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Comment: Re: relieved! - dcuperus - 5/31/2011
Rounding Up the Web's Greatest Threats
Editor's Blog  
5/31/2011   15 comments
A new report on Internet Evolution investigates the five biggest threats to the Internet's future.
Comment: Analytics - Kim Davis - 5/31/2011
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?
Comment: Re: Cry me a tear - Mary Jander - 5/31/2011
Comment: Re: Cry me a tear - Kim Davis - 5/31/2011
Intuit CIO Offers Lessons for Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/31/2011   5 comments
Transforming a midmarket business into a larger enterprise means identifying future growth areas and capitalizing on technologies.
Comment: Re: Cry me a tear - Mary Jander - 5/31/2011
Comment: Re: relieved! - pcharles - 5/29/2011
Comment: Re: relieved! - dlavie - 5/28/2011
Comment: Game Changer! - Rich Adler - 5/28/2011
Comment: Re: Cry me a tear - Mr. Roques - 5/28/2011
Calling Dr. Watson
Todd Watson  
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
Todd Watson  
5/26/2011   Post a comment
Naysayers may complain - "It isn't perfect. It isn't secure. It isn't Apple!"
Comment: Re: security? - aum007 - 5/26/2011
Comment: Re: security? - tech_ed - 5/26/2011
Comment: Re: E-book revolution - cvargas - 5/26/2011
Enterprises Must Leverage E-Book Revolution
Reiter's Block  
5/26/2011   10 comments
Smart businesses will leverage the advantages of digital for their own publications.
Comment: Re: Sarkozy is Dangerous - Gigi - 5/26/2011
Comment: Re: security? - Todd Watson - 5/25/2011
Comment: security? - tech_ed - 5/25/2011
Bank on The Run
Todd Watson  
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
Todd Watson  
5/25/2011   Post a comment
Technology doesn't seem to be faring well in terms of predicting these tornadoes and storms.
Square Debuts 'Put It on My Tab' Mobile Payments
Alan Reiter  
5/25/2011   25 comments
Mobile payments firm Square has eliminated the need for a specialized card reader, paving the way for "put it on my tab" capabilities.
From Russia With Bailouts
Todd Watson  
5/24/2011   4 comments
Todd is musing on Russian search engines, TweetDeck, and Too Big to Fail.
Comment: Doublespeak - Bolingbroke - 5/24/2011
Luminaries Take to Paris to Figure Stuff Out
Editor's Blog  
5/24/2011   34 comments
The E-G8 is being held in France. Let's all watch together while nothing happens.
Comment: Re: wow! - Ron_Miller - 5/24/2011
Comment: wow! - Mashka - 5/24/2011
Comment: Room for Change - jabailo - 5/22/2011
Comment: Ingenuity - abdlah - 5/21/2011
Comment: Re : The Social Wars - Anand Y - 5/21/2011
Comment: what did Google do? - slfisher - 5/21/2011
Comment: Re: Target audience - dbergman - 5/20/2011
Comment: More on the Way ? - Bolingbroke - 5/20/2011
Comment: Re: Intriguing idea - Kim Davis - 5/20/2011
Allstate Purchase Highlights Value of Online Enterprise
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/20/2011   7 comments
The Esurance buy means the industry is likely to continue building new business models that favor low premiums for customers who choose the do-it-yourself path.
Comment: Re : LinkedIn Floats - Anand Y - 5/20/2011
Apple Patent Describes Cloud-Based iTunes
Singer at C-Level  
5/20/2011   4 comments
Apple's patents provide more details about its rumored cloud-based music service.
Comment: Re: Target audience - Anand Y - 5/20/2011
Comment: Target audience - Kim Davis - 5/20/2011
Startup Takes On Google, Apple in Mobile Ads
Ron Miller  
5/20/2011   26 comments
A 20-year-old entrepreneur offers a twist on presenting ads to gamers – and a challenge to the mobile ad establishment.
Comment: LinkedIn IPO - nasimson - 5/20/2011
LinkedIn Floats
Todd Watson  
5/19/2011   5 comments
Does the interest in social and tech-related IPOs suggested a "tech bubble"?
