Amazon Starts a Tablet Fire Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 37 comments Amazon's Kindle Fire is well positioned to steal a large segment of potential iPad customers.
'Opaque Transparency' an Emerging Threat Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/28/2011 20 comments The biggest noncriminal threat to the security of your personal information today is data-grabbing under a false guise of transparency.
Internet Evolution & 6DEE Win Big at Min Awards Editor's Blog 9/27/2011 30 comments Internet Evolution is proud to add Best Customized Website/Microsite and the WOW Award for 60 Days of Executive Education (6DEE) to its growing list of industry accolades!
Why Facebook's Lower Bar on Sharing Is Bad Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 41 comments By abandoning its roots, cluttering up its site, and lowering the bar on sharing, Facebook may be following the fatal footsteps of MySpace.
Candidates Bring Messages to Twitter Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 9 comments Twitter is accepting political ads for the first time this election season, and its demographics make it a canny choice for candidates.
Jillian C. York, Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) IE Radio 9/22/2011 82 comments Jillian C. York is the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She also holds a position on the Board of Directors of Global Voices Online. We'll talk to her about the intersection of politics, free expression, and the Web in the wake of riots in the UK and uprisings in the Arab world.
Midmarket Clan Chat: Deploying Mobile in the Midmarket IE Radio 9/21/2011 111 comments The time for piecemeal, employee-led integration of mobile into the working environment is over. The midmarket needs to exploit the opportunities created by rapid developments in mobile technology by developing a user profile-based mobile strategy.
Be Careful: You're Being 'Identified' Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 41 comments Prepare to be identified by Identified, a new people-ranking search engine for professionals that ranks you based on Facebook data.
WSJ Goes Bonkers for Social Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 5 comments The Wall Street Journal Social app does not meet the needs served by RSS feeds or Twitter and will not change the way we consume news.
Deploying Mobile in the Middle Market Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 9/19/2011 1 comment The time for piecemeal, employee-led integration of mobile services into the working environment is over. The midmarket needs to exploit opportunities created by rapid developments in mobile technology by forming a user profile-based mobile strategy.
News Goes Niche Editor's Blog 9/13/2011 12 comments Not only are the Web's big content providers struggling to attract and keep readers in pursuit of focused content. Specialist sites, too, are being ignored as users go direct to social links.
Netflix Starts to Hit Rough Waters Editor's Blog 9/5/2011 18 comments Between upsetting users with a "dizzying" interface, ignoring them on Facebook, raising their fees, and losing a major content provider, Netflix may quickly lose favor with consumers.
Amazon Starts a Tablet Fire Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 37 comments Amazon's Kindle Fire is well positioned to steal a large segment of potential iPad customers.
'Opaque Transparency' an Emerging Threat Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/28/2011 20 comments The biggest noncriminal threat to the security of your personal information today is data-grabbing under a false guise of transparency.
Internet Evolution & 6DEE Win Big at Min Awards Editor's Blog 9/27/2011 30 comments Internet Evolution is proud to add Best Customized Website/Microsite and the WOW Award for 60 Days of Executive Education (6DEE) to its growing list of industry accolades!
Why Facebook's Lower Bar on Sharing Is Bad Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 41 comments By abandoning its roots, cluttering up its site, and lowering the bar on sharing, Facebook may be following the fatal footsteps of MySpace.
Candidates Bring Messages to Twitter Editor's Blog 9/23/2011 9 comments Twitter is accepting political ads for the first time this election season, and its demographics make it a canny choice for candidates.
Jillian C. York, Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) IE Radio 9/22/2011 82 comments Jillian C. York is the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She also holds a position on the Board of Directors of Global Voices Online. We'll talk to her about the intersection of politics, free expression, and the Web in the wake of riots in the UK and uprisings in the Arab world.
Midmarket Clan Chat: Deploying Mobile in the Midmarket IE Radio 9/21/2011 111 comments The time for piecemeal, employee-led integration of mobile into the working environment is over. The midmarket needs to exploit the opportunities created by rapid developments in mobile technology by developing a user profile-based mobile strategy.
Be Careful: You're Being 'Identified' Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 41 comments Prepare to be identified by Identified, a new people-ranking search engine for professionals that ranks you based on Facebook data.
WSJ Goes Bonkers for Social Editor's Blog 9/20/2011 5 comments The Wall Street Journal Social app does not meet the needs served by RSS feeds or Twitter and will not change the way we consume news.
Deploying Mobile in the Middle Market Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 9/19/2011 1 comment The time for piecemeal, employee-led integration of mobile services into the working environment is over. The midmarket needs to exploit opportunities created by rapid developments in mobile technology by forming a user profile-based mobile strategy.
News Goes Niche Editor's Blog 9/13/2011 12 comments Not only are the Web's big content providers struggling to attract and keep readers in pursuit of focused content. Specialist sites, too, are being ignored as users go direct to social links.
Netflix Starts to Hit Rough Waters Editor's Blog 9/5/2011 18 comments Between upsetting users with a "dizzying" interface, ignoring them on Facebook, raising their fees, and losing a major content provider, Netflix may quickly lose favor with consumers.
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
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).
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.
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 IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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Jillian C. York, Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
