Scientists Debunk Facebook Friendships Editor's Blog 4/29/2011 62 comments Some researchers say Facebook Friendships translate to real life. Some researchers say they don't. What does it all mean?! Nothing!
Executives Call for More R&D Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/29/2011 25 comments Budgets are tight, but CEOs and CIOs are not willing to compromise on innovation
Exfiltration: The Great Data Escape Jart Armin 4/29/2011 21 comments Between the breach and its final detection and fix lies an often lengthy period during which hackers extract data -- exfiltration.
Takeaways From the Amazon Outage Gordon Haff 4/28/2011 29 comments It may not be constructive to blame the customer or service provider entirely for the recent Amazon cloud outage
IT Pros Cross-Examine Digital Evidence Security Clan Editor's Blog 4/27/2011 8 comments Should security weaknesses, bugs, and configuration errors make us take seriously the idea of cross examining electronic evidence?
Playstation Gamers Face Extended Outage Alexander Wolfe 4/27/2011 38 comments The PSN outage is affecting millions of users, yet it continues unabated, creating a "cloudpocalypse" that exceeds the scope of Amazon's
Facebook Throws Hat Into Deal Ring Ron Miller 4/27/2011 53 comments Facebook has followed Google in giving Groupon and LivingSocial some competition in the 'daily deal' coupon space
What’s the Big Deal? Todd Watson 4/27/2011 6 comments I'm no shopping guru, but I do spend money, and I don't mind being offered a good deal
An Outage in the Heartland John Myers 4/27/2011 66 comments This author's experience of power and Internet loss during a recent storm reminds us all of how much we depend on the Net
Politicos Line Up for Location-Tracking Fight Editor's Blog 4/26/2011 37 comments The government is mad that Apple is tracking users' location data, but it's not clear that consumers care enough for the debate to be worth it
IBM Approves 15 Percent Dividend Increase Todd Watson 4/26/2011 1 comment This is the 16th year in a row that IBM has increased its quarterly cash dividend, and 8th year in a row of double-digit percent increases
Tutorial Explores Business Analytics for Midmarket Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/25/2011 5 comments Pulling together many sources of data in real time, discovering what actions to take on those insights, and anticipating and shaping business outcomes does not need to be difficult
The Royal Family Social Todd Watson 4/25/2011 6 comments Americans are much more enthusiastic about Will and Kate's Royal Wedding than those in the UK
Defending the Fortress Todd Watson 4/25/2011 1 comment I would recommend carefully reading all the FAQs before fully banking one’s business in the public cloud
Rethinking Online Tracking Michael Kassner 4/25/2011 17 comments Online tracking has its place, but this user would rather have the choice to be tracked or not
Amazon Outage Reveals Cloud Danger Joe Stanganelli 4/25/2011 24 comments Last week's glitch in Amazon's cloud computing service illustrates the dangers of enterprises relying too much on the centralized cloud model
Canadian Voters Threatened by Old Law Editor's Blog 4/22/2011 30 comments This may be Canada's 'first social media election,' but Canadians Tweeting about the election on Election Day may get slapped with fines
Is Apple Getting Too Big to Fail? Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/22/2011 26 comments Apple is not immune from the problems of the world, and investors and customers are ignoring some serious pitfalls
Pictures of War Todd Watson 4/21/2011 Post a comment Hondros was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer whose work has graced the front pages of many newspapers and magazines
Russian Cybercrime: A Market Analysis Jart Armin 4/21/2011 48 comments Cybercrime has become big business in Russia, for a number of reasons. Here are some facts and figures – and suggestions for the future
Obama Takes Questions at Facebook Editor's Blog 4/20/2011 15 comments The president appeared at Facebook headquarters this afternoon for a live town hall, but this time the public didn't get to vote on questions
Web Security Gets Another Reality Check Security Clan Editor's Blog 4/20/2011 13 comments A wave of successful attacks on security vendors leaves government proposals for trusted identities in cyberspace looking out of touch with the realities of the digital security environment
Microsoft Shakes the IT Patent Tree Robert McGarvey 4/20/2011 9 comments The Supreme Court case Microsoft v i4i probably won't result in a revolution in patent law, but it raises important issues
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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