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- 9/27/2012

Maria Korolov 9/27/2012 76 comments
With a robust Internet, plenty of educated young people, and a growing economy, China should be on top of the IT market. Here's why it's not.

- 9/27/2012

Christine Parizo 9/27/2012 46 comments
Corporate WiFi presents a range of dangers to organizations. Here are the main ones to avoid.

IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/27/2012 21 comments
Here are some of the toughest posts to fill in any IT organization.

- 9/27/2012

- 9/26/2012

Alan Reiter 9/26/2012 73 comments
A restaurant chain is reviewed for its mishmash of mobile payments, digital coupons, and other elements of modern mobile commerce.

- 9/26/2012

Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/26/2012 5 comments
Senator Patrick Leahy's opportunistic attempt to drive through a useful amendment on digital privacy has been derailed.

Taimoor Zubair 9/26/2012 34 comments
Here are some things to consider if you're thinking about advertising on your enterprise Website.

- 9/25/2012

Ron Miller 9/25/2012 22 comments
Iran wants to cut off access to the public Internet, but history has proven the dangers for any country that takes this approach.

- 9/25/2012

Jason Mick 9/25/2012 22 comments
Apple's Configurator app offers enterprises and mobile device management firms a way to manage BYOD along with company-issued phones.

- 9/24/2012

Mansur Hasib 9/24/2012 67 comments
The author traces his experience with healthcare IT from electronic medical records in the doctor's office through to automated prescription fulfillment.

- 9/24/2012

John Barnes 9/24/2012 32 comments
In a new approach to cloud security, applications take care of their own protection and watch out for others'.

- 9/23/2012

- 9/22/2012

- 9/21/2012

Todd Watson 9/21/2012 1 comment
The security environment remains troubling, with increased attacks on browsers, and renewed concerns about social and mobile.

- 9/21/2012

- 9/20/2012

Todd Watson 9/20/2012 Post a comment
IBM recently released its 2012 Global Reputational Risk and IT Study, and the findings suggest that companies are viewing their IT investments through a new lens.

- 9/20/2012

IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/20/2012 10 comments
Smartphones and mobile access are simply new openings for online criminals. IBM's latest X-Force report describes the threats and recommends protections.

Chris Poley 9/20/2012 74 comments
A new legal ruling against Twitter could change the way companies control what employees post and how the organization protects itself against potential subpoenas.

- 9/20/2012

Jason Mick 9/20/2012 18 comments
Customer analytics are only as good as the algorithms used to derive them.

- 9/19/2012

Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/19/2012 23 comments
The British palace discovers that the Internet can easily outrun their legal maneuvers.

Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 9/19/2012 2 comments
With its purchase of Stoneware, Lenovo takes aim at the issue of BYOD in a clever and cost-effective way.

- 9/19/2012

Ron Miller 9/19/2012 39 comments
The Obama administration seems intent on getting involved in advising IT professionals on how to do their jobs.

- 9/19/2012

- 9/18/2012

Maria Korolov 9/18/2012 24 comments
For companies, the emerging 3D Web, hypergrid, or "metaverse" requires facing up to a handful of tough challenges that won't be resolved quickly or easily.

- 9/18/2012

- 9/17/2012

Mitch Wagner 9/17/2012 5 comments
Sean Smith's life and death are a humbling example for all of us who work in IT.

- 9/17/2012

Jason Mick 9/17/2012 33 comments
Famous white hat hacker Charlie Miller is joining Twitter. And boy, do they need his help!

- 9/17/2012

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- 9/14/2012

Mansur Hasib 9/14/2012 18 comments
Whether held by enterprise consumers of IT or by CIOs and IT staff themselves, these misconceptions can hinder organizational success.

- 9/13/2012

- 9/12/2012

Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/12/2012 10 comments
The FBI's backdoor route to obtaining smartphone passwords puts individual and enterprise data at risk.

- 9/12/2012

- 9/11/2012

- 9/10/2012

Ron Miller 9/10/2012 41 comments
Governments everywhere seem intent on finding ways to control and monitor Internet communication. Resist!

- 9/10/2012

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- 9/8/2012

- 9/7/2012

- 9/6/2012

Dana Blouin 9/6/2012 35 comments
In a possible bid for greater trust among enterprise customers in the US and other countries, Huawei has issued a new whitepaper suggesting greater international cooperation for cybersecurity.

- 9/6/2012

- 9/5/2012

Mary E. Shacklett 9/5/2012 11 comments
Cloud providers are struggling to offer regulatory compliance to their prospective enterprise customers. It's worth the effort, they say.

Christine Parizo 9/5/2012 19 comments
End users who get their identities stolen online jeopardize, not only themselves, but their enterprise networks. Here is one way to educate users about the dangers of online ID theft.

- 9/5/2012

Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/5/2012 6 comments
Here's why the days of prankster hacking are over at last.

- 9/5/2012

Stephen Lawton 9/5/2012 13 comments
The argument for and against user security training rages online, with neither side the clear winner.

- 9/4/2012

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Hilary Allison 6/18/2013 8 comments

most recent post: stotheco... True, true. As someone who doesn't use emoticons, I regularly get asked if I'm upset or mad at something...

Charlotte Erdmann 6/18/2013 3 comments

Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.

most recent post: Alison Diana... Surprised when I hear companies say they don't use an attorney to at least read their SLAs. Anytime...

Jeff Kaplan 6/17/2013 4 comments

It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

most recent post: mpouraryan... It will be nice if the PaaS providers can somehow "take steps" out of the process in order to streamline...

Mary E. Shacklett 6/14/2013 14 comments

Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.

most recent post: pcharles... Agreed. You cannot have true privacy if you don't trust those beholden with your information.

Derrick Wood 6/13/2013 11 comments

most recent post: DavidSilversmith... Now if you can just incorporate the beer tap with this wonderful product! http://voices.yahoo.com/u...

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Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

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Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

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Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing
6|13|13 | 1:07 | 1 comment

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.

Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine
5|21|13 | 2:23 | 10 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 | 1 comment

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.

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