Wireless Internet Predictions for 2011 Alan Reiter 12/29/2010 114 comments With smaller tablets, new operating systems, and new ways of tracking consumers, 2011 promises many highs and lows for the wireless world
An Update on DDoS Security Clan Editor's Blog 12/15/2010 11 comments Distributed denial-of-service attacks come in new flavors, as the aftermath of the recent WikiLeaks CableGate episode demonstrates
Developer Says FBI Fiddled With OpenBSD Sean Gallagher 12/15/2010 13 comments A developer claiming to have special knowledge says the FBI arranged for unrestricted access to the popular open-source operating system
CIOs Testify en Masse for SaaS Jeff Kaplan 12/15/2010 2 comments Perhaps it's about quid pro quo. Still, no one forced CIOs at last week's Dreamforce event to support SaaS as they did
Battles of 2010 Internet Evolution Poll 12/14/2010 13 comments 2010 was marked by lots of industry in-fighting. Which brawl was your favorite to watch?
Please note: I am looking at this from the viewpoint of a small and midsized business (SMB) -- companies with less than 500 employees, most of which have fewer than 100 employees. Most SMBs can't afford this level of reliability and resilience you talk about here. They want a degree of resilience (in the sense they don't want to lose the data, but they have a lot more room to maneuver with respect to service levels compared to Fortune 500 companies that have always-on infrastructure) but they can't afford nor do they need the 24/7/365 levels.
Who determines what constitutes 'crown jewels'? Tutorial Q&A 12/14/2010 Post a comment Who should be responsible for determining what constitutes the "crown jewels" in building a risk assessment? And what process would you recommend for using your risk assessment to build a threat assessment?
Ways for CIOs to quantify risk? Tutorial Q&A 12/7/2010 Post a comment Are there ways for CIOs to identify, quantify, and manage threats that pose a risk to an organization, company, government, human population, or even an individual... and still come out ahead?
Feds on Privacy: Give a Little, Take a Lot Editor's Blog 12/3/2010 14 comments The government's fundamental confusion about technology is exemplified in its support for a do-not-track list and its request for a 'back door' to Web services
Wikileaks Gives IT a Wakeup Call IT Clan Editor's Blog 12/2/2010 20 comments The leak of more than 250,000 sensitive US government documents is challenging IT pros everywhere to examine their policies and procedures
Wireless Internet Predictions for 2011 Alan Reiter 12/29/2010 114 comments With smaller tablets, new operating systems, and new ways of tracking consumers, 2011 promises many highs and lows for the wireless world
An Update on DDoS Security Clan Editor's Blog 12/15/2010 11 comments Distributed denial-of-service attacks come in new flavors, as the aftermath of the recent WikiLeaks CableGate episode demonstrates
Developer Says FBI Fiddled With OpenBSD Sean Gallagher 12/15/2010 13 comments A developer claiming to have special knowledge says the FBI arranged for unrestricted access to the popular open-source operating system
CIOs Testify en Masse for SaaS Jeff Kaplan 12/15/2010 2 comments Perhaps it's about quid pro quo. Still, no one forced CIOs at last week's Dreamforce event to support SaaS as they did
Battles of 2010 Internet Evolution Poll 12/14/2010 13 comments 2010 was marked by lots of industry in-fighting. Which brawl was your favorite to watch?
Please note: I am looking at this from the viewpoint of a small and midsized business (SMB) -- companies with less than 500 employees, most of which have fewer than 100 employees. Most SMBs can't afford this level of reliability and resilience you talk about here. They want a degree of resilience (in the sense they don't want to lose the data, but they have a lot more room to maneuver with respect to service levels compared to Fortune 500 companies that have always-on infrastructure) but they can't afford nor do they need the 24/7/365 levels.
Who determines what constitutes 'crown jewels'? Tutorial Q&A 12/14/2010 Post a comment Who should be responsible for determining what constitutes the "crown jewels" in building a risk assessment? And what process would you recommend for using your risk assessment to build a threat assessment?
Ways for CIOs to quantify risk? Tutorial Q&A 12/7/2010 Post a comment Are there ways for CIOs to identify, quantify, and manage threats that pose a risk to an organization, company, government, human population, or even an individual... and still come out ahead?
Feds on Privacy: Give a Little, Take a Lot Editor's Blog 12/3/2010 14 comments The government's fundamental confusion about technology is exemplified in its support for a do-not-track list and its request for a 'back door' to Web services
Wikileaks Gives IT a Wakeup Call IT Clan Editor's Blog 12/2/2010 20 comments The leak of more than 250,000 sensitive US government documents is challenging IT pros everywhere to examine their policies and procedures
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.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
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.
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.
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 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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet 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. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet 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. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet 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. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet 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. CLICK FOR MORE
