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Comment: Re: Fuzzy indeed! - scbennett - 3/31/2012
Comment: Great initiative - Kicheko - 3/31/2012
Comment: Re: California - scucci - 3/31/2012
Comment: Re: And...AGAIN! - nimantha.de - 3/31/2012
Comment: Re: California - cjon316 - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: California - cjon316 - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Time to act - cjon316 - 3/30/2012
Comment: The FLA Report - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Apple's problem - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Homogeneity - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: California - Mary Jander - 3/30/2012
Comment: Apple's problem - Mary Jander - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Time to act - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Time to act - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Time to act - Paul Whyte - 3/30/2012
Comment: Time to act - Nicole Ferraro - 3/29/2012
FLA Finds Foxconn Violations
Editor's Blog  
3/29/2012   13 comments
It's good to see Tim Cook touring a Foxconn factory, but the result of the FLA audit is what's important.
Comment: Re: California - Nicole Ferraro - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: California - Mary Jander - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: More? - Nicole Ferraro - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: California - Nicole Ferraro - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: California - Mary Jander - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: More? - Kim Davis - 3/29/2012
Comment: Re: California - Brian Newby - 3/29/2012
California Flushes $2B IT Project
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
3/29/2012   14 comments
What went wrong with the 10-year, $2 billion IT project known as the California Case Management System? Check it out.
Comment: Re: More? - Nicole Ferraro - 3/29/2012
Comment: More? - Kim Davis - 3/29/2012
Brute Force Reputation Management
Kim Davis  
3/29/2012   10 comments
Cult leader Mark Hamilton overwhelms Google Search with his legion of domain names.
Comment: Re: Good for the FTC - Kicheko - 3/29/2012
Comment: IPhone - jwallace - 3/29/2012
Comment: Good for the FTC - Mary Jander - 3/28/2012
'Do Not Track' May Need Congressional Muscle
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
3/28/2012   8 comments
The FTC sets out voluntary privacy guidelines but calls for Congress to act if companies fail to comply.
Comment: Re: Homogeneity - Kim Davis - 3/28/2012
Comment: Purpose of patents - ellaryk - 3/27/2012
Comment: Homogeneity - Kim Davis - 3/27/2012
The Digital Patent Wars
The Big Report  
3/27/2012   54 comments
Once used as a means of invention and innovation, patents are now being abused by companies as weapons of war.
Comment: Leader in Internet - abdlah - 3/26/2012
Comment: If You Aren't Inside - kq4ym - 3/26/2012
Finland Begins Crowdsourced Legislation
Susan Fourtané  
3/26/2012   41 comments
Recent developments have launched a new initiative for crowdsourcing laws via the Internet in Finland.
Comment: Re: I am only an egg - hounhosp - 3/25/2012
Comment: Re: And...AGAIN! - aum007 - 3/25/2012
Comment: why is this so hard? - slfisher - 3/25/2012
Comment: Re: And...AGAIN! - nimantha.de - 3/25/2012
Comment: paranoic... - Mashka - 3/25/2012
Comment: Re: Look . . - Chris Poley - 3/24/2012
Comment: Re: And...AGAIN! - aum007 - 3/24/2012
Comment: I am only an egg - slfisher - 3/24/2012
Comment: Re: I like the idea... - aum007 - 3/24/2012
Comment: Look . . - The Dream Chaser - 3/23/2012
Measuring Online Violence vs. Real Risk
Second Shooter  
3/23/2012   8 comments
Some say that exposure to online violence is creating a violent culture. Tom doubts it.
Comment: Without ICANN - Mary Jander - 3/22/2012
If ICANN Goes Away, So Will Participation
Beau Brendler  
3/22/2012   6 comments
ICANN is in a crisis. But if it goes away, so will its unique "multistakeholder model."
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Mr. Roques - 3/22/2012
Eager Investors, Beware Pre-IPO Shares
Chris Poley  
3/22/2012   27 comments
Investors can often turn a blind eye in an attempt to get in on potentially hot IPOs like Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare. Watch out!
Comment: Re: Fuzzy indeed! - kq4ym - 3/21/2012
Comment: I like the idea... - JCitizen - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Kim Davis - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Nicole Ferraro - 3/21/2012
DARPA Wants Your 'Cognitive Footprint'
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
3/21/2012   11 comments
Identifying users through behavior like keystrokes offers an imaginative solution to the password problem -- if it works.
