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Mobile Ads You’ll Want
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/30/2008   Post a comment
Finally, a practical mobile ad concept that provides consumers with useful product information on the fly
Corporatizing the Social Network
Editor's Blog  
5/30/2008   4 comments
Along with the 'cloud' and other enterprise 2.0 goodies, we are now starting to hear about the 'corporate social network'
Virtualization: A Monitoring Nightmare
Oded Noy  
5/30/2008   10 comments
What is the best way to monitor a virtualized network? The answer: a very simple dashboard
Speaking Out Against Synthesized Voices
Chris Minnick  
5/30/2008   7 comments
The latest text-to-speech technology over the Web still isn't good enough to not be annoying
Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde
Todd Watson  
5/30/2008   Post a comment
Google Android introduces a new feature that no self-respecting 40-something can do without: a full-on functioning version of Pac-Man
Akamai Delivers 'State of the Internet' Report
Editor's Blog  
5/29/2008   8 comments
The United States lags behind six major countries in broadband connectivity
‘Family-Friendly’ Wireless Internet Is Intellect-Hostile
Alan Reiter  
5/29/2008   33 comments
A congressional bill that introduces mandated filtering has no place in wireless spectrum allocation
Where Cloud Services Make the Most Sense
Mike Karp  
5/29/2008   14 comments
If only for any potential e-discovery requirements, cloud computing services make a lot of sense for businesses of all sizes
Cyberspace Race: The Internet Moves to Indy 500
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/29/2008   7 comments
New interactive capabilities at the Indy 500 have emerged from cyber racing technology
You're All Winners, Except You Losers
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
5/29/2008   4 comments
Server virtualization and Web Services/SOA lead the pack of enterprise technologies expected to make the largest impact
Wrestling Required
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
5/28/2008   4 comments
With more points of view to be heard, finding any truth in online information requires engagement, not passivity
How to Build the ‘Open Mesh’
Marc Canter  
5/28/2008   6 comments
The emergence of a loosely coupled, multi-platform open mesh is fostering an Internet where no one player controls the formats, protocols, APIs, or ecosystem
Popularizing Blog Content
Editor's Blog  
5/28/2008   2 comments
Does pointing to 'most popular' blog content online put the breaks on innovation?
College Grads to Kick Off Web 3.0
Todd Barrish  
5/28/2008   8 comments
The business world would be smart to join forces with today’s graduating seniors whose talent is about to lead us into the world of Web 3.0
Broadband Video Fine-Tunes TV Network Economics
Will Richmond  
5/27/2008   3 comments
The growth of broadband video will force TV networks to make fundamental adjustments to broadcasting economics in the future
What We Want in an Online Experience
Editor's Blog  
5/27/2008   8 comments
In a poll last week, Internet Evolution readers told us what they're looking for in an Internet of the not-too-distant future
Google’s Bush League Patter in a Major League Town
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/27/2008   Post a comment
Google's co-founder Larry Page needs to be more specific when persuading experts to adopt his wireless Internet plans
The 'Truthiness' About Wikipedia
Andrew Keen  
5/27/2008   15 comments
Wikipedia's inadequacy stems from the fact that an editor-free encyclopedia is a contradiction in terms
Improving Internet Transparency
Bill St. Arnaud  
5/26/2008   6 comments
Increased use of deep packet inspection equipment by network carriers is spurring the development of software tools to make the Internet more transparent
MySpace Suicide Indictment Raises Legal Questions
Ira Winkler  
5/23/2008   9 comments
A recent indictment in the MySpace suicide case is about to create more legal problems involving ISP terms of service
Suffering From Social Networking Anxiety Disorder (SNAD)
Editor's Blog  
5/23/2008   20 comments
You may already be suffering from Social Networking Anxiety Disorder (SNAD)
Internet Tidal Wave Hits 3G
Gabriel Brown  
5/23/2008   8 comments
The emergence of 3G and next-generation 4G access is generating significant growth in mobile data traffic volumes
Sprint Removing ‘Unlimited’ Data? Bad Move
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/23/2008   2 comments
Sprint's decision to eliminate 'unlimited' 3G monthly data plan is a huge mistake
The End of Command & Control Branding
Paul Dunay  
5/22/2008   5 comments
The explosion of new media is disrupting the traditional command-and-control branding messages often used by marketers
Microsoft, on Yahoo Rebound, Buys Users
Editor's Blog  
5/22/2008   6 comments
Microsoft bribes users, with real money, to use its search engine
Consumers & the Mobile Web: We Want More
Todd Watson  
5/22/2008   1 comment
An IBM study reveals that 80 percent of consumers want more applications and services available on their mobile devices
Archiving: IT's Attempt to Stave Off Entropy
Tom Coughlin  
5/22/2008   13 comments
Things fall apart... and stored data is no exception
Battling Over White Space Spectrum
Alan Reiter  
