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Comment: Re: Two words... - torriatte - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - torriatte - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: On my wishlist - bri77 - 6/30/2010
Feds Seek Input on Trusted Identities Plan
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
6/30/2010   6 comments
A first draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is available for public comment
Comment: re: SaaS - Brian Newby - 6/30/2010
Comment: Truly heartening - nasimson - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: On my wishlist - chayes - 6/30/2010
Comment: re: SaaS - ivka - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: On my wishlist - pcharles - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: On my wishlist - chayes - 6/30/2010
Comment: Re: On my wishlist - Ariella - 6/30/2010
Comment: re: SaaS - ivka - 6/30/2010
Comment: re: SaaS - Michael Bennett Cohn - 6/30/2010
Comment: On my wishlist - chayes - 6/30/2010
Comment: re: SaaS - Mary Jander - 6/30/2010
Comment: re: SaaS - Brian Newby - 6/30/2010
SaaS Takes the Pressure off Desktops
Scott Koegler  
6/30/2010   22 comments
Recent services from Adobe and Google demonstrate the power of online upgrades for apps that formerly took hefty bandwidth and CPU cycles
Comment: How long is awhile??? - aum007 - 6/27/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - tsaleem - 6/27/2010
Comment: What Are The Odds? - kq4ym - 6/27/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - chuckgregory - 6/26/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - addvalue - 6/26/2010
Comment: Two words... - addvalue - 6/26/2010
Comment: It's about time - dbergman - 6/25/2010
Comment: Comparing Clouds - CloudNinja - 6/25/2010
Comment: Cloud, Fog... - Bill The Cat - 6/25/2010
Tutorial Takes On Supply Chain Optimization
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/25/2010   6 comments
Recent manufacturing shortages highlight the need for CIOs to design holistic systems without breaking existing technology
Cloud's Forecast Grows Contentious
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/24/2010   3 comments
Real enterprise cloud services are in the works, but it will take some time for full-scale deployment. Watch the government space
Comment: Re: Sounds good - SeanFromIT - 6/24/2010
Comment: Re: Sounds good - Terry Sweeney - 6/24/2010
How Clouds Are Working for Public Sector Users
Jeff Kaplan  
6/24/2010   10 comments
Contrary to some reports, this author finds public sector agencies, from the local to the federal, embracing cloud computing
Comment: For That Matter CICS - jabailo - 6/24/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - tnieusma - 6/24/2010
Comment: I agree - SeanFromIT - 6/24/2010
Comment: Sounds good - SeanFromIT - 6/24/2010
Let's Get Our Heads Out of the 'Cloud'
Gideon J. Lenkey  
6/24/2010   19 comments
Sorry, you cloud mavens: There's nothing new about this model of computing, not even on the Internet
A Manifesto in the Name of Privacy
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
6/23/2010   5 comments
The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy group has issued a 14-point bill of rights for users of social media
Comment: Too many cooks... - Drowlord - 6/23/2010
Students to IBM: Think Local, Act Global
Todd Watson  
6/23/2010   2 comments
Both students and CEOs believe that creativity is the most important emerging competency of future leaders
How the Web Changed Software Development
Mary E. Shacklett  
6/23/2010   16 comments
IT professionals find the old SDLC changed significantly from the pre-Web days
Comment: Not fade away - EJHarnois - 6/22/2010
Comment: invoice automation - combuster - 6/21/2010
Midmarket Tackles Invoicing Automation
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
6/21/2010   2 comments
Dumping pen and paper systems helped some companies average a $4.84-per-invoice processing cost and a 3.7-day cycle time to process a single invoice
Side-Saddle Sari
Todd Watson  
6/21/2010   1 comment
IBM has regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in 14 cities, including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai
Comment: Re: Great Advice - jkaplan - 6/20/2010
Comment: Great Advice - DavidSilversmith - 6/20/2010
Comment: tweets won't fade too - tsaleem - 6/20/2010
Comment: Not a real book - JoeFoster - 6/19/2010
An Integrated Apps Platform Keeps Delta Flying
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/18/2010   Post a comment
Content management, electronic signature capture, sales playbooks, and SaaS-based workflows helped shorten sales cycles at Delta Airlines
Comment: Re: Targeted Fishing? - knoxzoo - 6/18/2010
Comment: Targeted Fishing? - knoxzoo - 6/17/2010
Comment: Measure & Store - Terry Sweeney - 6/17/2010
'Fading' May Not Protect Personal Data
Sean Gallagher  
6/17/2010   15 comments
Techniques for making personal data more general over time probably won't help much more than common sense does today
IBM Acquisitions: It's All About Enterprise Data
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/17/2010   7 comments
IBM's plans to buy Coremetrics and Storwize demonstrate the growing importance of managing enterprise data fueled by the Web
Comment: Still waiting - Mary Jander - 6/17/2010
Comment: Re: NOT there yet!!! - cbrown - 6/16/2010
The Massive New IBM Mass Lab
Todd Watson  
6/16/2010   Post a comment
While it's the largest in North America, the IBM Mass Lab is one of 70 IBM Software Labs around the globe
Comment: Re: NOT there yet!!! - Kurtkeys - 6/16/2010
Comment: Re: NOT there yet!!! - cbrown - 6/16/2010
