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And the Winner Is…
Todd Watson  
6/30/2011   1 comment
Spoiler Alert: The company makes real-time data analysis that helps the makers of mobile phones and tablet apps better understand their clients.
Comment: Security Standards - Kim Davis - 6/30/2011
Comment: The Cloud Darkens - Bolingbroke - 6/30/2011
Comment: Still an Orphan - Bolingbroke - 6/30/2011
Moving IT up the Enterprise Priority Queue
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/30/2011   18 comments
Recent news points to the risks that accrue when IT isn't made a top enterprise priority.
Comment: Re: Tennessee storms - knoxzoo - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - abdlah - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Tennessee storms - knoxzoo - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - Mary Jander - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - magneticnorth - 6/27/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/25/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - Rich Adler - 6/25/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - abdlah - 6/25/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - abdlah - 6/25/2011
Comment: Tennessee storms - Chris Guppy - 6/25/2011
Comment: Re: contracted IT... - Kicheko - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Nicole Ferraro - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - smkinoshita - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - smkinoshita - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - Mary Jander - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - smkinoshita - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: contracted IT... - Kicheko - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Love it - Alan Reiter - 6/24/2011
Comment: Re: Still? - Rich Adler - 6/23/2011
Comment: contracted IT... - Rich Adler - 6/23/2011
Comment: Still? - abdlah - 6/23/2011
IT & the CEO: A Dangerous Gap
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/23/2011   31 comments
In many organizations, IT has become so important that the CEO has taken charge. In others, lack of CEO cooperation can be disastrous.
Comment: Re: Love it - smkinoshita - 6/23/2011
Comment: Love it - Nicole Ferraro - 6/22/2011
Anticipating the 'Joys' of iCloud Sharing
Alan Reiter  
6/21/2011   56 comments
Cloud computing for smartphones sounds terrific -- until you start thinking carefully about the potential for surprise.
Comment: Well done Watson - nasimson - 6/20/2011
Comment: transfer or hire - Mashka - 6/18/2011
Comment: Re: Were Ready - Mary Jander - 6/16/2011
Comment: Were Ready - The Dream Chaser - 6/16/2011
Kansas City, Here Comes Google... Slowly
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/16/2011   25 comments
Google's choice of Kansas City as the site of a planned high-speed broadband network has left some IT professionals disappointed -- even in KC.
Comment: to teach the teachers - Mashka - 6/13/2011
Comment: quality or quantity - Mashka - 6/13/2011
Comment: Re: Disconnect - smkinoshita - 6/13/2011
Comment: Re : Watson’s Webby - SunitaT - 6/13/2011
Comment: Growing Gap - cbernard - 6/12/2011
Comment: Re: The Cloud - Alan Reiter - 6/12/2011
Comment: Disconnect - dbergman - 6/11/2011
Enterprise Needs 'Big Data' Talent
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/10/2011   9 comments
In the next two years, the sexy job will be statistician, according to one analyst report.
In Search of US Technology Education That Works
Mary E. Shacklett  
6/9/2011   30 comments
The US no longer boasts the IT leadership it once had. The state of IT education in this country is partly to blame.
CIOs Dive Into Semantic Web
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/8/2011   16 comments
In applying these semantic technologies, enterprises are solving their particular need for making sense of data.
Comment: Re: Winner by default? - Gigi - 6/8/2011
Comment: The Apple backend... - mhhfive - 6/7/2011
Comment: The Cloud - The Dream Chaser - 6/7/2011
Comment: Co-opting Apps - Bolingbroke - 6/7/2011
Apple Bets Big on iCloud Strategy
Alan Reiter  
6/7/2011   47 comments
For Apple, the cloud will be the main storage system, serving as the source of data and updates across all devices.
Comment: I am your Apple - Mashka - 6/7/2011
Comment: Other musings - Michael Singer - 6/6/2011
Apple's Future in the Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
6/6/2011   3 comments
Lions and iPads and iClouds... Oh, my!
Watson’s Webby
Todd Watson  
6/3/2011   4 comments
The IBM supercomputer that outplayed Jeopardy! champions was just named person of the year by voters.
Ethernet Storms the Datacenter
Wisdom of the Big Chair  
6/2/2011   1 comment
Ethernet is poised to become the dominant method of connecting datacenter devices.




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Joe Stanganelli   5/20/2013   9 comments
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   8 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?
Ron Miller
Ron Miller   5/17/2013   19 comments
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
Alan Reiter
Alan Reiter   5/16/2013   31 comments
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   No 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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Todd Watson   5/17/2013   2 comments
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IT Suffers From Obama Admin's Jekyll & Hyde Approach to Privacy Rights
Ron Miller
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to
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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
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