MOOCs Gain Momentum & College Credits Maria Korolov 5/21/2013 22 comments Organizations and individuals should take advantage of today's wide-ranging, free online classes in technology, business, and everything in between.
Governments Grapple for Internet Control Maria Korolov 12/6/2012 20 comments Discussions underway in Dubai are raising fears that some nations will more easily be able to disconnect citizens from the web.
Translation Tools for the Modern Road Warrior Maria Korolov 11/28/2012 34 comments Smartphones equipped with speech recognition, translation, and reading text out loud capabilities are changing the rules for international business travel and outsourcing.
Internet Marketers Hit Big Snags in China Maria Korolov 10/25/2012 18 comments International marketers face problems in the Chinese market as US search engines fade in popularity and the government continues to block Internet traffic.
5 Steps to Ensure BYOD Doesn't Backfire Maria Korolov 10/15/2012 21 comments Are you worried about the risk posed by employees armed with their own mobile devices? Here are ways to ensure they don't hurt your enterprise.
New Patent Law Crowdsources IT Expertise Maria Korolov 9/21/2012 31 comments A law President Obama signed last week provides an online forum for outside comments on pending patents and even patents already granted.
Top Enterprise Controversies of the 3D Web Maria Korolov 9/18/2012 24 comments For companies, the emerging 3D Web, hypergrid, or "metaverse" requires facing up to a handful of tough challenges that won't be resolved quickly or easily.
How to Cope With IT Support Cutbacks Maria Korolov 7/19/2012 18 comments Support desk cutbacks can reduce productivity. Here are some ways to avoid that scenario by helping users to help themselves.
Hadoop Harnesses Big-Data Maria Korolov 7/16/2012 10 comments Hadoop has turned into a preferred way for vendors and businesses to gather unstructured data for analysis.
The Smartphone Credit Card Conundrum Maria Korolov 6/14/2012 24 comments Despite the proliferation of credit card readers, mobile payments aren't catching on with merchants or their customers yet.
How to Sidestep the BYOD Quicksand Maria Korolov 4/26/2012 42 comments If your enterprise opts for a Bring Your Own Device strategy, here's how to avoid potential problems that could negate the benefits.
The High Cost of Data Breaches Is Getting Higher Maria Korolov 2/22/2012 12 comments A series of legal decisions and regulations are putting companies in the hot seat when it comes to warning customers about -- and paying for -- data breaches.
Hate Spam? Change Your Email Service Maria Korolov 2/17/2012 42 comments Good email services can reduce spam volumes significantly. It's worth it to make the change if you still find spam a problem.
How the Amazon Fire Compares to the iPad Maria Korolov 10/10/2011 22 comments More reliance on cloud services is one way the Amazon Fire could become the first tablet to really distinguish itself from the iPad.
Cloud Services: A Boon to Startups Maria Korolov 8/10/2011 9 comments Cloud services give young companies a quick way to get systems up and running without borrowing money to do it.
Why Teleplace Went Open-Source Maria Korolov 6/30/2011 26 comments By going open-source, an Internet platform popular with enterprises just might become top choice for the 3D Web.
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