Comment: NOT there yet!!! - Kurtkeys - 6/15/2010
IBM to Acquire Coremetrics
Todd Watson  
6/15/2010   1 comment
Coremetrics' Software-as-a-service technology provides the insight and tools to target customers with relevant content or products
Comment: Are we there yet? - Mary Jander - 6/15/2010
'Cloud Computing 2.0' Will Change Your Business
Jeff Kaplan  
6/15/2010   12 comments
With the widespread adoption of cloud services, enterprise are going to see these services turn around and shape their organizational policies
Cached Online Databases Don't Mean 'NoSQL'
Gordon Haff  
6/14/2010   9 comments
Memcached and other techniques for reducing the amount of time required to process online transactions won't replace relational DBs anytime soon
'Stack Wars' Rage Among Enterprise Suppliers
David Vellante  
6/14/2010   5 comments
Enterprise IT vendors duke it out to become top supplier of all-around hardware, software, and services to Web-enabled customers
Comment: Re: Funny Segway - pcharles - 6/13/2010
Comment: Re: Funny Segway - Chris Poley - 6/13/2010
Comment: Funny Segway - pcharles - 6/11/2010
Comment: Re: Part of the Job? - pcharles - 6/11/2010
Comment: Part of the Job? - rjacksix - 6/11/2010
5 Pillars for an Enterprise Semantic Web
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/11/2010   5 comments
Companies like Boeing, and US government entities like NASA and the TVA, are using semantic-based technologies to improve their IT systems
Comment: Re: BP and the EPA - Joe Grimm - 6/10/2010
Comment: Re: BP and the EPA - MacAaron - 6/10/2010
Comment: Re: BP and the EPA - MacAaron - 6/10/2010
Comment: Re: BP and the EPA - MacAaron - 6/10/2010
Comment: Re: BP and the EPA - MacAaron - 6/10/2010
Comment: BP and the EPA - MacAaron - 6/10/2010
Comment: Re: Totally agree - Mary Jander - 6/10/2010
Comment: Totally agree - smkinoshita - 6/10/2010
It's Time for IT to Double-Check That DR Plan
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/10/2010   26 comments
If you've got a disaster recovery plan in place but haven't documented or tested it regularly, you need to wake up
 Richard A. Martin, Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access, EPA
IE Radio  
6/10/2010   115 comments
As the director of the office of information analysis and access at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Rick Martin provides executive oversight for environmental programs, and he develops and manages public access tools for EPA.gov. He'll talk about his work with the federal CIO’s data.gov and cloud computing working groups, and the ways in which the EPA is using Web 2.0 and location-based services to affect policy and better serve citizens and communities across the United States.
VA Gathers Winning Web Apps From Employees
Craig Agranoff  
6/10/2010   10 comments
The Veterans Administration reached out internally and got a list of winning suggestions for IT upgrades and innovations
Comment: SSO Won't Work. - robjvargas - 6/8/2010
Comment: Stupid!&+34Hj - Chris Poley - 6/8/2010
Comment: lets not forget SSO - tsaleem - 6/8/2010
Comment: Maybe - but not yet - sbondy - 6/7/2010
Biometrics Could Simplify Password Management
Mary E. Shacklett  
6/7/2010   40 comments
At long last, biometric technology is moving from its specialized niche to become an alternative for enterprise password management
Comment: Re: Some questions - bstarn - 6/6/2010
Comment: Re: Some questions - mhhfive - 6/6/2010
Comment: Re: Some questions - bstarn - 6/5/2010
Comment: Smarter x - nasimson - 6/5/2010
Comment: Thank you - javeriayounes - 6/5/2010
Innovate: Smarter Software
Todd Watson  
6/4/2010   2 comments
This year's Rational software conference includes software guru Grady Booch and Segway inventor Dean Kamen
Getting Your Enterprise Ready for CaaS
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/4/2010   Post a comment
Budget restraints, limited IT expertise, and unwillingness to undertake large capital expenditures may be inspiring some to take a second look
Comment: Setting limits - mnt.code - 6/4/2010
When Two (or More) Nets Are Better Than One
Bill St. Arnaud  
6/4/2010   11 comments
Research networks are pointing to trends toward federated and virtual networks, which are replacing traditional hierarchical Web subnets
Report: Video Traffic to Triple by 2014
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/3/2010   10 comments
A recent report from Cisco underscores what you already know – multimedia is hitting the business Net, and it's time to set policies
Comment: Start with OWASP... - mnt.code - 6/2/2010
Microsoft Juggles Innovation & Insecurity
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
6/2/2010   8 comments
Apple's larger market cap and reports of Google shunning Windows internally expose Microsoft's frailties
H4ck3d & Pwn3d: A Cautionary Tale
Jart Armin  
6/2/2010   17 comments
What looked like a simple defacement was actually a hack where backdoor Trojans were dropped on to some servers
Mobile Apps Must Contend With Employee Resistance
Mary E. Shacklett  
6/2/2010   24 comments
Some industrial users are pushing back against the game-changing ways of new wireless and mobile apps
Comment: statistics .. - nasimson - 6/1/2010
Why Methodology Matters With Software
Daniel W. Rasmus  
6/1/2010   8 comments
'Lean development' offers enterprises more agility in the wake of numerous variables and intangibles




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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   8 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.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
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