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IBM Unveils Cloud Suites for the C-Suite
Todd Watson  
6/18/2013   Post a comment
IBM unveiled an array of C-suite cloud solutions at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco.
Justin's Rose
Todd Watson  
6/18/2013   Post a comment
Justin Rose is US Open Champion.
Happy Father's Day at the US Open
Todd Watson  
6/16/2013   Post a comment
Phil Mickelson had a great birthday and Father's Day at this year's US Open.
Play the Numbers Where They Lie
Todd Watson  
6/15/2013   Post a comment
In golf as in business, the numbers never lie.
Next Week in Monaco
Todd Watson  
6/14/2013   1 comment
From Nashville, the IBM Smarter Commerce Summit moves to Monaco next week.
A Merion Kind of Pain
Todd Watson  
6/14/2013   Post a comment
Top golfers are suffering at Merion.
Phil’s Redeye Round
Todd Watson  
6/13/2013   Post a comment
Despite a weather delay of more than three hours at Merion outside Philadelphia earlier today, Phil Mickelson performed impressively in the first round of the US Open.
More Power to Ya
Todd Watson  
6/12/2013   Post a comment
IBM announced new initiatives to help support and speed adoption of Linux in the enterprise.
Inside the Ropes at Merion
Todd Watson  
6/12/2013   Post a comment
Todd gets excited for the US Open Golf Championship at the historic East Course at Meron.
IBM Unveils Big-Data, Cloud, Storage Enhancements
Todd Watson  
6/11/2013   Post a comment
The first day of IBM Edge2013 saw a range of important announcements geared toward enhancing the IT infrastructure.
IBM Smarter Commerce Conversations: Jay Henderson on How CMOs & CIOs Must Become BFFs!
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6/5/2013   Post a comment
Todd and Jay Henderson, of IBM's Enterprise Market Management team, discuss insights from the recent IBM Mother's Day e-shopping analysis, which showed that more people than ever are doing holiday shopping tasks on mobile devices.
IBM To Acquire Cloud Infrastructure Provider SoftLayer Technologies
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6/4/2013   Post a comment
IBM announced that it will acquire the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure provider.
IBM Expands DevOps Portfolio
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6/4/2013   Post a comment
The IBM Technical Summit in Orlando is focusing on enhanced DevOps tools.
IBM Innovate 2013: Continuous Collaboration (& Fun!)
Todd Watson  
6/3/2013   Post a comment
On the agenda at IBM Innovate 2013 Technical Summit in Orlando this week: exciting speakers, lots of news, and hundreds of education sessions.
Qualifying
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6/3/2013   Post a comment
Turbo Todd and his dad take on Texarkana.
East Bound & Down
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5/31/2013   Post a comment
Texarkana is a feast for golfers.
Xiu.Com: Offering 5 Million Products a Day to the Chinese Online Consumer
Todd Watson  
5/28/2013   Post a comment
How IBM helped the retailer optimize its supply chain.
A Slight Draw
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5/28/2013   Post a comment
Todd talks soccer and golf.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit: The E-Commerce Roundtable
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5/28/2013   Post a comment
IBM panelists provide advice on solving the challenge of customer experience in an omni-channel world.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit: IBM Chief Procurement Officer Study Reveals Top-Performing Procurement Teams Drive 15 Percent Higher Margins
Todd Watson  
5/22/2013   Post a comment
Big-data and social business technology helps Chief Procurement Officers deliver results.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit: The Dannon Company Uses IBM Big Data Analytics to Drive Yogurt Market Gains
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5/22/2013   Post a comment
The leading yogurt company in the US uses IBM cloud-based predictive analytics to ensure it has the right product mix delivered at the right time to satisfy customers in the highly competitive $7 billion US yogurt market.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Nashville: Engaging a Demographic of One
Todd Watson  
5/22/2013   Post a comment
IBM's Paul Pappas describes how to deliver more effective, personalized, immersive customer experiences for clients.
IBM Watson: Ready to Work on Building Better Customer Relationships
Todd Watson  
5/21/2013   3 comments
The IBM Watson Engagement Advisor is transforming the way brands engage clients in key functions like customer service, marketing, and sales.
IBM Marketing Survey: Customer Experiences Remain Top Priority
Todd Watson  
5/21/2013   Post a comment
The annual IBM State of the State of Marketing report uncovers marketers' habits, plans, and patterns.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Summit: The Chief Executive Customer Is In Charge
Todd Watson  
5/21/2013   Post a comment
The Chief Executive Customer has arrived and expects to be treated as such.
Welcome to Music City & the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit
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5/21/2013   Post a comment
Thousands arrive in Nashville to attend the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit.
Finding the Fast Bus in Dublin
Todd Watson  
5/17/2013   3 comments
Dublin City Council is collaborating with IBM to use big-data in developing optimal traffic and transit strategies.
