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Everybody Wins in eBay's Eco-Friendly Bid
Ariella Brown  
6/3/2013   24 comments
Online auction heavyweight eBay hopes others follow its lead in reducing power consumption and emissions.
Winnowing the Web With Crowdsourced Annotation
Ariella Brown  
5/14/2013   22 comments
A crowdsourced approach to annotation hopes to succeed where others have failed.
EU Video for 'Science as a Girl Thing' Backfires
Ariella Brown  
6/27/2012   94 comments
A silly and superficial video intended to make young girls comfortable with dreams of a science career has drawn contempt from all sides.
Automated Systems 'Grade' Written Work
Ariella Brown  
5/2/2012   41 comments
A recent online contest showcased a trend toward automated assessment systems that “grade” or judge written work.
Site Features Memory Tools for Quick Learning
Ariella Brown  
2/24/2012   43 comments
You might call Memrise drill without kill, because it offers a fun, community-oriented way to learn languages and other skills.
MIT Online Courses: Great Access, Not So Much Prestige
Ariella Brown  
1/10/2012   63 comments
Online courses offered at MIT are a breakthrough, but they won't carry the Ivy League cachet of regular enrolled coursework.
Where Prayer Meets Hashtags
Ariella Brown  
12/6/2011   65 comments
The need to tweet appears to be closely related to the need to pray.
Mobile School Brings Internet & Education to Remote Africans
Ariella Brown  
11/14/2011   46 comments
Samsung has launched a solar-powered container equipped with wireless Internet connectivity to serve as a mobile school for African children.
Renewable Cloud Power Is Focus of New Project
Ariella Brown  
8/23/2011   17 comments
Participants in a new project look to sustain consistent power to datacenters using wind or solar power.
DOE at Work on Scientific 'Knowledgebase'
Ariella Brown  
8/8/2011   22 comments
The US Department of Energy is spearheading a foray into a collaborative online database for life-science experts that could inspire other projects.
Google as 'Artist': Impressive but Limited
Ariella Brown  
6/23/2011   93 comments
The GoogleArtProject offers high-resolution reproductions of art in museum settings, taken by Street View, but the overall value is limited.




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Charlotte Erdmann
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan   6/17/2013   3 comments
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Mary E. Shacklett
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

6|13|13   |   1:07   |   1 comment


Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   10 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   1 comment


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.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


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.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


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.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


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.
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Todd Watson   6/18/2013   Post a comment
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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Mary E. Shacklett
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