'Tweet Seats' Attract – & Annoy – Art Patrons Joe Stanganelli 12/30/2011 37 comments Some theaters reserve seating for patrons who use cellphones to send updates on a live performance, much to the annoyance of other attendees.
Pondering the Limits of Intuition IT Clan Editor's Blog 12/29/2011 23 comments Human intuition still has a place in business and IT, but its role is becoming subordinate to that of analytics.
Boos to Verizon: Online Fee, Another Outage Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 12/29/2011 7 comments Reiter ends the year 2011 with raspberries to Verizon for an objectionable online fee and yet another LTE outage.
Don't Do Windows... Yet Todd Watson 12/27/2011 20 comments Localytics saw a huge increase in both Apple iOS and Android devices over the December 23-26 weekend.
Santa's E-Commerce Play Todd Watson 12/27/2011 2 comments Online shopping jumped 16.4 percent on Christmas Day, compared to last year, according to IBM Benchmark data.
Healthier Hong Kong Todd Watson 12/27/2011 Post a comment Hong Kong-based Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QMHS) has partnered with IBM to build a virtualized infrastructure for its practice.
Egyptian Blogger Is Freed Dr. Rasha Abdulla 12/27/2011 15 comments Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has finally been released pending investigation from the Cairo Criminal Court.
LA Gives Google the Boot – Sort Of Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 12/26/2011 11 comments The City of Los Angeles has called Google to task for failing to meet stringent data security requirements in a cloud contract.
SMTP Relay Providers See Growth & Risk Scott Koegler 12/26/2011 15 comments SMTP providers are experiencing high demand, but they must avoid allowing spam generators to use their services without restriction.
Another Look at Zynga's IPO Deborah Nason 12/23/2011 31 comments Instead of being a bomb, Zynga's recent IPO may simply be a better fit for today's economically challenged times.
Intel Counting on New Medfield Mobile Chips Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 12/22/2011 2 comments For years, Intel has been hoping for a mobile breakthrough. Its new Medfield chips may not qualify as earth-shattering, but they will help.
Oracle's Stock Tanks, Teaching IT a Lesson IT Clan Editor's Blog 12/22/2011 15 comments Oracle's disappointing earnings report this week holds news about the IT market in general. And it may not be news you expect.
Yahoo Flips Again Editor's Blog 12/22/2011 11 comments Yahoo now looks to an asset swap with Alibaba to produce a cash injection.
China Blamed for Chamber of Commerce Breach Security Clan Editor's Blog 12/21/2011 17 comments Whether China is responsible or not, the just revealed sustained attack on the US Chamber of Commerce should make everyone fear the worst.
Censoring Employees Online May Backfire Executive Clan Editor's Blog 12/21/2011 19 comments Instead of muzzling employees on social networks to avoid snafus, smart businesses are encouraging more positive participation.
Facebook Is Piqued Over Invasive Ads Michelle Manafy 12/21/2011 10 comments Ads that automatically replace social network ads with those of a third-party's add-on app aren't impressing Google or Facebook.
Analytics & Consumer Psychology Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 12/20/2011 3 comments Traditional market research methodologies are really small-scale analytics in disguise.
Death in the Digital Age Editor's Blog 12/20/2011 14 comments Some funeral homes are now installing Webcams in order to livestream services online. We may be taking this "grieving out loud" thing too far.
Ford Plays Games to Enhance Brand John Scott Lewinski 12/20/2011 10 comments Ford is enthusiastically embracing online technology to promote new media brand awareness. And the numbers indicate it’s working.
The Cloud Conundrum Facing IT Vendors Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 12/19/2011 8 comments Microsoft exemplifies the problems facing traditional IT software vendors who are now offering cloud services.
BPA Can Smooth Midmarket Workflow Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 12/19/2011 6 comments Business Process Management and Automation are more basic concepts than Business Analytics but have their own importance.
Internet Research Is an Economic Imperative Bill St. Arnaud 12/19/2011 21 comments Countries that collaborate and work on the future of the Internet will reap the rewards of a stronger economy and greater job growth.
Of Twitter Bots, Putin, & US Elections Robert McGarvey 12/19/2011 13 comments A threeway collision of Twitter bots, Vladimir Putin, and the US elections may determine how leaders get chosen in the future.
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.
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?
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.
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM announced today the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the way they engage clients in key functions such as customer service, marketing, and sales.
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