Mobile Drives Substantial Increase In Mother’s Day Online Sales
Todd Watson  
5/16/2013   1 comment
Online shopping grew 15 percent in the week leading up to Mother's Day, year-over year. Mobile sales reached 17 percent this year.
L'Oréal USA Gets Makeover With IBM Cloud Analytics
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5/15/2013   Post a comment
IBM announced a major three-year agreement today with L'Oréal USA USA for expert procurement services using an advanced cloud analytics solution that will transform how L'Oréal USA buys from its network of North American suppliers.
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.
Tiger Takes the TPC
Todd Watson  
5/13/2013   6 comments
Sunday was a great day for fans of Tiger Woods.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: A Q&A With Forest Whitaker on Acting, Technology in Africa & Building Lasting Skills for Peace
Todd Watson  
5/10/2013   Post a comment
Sitting down with actor Forest Whitaker to talk about his career and humanitarian peace efforts.
IBM Innovation in East Africa
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5/10/2013   Post a comment
A new IBM Innovation Center will fuel IT innovation and growth in East Africa.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: A Q&A With CTIA’s John Marinho on Mobile Opportunity, Security & Privacy
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5/9/2013   Post a comment
Turbo talks with John Marinho, VP technology and cyber security for CTIA – The Wireless Association, about the massive opportunities in mobile computing and the accompanying, and ever-looming, related security and privacy concerns.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: A Q&A With BP3 CTO Scott Francis on Mobile Business Process Management
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5/9/2013   Post a comment
Turbo talks with Scott Francis, chief technology officer for IBM business partner BP3, about subjects including incorporating mobile into business process management.
IBM Innovation in East Africa
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5/9/2013   Post a comment
IBM opened an Innovation Center in Nairobi, Kenya, to help fuel growth and innovation in East Africa.
Social Media at the Eye of the Storm
Todd Watson  
5/9/2013   3 comments
Florida-based Security First Insurance is using software from IBM and Integritie to collect and analyze big-data -- including social media and email -- to quickly begin claims resolution for customers hit by a storm.
Blue Windows
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5/7/2013   Post a comment
Microsoft users eagerly await today's tune-up of Windows 8.1.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: IBM VP Phil Buckellew on All Things Mobile
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5/2/2013   Post a comment
Phil Buckellew, IBM vice president for enterprise mobile, discusses how companies can get started and should be thinking about mobile, the importance of design thinking to mobile solutions, and the important and diverse issues surrounding mobile security.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: Summary of Key Product, Service Announcements
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5/1/2013   Post a comment
How IBM is helping organizations meet increased demand for big-data, cloud, mobile, and social business technologies.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: From the Mobile Mini Main Tent: Business in Motion
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5/1/2013   Post a comment
What organizations need to do to take advantage of the mobile revolution.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: Ed Brill on IBM’s MobileFirst Strategy
Todd Watson  
4/30/2013   Post a comment
Todd talks with Ed Brill, director of IBM Mobile Enterprise Marketing, about the importance of mobile.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: Putting Systems Of Interaction In Motion
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4/30/2013   Post a comment
IBM senior vice president Robert Leblanc describes how good design is core to all good technology and evolution.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: Robert Leblanc on Building New 'Systems of Interaction'
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4/30/2013   Post a comment
IBM Impact 2013 opens with a bang -- and a roadmap for systems improvement.
Live @ IBM Impact 2013: Getting the Music Right at BMI
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4/30/2013   Post a comment
Businesses processes must evolve to keep pace with the landscape.
IBM MessageSight: Connecting a Smarter Planet
Todd Watson  
4/29/2013   2 comments
IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy took a major step forward today with the introduction of IBM MessageSight, a new appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with the billions of mobile devices and sensors found in systems such as automobiles, traffic management systems, smart buildings, and household appliances.
Mac OS X 10.9: Tabbed Browsing Everywhere!
Todd Watson  
4/29/2013   1 comment
Apple's OS X 10.9, slated for release this year, is expected to appeal to power users.
Rock of the Ageless
Todd Watson  
4/29/2013   1 comment
As IBM Impact 2013 begins today in Las Vegas, remember that it as much about networking as it is about technology.
Breaking for IBM Impact 2013
Todd Watson  
4/29/2013   1 comment
Couldn't make it to IBM Impact 2013 in Las Vegas? Turbo Todd will keep you up-to-date on the latest news from this year's info-packed event.
Grinding It Out at Riverside
Todd Watson  
4/28/2013   Post a comment
A good -- and relaxing -- day of golf before heading out to Vegas for IBM Impact 2013.
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Jason Mick   6/19/2013   2 comments
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.
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.
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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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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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NSA Leaks Shine Spotlight on Perils of Contractor Partnerships
Jason Mick
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.

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