Memorial Day Travel Whisperer Todd Watson 5/31/2011 1 comment Have you ever ever wondered what kind of practical insight can be garnered from the social media?
Calling Dr. Watson Todd Watson 5/28/2011 Post a comment Todd highlights software guru Grady Booch, Watson the Jeopardy winner, and IBM's smarter healthcare initiatives.
Bank on The Run Todd Watson 5/25/2011 4 comments An upcoming system called "ClearXchange" will let customers transfer money from their checking accounts using only a mobile number or email address.
Stormy Weather Todd Watson 5/25/2011 Post a comment Technology doesn't seem to be faring well in terms of predicting these tornadoes and storms.
Big Golf, Big Data Todd Watson 5/24/2011 Post a comment IBM has announced new, patented software capabilities to analyze massive volumes of streaming data.
LinkedIn Floats Todd Watson 5/19/2011 5 comments Does the interest in social and tech-related IPOs suggested a "tech bubble"?
New IBM CIO Study: Big Data, Bigger Clouds Todd Watson 5/17/2011 1 comment From a global perspective, seven out of 10 CIOs in the US, Japan, and South Korea, and 68 percent in China, now identify cloud as a top priority.
Migrating From Oracle to IBM Todd Watson 5/16/2011 Post a comment The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proofs of concepts.
The Social Wars Todd Watson 5/12/2011 3 comments Todd chimes in on how Facebook secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google and its privacy practices.
Hasta Siempre, Seve Todd Watson 5/9/2011 Post a comment A celebrated and widely admired Spanish golfer finally succumbed to brain cancer.
Planets Aligned Todd Watson 5/6/2011 1 comment Todd has always been a bit of a space junkie -- it's probably one of the reasons he ended up working in technology.
Back to School Todd Watson 5/5/2011 5 comments Fifty professors from 40 universities in 14 countries have been recognized with Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation awards.
Social networking sites and search engines continue to hone the tools they use to help advertisers spread their messages, measure results, and avoid fraud.
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.
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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