5/22/2008   14 comments
A battle is raging between technology companies and broadcasters over using unlicensed mobile devices in the 'white space' spectrum
EMC Looks at Clouds From Both Sides Now
Mike Karp  
5/22/2008   6 comments
From EMC World: Whether cloud computing is services- or hardware-based, the vendor's got it covered
Poll: We're 'Very Scared' of Cyber-Terrorism
Editor's Blog  
5/21/2008   6 comments
A plurality of Internet Evolution readers are 'very worried' about the threat of 'cyber-terrorism,' whatever that means
Internet Businesses Adopt Social Sigma
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/21/2008   10 comments
Companies are leveraging customer feedback through online surveys, blogs, and other comment mechanisms through a process called 'Social Sigma'
Role Reversal
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
5/21/2008   6 comments
Remember when businesses were the technology pioneers? That was before consumers got their hands on blogs, wikis, and social networks
How, and Why, End Users Circumvent IT
Aaron Roe Fulkerson  
5/21/2008   8 comments
When budgets, complexity, and other thieves keep IT occupied, end users are showing they're only too happy to fill in the gap between demand and deployment
Whose Data Is It Anyway?
Editor's Blog  
5/20/2008   12 comments
Facebook and Google's fight over access to Facebook user data brings up a few questions about the ownership of data and the legitimacy of data portability
Social Web Empowers Nonprofits
Craig Newmark  
5/20/2008   9 comments
An increasing number of nonprofit organizations are embracing the social Web to promote their missions
When ECM Meets Digital Rights Management
Russ Edelman  
5/20/2008   10 comments
Enterprise content and digital rights management can be commingled; the bigger challenge is synching up ACL systems
Heuristics Are Vital to an Antivirus Future
Andrew Lee  
5/20/2008   2 comments
The sheer volume of emerging malware demands some level of heuristic technology as an antivirus solution
Fostering Wireless News for the Have-Nots
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/20/2008   Post a comment
The Knight Foundation is donating $5.5M to 16 tech startups to promote innovative journalism and wireless information ventures in poorer nations
Make Your Online Presence Speak for You
Jon Emmons  
5/19/2008   19 comments
As more job recruiters rely on Internet searches to assess potential employees, now's the time to make your online presence more attractive
Wetpaint Launches New Social Publishing Product
Editor's Blog  
5/19/2008   4 comments
Wetpaint, a leader in social publishing, launches Wetpaint Injected in an attempt to socialize the entire Web
In Web 2.0, You Still Get What You Pay For
Chris Minnick  
5/19/2008   5 comments
Trusting your business to random startups offering free services on the Web is a bad idea
Time for a Little Grounding With Cloud Computing
David Vellante  
5/16/2008   5 comments
Search, social networking, and wikis are good starting points for what cloud computing should look like, but there's an opportunity to make the cloud experience even richer for enterprises
The Best US 3G Prepaid Unlimited Data Plan
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/16/2008   Post a comment
A couple of weeks ago, AT&T Mobility launched the best US prepaid data plan for unlimited 3G data
Government 2.0: The Next Generation of Democracy
Bill St. Arnaud  
5/16/2008   4 comments
With e-government, using the new tools of Web 2.0 allows us to rethink some fundamental questions about governance and citizen engagement
Internet to Render Journalists Obsolete?
Editor's Blog  
5/16/2008   13 comments
Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, says the Internet is going to all but do away with journalism as we've come to know it since the 1930s
Google's Devolution Effect
Oded Noy  
5/16/2008   14 comments
A surfeit of useless data called up by search engines is actually diminishing the ability of consumers to find useful product information online
A Broadband 2.0 Manifesto
Graham Finnie  
5/15/2008   5 comments
Here is a list of the 10 characteristics that we believe will define Broadband 2.0
Digg Scam Taps Out
Editor's Blog  
5/15/2008   2 comments
Digg-gaming site User/Submitter seems to have maxed out on its money-making scheme
IBM's Global CEO Study 2008: Hungry for Change
Todd Watson  
5/15/2008   Post a comment
IBM reports the results of its largest study ever of chief executives: 1,130 CEOs in 40 countries spanning 32 industries
Preparing for a Voice-Optional Cellular World
Alan Reiter  
5/15/2008   13 comments
Rapid growth in wireless data usage shows it could eventually replace voice as a primary feature in cellular phone service
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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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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   14 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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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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Taimoor Zubair
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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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