Why Government Security Keeps Breaking Ira Winkler 4/30/2009 11 comments Melissa Hathaway's report won't affect the sorry state of security for US data and critical infrastructure, because the key issues don't seem to be addressed
It's My developerWorks Todd Watson 4/30/2009 1 comment IBM's new My developerWorks site taps into social networking attributes
Spammers Rush In During Swine Flu Scare Jart Armin 4/29/2009 19 comments The latest health scare has cyber criminals eagerly looking to benefit from public concern. The answer: Don't click, and above all, don't buy
Report Tempers Cloud Enthusiasm David Vellante 4/28/2009 6 comments A widely publicized report forces us to look more closely at what the potential benefits of cloud computing are (and are not)
Survey Uncovers Apathy for Facebook Governance Editor's Blog 4/24/2009 29 comments In putting its hotly contested Terms of Service up for a vote, Facebook finds out that less than 1 percent of its population actually cares how the site is governs
Widgets Will Spark Internet TV Alan Reiter 4/24/2009 41 comments Vendors are feverishly working to crack the nut where video, the Internet, and consumers are concerned
ISP Pricing Plans: Open Season on Consumers Chris Poley 4/24/2009 32 comments A lack of continuity among providers, plus a lack of apparent justification for high prices, promises a wild ride for US broadband customers
Doctorow Takes Big Entertainment to Task Editor's Blog 4/23/2009 7 comments Cory Doctorow claims that the entertainment industry is digging itself into a deep hole by holding onto ancient business tactics and working against its consumers
How MySpace Can Save Itself Tom Nolle 4/22/2009 43 comments To survive, MySpace should build on its main distinction from Facebook – its user community focus
Squinting Through Oracle's Acquisition of Sun David Vellante 4/21/2009 24 comments Oracle's acquisition of Java, Solaris, and open-source software will strengthen its position in Web and mobile software and hedge its bets against Microsoft
Google Puts Its News on a Timeline Todd Watson 4/21/2009 1 comment Google News Timeline offers a little more flexibility in terms of sources, allowing for individual queries, and searchable timeframes
IBM First-Quarter Earnings Todd Watson 4/20/2009 Post a comment IBM announced diluted earnings of $1.70 per share for the quarter and reiterated its full-year earnings of at least $9.20 per share
Readers Vote Against Tossing Pirates Offline Editor's Blog 4/20/2009 36 comments Over 60 percent of Internet Evolution readers disagree with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants to see illegal file-sharers banished from the Internet
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
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.
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.
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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. CLICK FOR MORE
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. CLICK FOR MORE
