Translation Tools for the Modern Road Warrior Maria Korolov 11/28/2012 34 comments Smartphones equipped with speech recognition, translation, and reading text out loud capabilities are changing the rules for international business travel and outsourcing.
Construction Firms Build on Web, Social Media Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 11/9/2012 15 comments The promise of new business is encouraging construction companies and suppliers to create Web-based marketing materials. But they must not forget the broad adoption of tablets.
Internet Aces Healthcare's Stringent Tests IT Clan Editor's Blog 11/5/2012 29 comments Early programs show using the Internet and social media are reliable methods to find and monitor patients for healthcare tests, monitoring, and feedback.
TweetDeck Gets a Second Life Mitch Wagner 11/5/2012 13 comments A quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be atop your Twitter toolkit.
Get on Facebook Right Now Wisdom of the Big Chair 11/1/2012 Post a comment A growing number of HR managers are suspicious of individuals who do not take part in social media.
Translation Tools for the Modern Road Warrior Maria Korolov 11/28/2012 34 comments Smartphones equipped with speech recognition, translation, and reading text out loud capabilities are changing the rules for international business travel and outsourcing.
Construction Firms Build on Web, Social Media Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 11/9/2012 15 comments The promise of new business is encouraging construction companies and suppliers to create Web-based marketing materials. But they must not forget the broad adoption of tablets.
Internet Aces Healthcare's Stringent Tests IT Clan Editor's Blog 11/5/2012 29 comments Early programs show using the Internet and social media are reliable methods to find and monitor patients for healthcare tests, monitoring, and feedback.
TweetDeck Gets a Second Life Mitch Wagner 11/5/2012 13 comments A quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be atop your Twitter toolkit.
Get on Facebook Right Now Wisdom of the Big Chair 11/1/2012 Post a comment A growing number of HR managers are suspicious of individuals who do not take part in social media.
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).
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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