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Posts posted in May 2012
Trash Talk
Todd Watson  
5/31/2012   1 comment
IBM applies smart computing to the challenge of waste disposal.
The Virtual US Open: Open for Olympic
Todd Watson  
5/31/2012   Post a comment
The newly launched Website for this year's US Open is powered by IBM's cloud computing technology.
Internet Insecurity
Todd Watson  
5/31/2012   Post a comment
Highly sophisticated malware infects systems in Iran and elsewhere.
Holiday Chatter
Todd Watson  
5/29/2012   1 comment
Post-Memorial Day musings, and travel sentiment analysis.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM Product Manager Mark Frigon on Smarter Web Analytics & Privacy
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5/24/2012   Post a comment
Talking with Mark Frigon about analytics and Internet privacy.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM VP Maria Winans on Smarter Commerce Marketing
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5/24/2012   Post a comment
Maria Winans of IBM Software on the trend toward communicating more with the "line-of-business" customer set.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Jose Luis-Iribarren on Social Network Diffusion
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5/24/2012   Post a comment
A former IBMer recalls pathfinding days in social networking.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Marriott’s Stephan Chase on Customer-Centricity
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5/24/2012   Post a comment
A top hotelier talks about customer relationships.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM VP & GM Yuchun Lee on Marketing Automation & Optimization
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5/24/2012   Post a comment
Chatting with Yuchun Lee about smarter commerce and enhanced social metrics.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM’s Mike Rhodin on Insight-Driven Computing
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5/23/2012   Post a comment
IBM vice president Mike Rhodin hit the stage this morning at the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit, with presenter emcee Jon Briggs introducing Mike as "the man who eats analytics for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Steve Cowley on the Smarter Commerce Opportunity
Todd Watson  
5/23/2012   Post a comment
IBM vice president of worldwide sales, IBM Industry Solutions group, Steve Cowley, talks about a number of topics, including the evolution of the Smarter Commerce opportunity.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Dr. Kareem Yusuf on Smarter Commerce & Cities Acquisitions
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5/23/2012   Post a comment
Turbo interviews Dr. Kareem Yusuf, IBM's executive responsible for both strategy and mergers and acquisitions for the industry solutions division.
New IBM CEO Study – Command & Control Meets Collaboration
Todd Watson  
5/22/2012   Post a comment
CEOs are changing the nature of their role, according to the new IBM CEO study.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM’s Yuchun Lee Doubles Down on Social Marketing
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5/22/2012   Post a comment
Smarter commerce is an important opportunity for enterprise marketing management.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: A Q&A With Mobile Startup Deja Mi CEO Justin Miller
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5/22/2012   Post a comment
Talking smarter commerce with Deja Mi CEO Justin Miller.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Craig Hayman on Remembering Great Customer Experiences
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5/22/2012   Post a comment
How smart customers benefit from adopting smarter commerce.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Deja Mi, Deja Vu
Todd Watson  
5/22/2012   Post a comment
Reflections on the opening day of the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit.
No More Business as Usual: The Road to Smarter Commerce
Todd Watson  
5/21/2012   2 comments
The evolution of commerce has led to today's demand for a better system of doing business, in which the customer is at the center of all operations.
Smarter Futbol
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5/21/2012   Post a comment
On a flight to Madrid, the author ponders the sport of soccer, or "futbol."
Happy Float, Facebook
Todd Watson  
5/18/2012   2 comments
You have to be excited about Facebook's IPO day.
IBM ImpactTV 2012 Instant Replay: Bob Sutor on Tackling the Massive Mobile Enterprise Opportunity
Todd Watson  
5/16/2012   Post a comment
IBM's VP of WebSphere Foundation and IBM mobile, Bob Sutor, shared his thoughts on a variety of topics pertaining to enterprise mobile, captured in this video.
Facebook Up Front
Todd Watson  
5/15/2012   Post a comment
Don't underestimate Facebook's place in a data-driven world.
What’s Your Mobile Use Case?
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5/14/2012   Post a comment
Turbo ponders a recent Nielsen survey about how US smartphone users use their phones.
Kooch!
Todd Watson  
5/14/2012   Post a comment
Matt Kuchar walked away with his biggest ever title on Mother’s Day, a sweet birdie putt on the 16th at Sawgrass, all but cementing his victory.
Happy Anniversary, Deep Blue
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5/14/2012   Post a comment
With IBM's Deep Blue project, researchers sought to discover and understand the limits and opportunities presented by massively parallel processing and high-performance computing.
Dead Solid Perfect
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5/11/2012   Post a comment
Golfing at Ponta Vedra.
IBM Business Analytics: Preventing Fraud, Predicting Profits
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5/10/2012   Post a comment
Predictive analytics can help enterprises combat fraud.
A Billion Angry Birds Served... & Counting
Todd Watson  
5/9/2012   13 comments
Angry Birds passes the 1 billion downloads mark.
IBM ImpactTV 2012 Instant Replay: IBM's Mike Rhodin
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5/8/2012   Post a comment
IBM's Mike Rhodin talks big-data, smarter commerce, the emerging LOB tech buyer, and Watson.
IBM Impact 2012: Q&A With Steve Jobs Biographer Walter Isaacson
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5/8/2012   Post a comment
Sitting down with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson to discuss Steve Jobs and innovation, the renaissance In New Orleans, and his coming book on the history of computing.
New IBM Security Study: Finding a Strategic Voice in the C-Suite
Todd Watson  
5/4/2012   Post a comment
The first-ever IBM security officers study reveals a clear evolution in information security organizations and their leaders.
IBM to Acquire Mobile Analytics Provider Tealeaf Technology
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5/4/2012   Post a comment
IBM acquires Tealeaf Technology to help organizations react faster to consumer trends.
Impact 2012: Steve Mills on How Transaction Processing Rules
Todd Watson  
5/1/2012   1 comment
Transactions make the world go around.
Forbes Business Leadership Forum @ Impact 2012: Put the Customer at the Center of Every Action
Todd Watson  
5/1/2012   1 comment
Forbes executives explain their approach to customer engagement.




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David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   9 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.
Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   15 comments
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
Joe Stanganelli
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   3 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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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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
As
Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.

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