Exercise Equipment Maker Gets Fit With Cloud Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 12 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 3 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 14 comments Machine-to-machine communications are improving and adoption is increasing, but computers still need human intervention.
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.
Germany Slow to Embrace Cloud Computing Charlotte Erdmann 5/13/2013 17 comments Cloud computing is one of the foremost technological developments of recent years. But there are reasons aplenty why take-up in Germany is slow.
'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?
Checking In With Choice Hotels' New CIO Todd Davis Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/1/2013 8 comments Choice Hotels made an early decision to embrace the web and the cloud, a decision that is reaping rewards for newly named CIO and former CTO Todd Davis.
IBM MessageSight: Connecting a Smarter Planet Todd Watson 4/29/2013 2 comments IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy took a major step forward today with the introduction of IBM MessageSight, a new appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with the billions of mobile devices and sensors found in systems such as automobiles, traffic management systems, smart buildings, and household appliances.
IBM Looks to Speed Up Software Deployment IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/25/2013 10 comments UrbanCode provides tools for DevOps, a development technique designed to help software developers and technology operations staff work more closely together on deploying software.
President Could Be Last Hope to Stop CISPA Ron Miller 4/23/2013 35 comments The Senate is expected to vote on CISPA this week. If, as predicted, senators approve this legislation, President Obama has said he will veto it.
The Move to Community Datacenters Mary E. Shacklett 4/19/2013 18 comments In response to social media, external competition, and tighter budgets, IT departments are integrating community and collaboration tools to improve services and cut costs.
Winning in Europe & Oklahoma Todd Watson 4/10/2013 Post a comment IBM announced a deal with Itella, a European business services provider, to streamline business operations using cloud computing. Separately, IBM announced an agreement to provide infrastructure optimization for the state of Oklahoma.
Rice Mill IT Exec Grinds Out Emergency Tasks Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/8/2013 2 comments As the new IT manager of SunWest Foods, longtime IT professional Dave Rowland is using his technological and business expertise to help the large rice mill stay free of bugs. Computer bugs, that is.
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
