Search Engine Conflicts We Don't Accept Mike Moran 6/30/2009 8 comments Microsoft's sale of Razorfish prompts consideration of the conflicts of interest between search-engine companies and their in-house ad agencies
Online Retail Goes Virtual Mary E. Shacklett 6/29/2009 32 comments Online retailers are mixing it up in Second Life and elsewhere to attract fresh business. It's working
Iranian Tweets May Come at a Price Editor's Blog 6/22/2009 8 comments As the Iranian people engage in a 'Twitter revolution,' the government is collecting and distorting their messages, using DPI
Facebook & the Literary Scene Kate Pullinger 6/22/2009 15 comments Authors have found Facebook updates an oddly literary way to communicate. Too bad Facebook doesn't see it that way
Crowdsourcing the Future of Media Editor's Blog 6/19/2009 20 comments BusinessWeek's John Byrne says Twitter is 'reinventing' journalism, but it's unclear whether that's good or very bad
Do You Bing? Todd Watson 6/15/2009 4 comments Microsoft's new search tool seems to go beyond basic search into the realm of user intent
Tweeting in Tehran Internet Evolution Poll 6/15/2009 4 comments How would you assess Twitter's role in the aftermath of Iran's controversial presidential election?
#cnnFail's #iranelection Todd Watson 6/15/2009 2 comments There's a big difference in international news coverage since the days of Tiananmen Square and the first Gulf War
Cybercafes Aren't Cyphers Yet Vineeta Shetty 6/12/2009 12 comments In India, a massive closure of cybercafes has been followed by an uptick in use by specific groups
France Settles on Two Strikes Editor's Blog 6/11/2009 15 comments The French government has voted to turn Sarkozy's three-strike rule against pirates into two strikes, eliminating the central threat of disconnecting pirates from the Internet
Gambling Bill Reflects Consumer Concerns Dan Cypra 6/10/2009 14 comments Barney Frank's latest bid to legalize Internet gambling sets an example for establishing consumer confidence in other online businesses
An Internet QoS Battle Plan Tom Nolle 6/4/2009 21 comments A few simple tweaks to traffic and applications could save significant Internet capacity. Less easily changed are ISP attitudes
Social Aggregators: Web 2.0's New Trick The Big Report 6/3/2009 9 comments Social aggregators like Friendfeed offer unprecedented convenience, but their future in the social media ecosystem is sketchy
Pundits Shortchange IT Storage Spending David Vellante 6/3/2009 11 comments If you follow popular predictions, you'll wind up with a shrinking storage market – not likely, given burgeoning enterprise data
Micropayments Are a Macro-Error Andrew Keen 6/2/2009 16 comments Micropayments for newspaper content are a feeble attempt by the aging industry to forestall the chaotic disruption of the digital age
Search Engine Conflicts We Don't Accept Mike Moran 6/30/2009 8 comments Microsoft's sale of Razorfish prompts consideration of the conflicts of interest between search-engine companies and their in-house ad agencies
Online Retail Goes Virtual Mary E. Shacklett 6/29/2009 32 comments Online retailers are mixing it up in Second Life and elsewhere to attract fresh business. It's working
Judgment Day Todd Watson 6/29/2009 3 comments For Brazil it was a come-from-behind victory; for Bernie Madoff it may be a life sentence
Iranian Tweets May Come at a Price Editor's Blog 6/22/2009 8 comments As the Iranian people engage in a 'Twitter revolution,' the government is collecting and distorting their messages, using DPI
Facebook & the Literary Scene Kate Pullinger 6/22/2009 15 comments Authors have found Facebook updates an oddly literary way to communicate. Too bad Facebook doesn't see it that way
Crowdsourcing the Future of Media Editor's Blog 6/19/2009 20 comments BusinessWeek's John Byrne says Twitter is 'reinventing' journalism, but it's unclear whether that's good or very bad
Do You Bing? Todd Watson 6/15/2009 4 comments Microsoft's new search tool seems to go beyond basic search into the realm of user intent
Tweeting in Tehran Internet Evolution Poll 6/15/2009 4 comments How would you assess Twitter's role in the aftermath of Iran's controversial presidential election?
#cnnFail's #iranelection Todd Watson 6/15/2009 2 comments There's a big difference in international news coverage since the days of Tiananmen Square and the first Gulf War
Cybercafes Aren't Cyphers Yet Vineeta Shetty 6/12/2009 12 comments In India, a massive closure of cybercafes has been followed by an uptick in use by specific groups
France Settles on Two Strikes Editor's Blog 6/11/2009 15 comments The French government has voted to turn Sarkozy's three-strike rule against pirates into two strikes, eliminating the central threat of disconnecting pirates from the Internet
Gambling Bill Reflects Consumer Concerns Dan Cypra 6/10/2009 14 comments Barney Frank's latest bid to legalize Internet gambling sets an example for establishing consumer confidence in other online businesses
An Internet QoS Battle Plan Tom Nolle 6/4/2009 21 comments A few simple tweaks to traffic and applications could save significant Internet capacity. Less easily changed are ISP attitudes
Social Aggregators: Web 2.0's New Trick The Big Report 6/3/2009 9 comments Social aggregators like Friendfeed offer unprecedented convenience, but their future in the social media ecosystem is sketchy
Tank Man Todd Watson 6/3/2009 1 comment Happy Chinese Internet Maintenance Day
Pundits Shortchange IT Storage Spending David Vellante 6/3/2009 11 comments If you follow popular predictions, you'll wind up with a shrinking storage market – not likely, given burgeoning enterprise data
Micropayments Are a Macro-Error Andrew Keen 6/2/2009 16 comments Micropayments for newspaper content are a feeble attempt by the aging industry to forestall the chaotic disruption of the digital age
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.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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