Family Dollar's IT Journey Editor's Blog 5/23/2013 1 comment Family Dollar revolutionized its IT strategy to compete in a very low cost retail environment.
Exercise Equipment Maker Gets Fit With Cloud Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 8 comments Precor built cloud applications to deliver customized fitness programs and entertainment to users of its exercise equipment worldwide.
APIs Hurl Corporations Across Digital Divide Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 2 comments Organizations quick to adopt APIs, digital marketing, apps, and data analytics are gaining big advantages over their slower competitors, a new study finds.
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon 5/22/2013 10 comments Machine-to-machine communications are improving and adoption is increasing, but computers still need human intervention.
MOOCs Gain Momentum & College Credits Maria Korolov 5/21/2013 16 comments Organizations and individuals should take advantage of today's wide-ranging, free online classes in technology, business, and everything in between.
Finding the Fast Bus in Dublin Todd Watson 5/17/2013 3 comments Dublin City Council is collaborating with IBM to use big-data in developing optimal traffic and transit strategies.
How Mother's Day Went Mobile Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 5/16/2013 37 comments Mother's Day is a major annual commerce event, and in 2013 it happened online -- and specifically on mobile channels -- as never before.
L'Oréal USA Gets Makeover With IBM Cloud Analytics Todd Watson 5/15/2013 Post a comment IBM announced a major three-year agreement today with L'Oréal USA USA for expert procurement services using an advanced cloud analytics solution that will transform how L'Oréal USA buys from its network of North American suppliers.
The New & Smarter Customer Todd Watson 5/15/2013 1 comment Todd previews the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit next week, where attendees will have a unique opportunity to learn how companies around the world are adapting to the new and smarter customer.
Dose of Telehealth: 10 Caplet-Size Updates Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 9 comments Collaborative apps, high bandwidth networks, and mobile devices empower healthcare professionals to deliver better care, faster, to more patients. Yet telehealth adoption is not widespread -- at least yet. Here's why.
BlackBerry CEO Is Right About Tablets Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 24 comments People laughed at BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins's prediction that the tablet will soon be obsolete. But BlackBerry may get the last laugh.
Bloomberg Should Get Its Story Straight Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 13 comments Bloomberg LP's attempts to explain away the practice of news division reporters tracking subscribers' terminal use are unsatisfactory.
MGM Resorts Bets Big on WiFi Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 37 comments The Las Vegas hospitality company sees WiFi as a key marketing and communications channel, not just a customer convenience.
Recovering From Disaster in 140 Characters or Less Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 18 comments Celina Insurance once used a telephone tree to notify employees about disasters and emergencies. Now the carrier uses Twitter and tells everyone at once, with one click.
Social Media at the Eye of the Storm Todd Watson 5/9/2013 3 comments Florida-based Security First Insurance is using software from IBM and Integritie to collect and analyze big-data -- including social media and email -- to quickly begin claims resolution for customers hit by a storm.
'Cloud Sprawl' Rains on IT Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 5/9/2013 9 comments Unauthorized use of public cloud services creates concerns about security, compliance, and more.
Non-Tech Firms Expand Into High-Tech Businesses Editor's Blog 5/7/2013 13 comments Companies like Canadian Tire, Choice Hotels, and Probus One Touch are expanding out of their traditional comfort zones to offer IT products and services such as cloud, hotel-management solutions, and analytics.
Make Mobile Work Better for Your Customers Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/6/2013 26 comments Mobile channels are increasingly important in the B2B and B2C environments, but how do businesses gain the visibility that helps them optimize their customers' mobile experience?
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.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
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
