Exercise Equipment Maker Gets Fit With Cloud Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 5/22/2013 13 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Privacy's Not Just an On/Off Thing Editor's Blog 4/29/2013 27 comments Privacy isn't a binary thing -- on/off, you have it or you don't, argues security consultant Jonathan Zdziarski. Instead, it's layered and nuanced.
Friday File: Don't Kiss the Cook. He'll Rust Editor's Blog 4/26/2013 47 comments Several tech companies celebrated anniversaries this week, but we bet their cakes weren't baked by robots. That's not necessarily the case at one enterprising restaurant in China.
Friday File: Grandma Goes Virtual Editor's Blog 4/19/2013 18 comments Google's Schmidt's take on drones, Twitter tackles tunes, and LinkedIn embraces mobile. And, oh yes, granny goes to Tuscany -- without leaving her kitchen.
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
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.
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
