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Todd Watson
Posts posted in May 2011
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
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5/28/2011   Post a comment
Todd highlights software guru Grady Booch, Watson the Jeopardy winner, and IBM's smarter healthcare initiatives.
Pickpocketing My Google Wallet
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5/26/2011   Post a comment
Naysayers may complain - "It isn't perfect. It isn't secure. It isn't Apple!"
Bank on The Run
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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
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5/25/2011   Post a comment
Technology doesn't seem to be faring well in terms of predicting these tornadoes and storms.
From Russia With Bailouts
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5/24/2011   4 comments
Todd is musing on Russian search engines, TweetDeck, and Too Big to Fail.
Big Golf, Big Data
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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
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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
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5/16/2011   Post a comment
The new resources include no-charge financial and technology assessments, skills training courses, and proofs of concepts.
Innovate 2011 Conference: Profit From Software
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5/13/2011   Post a comment
IBM's premier event for software and systems innovation is just around the corner.
The Social Wars
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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.
Skype In or Out: The Most Expensive VOIP Call in History
Todd Watson  
5/10/2011   1 comment
Of course, you also will now see Skype moving into the X-Box, Kinect, SharePoint, Outlook... the list goes on.
Smarter Consumers, Smarter Commerce
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5/10/2011   3 comments
With a more empowered, engaged, and considered consumer... what's a poor brand to do?
Hasta Siempre, Seve
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5/9/2011   Post a comment
A celebrated and widely admired Spanish golfer finally succumbed to brain cancer.
Planets Aligned
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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
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5/5/2011   5 comments
Fifty professors from 40 universities in 14 countries have been recognized with Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation awards.
IBM Survey Results: The State of Marketing 2011
Todd Watson  
5/3/2011   2 comments
The study represents a comprehensive survey of almost 300 online and direct marketers from a mix of companies, revenues, and industries.
All Tweets on Deck
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5/3/2011   2 comments
After the Bin Laden episode, Twitter may need all the horsepower it can get.
Geronimo Is KIA
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5/2/2011   Post a comment
In which we learn what Osama's code name was for this raid
Royal Friday
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5/2/2011   Post a comment
I am in sunny Austin, Texas, wishing it was a bank holiday here in the US as well




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Harry Hawk   6/20/2013   1 comment
Social networking sites and search engines continue to hone the tools they use to help advertisers spread their messages, measure results, and avoid fraud.
Jason Mick
Jason Mick   6/19/2013   7 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.
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John Kennedy
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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