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Posts posted in February 2011
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Social Media Win, Hosts & Ads Lose, During #Oscars
Editor's Blog  
2/28/2011   18 comments
So, my Twitter feed informs me the Oscars totally stunk
E-Learning Hits the Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
2/28/2011   18 comments
Social networking, video, animation, 3D, and chat are all being used to help keep employee skills up to date
Apple Ruling Leads to 'Flight of the Fanboys'
Robert McGarvey  
2/28/2011   30 comments
Apple's subscription demands have outraged nearly every segment of its customer and partner base
Two Tech Leaders, Two Valuations, One Simple Truth
John Myers  
2/28/2011   38 comments
Microsoft and Apple reflect two sides of the same coin when it comes to the role of perception in market valuation
The Reality of the Virtual World
Maria Korolov  
2/28/2011   31 comments
Are people are crazy to spend money on virtual goods? Human history says maybe not
Launch Conference Spotlights Innovative Technology
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
2/25/2011   6 comments
Jason Calacanis's Launch conference featured a range of innovative products and services
For Uprisings, Forget Facebook: Revolt With 'Love'
Editor's Blog  
2/25/2011   24 comments
Knowing Facebook and Twitter were being monitored, Libyans took their protest to the Match.com of the Middle East
Tech Challenges Await GE's Incoming CTO
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
2/25/2011   8 comments
Choosing the right computer information technology standards and lining up partners for GE's key initiatives is not for the faint of heart
A New Age of Information Equality
Stephen Saunders  
2/25/2011   40 comments
This just in: Everything in B2B publishing is about to change forever
Shift to Simpler Platform Boosts Site Design & Appeal
Scott Koegler  
2/25/2011   37 comments
Switching from Dreamweaver to WordPress made redesigning and updating a homepage easier for this community, despite a tradeoff in flexibility
Virtual Physical Therapy Trumps 'Live' Results
Christopher Olson  
2/25/2011   22 comments
A recent study shows knee replacement patients did better with a Web physical therapist than with a live and in-person one... but questions remain
Xoom's LTE Upgrade Requires Shipping to Motorola
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
2/24/2011   6 comments
You'll have to ship your new Xoom tablet back to Motorola in order to take advantage of Verizon's 4G network
Box.net Takes Aim at Enterprise IT
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
2/24/2011   17 comments
The online storage startup hopes its service can shove aside competitors like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and EMC
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Premal Shah!
Editor's Blog  
2/24/2011   Post a comment
We are live on IE Radio with Premal Shah, president of Kiva.org. Come over!
Facebook's Top Lawsuits Target User Privacy
Robert McGarvey  
2/24/2011   19 comments
Facebook is confronting a series of lawsuits regarding alleged violations of users' privacy rights
Join Us for IE Radio With Premal Shah at 2 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
2/24/2011   1 comment
Tune in for IE Radio at 2 PM ET with the president of Kiva.org, Premal Shah
European Nations Prepare for Cyber-Attack
Susan Fourtané  
2/24/2011   44 comments
Following Germany's lead, other European nations are taking action to counteract cybercrime from China and other sources
Anonymous vs. WBC: A Battle Royale Goes Bust
John Myers  
2/24/2011   19 comments
When the hacker group took on the Westboro Baptist Church last week, it raised hopes for a Web entertainment event of the year
iBots & Smartphone Slavery: How to Prevent It
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
2/23/2011   55 comments
The growing proliferation of smartphones is shadowed by a black cloud of nefarious evildoers out to make these devices work for the powers of darkness
Enterprises Work Toward 'Smart Buildings'
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
2/23/2011   16 comments
Micro-sensors and wireless mesh communications mean IP networks can now plug into some pretty cool stuff for making buildings work better
Dear Netflix: Here's How to Fight Amazon's Freebies
Michael Bennett Cohn  
2/23/2011   40 comments
Amazon has taken a major step in offering free TV and video to its premium customers, and this opens the market for others
Domain Names Won't Matter in the iPhone/Watson Age
Seth Grimes  
2/23/2011   40 comments
New interfaces could kill traditional domain names and URLs as Joe Public’s path to Net resources
Letter from Egypt: Facebook Forward
Dr. Rasha Abdulla  
2/23/2011   20 comments
I write to you today from a very different Egypt to the one I have experienced for the past 30 years
Motorola's Xoom Heralds Tablet Confusion
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
2/22/2011   10 comments
Consumers and enterprises had best wait till the smoke clears on Verizon's new Motorola tablet
Facebook: The Ruiner of All Things
Editor's Blog  
2/22/2011   27 comments
Facebook is taking over and destroying your life. Just thought you should know!
Are Google's Best Days in the Past?
Ron Miller  
2/22/2011   69 comments
Has Google jumped the shark? There are signs that unless it gets its act together in key areas, its decline may have started
Off to the Rich Coast
Todd Watson  
2/22/2011   4 comments