Comment: ICAAN - nasimson - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Mashka - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Someday - Paul Korzeniowski - 3/21/2012
ICANN Ethical Conflicts Are Worse Than They Seem
Beau Brendler  
3/21/2012   19 comments
ICANN's myriad ethical conflicts are stopping the organization from operating in the interest of the Internet public.
Comment: Re: Sign Me Up - Mary Jander - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Sign Me Up - Ron_Miller - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Sign Me Up - Ron_Miller - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Interesting Model - abdlah - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Sign Me Up - Mary Jander - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Kurtkeys - 3/20/2012
Comment: Sign Me Up - jabailo - 3/20/2012
Comment: Interesting Model - abdlah - 3/20/2012
Comment: Someday - Mary Jander - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Kim Davis - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Kim Davis - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Bolingbroke - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Nicole Ferraro - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Kim Davis - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - cjon316 - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Outrageous - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - cjon316 - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Misinformation - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Kim Davis - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Timing? - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Outrageous - Nicole Ferraro - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Nicole Ferraro - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Nicole Ferraro - 3/20/2012
Comment: Misinformation - cjon316 - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - cjon316 - 3/20/2012
Comment: EU Asks Questions - Kim Davis - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Timing? - Paul Whyte - 3/20/2012
Comment: Re: Timing? - Ron_Miller - 3/20/2012
Comment: Timing? - Chris Poley - 3/20/2012
Big Media Eyes New Role as Piracy Enforcer
Ron Miller  
3/20/2012   42 comments
A proposed Copyright Alert System would enable media companies and ISPs to circumvent the legal process and punish perceived piracy on their own.
Comment: Fuzzy indeed! - Chris Poley - 3/20/2012
Comment: Education in cloud - nasimson - 3/20/2012
Tax Help Is a Video Conference Away
Wisdom of the Big Chair  
3/20/2012   2 comments
The IRS and prep agencies like TurboTax have introduced new video conferencing services.
Comment: Re: Semantics - Mashka - 3/20/2012
Impressions From SXSW Interactive 2012: Q&A With Mark McKinnon, Political Innovator & the Most Interesting Man in the World!
Todd Watson  
3/19/2012   3 comments
Mark McKinnon, a former Bush media strategist and longtime political maverick, spoke to Turbo at SXSW Interactive 2012.
Line Between Privacy & Promotion Still Fuzzy
Steven C. Bennett  
3/19/2012   15 comments
The debate rages on about where to draw the line between consumer privacy and useful data about buying habits.
Comment: Re: Semantics - Kim Davis - 3/16/2012
Comment: Re: Semantics - Nicole Ferraro - 3/16/2012
Comment: Semantics - Joe Stanganelli - 3/16/2012
Comment: Re: stumplr - Nicole Ferraro - 3/16/2012
Comment: stumplr - Chris.Browne - 3/16/2012
Election Heats Up Online With #RoadTraveled
Editor's Blog  
3/16/2012   19 comments
The Obama campaign releases The Road We've Traveled, a Web-based documentary.
Comment: Re: my $0.02 worth - q5sys - 3/14/2012
Big 'Anonymous' Brother Is Watching You
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
3/14/2012   6 comments
Supposedly pro-free-Internet hackers ironically use Big Brother techniques to threaten personal privacy.
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/14/2012
Comment: Robot driven cars - hounhosp - 3/14/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Gragg - 3/14/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/14/2012
Comment: Update from India - Mary Jander - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - oaksong - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/13/2012
Comment: Need more like Google - kenton - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: Why complain? - Mary Jander - 3/13/2012
Comment: Why complain? - cjagger - 3/13/2012
Comment: Googles "Trash" pile - oaksong - 3/13/2012
Comment: Staggering Total - Kim Davis - 3/13/2012
Google's Mounting Trash Pile
The Big Report  
3/13/2012   78 comments
Google's engineering culture has allowed a range of wasteful projects to be launched only to sputter and fail. But the company's addiction to science projects may finally be taking a toll.
Europe's First Education Cloud Forms in the UK
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
3/13/2012   4 comments
A massive contract will enable more than 1,200 schools in Northern Ireland to move all functions to a comprehensive cloud service.
