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Posts posted in December 2011
2011: A Year in Turmoil?
Todd Watson  
12/29/2011   2 comments
2011 was marked by change around the globe.
Connecting @ IBM Connect 2012
Todd Watson  
12/29/2011   Post a comment
IBM Connect is happening in Orlando, Fla., on January 16 and 17.
TurboTech: A Humorous Look at 2011 Technology Trends in Review
Todd Watson  
12/28/2011   3 comments
An end-of-year TurboTech.
Don't Do Windows... Yet
Todd Watson  
12/27/2011   20 comments
Localytics saw a huge increase in both Apple iOS and Android devices over the December 23-26 weekend.
Santa's E-Commerce Play
Todd Watson  
12/27/2011   2 comments
Online shopping jumped 16.4 percent on Christmas Day, compared to last year, according to IBM Benchmark data.
Healthier Hong Kong
Todd Watson  
12/27/2011   Post a comment
Hong Kong-based Quality HealthCare Medical Services (QMHS) has partnered with IBM to build a virtualized infrastructure for its practice.
Turbo’s Crazy Christmas Gifts
Todd Watson  
12/27/2011   4 comments
Turbo takes a look at "Technology Gifts For The Geek Who Already Has (Almost) Everything."
IBM’s 2011 'Five in Five': Innovations That Could Change the World (and a Little Monty Python Thrown In for Good Measure)
Todd Watson  
12/19/2011   2 comments
The latest “IBM 5 in 5,” a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years, has arrived just in time for the holidays.
Google’s 2011 Zeitgeist: The Year in Black
Todd Watson  
12/16/2011   5 comments
It's the time of year for Google's Zeitgeist, a look at the most popular and fastest-rising search terms in the world during 2011.
IBM to Acquire Procurement & Retail Analytics Firm Emptoris
Todd Watson  
12/15/2011   3 comments
IBM bolsters its Smarter Commerce initiative with the purchase of Emptoris Inc., a provider of integrated solutions that orchestrate and manage the sourcing and procurement of goods and materials as part of supply chain management.
Crashing While Driving While Texting
Todd Watson  
12/14/2011   1 comment
The National Transportation Safety Board is heading in the right direction.
Flying Through Your Datacenter
Todd Watson  
12/12/2011   Post a comment
IBM's Smarter Computing Workload Simulator gives CIOs a fast and easy way to view areas of potential savings and efficiency.
Vacation Over, or Getting Over Vacation
Todd Watson  
12/9/2011   Post a comment
IBM has unveiled seven new social networking and collaboration mobile apps.
IBM to Acquire Curam Software
Todd Watson  
12/5/2011   Post a comment
IBM acquired Curam Software, a leading provider of social program software solutions, delivering best-in-class solutions for social enterprises globally, including health and human services, workforce services, and social security organizations.
Details From the Turbocation: All TurboTech, All the Time
Todd Watson  
12/5/2011   Post a comment
Turbo reports from Bonefish Cay in the South Atlantic, including updates on Internet and power access – and high winds.




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Mary E. Shacklett
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.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   18 comments
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?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   7 comments
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.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
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.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 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   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


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.

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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.

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