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Comment: Old School Methods - MShellC - 5/31/2010
Comment: Happier with IPad - Asad - 5/31/2010
Comment: Tough questions - bri77 - 5/31/2010
Comment: Re: Sell to non-techies - bri77 - 5/31/2010
Comment: E-book readers - rjmcgarvey - 5/31/2010
Comment: Hilarious! - ivka - 5/31/2010
Comment: DRM = Annoying - Cayce - 5/31/2010
Comment: Re: Interesting - happyzhu - 5/31/2010
AT&T: Why IPTV
Not Dr. Phil  
5/31/2010   Post a comment
AT&T showed off lots of improvements to its IPTV service this week. What are the implications?
E-Book Piracy & the iPad: Reality Check
Robert McGarvey  
5/31/2010   29 comments
Some think that iPad sales will spawn a tsunami of e-book piracy. Here's why that's not likely to happen
Comment: Portals Are Doomed - jabailo - 5/30/2010
Comment: Re: Welcome to Enron - jabailo - 5/30/2010
Comment: Welcome to Enron - jabailo - 5/30/2010
Comment: Not So Soon! - Princess_dascho - 5/29/2010
Comment: Re: not impressed - AGreen - 5/29/2010
Comment: Early Days - abdlah - 5/28/2010
Comment: Values and Valuations - Carol - 5/28/2010
Comment: Re: I agree - Alan Reiter - 5/28/2010
Comment: I agree - Michael P. Kassner - 5/28/2010
Comment: Re: Not sure I agree - Ariella - 5/28/2010
Apple Outstrips Microsoft in Valuation – and Dangerous Policies
Alan Reiter  
5/28/2010   62 comments
Apple may have done the incredible, stock-wise, but its policies on content and other issues are questionable
Comment: Re: My Media Room - torriatte - 5/28/2010
Comment: not impressed - Chris Poley - 5/28/2010
Comment: Re: Interesting - Brian Newby - 5/28/2010
Comment: Interesting - nathanwosnack - 5/28/2010
Yahoo Will Be Chief Beneficiary of Deal With Nokia
Susan Fourtané  
5/28/2010   31 comments
Yahoo needs Nokia much more than the Finnish mobile supplier needs Yahoo
Comment: A common condition - AGreen - 5/27/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Alan Reiter - 5/27/2010
I Have a Technology Problem
Todd Watson  
5/27/2010   13 comments
This blog post was written using my brand new iPad, so at least one utilitarian purpose has now been uncovered since I bought it
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Alan Reiter - 5/27/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Alan Reiter - 5/27/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Alan Reiter - 5/27/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Mr. Roques - 5/27/2010
Comment: Nice Post Terry!! - aum007 - 5/27/2010
Comment: Happy for Yahoo - Mashka - 5/27/2010
Comment: different mentality - Mashka - 5/27/2010
File Sharing's a Misdemeanor, Not a Federal Offense
Second Shooter  
5/27/2010   2 comments
80% of perps don’t even know they are doing it!
Comment: Re: My Media Room - hounhosp - 5/26/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Mr. Roques - 5/26/2010
Dialing Up Facebook's Insecurities
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
5/26/2010   12 comments
Once again, from the top: Nothing you post on Facebook (or anywhere else) is private, including your phone number
Comment: Re: My Media Room - jabailo - 5/26/2010
Comment: Re: My Media Room - Alan Reiter - 5/26/2010
Comment: My Media Room - jabailo - 5/26/2010
Comment: Getting Away With Free - DHagar - 5/25/2010
Comment: Re: Twitter - Rich Adler - 5/25/2010
Comment: Already There - SeanFromIT - 5/25/2010
The Yahoo/Nokia Modest Mobile Partnership
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/25/2010   4 comments
The new partnership between Nokia and Yahoo will boost Yahoo's location services and help Nokia with US brand recognition
Comment: Twitter - jwallace - 5/25/2010
Comment: Re: Free isn't free - rswinney - 5/25/2010
Comment: A waste of capital - lek1981 - 5/25/2010
Comment: Re: Free isn't free - Ariella - 5/25/2010
Comment: Free isn't free - Mary Jander - 5/25/2010
Getting Away With Free
Editor's Blog  
5/25/2010   37 comments
On the Web, where everything is 'free,' companies tend to get away with weak privacy controls and weaker customer service
Google TV: Logical, Evolutionary, Useful, Fun... & Crashable
Alan Reiter  
5/25/2010   52 comments
It's time to stop whining about Google and start embracing its plan to bring the Internet to our TVs
Comment: Yes, but... - Drowlord - 5/24/2010
Comment: political aspect - Terri Eberle - 5/22/2010
Comment: Finally, a dud. - osayi - 5/21/2010
YouTube: Watch Out for Sound 'Bites'
Second Shooter  
5/21/2010   2 comments
YouTube just celebrated a birthday, but it's yet to figure out how to make money.
Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/21/2010   3 comments
Google's App Engine for Business and enhancements to its next Android mobile OS are giving CIOs much to consider for designing their winning technology strategies
Comment: Agree - Fiercesome - 5/21/2010
Comment: Re: 14 vs. 5 - Joe Stanganelli - 5/21/2010
Comment: Re: 14 vs. 5 - Princess_dascho - 5/20/2010
Comment: It Depends - Joe Stanganelli - 5/20/2010
Comment: Re: 14 vs. 5 - Nicole Ferraro - 5/20/2010
Comment: 14 vs. 5 - Joe Stanganelli - 5/20/2010
 Gary Kremen, Investor & Entrepreneur
IE Radio  
5/20/2010   156 comments
Internet entrepreneur and investor Gary Kremen will talk about his experience starting (and selling) Match.com, as well as lessons learned from owning the sex.com domain (and having it hijacked). Kremen will also discuss more recent investments in Dolores Labs and other Internet start-ups
Comment: Moving targets - danielwrasmus - 5/20/2010
Comment: Double-Edged Sword - kenton - 5/20/2010
Comment: Anonymity? - mnt.code - 5/20/2010
Comment: Great point - Mary Jander - 5/19/2010
The Tale Your Browser Tells On You
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
5/19/2010   11 comments
An Electronic Frontier Foundation study creates browser 'fingerprints' of more than 470,000 users
Comment: promises promises - Chris Poley - 5/19/2010
Comment: Blame Canada? - nathanwosnack - 5/19/2010
Internet Storage, Part 1
Mary E. Shacklett  
5/19/2010   3 comments
Large, unstructured files are generating a data explosion within enterprises.
Comment: Well said - Mary Jander - 5/19/2010
Comment: More of the same - chayes - 5/19/2010
Comment: do not believe it - Mashka - 5/19/2010
Comment: You're Fired! - DHagar - 5/18/2010
Comment: Re: It depends! - pcharles - 5/18/2010
Comment: Re: The bottom line - pcharles - 5/18/2010
Comment: Is the RIAA to blame? - Guenter - 5/18/2010
Comment: Re: The bottom line - dlavie - 5/18/2010
Comment: They're done... - countzero - 5/18/2010
Poll: 36% Say They're Done With Facebook
Editor's Blog  
5/18/2010   36 comments
As the noise around Facebook's privacy issues gets louder, some users claim they're abandoning the site
Comment: Re: It depends! - nathanwosnack - 5/18/2010
Comment: It depends! - hounhosp - 5/18/2010
The Cat in the Hat Came Back
Cirque Du Solez  
5/18/2010   5 comments
What do President Obama’s iPod and multitasking have in common? Canada?
The Problems With Personal Data Collection
Daniel W. Rasmus  
5/18/2010   24 comments
With Facebook, Google, and others, we give tacit permission to have our information exposed in ways we can't anticipate
You're Fired!
Internet Evolution Poll  
5/17/2010   13 comments
Do you think employees should be fired for posting inappropriate or offensive comments on social networks?
Comment: Why this bitterness? - hounhosp - 5/17/2010
YouTube's Fifth Birthday: No Gifts, Just Praise
Editor's Blog  
5/17/2010   20 comments
All YouTube wants for its birthday is for you to bow at its golden feet
Comment: Re: Query - Kurtkeys - 5/17/2010
Comment: Re: Query - Craig Agranoff - 5/17/2010
Comment: Query - Chris Poley - 5/17/2010
What the Music Industry Must Learn From Hollywood
Craig Agranoff  
5/17/2010   13 comments
The music industry is pursuing a self-defeating path in marketing and marshaling its digital rights
Comment: City Parking App - pcharles - 5/16/2010
Newspeak
Todd Watson  
5/13/2010   3 comments
If we are destined for a dystopian Big Brother future, shouldn't we be the ones helping to determine Facebook's grand plan?
