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Comment: Re: Good for all - ivka - 7/31/2011
Comment: Its ok to be scared... - aum007 - 7/30/2011
Comment: Re: Good for all - taimur_tz - 7/30/2011
Comment: Re: Good for all - Brian Newby - 7/30/2011
Comment: Re: Good for all - hounhosp - 7/30/2011
Foursquare Offers Daily Deals From Groupon
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
7/29/2011   Post a comment
A new FourSquare deal with Groupon offers advantages for everyone involved.
Comment: Re: Good for all - Mr. Roques - 7/29/2011
Comment: Re: Good for all - taimur_tz - 7/29/2011
Comment: Its the sad truth.. - aum007 - 7/29/2011
Comment: Re: Amid the Fluff - abdlah - 7/29/2011
Comment: Re: Amid the Fluff - torriatte - 7/29/2011
Comment: Re: Good for all - torriatte - 7/29/2011
Comment: Good for all - rasika1000 - 7/29/2011
Comment: Re: Amid the Fluff - abdlah - 7/28/2011
Comment: Re: How useful? - taimur_tz - 7/28/2011
Comment: How useful? - Awilliams - 7/28/2011
The Lesson of Netflix
Editor's Blog  
7/28/2011   4 comments
Netflix's insistence on shifting its customer base from analog to digital, despite the pain, shows the way ahead for other content providers.
Comment: Re: World education - taimur_tz - 7/28/2011
Comment: Re: World education - KMT568 - 7/28/2011
Comment: Amid the Fluff - Bolingbroke - 7/28/2011
Comment: Re: fast fiction? - SteveGNYC - 7/28/2011
Comment: Re: fast fiction? - Mashka - 7/28/2011
Game Piracy: New Truths Revealed
Anders Drachen  
7/28/2011   38 comments
A recent study sheds light on game piracy, which involves the illegal copying and distribution of digital games.
Comment: Re: fast fiction? - hounhosp - 7/28/2011
Comment: World education - hounhosp - 7/28/2011
Comment: Re: Thanks for this - taimur_tz - 7/28/2011
Comment: Thanks for this - abdlah - 7/28/2011
Khan Academy Advances Internet Education
Taimoor Zubair  
7/28/2011   55 comments
Bill Gates has praised and funded this online library of over 2,400 videos related to math, science, and some humanities.
Comment: Re: fast fiction? - Kim Davis - 7/27/2011
Comment: fast fiction? - Mashka - 7/27/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Gigi - 7/27/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Joe Stanganelli - 7/26/2011
Comment: Re: good work - magneticnorth - 7/26/2011
Comment: Re: Why - NicoleV - 7/26/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Kim Davis - 7/26/2011
Comment: Spotify and Anna - Bolingbroke - 7/26/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Ariella - 7/26/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Joe Stanganelli - 7/26/2011
Play It Again, Spotify
Editor's Blog  
7/26/2011   19 comments
Spotify, the music streaming service which just launched in the US, is providing unrivalled quantities of free content. But it's still not all free, all the time -- and it could be.
Comment: Re: good work - Joe Stanganelli - 7/26/2011
Comment: AWESOME - dbergman - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: future unknown - mtechie - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: future unknown - KMT568 - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: Downsides etc. - Paul Whyte - 7/25/2011
Comment: Downsides etc. - Nicole Ferraro - 7/25/2011
Comment: Skeptical question - Kim Davis - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: good work - Ariella - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: good work - kq4ym - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: hard rules - antonis - 7/25/2011
Comment: good work - rasika1000 - 7/25/2011
Comment: Congratulations!!! - nasimson - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Kicheko - 7/25/2011
23 Authors + 24 Hours + the Web = 1 Novel
Joe Stanganelli  
7/25/2011   47 comments
An experimental project produced a full-blown novel in one day, via 23 hardworking authors collaborating on the Web.
Comment: hard rules - rasika1000 - 7/25/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Brian Newby - 7/24/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Kicheko - 7/24/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Kicheko - 7/24/2011
Comment: what worries me - slfisher - 7/24/2011
Comment: artists - slfisher - 7/24/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Brian Newby - 7/24/2011
Comment: Re: Vision - magneticnorth - 7/24/2011
Comment: Simple talent - magneticnorth - 7/24/2011
Comment: 15 seconds of fame - Kicheko - 7/23/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - Nicole Ferraro - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: future unknown - mtechie - 7/22/2011
Comment: Talent - The Dream Chaser - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - mparillo - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - SteveGNYC - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - chuckgregory - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - SteveGNYC - 7/22/2011
Comment: Data Caps - Bolingbroke - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - chuckgregory - 7/22/2011
Comment: A Modest Proposal - Bolingbroke - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - kq4ym - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Newspapers out? - antonis - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: it's complicated! - antonis - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: it's complicated! - antonis - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: it's complicated! - antonis - 7/22/2011
Comment: Re: Nice try - chuckgregory - 7/22/2011
Comment: great talents - rasika1000 - 7/22/2011
Comment: Newspapers out? - dbergman - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: Vision - mtechie - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: future unknown - mtechie - 7/21/2011
Talent in the House
Editor's Blog  
7/21/2011   18 comments
'Reality talent' makes its debut on the Web. Joy.
