No More New WiMax Phones for Sprint Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 3/30/2012 Post a comment With the news that Sprint will release no more new WiMax phones, Sprint customers face difficult choices.
FLA Finds Foxconn Violations Editor's Blog 3/29/2012 13 comments It's good to see Tim Cook touring a Foxconn factory, but the result of the FLA audit is what's important.
California Flushes $2B IT Project IT Clan Editor's Blog 3/29/2012 14 comments What went wrong with the 10-year, $2 billion IT project known as the California Case Management System? Check it out.
Execs Mull the Dangers of Outsourcing Executive Clan Editor's Blog 3/28/2012 4 comments Outsourcing projects can pay off, but only if diligence is thorough and the situation fits farming it out.
Clay Shirky Debunks Social Marketing Fallacy Ron Miller 3/26/2012 36 comments At a conference last week in San Francisco, Clay Shirky discussed the fallacy that the Web in general, and Facebook in particular, are just for young people.
'Outsourcing to the Customer' Needs Work Editor's Blog 3/23/2012 48 comments Retailers are leaving it up to the customer to do more of the work in their stores, but there's a fine line between doing this to improve the shopping experience and making it worse.
How to Deal With Angry Online Customers Scott Kinoshita 3/23/2012 60 comments Companies of all kinds live in glass houses in the age of social media. That's all the more reason to deal wisely with angry customers.
Security Report Warns of New Vulnerabilities IT Clan Editor's Blog 3/22/2012 21 comments Though IT has admirably improved security in many enterprises, mobile phones, clouds, and social sites present fresh vectors of risk.
Eager Investors, Beware Pre-IPO Shares Chris Poley 3/22/2012 27 comments Investors can often turn a blind eye in an attempt to get in on potentially hot IPOs like Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare. Watch out!
DARPA Wants Your 'Cognitive Footprint' Security Clan Editor's Blog 3/21/2012 11 comments Identifying users through behavior like keystrokes offers an imaginative solution to the password problem -- if it works.
Twitter: From No Ads to Doing Advertising Wrong Editor's Blog 3/21/2012 28 comments In another move that demonstrates the company's lack of business sense, Twitter gets set to roll out irrelevant advertisements on users' mobile devices.
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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