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- 10/31/2011

- 10/30/2011

- 10/29/2011

- 10/28/2011

Editor's Blog 10/28/2011 22 comments
The relaunch of Google TV shows a dismaying lack of ambition.

- 10/28/2011

Todd Watson 10/28/2011 1 comment
Measuring social sentiment during a great baseball series.

- 10/28/2011

Joe Stanganelli 10/28/2011 22 comments
Klout, a social media influence measurement service, is taking a beating from users irate over changes to its scoring algorithm.

- 10/28/2011

Editor's Blog 10/28/2011 13 comments
Claims that Yelp extorts businesses for advertising dollars have been dismissed.

- 10/28/2011

- 10/27/2011

The Big Report 10/27/2011 5 comments
Here are the 15 most frightening individuals influencing our technological lives.

Slide Shows 10/27/2011 38 comments
Be afraid... be very afraid... of these 15 individuals.

- 10/27/2011

Ron Miller 10/27/2011 28 comments
Greece? Poland? According to Akamai, the fastest Internet connections in the world are turning up in unexpected places.

- 10/27/2011

Michelle Manafy 10/27/2011 18 comments
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has launched Oink, a ratings site with a few twists that may -- or may not -- catch on with consumers.

- 10/27/2011

Second Shooter 10/27/2011 20 comments
The portal players are in a squeeze, and consumers will likely pay in the end.

- 10/26/2011

David Vladeck 10/26/2011 6 comments
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has a "code of conduct" for the online ad industry.

- 10/25/2011

Allan Yogasingam 10/25/2011 14 comments
UBM TechInsights conducted a teardown of the Apple iPad 2 3G version tablet.

- 10/25/2011

- 10/24/2011

Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 10/24/2011 8 comments
Oracle's $1.5B purchase of the social CRM supplier RightNow could be the start of significant growth in this segment.

- 10/24/2011

Robert McGarvey 10/24/2011 25 comments
Microsoft just might make good on its latest big acquisition, despite earlier failures.

- 10/24/2011

- 10/23/2011

- 10/22/2011

- 10/21/2011

Editor's Blog 10/21/2011 13 comments
Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin... see them all in pictures from this year's Web 2.0 Summit. Exciting!

Slide Shows 10/21/2011 7 comments
At the Web 2.0 Summit, all-star attendees discuss the data frame. See it in pictures

- 10/21/2011

Karla Marciszewski 10/21/2011 64 comments
Since 2004, October has been dedicated to raising awareness of our role in online security as US citizens, neighbors, and family members.

- 10/21/2011

- 10/20/2011

Editor's Blog 10/20/2011 8 comments
Yahoo is very much in play, but it is creating obstacles for bidders.

- 10/20/2011

Jason Mick 10/20/2011 19 comments
The cloud storage provider Dropbox, which just scored $250 million in funding, reveals how it turned down an offer from Steve Jobs.

- 10/20/2011

Todd Watson 10/20/2011 8 comments
Google's choice to block referrer and keyword data from search results coming through encrypted connections does a disservice to users and marketers.

- 10/20/2011

Editor's Blog 10/20/2011 8 comments
Sergey Brin and Vic Gundotra gushed about the awesomeness that is Google+ on stage at Web 2.0 and confirmed that the service will support pseudonyms in the future.

- 10/20/2011

- 10/19/2011

Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 10/19/2011 Post a comment
A difficult choice: If you're wedded to Apple, the iPhone 4S is an excellent choice for you. But the new Android offers a lot, too.

Todd Watson 10/19/2011 3 comments
IBM and the University of South California Annenberg Innovation Lab have announced a new social media analysis project focused on Major League Baseball during the World Series.

- 10/19/2011

Michael Bennett Cohn 10/19/2011 36 comments
A trial of lockers – physical ones – portends a new direction for Amazon's retail operations.

- 10/19/2011

Wisdom of the Big Chair 10/19/2011 6 comments
The US government is looking to collect daily Internet activity to predict social behavior.

- 10/19/2011

- 10/18/2011

Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 10/18/2011 4 comments
RIM unveiled a series of new products today, including a new BBX operating system.

- 10/18/2011

Editor's Blog 10/18/2011 26 comments
Christoper Poole, founder of 4Chan, implores software engineers to stop looking at identity online as black and white.

- 10/18/2011

what.the.ferraro 10/18/2011 17 comments
At the Web 2.0 Summit, visionaries discuss the future of… really smart vending machines.

- 10/18/2011

John Myers 10/18/2011 27 comments
The PepsiCo "social vending" machine has some interesting benefits – and some are not for consumers.

- 10/18/2011

- 10/17/2011

Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 10/17/2011 Post a comment
As compensation for its global BlackBerry outage last week, RIM is offering free tech support and apps for subscribers.

- 10/17/2011

Kim Davis 10/17/2011 14 comments
The real cost of a Kindle may be $30 more than what Jeff Bezos has advertised.

- 10/17/2011

Mary E. Shacklett 10/17/2011 43 comments
The concept of tellerless bank branches began in the mid-2000s, but the Internet is giving it "legs."

