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Bad Standards Can Lead to Tomorrow's Doorstop
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12/1/2012   4 comments
IT departments are struggling to find a balance between rigorous standardization and the agility required by business needs.
Look Out! The Biggest Dangers of Public Clouds
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11/12/2012   1 comment
Neglecting human factors, trusting to chance, security vulnerabilities, and perimeter exposure are the top dangers of public clouds. Find out more about these risks – and how to manage them – in the latest Big Report.
The Cloud’s Points of Failure Are Showing
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10/13/2012   3 comments
Datacenter architects go to great pains to build in redundancies and prevent failures, but they don’t always foresee some events that sound like long-shot impossibilities and yet still seem to happen.
Do You See That?
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8/11/2012   6 comments
Visualization is hot because it makes data analysis easier, but big-data access capabilities combined with advanced analytics will be crucial to its success.
The Cult of the Hacker: Our Love Affair With the Internet's Outlaws
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7/31/2012   3 comments
The Internet has accelerated our fascination with those who challenge virtual boundaries and extend our knowledge of what's good and bad, innovative and destructive.
The Best & Worst Dressed on the Internet
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5/25/2012   63 comments
Does clothing make a difference when it comes to leading an Internet company? Internet Evolution investigates.
The Internet in 10 Years
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5/8/2012   25 comments
From the transformed enterprise to new interfaces to infrastructure changes and more, we examine what the World Wide Web will look like in 2022.
Ticking Time Bombs: The Internet's Weakest Links
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4/9/2012   26 comments
The Internet as we know it faces a series of interdependent threats that must be addressed if the Web is to avert a hellish future.
The Digital Patent Wars
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3/27/2012   54 comments
Once used as a means of invention and innovation, patents are now being abused by companies as weapons of war.
Google's Mounting Trash Pile
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3/13/2012   78 comments
Google's engineering culture has allowed a range of wasteful projects to be launched only to sputter and fail. But the company's addiction to science projects may finally be taking a toll.
The Newest (and Scariest) Threats to Enterprise Security
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2/28/2012   13 comments
Mobility, burgeoning Web apps, advance persistent threats, and more... Net technology has spawned a fresh crop of dangers to your enterprise infrastructure.
The Internet's Most Wanted List
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2/7/2012   31 comments
For the Internet to have a prosperous future, these 10 politicians, lobbyists, and media big-wigs need to step away from it.
The Government vs. the Web
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1/9/2012   23 comments
Governments worldwide are demonstrating their intent to destroy the Web as we know it.
Capacity Under Control
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12/7/2011   1 comment
Virtualization drives IT's need to manage space.
Cloud Case Study: Multnomah County, Phase I
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11/15/2011   5 comments
Multnomah County embarks on an effort to move its intranet to an open-source platform hosted in the cloud – a bold move for a government agency.
Slideshow: Top 15 Tech Figureheads to Fear
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10/27/2011   5 comments
Here are the 15 most frightening individuals influencing our technological lives.
Big Data
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10/1/2011   5 comments
It’s not just about the volume of data. The variety of data and demand for fast analytics are also testing IT teams.
What You Can’t See
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8/27/2011   1 comment
Cloud performance monitoring is still in its infancy.
The Web's War on Privacy
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7/26/2011   17 comments
The Internet's hallmark qualities of openness and connectivity continue to breed a range of threats to personal privacy. We look at the potential costs of maintaining a Web presence and ask how we can best keep the rightfully private private.
Business Ethics on the Web: Is Your Enterprise Up to Par?
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6/28/2011   20 comments
The Web is becoming a testing ground for a variety of questionable practices. Here are a few that may force legislation that changes how we interact online.
5 Biggest Legal Threats to the Web
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5/31/2011   36 comments
The Web as we know it could be destroyed by these five recent and potential legal decisions.
How to Beat Facebook: A Competitors' Guide
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5/11/2011   29 comments
So far, social site Facebook has managed to avoid any real competition. Here's why... and what can be done about it.
Opportunities Lost: Why Good Internet Ideas Burn Out
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4/18/2011   31 comments
Many projects that seemed to herald great improvements for humanity haven't materialized on the Web. Here's a closer look at why and what can be done to prevent future ideas from dissolving
Five Techs on Life Support
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3/22/2011   39 comments
It's time to get ready to bid farewell to technologies like dedicated e-readers, virtual worlds, and more (more, more!)
