Debut Android 4.0, Galaxy Nexus
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/19/2011   Post a comment
A difficult choice: If you're wedded to Apple, the iPhone 4S is an excellent choice for you. But the new Android offers a lot, too.
The World Series of Social Media
Todd Watson  
10/19/2011   3 comments
IBM and the University of South California Annenberg Innovation Lab have announced a new social media analysis project focused on Major League Baseball during the World Series.
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Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 comments
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.
Joe Stanganelli
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.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

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Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

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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.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

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A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


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.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


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.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

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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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

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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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

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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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
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