Internet Fuels Quest for Habitable Planets Mary E. Shacklett 3/31/2009 18 comments The Kepler mission, launched March 6, will use the Internet as a link to analyze the potential for extraterrestrial intelligent life
Users Don't Need ISP Traffic Cops Brent Nixon 3/27/2009 24 comments Parents, companies, and schools are all doing just fine regulating Internet use internally, without messing up net neutrality
Dealing With Print's Death Editor's Blog 3/27/2009 51 comments Internet Evolution readers lament the loss of print and the potential loss of journalistic integrity in the switch to digital publishing
IBM-Sun Would Reshape Internet's Future David Silversmith 3/24/2009 19 comments Should a deal between the two titans ever occur, they'd control several key Internet technologies like Java, Linux, and MySQL
Too Much of a Good Thing Todd Watson 3/24/2009 1 comment For the record, people, Twitter keeps a record of what and when you Tweet – just in case that wasn't clear
Skype Means Business Todd Watson 3/23/2009 6 comments New Skype business service will allow enterprises to be reached by more than 405 million registered Skype users
UN's WIPO Comes Up Short Jart Armin 3/23/2009 5 comments WIPO's prohibitive fee structure delivers justice to an elite, while leaving other cases unnoticed and possibly uncounted
Google Looks Toward Mobile TV Alan Reiter 3/19/2009 29 comments It's a can of worms with many challenges, but mobile TV could provide fascinating features for consumers
Washington's Cybersecurity Soap Opera Continues Tom Stamulis 3/18/2009 14 comments Many questions remain unanswered in the wake of Rod Beckstrom's resignation, the President's pledge of new funding, and Melissa Hathaway's planned review
IBM to Buy Sun? Todd Watson 3/18/2009 5 comments This alleged combo would bolster IBM on the Internet, and in software, finance, and telecomm markets, according to industry rumors
My Digital Evolution in Fiction Kate Pullinger 3/18/2009 28 comments An author ponders the shift from books to digital media, and what it means for the state of her art
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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.
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.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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