IBM Report: Mobile Security Risk to Double IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 2 comments IBM's X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report offers a grim view of various corporate security risks, including smartphone ones.
Charity Begins on Your Smartphone Taimoor Zubair 9/28/2011 43 comments There's a growing roster of smartphone apps designed to help users contribute funds and services to charitable causes.
Facebook Gets More Intrusive Second Shooter 9/22/2011 21 comments Facebook's latest round of changes may be more appealing to those whose lives revolve around it.
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.
Carmaker Email Stunt Prompts Lawsuit Joe Stanganelli 9/20/2011 15 comments An online advertising stunt that involved sending increasingly disturbing emails over a five-day period has backfired for Toyota.
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.
Another View of Street View David Boardman 9/14/2011 43 comments An Italian designer is using Street View to monitor and report on environmental problems in Italy.
We Still Love Facebook, Warts & All Ron Miller 9/14/2011 50 comments Though a survey shows Facebook's overwhelming popularity, the author hopes the social network will eventually be replaced in our affections.
Executive Clan Chat: Yahoo Turns a Corner IE Radio 9/12/2011 166 comments As CEO Carol Bartz is ousted, Yahoo seems to be coming face to face with the issues that have resulted in its underachieving market presence. What the future holds is questionable, though, and Yahoo may not survive as a single company.
Security Clan Chat: Another Certification Authority Goes Down IE Radio 9/9/2011 103 comments Following yesterday's news about the hacking of certification authority DigiNotar, we learn today that another CA, GlobalSign, has suffered a similar breach. Is this the end of security certificates as a digital security tool?
Zagat Sells Out to Google Editor's Blog 9/8/2011 20 comments Tim and Nina Zagat couldn't find a buyer when they put their crowdsourced surveys up for sale in 2008. Patience paid off with the news that Google has picked up the company for an unrevealed price.
Another Certification Authority Goes Down Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/7/2011 5 comments The breach of another certification authority, GlobalSign, may signal the end of security certificates as a digital security tool.
Yahoo Turns a Corner With Bartz Firing Executive Clan Editor's Blog 9/7/2011 12 comments With CEO Carol Bartz out at Yahoo, it looks as if the Web firm may be heading for a long-overdue reckoning.
IBM Report: Mobile Security Risk to Double IT Clan Editor's Blog 9/29/2011 2 comments IBM's X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report offers a grim view of various corporate security risks, including smartphone ones.
Charity Begins on Your Smartphone Taimoor Zubair 9/28/2011 43 comments There's a growing roster of smartphone apps designed to help users contribute funds and services to charitable causes.
Facebook Gets More Intrusive Second Shooter 9/22/2011 21 comments Facebook's latest round of changes may be more appealing to those whose lives revolve around it.
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.
Carmaker Email Stunt Prompts Lawsuit Joe Stanganelli 9/20/2011 15 comments An online advertising stunt that involved sending increasingly disturbing emails over a five-day period has backfired for Toyota.
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.
Another View of Street View David Boardman 9/14/2011 43 comments An Italian designer is using Street View to monitor and report on environmental problems in Italy.
We Still Love Facebook, Warts & All Ron Miller 9/14/2011 50 comments Though a survey shows Facebook's overwhelming popularity, the author hopes the social network will eventually be replaced in our affections.
Executive Clan Chat: Yahoo Turns a Corner IE Radio 9/12/2011 166 comments As CEO Carol Bartz is ousted, Yahoo seems to be coming face to face with the issues that have resulted in its underachieving market presence. What the future holds is questionable, though, and Yahoo may not survive as a single company.
Security Clan Chat: Another Certification Authority Goes Down IE Radio 9/9/2011 103 comments Following yesterday's news about the hacking of certification authority DigiNotar, we learn today that another CA, GlobalSign, has suffered a similar breach. Is this the end of security certificates as a digital security tool?
Zagat Sells Out to Google Editor's Blog 9/8/2011 20 comments Tim and Nina Zagat couldn't find a buyer when they put their crowdsourced surveys up for sale in 2008. Patience paid off with the news that Google has picked up the company for an unrevealed price.
Another Certification Authority Goes Down Security Clan Editor's Blog 9/7/2011 5 comments The breach of another certification authority, GlobalSign, may signal the end of security certificates as a digital security tool.
Yahoo Turns a Corner With Bartz Firing Executive Clan Editor's Blog 9/7/2011 12 comments With CEO Carol Bartz out at Yahoo, it looks as if the Web firm may be heading for a long-overdue reckoning.
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
Facebook advertising is a lightning rod. It seems neither brands nor consumers are 100 percent happy about the social media site's policies, placement, or procedures. But the real controversy about Facebook ads and promotions is over whether they work.
By now, you've most likely heard about the 3D-printed gun that Texas-based Defense Distributed demonstrated last week. But we haven't heard the last about the censorship war that began soon afterward.
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 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.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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