Comment: Re: Go Netflix - Kim Davis - 5/18/2011
Comment: Competition Helps - abdlah - 5/18/2011
Comment: Re: good branding - Alan Reiter - 5/18/2011
Comment: Popularity Contests? - kq4ym - 5/18/2011
Comment: Re: Go Netflix - Bolingbroke - 5/17/2011
Comment: Go Netflix - Mary Jander - 5/17/2011
Netflix Crushing Peak Streaming
Editor's Blog  
5/17/2011   12 comments
Figures show Netflix leading the prime time pack in video down-streaming.
Comment: Re: Bah! - JC Cameron - 5/17/2011
Comment: Re: When indeed - Mary Jander - 5/17/2011
EU & US Divide on 'Right to Be Forgotten'
Steven C. Bennett  
5/17/2011   36 comments
In Europe and America, the issue of when it's OK to mandate the removal of online content at someone's behest continues to arise.
Comment: almost legal piracy - Mashka - 5/17/2011
Comment: Re: When indeed - Mary Jander - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: Bah! - knoxzoo - 5/16/2011
The Perils of Piracy
Editor's Blog  
5/16/2011   15 comments
Lawyers for production companies are requesting IP addresses associated with ripping copyrighted content and threatening individuals with litigation.
Comment: Re: wrong - Michael Singer - 5/16/2011
Comment: Bah! - Chris Poley - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: When indeed - Kim Davis - 5/16/2011
Comment: ObXKCD - davidmanheim - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: When indeed - chuckgregory - 5/16/2011
Google Rules in Public Approval
John Myers  
5/16/2011   44 comments
Tech firms with a solid Internet presence or interest were the winners in a 2010 survey of US popularity.
Comment: Re: When indeed - Mary Jander - 5/16/2011
Comment: When indeed - Mary Jander - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: Dying breed - SteveGNYC - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: Dying breed - Ariella - 5/16/2011
Comment: Re: Love it! - nimantha.de - 5/16/2011
Comment: Love it! - HomoDorkius - 5/16/2011
Adulterous Site Outsmarts Apple & Google
Joe Stanganelli  
5/16/2011   47 comments
Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people, took just two days to develop its iWipe app to erase location data tracked by smartphones.
Comment: Interesting but.... - sbewley - 5/15/2011
Comment: wrong - dbergman - 5/14/2011
Comment: Re: Dying breed - Ron_Miller - 5/14/2011
Comment: Dying breed - slfisher - 5/14/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Michael Singer - 5/13/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Alan Reiter - 5/13/2011
Comment: Re: the price? - Kim Davis - 5/13/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Michael Singer - 5/13/2011
Chromebook for Enterprise: Tempting, but Look Twice
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/13/2011   17 comments
Companies considering Chromebooks in this untested stage will undoubtedly be taking a huge leap of faith.
Record Labels Squander Chance With Google Music
Ron Miller  
5/13/2011   26 comments
Once again, the major record labels have looked a gift horse in the mouth -- and spit in its face.
Comment: Re: the price? - Ron_Miller - 5/13/2011
Comment: Re: the price? - Mashka - 5/13/2011
Comment: Re: cable TV - Kim Davis - 5/12/2011
Comment: Re: cable TV - JC Cameron - 5/12/2011
The Social Wars
Todd Watson  
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.
The Web's 'Best Law' Endures
Robert McGarvey  
5/12/2011   16 comments
Section 230 protects sites from liability for defamatory content, but it doesn't coddle malicious posters.
Comment: Re: Annoying! - Alan Reiter - 5/11/2011
Comment: Re: Annoying! - Mary Jander - 5/11/2011
Comment: Re: Annoying! - Alan Reiter - 5/11/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Alan Reiter - 5/11/2011
Comment: Re: Annoying! - Alan Reiter - 5/11/2011
Google, Ford Drive Predictive Analytics in the Cloud
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/11/2011   11 comments
The companies are using predictive analytics and cloud-stored data to allow a vehicle essentially to optimize itself.
Comment: I'm all for it - scucci - 5/11/2011
Comment: Re: Annoying! - Mary Jander - 5/10/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Michael Singer - 5/10/2011
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
Todd Watson  
5/10/2011   3 comments
With a more empowered, engaged, and considered consumer... what's a poor brand to do?
Comment: Annoying! - Nicole Ferraro - 5/10/2011
Comment: on a siode note - Kurtkeys - 5/10/2011
Comment: Re: I get it - Alan Reiter - 5/10/2011
Comment: Re: Field trips - Mary Jander - 5/10/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Kim Davis - 5/10/2011
Comment: brilliant - Kurtkeys - 5/10/2011
Comment: I get it - Kurtkeys - 5/10/2011
Comment: Re: Field trips - Kurtkeys - 5/10/2011
Comment: tech support needed - Kurtkeys - 5/10/2011
Rentals: YouTube’s Savior?