- 10/17/2011

- 10/16/2011

- 10/15/2011

- 10/14/2011

Todd Watson 10/14/2011 1 comment
Pondering smartphone and tablet choices.

Todd Watson 10/14/2011 3 comments
There are limits on being an Apple fan boy.

Editor's Blog 10/14/2011 4 comments
Verizon is the latest company to follow in Facebook's footsteps and change its privacy policy to free up subscriber data for third parties.

- 10/14/2011

Steven C. Bennett 10/14/2011 16 comments
Laws on the books have defined electronic signatures for years, but recent court decisions call them into question.

- 10/14/2011

- 10/13/2011

Editor's Blog 10/13/2011 20 comments
Google reports exceptionally strong third-quarter results.

- 10/13/2011

Ron Miller 10/13/2011 47 comments
Unless cloud music services can strike better deals with record companies, it's likely they won't be able to operate in the long term.

- 10/13/2011

- 10/12/2011

Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 10/12/2011 Post a comment
RIM's third outage in three years is likely to damage the vendor's credibility and market position.

- 10/12/2011

Executive Clan Editor's Blog 10/12/2011 42 comments
Steve Jobs didn't just leave executives a model for unbroken success. His failures have a lot to teach us as well.

- 10/12/2011

Michael Bennett Cohn 10/12/2011 20 comments
Google has given the same name to two different but related products, showing an unintentionally hilarious lack of coordinated marketing.

Editor's Blog 10/11/2011 5 comments
The major studios want to offer streaming but can't give up their addiction to discs.

- 10/11/2011

Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World 10/11/2011 Post a comment
AT&T's new Toggle software lets users create one profile for personal applications and one for business.

- 10/11/2011

Todd Watson 10/11/2011 Post a comment
A new IBM study reveals important changes in the way CMOs interact with their markets.

- 10/11/2011

- 10/10/2011

Joe Stanganelli 10/10/2011 34 comments
Getting rid of Qwikster may not be sufficient to save Netflix's brand. Some are calling for the head of CEO Reed Hastings.

- 10/10/2011

Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 10/10/2011 Post a comment
Business agility is the key theme in the midmarket technological revolution.

- 10/10/2011

Ron Miller 10/10/2011 81 comments
Social media are carrying the message of recent Wall Street protests, despite the reluctance of mainstream media to get involved.

- 10/10/2011

Maria Korolov 10/10/2011 22 comments
More reliance on cloud services is one way the Amazon Fire could become the first tablet to really distinguish itself from the iPad.

- 10/10/2011

Kim Davis 10/10/2011 4 comments
Twitter is set to open a New York office. We scope out the territory for them.

- 10/10/2011

- 10/9/2011

- 10/8/2011

- 10/7/2011

Todd Watson 10/7/2011 2 comments
Todd Watson remembers the chairman and co-founder of Apple.

- 10/7/2011

Alan Reiter 10/7/2011 36 comments
Steve Jobs was unique in determining what was wrong with cellphones and moving us toward something better.

- 10/6/2011

Editor's Blog 10/6/2011 23 comments
The Supreme Court rejected ASCAP's argument that music downloads are equivalent to public performances.

- 10/6/2011

what.the.ferraro 10/6/2011 18 comments
Is We the People a fantastic petition tool? Or is it a pointless Web 2.0 toy?

- 10/5/2011

Alan Reiter 10/5/2011 48 comments
Apple's latest iPhone offers a voice assistant and iCloud integration. But it lacks hardware for superior Internet browsing.

- 10/5/2011

- 10/4/2011

Mary E. Shacklett 10/4/2011 1 comment
Consumer-grade mobile devices are allowing SMBs to capitalize on Internet mobile communications.

- 10/4/2011

Robert McGarvey 10/4/2011 13 comments
Italian lawmakers are pondering action that would slam all bloggers with massive fines for failure to correct inaccuracies within 48 hours.

- 10/4/2011

Mary E. Shacklett 10/4/2011 26 comments
Despite Google's warning against them, advertisers continue to make money from pop-up ads. But advertising with them may be getting riskier.

- 10/3/2011

Reiter's Block 10/3/2011 34 comments
The formatting and copyediting of too many e-books are much worse than paper books.

- 10/2/2011

- 10/1/2011

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Mary E. Shacklett 5/24/2013 Post a comment

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.

Dan Cypra 5/23/2013 9 comments

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?

most recent post: Joe Stanganelli... Every time I see a .net, I think "gosh, those are still around?"A good SEO strategy when starting out...

Matt Heusser 5/23/2013 3 comments

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.

most recent post: nimantha.de... @Mitch: Yes I too do not see any difference between the two. Any idea ? ...

David Weldon 5/22/2013 14 comments

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.

most recent post: Michael P. Kassner... If you think that is the case, I can't argue. I suspect you realize there was significant trial and...

Jon Carter 5/21/2013 21 comments

most recent post: nasimson... "i think children should really learn to let their parents be also on social media. They will be old...

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