I've never visited Costa Rica before, so I'm learning as I go
NoSQL Databases Go Mobile
Sean Gallagher  
2/22/2011   14 comments
NoSQL has helped Web and cloud applications conquer SQL limitations; now it's being used for smartphones
Handwringing Over Mobile Security
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
2/22/2011   12 comments
Mobile endpoints should be easier to secure than a regular network
Government Turns to Hackers for Development Help
Michael Kassner  
2/22/2011   44 comments
The US DARPA and DoD have both launched programs aimed at reducing security technology development time
Vehicle-to-Vehicle WiFi Could Be a Lifesaver
Joe Grimm  
2/21/2011   42 comments
Smart traffic environments and vehicle-to-vehicle WiFi hold the promise of saving lives by averting accidents
Google Makes Wrong Assumptions With 'Social Search'
Editor's Blog  
2/18/2011   33 comments
Google is really great at getting social wrong
Motorola Mobility Buys Android Security Firm 3LM
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
2/18/2011   2 comments
With its revelations about 3LM, Motorola is clearly gunning for RIM in the enterprise market
The President in Silicon Valley
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
2/18/2011   18 comments
This dinner meeting was long overdue and probably one of the more significant presidential stopovers in recent memory
The Pentagon's IT Timeframe Must Shrink
John Myers  
2/18/2011   42 comments
Eighty-one months to field a new computer system is too long, particularly given growing cyber-threats
10 Es of Successful Cloud Services
Jeff Kaplan  
2/18/2011   8 comments
These 10 Es are replacing older IT criteria as providers focus on end users, not their own innovations
ClairMail Debuts Cellular Banking Fraud Alerts
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
2/17/2011   5 comments
A cellphone-based fraud alerting system could help consumers when it eventually hits the app stores
Watson & the Future of IT
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
2/17/2011   39 comments
IBM's AI supercomputing phenom heralds new directions for future use of technology to sift the data deluge
Calling Dr. Watson
Todd Watson  
2/17/2011   4 comments
What doctors need is an assistant who can quickly read and understand massive amounts of information and then provide useful suggestions
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Jay Rosen!
Editor's Blog  
2/17/2011   Post a comment
We are live on IE Radio with NYU journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen
The Top 5 Issues to Track at the FCC
Robert McGarvey  
2/17/2011   17 comments
If FCC news makes your eyes glaze over, here's a shortlist of the key disputes the agency is engaged in that could affect you
Join Us for IE Radio With Jay Rosen at 2 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
2/17/2011   Post a comment
NYU journalism professor and citizen journalism advocate joins us for IE Radio today at 2 PM ET
Researchers Claim Attack Could Decimate Entire Net
Joe Stanganelli  
2/17/2011   38 comments
A group of researchers discloses how a timing attack called Coordinated Cross Plane Session Termination (CXPST) could take down the entire Internet
Warning to Investors: Don't Take the Social Media Bait
Chris Poley  
2/17/2011   44 comments
There's a feeding frenzy in the works, and it's fed by VCs and institutional investors. But retail buyers of these stocks will lose out in the end
Watson on Watson: Final Jeopardy!
Todd Watson  
2/16/2011   2 comments
Read no further if you don’t wish to yet know the outcome
Hillary Backs 'Internet Freedom' ... Whatever That Means
Editor's Blog  
2/16/2011   8 comments
Hillary Clinton makes her second vague address on promoting 'Internet freedom' worldwide
Rebel Against Apple's Subscription Policies!
Alan Reiter  
2/16/2011   39 comments
Content providers should encourage users to rise up against the subscription policies Apple announced this week
CIOs Scrutinize Their Asian Outsourcers
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
2/16/2011   11 comments
Service providers are under hard scrutiny as billions in Internet infrastructure contracts will be up for renewal this year
Night Dragon: An Old New Tale of Cyber-Espionage
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
2/16/2011   14 comments
Though McAfee seems intent on revealing the Night Dragon attacks as new, they are in fact more of the same
Watson on Watson: The Second Round
Todd Watson  
2/16/2011   Post a comment
Spoiler Alert: It’s not looking good for the mortals
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David Weldon   5/22/2013   9 comments
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.
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   15 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.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   3 comments


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

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   No comments


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

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


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

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


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

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


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

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
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.

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