Google+ Makes Names Complicated Editor's Blog 7/29/2011 17 comments Google+ opened a can of worms with heavy-handed enforcement of a real name policy for subscribers. Executives were quick to walk it back.
Internet Unmasks Norwegian Terrorist Alan Reiter 7/29/2011 60 comments The Internet has again played a major role in crisis, helping to expose information about the perpetrator of the Oslo attacks.
Evaluating Google+ Minus Businesses Editor's Blog 7/29/2011 15 comments Google is looking to figure out how best to serve businesses before letting them maintain a presence on the site, but it runs the risk of alienating them first.
Drawing the Line on SEO Tactics Alfred Wong 7/27/2011 18 comments Search engine optimization appears to be as much black art as helpful strategy, and awareness of the fine points is important for enterprises.
The Web's War on Privacy The Big Report 7/26/2011 17 comments The Internet's hallmark qualities of openness and connectivity continue to breed a range of threats to personal privacy. We look at the potential costs of maintaining a Web presence and ask how we can best keep the rightfully private private.
Everything's Coming Up Google! Editor's Blog 7/15/2011 9 comments Showing that there is life beyond search, Google posted very strong
second-quarter results reflecting its recent initiatives in advertising, browsers, mobile, and most recently social.
The Real Impact of Google+ Second Shooter 7/15/2011 14 comments It's likely to introduce video calling and OTT communications as a replacement for standard telephony.
Naomi Baron, Linguistics Professor, American University IE Radio 7/14/2011 226 comments As author of the book, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, and as professor of linguistics and language at American University in Washington, D.C., Naomi Baron is uniquely qualified to parse the layers of meaning in emoticons and other Net-speak. In this, Prof. Baron's second appearance on IE Radio, she'll answer questions on the growing emergence of mobile, text messaging, and always-on Internet links in our daily lives.
The Social War Internet Evolution Poll 7/7/2011 30 comments Google and Facebook are officially competitors in the social networking space. Which product will ultimately end up winning the most users, Google+ or Facebook?
Video Conferencing Going Mobile Wisdom of the Big Chair 7/5/2011 3 comments Vendors have been pushing video conferencing capabilities down to tablets and smartphones.
Video Killed the Radio Star Todd Watson 7/5/2011 Post a comment Facebook and Google offer video chat, raising questions of functionality, availability, and marketing.
Google+ Makes Names Complicated Editor's Blog 7/29/2011 17 comments Google+ opened a can of worms with heavy-handed enforcement of a real name policy for subscribers. Executives were quick to walk it back.
Internet Unmasks Norwegian Terrorist Alan Reiter 7/29/2011 60 comments The Internet has again played a major role in crisis, helping to expose information about the perpetrator of the Oslo attacks.
Evaluating Google+ Minus Businesses Editor's Blog 7/29/2011 15 comments Google is looking to figure out how best to serve businesses before letting them maintain a presence on the site, but it runs the risk of alienating them first.
Drawing the Line on SEO Tactics Alfred Wong 7/27/2011 18 comments Search engine optimization appears to be as much black art as helpful strategy, and awareness of the fine points is important for enterprises.
The Web's War on Privacy The Big Report 7/26/2011 17 comments The Internet's hallmark qualities of openness and connectivity continue to breed a range of threats to personal privacy. We look at the potential costs of maintaining a Web presence and ask how we can best keep the rightfully private private.
Everything's Coming Up Google! Editor's Blog 7/15/2011 9 comments Showing that there is life beyond search, Google posted very strong
second-quarter results reflecting its recent initiatives in advertising, browsers, mobile, and most recently social.
The Real Impact of Google+ Second Shooter 7/15/2011 14 comments It's likely to introduce video calling and OTT communications as a replacement for standard telephony.
Naomi Baron, Linguistics Professor, American University IE Radio 7/14/2011 226 comments As author of the book, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, and as professor of linguistics and language at American University in Washington, D.C., Naomi Baron is uniquely qualified to parse the layers of meaning in emoticons and other Net-speak. In this, Prof. Baron's second appearance on IE Radio, she'll answer questions on the growing emergence of mobile, text messaging, and always-on Internet links in our daily lives.
The Social War Internet Evolution Poll 7/7/2011 30 comments Google and Facebook are officially competitors in the social networking space. Which product will ultimately end up winning the most users, Google+ or Facebook?
Video Conferencing Going Mobile Wisdom of the Big Chair 7/5/2011 3 comments Vendors have been pushing video conferencing capabilities down to tablets and smartphones.
Video Killed the Radio Star Todd Watson 7/5/2011 Post a comment Facebook and Google offer video chat, raising questions of functionality, availability, and marketing.
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).
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.
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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