Comment: Re: Nice try - Kim Davis - 7/21/2011
Comment: Nice try - Nicole Ferraro - 7/21/2011
Comment: Content is Key - abdlah - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: Free ride? - hounhosp - 7/21/2011
Philly Papers Hope Android Tablets Will Lure New Readers
Robert McGarvey  
7/21/2011   23 comments
The owner of Philadelphia's newspapers is holding out Android bait to draw fresh readers to its print editions.
Comment: Re: Revenue - Ariella - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: Revenue - Kim Davis - 7/21/2011
Comment: Vision - The Dream Chaser - 7/21/2011
Comment: Free ride? - Michael P. Kassner - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: future unknown - KMT568 - 7/21/2011
Comment: Re: I Agree - hebraeisch81 - 7/21/2011
Comment: it's complicated! - antonis - 7/21/2011
Net Neutrality Calls for Balance of Interests
Hospice Houngbo  
7/21/2011   21 comments
Any arguments for net neutrality must weigh the concerns of ISPs as well as those of content providers and end users.
Comment: future unknown - dbergman - 7/20/2011
Comment: Gone - The Dream Chaser - 7/20/2011
Comment: Re: Revenue - Nicole Ferraro - 7/20/2011
Comment: Saving $20 A Month? - kq4ym - 7/20/2011
Comment: out put quality - rasika1000 - 7/20/2011
Comment: Re: Revenue - mtechie - 7/19/2011
Comment: One Way or Two Way - jabailo - 7/19/2011
Comment: Re: Revenue - mtechie - 7/19/2011
Comment: Re: Revenue - Mary Jander - 7/19/2011
Comment: Revenue - Nicole Ferraro - 7/19/2011
Comment: Internet Radio - Bolingbroke - 7/19/2011
Streaming Is the Future of Entertainment
Michelle Greenlee  
7/19/2011   55 comments
As more TV shows and music make it onto cheaper, easier-to-use Websites, the days of expensive cable subscriptions are numbered.
Comment: Sad development - Mary Jander - 7/18/2011
Comment: Re: Shaky platform - Paul Whyte - 7/18/2011
Comment: Shaky platform - Mary Jander - 7/18/2011
Murdoch Minus the Internet
George Taylor  
7/18/2011   31 comments
As Rupert Murdoch's empire is rocked, but we can be thankful that recent events have diverted his intentions regarding Internet content.
Everything's Coming Up Google!
Editor's Blog  
7/15/2011   9 comments
Showing that there is life beyond search, Google posted very strong second-quarter results reflecting its recent initiatives in advertising, browsers, mobile, and most recently social.
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Naomi Baron!
Editor's Blog  
7/14/2011   Post a comment
We're as live as can be on IE Radio right now with Naomi Baron, linguistics professor and author.
Comment: Technology At Hand - cvargas - 7/13/2011
Comment: Re: Bitcoin itself - cvargas - 7/13/2011
Comment: Re: Yikes - Joe Stanganelli - 7/13/2011
Comment: Re: Yikes - The Dream Chaser - 7/13/2011
Comment: Yikes - Nicole Ferraro - 7/13/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - jabailo - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - Kim Davis - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - jabailo - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - dcuperus - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - jabailo - 7/12/2011
Comment: Fake Warnings!!! - dcuperus - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - dcuperus - 7/12/2011
Comment: Google can learn. - Mashka - 7/12/2011
Comment: Re: De Classe... - jabailo - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: It's all digital - jabailo - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: It's all digital - jabailo - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Bitcoin itself - Jason Mick - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Bitcoin itself - Jason Mick - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Bitcoin itself - Paul Whyte - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Bitcoin itself - graingert - 7/11/2011
Comment: Bitcoin itself - Mary Jander - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - taimur_tz - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: The Goldbugs - Bolingbroke - 7/11/2011
Weak Bitcoin Cryptography Prompts Action
Jason Mick  
7/11/2011   17 comments
Trouble with Mt. Gox serves Bitcoin exchange providers and users with information about what to add and avoid when it comes to password protection.
