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posted in June 2012
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Comment: Re: White hat? - Anand Y - 6/30/2012
Comment: Re: White hat? - Alan Reiter - 6/28/2012
Comment: White hat? - mtechie - 6/25/2012
Comment: App that steals - nasimson - 6/25/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - pcharles - 6/21/2012
Android App Steals Contactless Payment Data
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
6/21/2012   7 comments
An app capable of stealing contactless payment data has been removed from Google's online store.
Comment: I'm making money - jabailo - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Tom Nolle - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Kim Davis - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Tom Nolle - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - pcharles - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: Cramer is a Joke! - aum007 - 6/19/2012
Comment: Cramer is a Joke! - aum007 - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: Yahoo. Blech. - syedzunair - 6/19/2012
Comment: Re: Yahoo. Blech. - Chris Poley - 6/19/2012
Comment: Yahoo. Blech. - magneticnorth - 6/19/2012
Facebook's Biggest Problem Is Its Mission
Wagner James Au  
6/19/2012   26 comments
Facebook is faltering because it can't capture the pseudonymous Internet where people feel free to express their true interests.
An Evolving Take on Marketing at Citi
Marketing Takes  
6/18/2012   1 comment
Linda Descano, President and CEO of Women & Co., explains her firm's marketing opportunities and challenges.
Comment: Re: so... - Mary E. Shacklett - 6/18/2012
Yahoo Finance & CNBC: Strange Bedfellows
Chris Poley  
6/18/2012   35 comments
The partnership between Yahoo Finance and CNBC is puzzling on several levels, and this author predicts an oil-and-water reaction.
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Brian Newby - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Brian Newby - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - WaqasAltaf - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: DC vs HPC? - taimur_tz - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - taimur_tz - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: so... - taimur_tz - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: The Future - taimur_tz - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: so... - Mary E. Shacklett - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - WaqasAltaf - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - WaqasAltaf - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: good points - nimantha.de - 6/17/2012
Comment: Re: good points - taimur_tz - 6/16/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - taimur_tz - 6/16/2012
Comment: so... - slfisher - 6/16/2012
Comment: NFC - taimur_tz - 6/16/2012
Comment: good points - slfisher - 6/16/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - jabailo - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Maria Korolov - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Paul Whyte - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Paul Whyte - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Paul Whyte - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Maria Korolov - 6/14/2012
Comment: The Future - Kim Davis - 6/14/2012
Comment: Re: DC vs HPC? - robjvargas - 6/14/2012
Comment: Re: Meh, I say. - Maria Korolov - 6/14/2012
Comment: Meh, I say. - Nicole Ferraro - 6/14/2012
Comment: Re: DC vs HPC? - DukeW - 6/14/2012
Comment: Where's the beef? - DukeW - 6/14/2012
The Smartphone Credit Card Conundrum
Maria Korolov  
6/14/2012   24 comments
Despite the proliferation of credit card readers, mobile payments aren't catching on with merchants or their customers yet.
Comment: DC vs HPC? - robjvargas - 6/13/2012
HPC Steps Up to Meet Enterprise Challenge
Mary E. Shacklett  
6/13/2012   18 comments
High-performance computing (HTC) has many benefits, and it can now be done with cheaper operating systems like Linux.
Comment: Re: I said no - nathanwosnack - 6/10/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Tom Nolle - 6/10/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - pcharles - 6/10/2012
Comment: Re: Maybe It Never Was - DukeW - 6/6/2012
Comment: The Key Problem - Kim Davis - 6/6/2012
Intuit Integrates QuickBooks POS With GoPayment
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
6/6/2012   Post a comment
GoPayment's enterprise and consumer appeal will be increased by the integration of QuickBooks POS.
Comment: FB sold short - Mary Jander - 6/6/2012
Report Finds Security Indifference in the C-Suite
Michelle Manafy  
6/6/2012   8 comments
A recent report finds that while senior management places high importance on risk management in general, there remains a gap in understanding data security risks.
Comment: Re: I said no - Kim Davis - 6/5/2012
Comment: Re: I said no - Nicole Ferraro - 6/4/2012
Comment: Re: I said no - mtechie - 6/3/2012
Comment: Re: Question - Joe Stanganelli - 6/1/2012
Scanning for Deals
Todd Watson  
6/1/2012   4 comments
IBM and Honeywell combine to offer a mobile scanning and self-checkout system.
Comment: Re: I said no - KMT568 - 6/1/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Tom Nolle - 6/1/2012
Comment: Re: I agree! - Tom Nolle - 6/1/2012
Comment: Re: OUTRAGE - Chris Poley - 6/1/2012




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Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 comments
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.
Joe Stanganelli
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.
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George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   3 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   |   No comments


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.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
As
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