Amazon Starts a Tablet Fire Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 37 comments Amazon's Kindle Fire is well positioned to steal a large segment of potential iPad customers.
IBM Report: Mobile Security Risk to Double IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 2 comments IBM's X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report offers a grim view of various corporate security risks, including smartphone ones.
'Opaque Transparency' an Emerging Threat Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/28/2011 20 comments The biggest noncriminal threat to the security of your personal information today is data-grabbing under a false guise of transparency.
When the Board Isn't Doing Its Homework Executive Clan Editor's Blog 9/28/2011 22 comments Too many boards of public technology firms aren't doing their homework. It's time to call them on the carpet.
Charity Begins on Your Smartphone Taimoor Zubair 9/28/2011 43 comments There's a growing roster of smartphone apps designed to help users contribute funds and services to charitable causes.
Enterprise Mobile Apps Need to Go More Mobile Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 9/27/2011 2 comments Too many enterprises port existing apps to cellphones and tablets, rather than adopting more efficient and easy-to-use designs.
Internet Evolution & 6DEE Win Big at Min Awards Editor's Blog 9/27/2011 30 comments Internet Evolution is proud to add Best Customized Website/Microsite and the WOW Award for 60 Days of Executive Education (6DEE) to its growing list of industry accolades!
Back in Bangalore Todd Watson 9/26/2011 3 comments India's third-largest city is a vibrant and fascinating place to do business -- even "secret" business.
The Time for Social Improvisation Is Over Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 9/26/2011 19 comments Migrating from improvised to fact-based social strategies is not only a desirable goal but an achievable one with the help of social analytics.
HP's Tab for Fired CEOs Tops $80M Robert McGarvey 9/26/2011 36 comments Over the last six years, HP's board has hired and fired three CEOs, paying them over $80M to disappear. Now they've hired a fourth.
Why Facebook's Lower Bar on Sharing Is Bad Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 41 comments By abandoning its roots, cluttering up its site, and lowering the bar on sharing, Facebook may be following the fatal footsteps of MySpace.
Candidates Bring Messages to Twitter Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 9 comments Twitter is accepting political ads for the first time this election season, and its demographics make it a canny choice for candidates.
Enterprise IT Enters the Internet of Things IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/22/2011 5 comments The addition of input from embedded systems and remote sensors to corporate apps is becoming a requirement for enterprise IT.
IBM's Smarter Commerce in the Cloud Todd Watson 9/21/2011 Post a comment New solutions from IBM, combining cloud and on-premise offerings, will help organizations respond to shifting consumer and business trends.
The Pirates Board Berlin's Parliament Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/21/2011 7 comments The Pirate Party's success in German state elections, together with its growing international presence, suggests there might be a future for political activism with roots in underground movements like content piracy and hacking.
How Not to Reinvent an Internet Company Paul Whyte 9/21/2011 30 comments AOL is following the path forged by MySpace and possibly Yahoo: The garden path to ongoing deterioration via a content-centric strategy.
Be Careful: You're Being 'Identified' Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 41 comments Prepare to be identified by Identified, a new people-ranking search engine for professionals that ranks you based on Facebook data.
WSJ Goes Bonkers for Social Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 5 comments The Wall Street Journal Social app does not meet the needs served by RSS feeds or Twitter and will not change the way we consume news.
Social networking sites and search engines continue to hone the tools they use to help advertisers spread their messages, measure results, and avoid fraud.
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
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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