Comment: Re: Light Years? - SteveGNYC - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: It's all digital - jabailo - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - SteveGNYC - 7/11/2011
Comment: Idiocracy - The Dream Chaser - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - taimur_tz - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - hounhosp - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Paul Whyte - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Mr. Roques - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Paul Whyte - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Curious - Paul Whyte - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - SteveGNYC - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: The Goldbugs - Paul Whyte - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Loooovvv-ved It! - Gigi - 7/11/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Gigi - 7/11/2011
Comment: De Classe... - jabailo - 7/10/2011
Comment: It's all digital - jabailo - 7/10/2011
Comment: Re: ahoy, matey - robjvargas - 7/10/2011
Comment: Curious - Chris Poley - 7/10/2011
Comment: Re: Amazon Tablet - Tom Nolle - 7/10/2011
Comment: Re: End of Hulu? - Tom Nolle - 7/10/2011
Comment: Re: End of Hulu? - Tom Nolle - 7/10/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - davidmanheim - 7/10/2011
Comment: warnings? - rasika1000 - 7/9/2011
Comment: Re: ahoy, matey - rasika1000 - 7/9/2011
Comment: enough - dbergman - 7/9/2011
Comment: The Goldbugs - Bolingbroke - 7/9/2011
Comment: Into oblivion - nasimson - 7/9/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - mhhfive - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Paul Whyte - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Paul Whyte - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Paul Whyte - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Light Years? - Kim Davis - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: ahoy, matey - Kim Davis - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - smkinoshita - 7/8/2011
Comment: So true - Nicole Ferraro - 7/8/2011
Comment: Light Years? - mhhfive - 7/8/2011
The Reality of New Internet Piracy Rules
Editor's Blog  
7/8/2011   44 comments
A new six-step warning system to fight piracy in the US seems both ineffectual and illogical.
Comment: Re: Loooovvv-ved It! - jabailo - 7/8/2011
Comment: Loooovvv-ved It! - jabailo - 7/8/2011
Comment: Vulnerable - The Dream Chaser - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - davidmanheim - 7/8/2011
Comment: digital currency - Ariella - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - Paul Whyte - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - Paul Whyte - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - Chris Westin - 7/8/2011
Why Fully Digital Currency Is Still Light-Years Away
Paul Whyte  
7/8/2011   44 comments
PayPal CEO's projection that physical cash will be obsolete by 2015 seems far-fetched.
Comment: Re: Facebook+ - SteveGNYC - 7/8/2011
Comment: Re: Standard PR - davidmanheim - 7/8/2011
Comment: Standard PR - kq4ym - 7/8/2011
Comment: Facebook+ - kq4ym - 7/8/2011
How Netflix Has Botched Social Engagement
Joe Stanganelli  
7/8/2011   20 comments
Netflix has become a prime example of how not to treat customers on social network.
Comment: Re: competitive market - Gigi - 7/8/2011
Facebook Strikes Back
Editor's Blog  
7/7/2011   25 comments
With Google+ getting buzz, Facebook is busy unveiling new attractions like video chat.
Comment: A LulzSec Hack ? - Bolingbroke - 7/7/2011
Revamped Netflix Interface Stirs Nausea & Rebellion
Joe Stanganelli  
7/7/2011   24 comments
Netflix has bombed with its new interface. Just ask users who've suffered headaches and nausea -- and for what?
Comment: Re: Regardless... - mhhfive - 7/6/2011
Comment: ha-ha! - tech_ed - 7/5/2011
Comment: Re: No Mas - Kim Davis - 7/5/2011
Comment: Re: Regardless... - Kim Davis - 7/5/2011
Comment: Regardless... - cvargas - 7/5/2011
Comment: No Mas - Bolingbroke - 7/5/2011
Hacking Jumps the Shark With Obama Death Tweet
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
7/5/2011   11 comments
Hacking Fox's Twitter feed to post a false message that President Obama had been assassinated was unfunny and unconvincing.
Comment: Re: Lessons Learned - jwallace - 7/5/2011
Comment: I don't believe it. - jwallace - 7/4/2011
Comment: Re: Lessons Learned - jwallace - 7/4/2011
Watershed Council Puts Website Purpose First
Scott Koegler  
7/4/2011   8 comments
The Watershed Agricultural Council revamped its Website with to meet goals in line with the group's changes as well as users' new access capabilities.
Comment: Re: Power of Facebook - Gigi - 7/3/2011
Comment: astroturfing - slfisher - 7/3/2011
Comment: Re: Magnitude - jwallace - 7/1/2011
Comment: Amazon Tablet - cvargas - 7/1/2011
How Amazon's Tablet Could Change the iPad Model
Second Shooter  
7/1/2011   2 comments
Amazon's upcoming tablet might push Apple toward a subsidize-tablet-with-service approach.
Comment: No identity - Nicole Ferraro - 7/1/2011
Comment: Magnitude - The Dream Chaser - 7/1/2011
Comment: Re: Momentum - Ron_Miller - 7/1/2011
Comment: Momentum - Kim Davis - 7/1/2011
Comment: Re: Amusing - Ron_Miller - 7/1/2011
Comment: Amusing - Nicole Ferraro - 7/1/2011
MySpace Lacked Vision
Singer at C-Level  
7/1/2011   2 comments
News Corp. may have taken a bath with its sale of MySpace, but it wasn't Murdoch's fault.
Comment: Re: Spaced Out - Ron_Miller - 7/1/2011
Comment: Spaced Out - Bolingbroke - 7/1/2011
Even Justin Timberlake Can't Save MySpace
Ron Miller  
7/1/2011   32 comments
Bringing in the actor/singer probably can't do the job that News Corp. failed to do.




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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.
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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.
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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
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As
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