The Blackout in India Todd Watson 7/31/2012 1 comment For those of us here in the West, the blackout in India would be like the power going out across all of the US and all of the UK, at once.
Why Hackers Fascinate Us Editor's Blog 7/31/2012 15 comments Our latest Internet Evolution Big Report explores the world of hackers and how their activities help and hinder our expanding online world.
Andrew Blum, Author of Tubes IE Radio 7/19/2012 130 comments Andrew Blum is the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look at the physical heart of the Internet itself.
When not immersed in the Internet’s depths, Blum writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Business Week, Metropolis, Popular Science, Gizmodo, The Atlantic Online, Architectural Record, and Slate, among others. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives in his native New York City with his wife, daughter, and a black shepherd mix.
How to Cope With IT Support Cutbacks Maria Korolov 7/19/2012 18 comments Support desk cutbacks can reduce productivity. Here are some ways to avoid that scenario by helping users to help themselves.
Here's Help for Mobile Security Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/18/2012 1 comment Our Web Wise World tutorial is a comprehensive introduction to securing the mobile enterprise.
Younger Workers More Relaxed About Privacy Mary E. Shacklett 7/18/2012 31 comments Thanks to the widely differing attitudes people have about online privacy, future laws could be very different from what they are today.
Cellphone Surveillance Explodes Chris Poley 7/13/2012 58 comments Nudged by Congress, US cell service providers have revealed a staggering number of law enforcement requests for cellphone records.
Telecommuting From Paradise Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 7/9/2012 65 comments Cloud computing offers a way for remote workers to function in parts of the world they love that have been off limits as work places.
Don’t Get Knocked Offline With DNSChanger! Todd Watson 7/6/2012 3 comments The DNSChanger Trojan horse virus is still in 12% of the Fortune 500! And on July 9, any systems still infected will be “summarily disconnected from the rest of the Internet.”
Time to Reexamine Email Archiving IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/5/2012 14 comments IT professionals would do well to review their email archiving strategies and services, in light of ongoing headlines involving email.
The Blackout in India Todd Watson 7/31/2012 1 comment For those of us here in the West, the blackout in India would be like the power going out across all of the US and all of the UK, at once.
Why Hackers Fascinate Us Editor's Blog 7/31/2012 15 comments Our latest Internet Evolution Big Report explores the world of hackers and how their activities help and hinder our expanding online world.
Andrew Blum, Author of Tubes IE Radio 7/19/2012 130 comments Andrew Blum is the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look at the physical heart of the Internet itself.
When not immersed in the Internet’s depths, Blum writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Business Week, Metropolis, Popular Science, Gizmodo, The Atlantic Online, Architectural Record, and Slate, among others. He has degrees in literature from Amherst College and in human geography from the University of Toronto, and lives in his native New York City with his wife, daughter, and a black shepherd mix.
How to Cope With IT Support Cutbacks Maria Korolov 7/19/2012 18 comments Support desk cutbacks can reduce productivity. Here are some ways to avoid that scenario by helping users to help themselves.
Here's Help for Mobile Security Security Clan Editor's Blog 7/18/2012 1 comment Our Web Wise World tutorial is a comprehensive introduction to securing the mobile enterprise.
Younger Workers More Relaxed About Privacy Mary E. Shacklett 7/18/2012 31 comments Thanks to the widely differing attitudes people have about online privacy, future laws could be very different from what they are today.
Cellphone Surveillance Explodes Chris Poley 7/13/2012 58 comments Nudged by Congress, US cell service providers have revealed a staggering number of law enforcement requests for cellphone records.
Telecommuting From Paradise Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 7/9/2012 65 comments Cloud computing offers a way for remote workers to function in parts of the world they love that have been off limits as work places.
Don’t Get Knocked Offline With DNSChanger! Todd Watson 7/6/2012 3 comments The DNSChanger Trojan horse virus is still in 12% of the Fortune 500! And on July 9, any systems still infected will be “summarily disconnected from the rest of the Internet.”
Time to Reexamine Email Archiving IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/5/2012 14 comments IT professionals would do well to review their email archiving strategies and services, in light of ongoing headlines involving email.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Expert Integrated Systems: Changing the Experience & Economics of IT In this e-book, we take an in-depth look at these expert integrated systems -- what they are, how they work, and how they have the potential to help CIOs achieve dramatic savings while restoring IT's role as business innovator. READ THIS eBOOK
your weekly update of news, analysis, and
opinion from Internet Evolution - FREE! REGISTER HERE
Wanted! Site Moderators Internet Evolution is looking for a handful of readers to help moderate the message boards on our site – as well as engaging in high-IQ conversation with the industry mavens on our thinkerNet blogosphere. The job comes with various perks, bags of kudos, and GIANT bragging rights. Interested?
To save this item to your list of favorite Internet Evolution content so you can find it later in your Profile page, click the "Save It" button next to the item.
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
Andrew Blum, Author of Tubes
