Friday File: The Dough Boy Beats LeBron Editor's Blog 6/14/2013 16 comments Carrier pigeons, corned beef hash, and the Pillsbury Dough Boy aren't normally associated with high-tech. Find out how they fit into this week's Friday File.
Wearable Tech: From Concept to Catwalk Editor's Blog 6/13/2013 16 comments Google Glass, Pebble smartwatch, and the as-yet-unavailable Apple iWatch are not the only wearable technologies in town. We found at least a baker's dozen more.
Friday File: Not on the Ballot Editor's Blog 5/31/2013 37 comments Seers predicts Apple's next moves, Facebook stops hate speech, and MIT figures out successful tweets (with a caveat). Plus find out who's not running for president.
Mary Meeker: The Future Will Be Wearable Editor's Blog 5/30/2013 23 comments Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report suggests next year will be like last year, except for one big development on the horizon: wearables.
Family Dollar's IT Journey Editor's Blog 5/23/2013 41 comments Family Dollar revolutionized its IT strategy to compete in a very low cost retail environment.
Interstellar Travel 'Almost Inevitable' Editor's Blog 5/21/2013 21 comments While it'll take amazing investment to build a starship, human progress makes the outcome extremely likely, according to a speaker at the Starship Century symposium.
Dose of Telehealth: 10 Caplet-Size Updates Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 9 comments Collaborative apps, high bandwidth networks, and mobile devices empower healthcare professionals to deliver better care, faster, to more patients. Yet telehealth adoption is not widespread -- at least yet. Here's why.
BlackBerry CEO Is Right About Tablets Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 24 comments People laughed at BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins's prediction that the tablet will soon be obsolete. But BlackBerry may get the last laugh.
Bloomberg Should Get Its Story Straight Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 13 comments Bloomberg LP's attempts to explain away the practice of news division reporters tracking subscribers' terminal use are unsatisfactory.
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.
Friday File: In Honor of Conspiracies, IT Pros & Mom Editor's Blog 5/10/2013 35 comments What could be better than a Friday File dedicated to moms? A Friday File that also finds out IT pros' secret TV idols, updates conspiracy news, looks at Facebook's next ad move, and uncovers what happened to AOL.
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.
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.
Twitter Fumbles Boston Marathon Bombing Editor's Blog 4/16/2013 94 comments News about the tragic events in Boston was drowned out on Twitter by a mix of hasty finger-pointing and well-intentioned white noise.
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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.
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 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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