APIs Hurl Corporations Across Digital Divide Executive Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 1 comment Organizations quick to adopt APIs, digital marketing, apps, and data analytics are gaining big advantages over their slower competitors, a new study finds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Analytics Threat to Showbiz Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 5/7/2013 14 comments Big-data is a boon to enterprises -- including the entertainment industry. But could it take the fun out of creativity?
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.
Back to Analytics School Todd Watson 4/26/2013 1 comment In collaboration with IBM, Rensselaer now offers a Master of Science degree in Business Analytics.
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.
Believe the Data: Theory Comes Later Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 4/22/2013 6 comments If your analytics tell you something is working (or not), you'd better pay attention to the data -- even if you don't know what the explanation is.
Pinterest Takes Baby Steps in Analytics Analytics Clan Editor's Blog 4/10/2013 4 comments The popular pin-it website and social platform Pinterest is taking the first, elementary steps in applying analytics to its data.
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.
7DEE: A Bright Future for Analytics in the Cloud IT Clan Editor's Blog 4/4/2013 Post a comment Find out what's in store for analytics technology in the cloud in our final session of 7 Days of Executive Education on Thursday, April 4, at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Extending IT's Ecosystem Into the Web Matt Heusser 4/3/2013 9 comments Social media give IT the power to move beyond the datacenter and leverage Facebook's powerful tools for the company's use. That power, however, doesn't come without a price.
Today's 7DEE Class: Secure Cloud-Based Analytics Executive Clan Editor's Blog 4/3/2013 Post a comment Join us today at 2:00 p.m. ET for our latest seminar in the 7 Days of Executive Education (7DEE) series, as Dion Hinchcliff, chief strategy officer at Dachis Group, leads us through "Securing Cloud-Based Analytics."
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.
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.
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
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