10 Ways Facebook Is Destroying Your Life
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2/22/2011   75 comments
With an active user base of 600 million, Facebook has its fans and its perks... but it's also imperiling our very existence
Online Video: Telling Fact From Fantasy
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1/18/2011   7 comments
Will online video remain sustainable under present-day circumstances (revenue models, broadband infrastructure)? Internet Evolution analyzes the industry's high points and worrying pitfalls
What We Loved & Loathed in 2010
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12/21/2010   21 comments
Calling these high and low points by name, Internet Evolution lists the top 10 and bottom 10 tech happenings of 2010
Web Analytics: A New View
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12/4/2010   11 comments
Basic Web stats are a commodity: Today, IT must deliver customer insights, not just raw numbers
The Web as Crystal Ball
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10/5/2010   22 comments
A look at who's tracking you on the Web, what they know, and what they're doing with the data
Socially Challenged
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9/25/2010   14 comments
IT’s under pressure to deliver Facebook-like social networking inside companies. Yet the biggest worry is getting employees to use it. What’s going on?
Ten Terrible Web 2.0 Buzzwords
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7/15/2010   53 comments
Marketers and Web users alike have armed themselves with a new suite of made-up buzzwords. We're calling out the 10 most despicable
Superhighway to Hell: The Real Future of the Web
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6/19/2010   35 comments
The Internet as we know it will disappear by 2029, replaced by a dystopian Outernet, a virtual Hell on Earth
You Need Smarter Apps
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5/22/2010   3 comments
Embedded BI puts analysis software inside ERP and other real-time transaction systems. But you still must ask the right questions and make the right decisions
The Internet Evolution 100
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4/26/2010   31 comments
Internet Evolution picks the top innovators and influencers in the Internet industry across 10 categories
Digital Cities: The Web & Urbanization
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3/23/2010   8 comments
Here's how Internet is paving the way for more productive cities worldwide, especially in developing nations, where urban growth is fastest
Finding the Green: An IT Roadmap
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3/2/2010   3 comments
Common sense – and smart, selective use of server virtualization – still drives green savings
Copyright Undercover: ACTA & the Web
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2/17/2010   14 comments
It's time to end the secret negotiations of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
English Under Attack!
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1/25/2010   12 comments
As the World Wide Web expands, Websites will become increasingly multilingual
Seven Questions Key to Social Networking Success
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1/16/2010   7 comments
What’s the ROI? Go public or private? What about a policy? It’s time to get serious
Fine/Over the Line in '09
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12/22/2009   11 comments
A highly subjective list of 2009's high points on the Web – and a few low ones, too
What Goes Mobile
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12/5/2009   5 comments
Companies are going far past standard smartphone apps, with tools to tackle specific business problems
Cloud Security
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11/7/2009   3 comments
Business users see cost savings from cloud computing, so they’re finding ways to get past this No. 1 concern
The Customer Web
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10/3/2009   4 comments
These organizations – in healthcare, banking, and government – are pushing customer engagement to new levels online
The Internet of Things
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9/5/2009   8 comments
The emerging Internet of Things promises to help businesses spot problems and make decisions. Getting there isn’t easy
Mal-Content: How Markey III Hurts the Internet
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8/21/2009   8 comments
While many of the bill's provisions are good or even commendable, the rest are harmful
Desktop Virtualization
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8/15/2009   1 comment
The ROI isn’t as clear-cut as it is for server virtualization; but deployed well, desktop virtualization can deliver the kind of high-performing, Web-centric PC experience that employees expect
Beyond Censorware: Teaching Web Literacy
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7/23/2009   5 comments
This lesson plan will teach youngsters to navigate the Web without the help or hindrance of censorware
The Right Place for Social Networking?
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7/18/2009   3 comments
IT leaders are wrestling with how to bring informal collaboration into rigorous processes such as global project management and product development
P2P Taste Test
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7/9/2009   11 comments
Three P2P filtering vendors step forward to have their Deep Packet Inspection capabilities tested side by side
Internet ©rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress
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6/18/2009   15 comments
In the Internet age, copyright control is eliminating competition and forcing even big companies into self-defeating patterns
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Jon Carter   5/21/2013   5 comments
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Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 comments
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.
Joe Stanganelli
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.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   9 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

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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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
As
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