Hackers Tip Black Hats in Vegas Tom Stamulis 7/31/2009 15 comments As security pros convene for this year's Black Hat conference, one attendee sees an industry at a crossroads
Microsoft, Yahoo Hash Out a Search Deal Editor's Blog 7/29/2009 21 comments Microsoft and Yahoo have finally signed a 10-year deal in which Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic and paid search provider on Yahoo
Newspaper Widgets a Boon to Readers Chris Poley 7/28/2009 20 comments Online newspaper aggregation and mobile apps bring time savings and ease of access to online versions of popular papers
Amazon & Zappos: An Odd Couple Chris Poley 7/24/2009 38 comments It's questionable whether Amazon can support the hip and customer-oriented business model Zappos brings to the table
Amazon & Yahoo Go Shopping Editor's Blog 7/23/2009 5 comments Amazon spends nearly $1 billion to acquire online shoe retailer Zappos, while Yahoo drops $20 million on Xoopit to try to reemerge in the Facebook era
The Re-Centralization of IT IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/23/2009 12 comments In a recent survey of top IT resellers, it seems many enterprises are opting for centralization of IT resources
Deal With It: Being Online Is Risky Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/22/2009 19 comments Being online is a lot like everyday life – you make yourself vulnerable and accept the risks that come with it
Forecasting the Future for Latin America Stephen Saunders 7/22/2009 13 comments I recently completed an online Q&A with users of the BBC World Service's Spanish American Service. There were some terrific questions, and I hope you enjoy the answers I gave
The ROI of Moving to IPv6 Bob Violino 7/21/2009 16 comments It won't be easy to measure, but here are some suggestions for justifying what could be an important move for many IT managers
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.
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.
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
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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