Comment: Re: I see the same - pjpugliese - 5/13/2010
Comment: Facebook Follies - Mike Acker - 5/13/2010
Facebook Exec Finds His Empathy
Editor's Blog  
5/13/2010   18 comments
Facebook exec takes questions from readers of The New York Times... sort of
Un-Cryptic NSA Talks Crypto on IE Radio
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
5/12/2010   Post a comment
The NSA's Margaret Salter talks about how the government locks down information to keep it safe for its intended audience
Comment: Re: Nice review - Alan Reiter - 5/12/2010
Comment: Re: e-book 2.o - SteveGNYC - 5/12/2010
What I Can't Stand About Email Marketing
Scott Westerlaken  
5/12/2010   31 comments
An online marketing consultant lets loose with his pet peeves concerning this particular type of Internet outreach
Comment: All things - dbergman - 5/11/2010
Comment: It's been six years... - modza - 5/11/2010
Comment: Re: e-book 2.o - SteveGNYC - 5/11/2010
President Obama Laments Mis-Information Overload
Editor's Blog  
5/10/2010   9 comments
In a commencement address, President Obama says newfangled devices are causing us to consume distracting information
Comment: Re: Not so different - tech_ed - 5/10/2010
Web 2.0 Expo: Beyond the Browser
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/10/2010   3 comments
While insightful, there are still a lot of questions about the direction of the Web 2.0 economy
Mobile Broadband: Agent of World Change by 2015
Rob Salkowitz  
5/10/2010   10 comments
Predictions of wireless market growth point to mobile data applications that could revolutionize developing economies
Comment: Not so different - tech_ed - 5/10/2010
Comment: Re: Very Interesting - Ariella - 5/10/2010
Comment: Very Interesting - jnieusma - 5/10/2010
Comment: e-book 2.o - Robert McGarvey - 5/10/2010
Comment: Re: Too bad - kerryf - 5/10/2010
'Google Editions' Could Transform Publishing
Robert McGarvey  
5/10/2010   12 comments
Google's plans for a digital book marketplace could draw in Apple and Amazon, transforming book publishing with a new cloud-based model
Comment: is it really so bad - dbergman - 5/9/2010
Comment: Re: interests - Vineeta Shetty - 5/9/2010
Comment: Re: Wow!!! - homesteadtraders - 5/8/2010
Comment: Re: The bottom line - pcharles - 5/8/2010
Comment: interests - Mashka - 5/8/2010
Comment: show the breasts - Mashka - 5/8/2010
Comment: Wow!!! - Natalies_mommy - 5/7/2010
Beautiful JobSeekers.com Built on Ugly Premise
Editor's Blog  
5/7/2010   32 comments
A new online job board welcomes resumés from people who are good-looking enough to be worthy of work
Comment: Its out there - jnieusma - 5/7/2010
Comment: Outcome unclear - Mary Jander - 5/7/2010
'Linking' Your Way to More Click-Throughs
Dan Cypra  
5/7/2010   11 comments
Where you position links in your business newsletters determines their success with online readers
Comment: Likewise the US - jabailo - 5/7/2010
Comment: A Closeted Nation - jabailo - 5/7/2010
Comment: Re: e-books - Vineeta Shetty - 5/7/2010
Comment: privacy is so 80's - dlavie - 5/7/2010
Comment: Re: Gross - nannis - 5/7/2010
Rupert Murdoch Could Lose UK Election
George Taylor  
5/7/2010   9 comments
The head of News Corp., heavily involved in the UK election, just might find himself damaged by it
Readers Vote to Regulate Social Networks
Editor's Blog  
5/6/2010   12 comments
Sixty-two percent of poll takers want the FTC to regulate how social networking sites can share user data
Comment: Re: Maybe the ISP's? - cbrown - 5/6/2010
Comment: Re: e-books - javeriayounes - 5/6/2010
Comment: social networking - dbergman - 5/5/2010
Comment: Re: Maybe the ISP's? - kenton - 5/5/2010
Comment: Maybe the ISP's? - kenton - 5/5/2010
Chinese Anti-Spam Moves Pay Dividends
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
5/5/2010   11 comments
Government intervention can make a difference where spam's concerned, and recent numbers out of China prove it
Comment: Re: e-books - Terry Sweeney - 5/5/2010
Comment: Re: Internet - Paul Whyte - 5/5/2010
Comment: comparison? - Terri Eberle - 5/5/2010
Comment: Re: e-books - RobyAbraham - 5/5/2010
Comment: e-books - javeriayounes - 5/5/2010
Comment: Internet - Cherrie - 5/5/2010
India Scopes Online Book Market
Vineeta Shetty  
5/5/2010   15 comments
Publishers, authors, and users are preparing for what could be a booming business in online books in India
Comment: Re: Tagging's enough - KMT568 - 5/4/2010
Comment: In Your Face - chuckgregory - 5/3/2010
Comment: Tagging's enough - Mary Jander - 5/3/2010
Comment: Re: Exciting Stuff - ChrisTOP - 5/3/2010
Comment: Re: Exciting Stuff - tnieusma - 5/3/2010
Comment: Re: Exciting Stuff - Ariella - 5/3/2010
Comment: Exciting Stuff - tnieusma - 5/3/2010
Face.com Opens Up to Developers
Editor's Blog  
5/3/2010   12 comments
Face.com opens up, making its facial recognition technology available to the developer community
Comment: I vote for... - Mary Jander - 5/3/2010
Future Scenarios of the Internet in China
Daniel W. Rasmus  
5/3/2010   14 comments
Given current trends, there are at least four ways the Internet in China could emerge over time




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Jason Mick   6/19/2013   5 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.
Charlotte Erdmann
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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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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NSA Leaks Shine Spotlight on Perils of Contractor Partnerships
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The US National Security Agency learned the
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