Comment: Re: just checking - Kim Davis - 3/12/2012
Comment: Re: LEED - Nicole Ferraro - 3/12/2012
Comment: just checking - slfisher - 3/11/2012
Comment: LEED - slfisher - 3/11/2012
Comment: A process afoot - Mary Jander - 3/8/2012
Big Data's Explosive Growth for Government & Enterprise
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
3/8/2012   4 comments
Two new reports underline the value of big data both for public services and for the enterprise.
Comment: FBI Sounds Alarm - Kim Davis - 3/8/2012
Comment: Re: "hacker".. - Kim Davis - 3/7/2012
Comment: "hacker".. - JCitizen - 3/7/2012
LulzSec Wise Guy Tweets to the Feds
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
3/7/2012   20 comments
The revelation that a LulzSec kingpin may have been aiding the FBI strikes at the heart of trust among hacktivists.
Comment: Re: Deep Sigh - SteveGNYC - 3/7/2012
Comment: Re: Was it deliberate? - kq4ym - 3/6/2012
Comment: Re: Maybe QE III - Mary Jander - 3/6/2012
Comment: Re: hahahahah! - TamerRizk - 3/6/2012
Comment: Maybe QE III - Chris Poley - 3/6/2012
Learning to Listen to Infrastructure
Editor's Blog  
3/6/2012   13 comments
The 'Building Whisperer' describes three initiatives whereby IBM is helping organizations communicate with their infrastructure and maximize efficiency.
Examining China's Firewall Failure
William Foster  
3/6/2012   14 comments
There are several explanations for last week's puncture of Internet filters in China.
Comment: RIAA & SOPA - MHagerman - 3/5/2012
Forget Politics: Clouds Are the Future of Jobs
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
3/5/2012   5 comments
An IDC whitepaper sponsored by Microsoft claims that cloud computing will dramatically increase job creation worldwide.
US Air Force Partners With IBM on Building Performance Mission
Todd Watson  
3/5/2012   Post a comment
The USAF is leveraging IBM's smarter building technologies to automate the efficient management of its infrastructure.
Comment: Re: Deep Sigh - Mary Jander - 3/5/2012
Comment: Settings - The Dream Chaser - 3/5/2012
Comment: Re: Rots ov ruck - Thread - 3/5/2012
Comment: Re: Deep Sigh - Nicole Ferraro - 3/5/2012
Comment: blog interrupt - jwallace - 3/3/2012
Comment: Deep Sigh - Chris Poley - 3/2/2012
Comment: Great mug! - Mary Jander - 3/2/2012
Comment: Timeline - Mary Jander - 3/2/2012
Obama Unveils His Presidential 'Timeline'
Editor's Blog  
3/2/2012   32 comments
Birth certificates, recipes, and serenades all make up President Obama's Facebook Timeline
Comment: Controversial? - Kim Davis - 3/2/2012
Comment: Re: The Chamber ! - Kim Davis - 3/2/2012
Comment: The Chamber ! - Bolingbroke - 3/2/2012
McCain's 'Do Little' Cybersecurity Bill
Editor's Blog  
3/2/2012   11 comments
The SECURE IT Act leaves the nation's critical infrastructure unregulated.
Comment: Re: Weird - Tom Nolle - 3/1/2012
Comment: Weird - Mary Jander - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: hahahah - Nicole Ferraro - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: hahahahah! - Brian Newby - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: hahahah - MarkE - 3/1/2012
Comment: This just in! - Mary Jander - 3/1/2012
Comment: Sad - Mary Jander - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: hahahahah! - Kim Davis - 3/1/2012
Google Isn't Listening to Policy Outcries
Editor's Blog  
3/1/2012   7 comments
Google thinks it can pretend that a global outcry against its new privacy policy just isn't happening.
Comment: Re: hahahahah! - Ron_Miller - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: Reality - The Dream Chaser - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: hahahahah! - Ron_Miller - 3/1/2012
Comment: Reality - The Dream Chaser - 3/1/2012
AT&T Creates More Neutrality Confusion
Second Shooter  
3/1/2012   4 comments
AT&T letting some apps "buy" the data for its users seems inconsistent with net neutrality.




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Mary E. Shacklett
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   27 comments
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   12 comments
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 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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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.

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