Internet Evolution Poll  
5/10/2011   13 comments
YouTube is expanding its online video rental service. Do you think rentals will make the site profitable?
Charting the Rise of Virtual Education
Susan Fourtané  
5/10/2011   60 comments
Second Life Education represents the start of a virtual education movement that will eventually transform learning as we know it.
Website Email Forwarding Annoyances
Reiter's Block  
5/10/2011   13 comments
If you send URLs via email on a cellphone, you don't know what will show up in the subject line.
Comment: cable TV - dbergman - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Nicole Ferraro - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Kim Davis - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Kim Davis - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Nicole Ferraro - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Michael Singer - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Kim Davis - 5/9/2011
Google to Aim Android, Chrome at Midmarket
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
5/9/2011   6 comments
Google is expected to persuade midmarket companies to use its mobile and browser products.
Comment: Re: Pandora - Bolingbroke - 5/9/2011
Comment: Re: Pandora - Kim Davis - 5/9/2011
Comment: Pandora - Nicole Ferraro - 5/9/2011
Computing Comedy
Kim Davis  
5/9/2011   11 comments
Pandora.com has released 10,000 comedy clips on its site and developed a search algorithm.
No, Every Child Does Not Need an iPad
Editor's Blog  
5/9/2011   21 comments
Calm yourself, Apple toadies. The iPad will not save the youth of America no matter how many blogs you write insisting otherwise.
Hasta Siempre, Seve
Todd Watson  
5/9/2011   Post a comment
A celebrated and widely admired Spanish golfer finally succumbed to brain cancer.
Comment: Re: the price? - SteveGNYC - 5/8/2011
Comment: Re: the price? - Ron_Miller - 5/8/2011
Comment: the price? - Mashka - 5/8/2011
Comment: who re the users? - Mashka - 5/8/2011
Comment: Re : Back to School - SunitaT - 5/7/2011
Students Map Out the Future of Mobile Work
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/6/2011   6 comments
Solving the problems of remote collaboration, information overload, trust, globalization, and environmental sustainability could be as simple as flapping your arms.
Planets Aligned
Todd Watson  
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.
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Ron_Miller - 5/5/2011
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Kim Davis - 5/5/2011
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Ron_Miller - 5/5/2011
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Nicole Ferraro - 5/5/2011
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Kim Davis - 5/5/2011
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Nicole Ferraro - 5/5/2011
Comment: Streaming Junk - Bolingbroke - 5/5/2011
Back to School
Todd Watson  
5/5/2011   5 comments
Fifty professors from 40 universities in 14 countries have been recognized with Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation awards.
Comment: Re: 3D TVs - Ron_Miller - 5/5/2011
Comment: 3D TVs - Nicole Ferraro - 5/5/2011
TV & DVD Sales Drop in Favor of Internet
Ron Miller  
5/5/2011   66 comments
TV ownership is dropping for the first time in 20 years, as Internet alternatives emerge.
Comment: Firing workers - Mary Jander - 5/4/2011
CIOs to Be Offered Alternative 'Big Data' Stack
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
5/4/2011   4 comments
A consortium of upstart business intelligence providers takes on the four large BI providers – and your IT department.
Microsoft Bing Becomes Default for BlackBerrys, PlayBook
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/3/2011   2 comments
Microsoft has invested in the BlackBerry platform, and Bing will be a default feature on BlackBerry cellphones and the PlayBook tablet.
All Tweets on Deck
Todd Watson  
5/3/2011   2 comments
After the Bin Laden episode, Twitter may need all the horsepower it can get.
Comment: Old habits die hard - KMT568 - 5/3/2011
It's Time Users Demand Better Data Handling
Scott Koegler  
5/3/2011   27 comments
In recent data breaches, Apple and Sony acted negligently, arrogantly, or worse. It's time for users to start demanding better.
Royal Friday
Todd Watson  
5/2/2011   Post a comment
I am in sunny Austin, Texas, wishing it was a bank holiday here in the US as well
Comment: Too many TLAs - slfisher - 5/1/2011




a moderated blogosphere of internet experts
Mary E. Shacklett
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   18 comments
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   7 comments
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 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.
IETV: the thinkerNet on film
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 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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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
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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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