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Comment: Re: Psychic Blindspot - jabailo - 8/31/2009
Comment: Re: Psychic Blindspot - jabailo - 8/31/2009
Comment: Re: Psychic Blindspot - cbrown - 8/31/2009
Comment: just the wrong spaces - Mashka - 8/31/2009
Comment: Psychic Blindspot - jabailo - 8/29/2009
Comment: Quibbles - NewRulesMitchell - 8/28/2009
Comment: WTF (LOL) - M Hulot - 8/28/2009
Readers to Regulators: Keep Your Mitts off the Net
Editor's Blog  
8/28/2009   17 comments
Nearly half of Internet Evolution readers think the United States is far too involved in regulating the Internet
Research Nets Offer Ideas for US Broadband Buildout
Bill St. Arnaud  
8/28/2009   15 comments
Academic and public-sector research projects could provide answers to the FCC's broadband conundrum
Comment: Tech ignorance - dbergman - 8/22/2009
Comment: Re: Sound familiar - abdlah - 8/22/2009
Mal-Content: How Markey III Hurts the Internet
The Big Report  
8/21/2009   8 comments
While many of the bill's provisions are good or even commendable, the rest are harmful
Comment: Re: Sound familiar - Mashka - 8/21/2009
Comment: ISPs - jdfalk - 8/20/2009
Tech Reporters Don't 'Get' Security
Ira Winkler  
8/20/2009   40 comments
Reporters – and the public – aren't asking the right questions about Internet security problems
Comment: Re: Sound familiar - abdlah - 8/20/2009
Comment: Re: Sound familiar - abdlah - 8/20/2009
Comment: Sad but true... - jpmessenger - 8/19/2009
Comment: Re: Thank you, Deborah - abdlah - 8/19/2009
San Francisco CIO Shuns Broadband Stimulus Funds
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
8/19/2009   9 comments
You might think a liberal-leaning city like San Francisco would immediately embrace any government-funded program, but this time you'd be wrong
Comment: Learning software - Remedia - 8/18/2009
Rwanda's Digital Destiny: An Update
Deborah Nason  
8/18/2009   22 comments
Rwanda continues to lead East Africa in progress toward digitized, Web-based government sectors, communities, and education
Policing the Tubes
Internet Evolution Poll  
8/17/2009   3 comments
When it comes to regulating the Internet, is the US government doing just enough, too much, or not enough at all?
Government Cybersecurity: Tax-Supported Spying
Jart Armin  
8/17/2009   15 comments
Citizens in the US and the UK are paying their governments to spy on them in the name of cybersecurity
Comment: Re: EMP - Kurtkeys - 8/13/2009
Comment: Headspin - jwallace - 8/13/2009
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Craig Newmark!
Editor's Blog  
8/13/2009   1 comment
Join us now for an IE Radio broadcast with craigslist founder, Craig Newmark!
Comment: Stimulus - Michael P. Kassner - 8/13/2009
What's Wrong With the National Broadband Plan
Tom Nolle  
8/12/2009   15 comments
The FCC appears to be bowing to ISP recalcitrance to disclose the real state of their networks
Comment: Re: EMP - rjh - 8/12/2009
Comment: EMP - vincent_r - 8/12/2009
Comment: tracking -what for? - vincent_r - 8/12/2009
Comment: potentially great step - ivka - 8/12/2009
Comment: Re: Assets are Targets - rjh - 8/12/2009
Comment: Assets are Targets - Jason_13 - 8/12/2009
Schoolkid Laptops: How Portugal's Doing It Right
Rob Salkowitz  
8/12/2009   13 comments
A plan to equip 1 million children with laptops in Portugal is shaping up to be a first-of-its-kind success
Comment: Cookie Security - Cogito - 8/11/2009
Comment: Re: not interested? - Cogito - 8/11/2009
Comment: Manners of War - kq4ym - 8/11/2009
Comment: 86 people - Cogito - 8/11/2009
Comment: Really, For real - Kurtkeys - 8/11/2009
Comment: not interested? - Mary Jander - 8/11/2009
Comment: Seems like... - RichardRollTide - 8/11/2009
That's the Way the Federal Cookie Crumbles
Editor's Blog  
8/11/2009   28 comments
The White House is looking to overturn a law banning Web-tracking technologies on federal Websites, and 86 people in the US seem to care
Comment: Re: For real? - rjh - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - Kurtkeys - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - rjh - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - Kurtkeys - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - rjh - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - rjh - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: How? - rjh - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - Kurtkeys - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: How? - Kurtkeys - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - Nicole Ferraro - 8/10/2009
Comment: Re: For real? - Kurtkeys - 8/10/2009
Comment: For real? - Nicole Ferraro - 8/10/2009
Comment: Just Ducky!!.. - J DAmbrosio - 8/10/2009
Comment: If there were a way... - TNT - 8/10/2009
Comment: Morning Reading - Mike Acker - 8/10/2009
Comment: How? - vincent_r - 8/10/2009
It's Time for a Cyberwarfare Law of Armed Conflict
Robert J. Hansen  
8/10/2009   31 comments
Last week's Twitter attack and news of a 2003 US military decision show we need to put some constraints on cyberwarfare
Comment: Federal Security - mog-ur - 8/7/2009
Comment: Czar of what? - lpricci49 - 8/7/2009
Comment: Semper Fi - artfrankmiami - 8/7/2009
Comment: blanket ban? hmm.. - mhhfive - 8/7/2009
Comment: Re: Hmm. - ferodynamics - 8/7/2009
Obama's Epic Cyber Security Failure
Tom Stamulis  
8/7/2009   32 comments
No one wants to be a cyber czar with no decision-making authority or solid directives
Comment: Hmm. - RichardRollTide - 8/7/2009
Marine Corps Ban Is a Good Idea
Christopher Olson  
8/7/2009   25 comments
Corps members still have access to TroopTube and email, so it seems a small price to pay for risk averted
Comment: Re: Agreed - Terry Sweeney - 8/7/2009
Bringing Obama to the Enterprise
Editor's Blog  
8/7/2009   11 comments
Jascha Franklin Hodge, who helped spearhead MyBarackObama.com, says enterprises can learn a lot from the campaign's use of social networking
Comment: Re: Get Real. - James Lambie - 8/7/2009
Comment: Get Real. - Thread - 8/7/2009
Comment: Re: No end in sight - PaulJ - 8/6/2009
Comment: No end in sight - PaulJ - 8/6/2009
Gary McKinnon Case a Dilemma for US & UK
Jart Armin  
8/6/2009   16 comments
Self-described hacker Gary McKinnon should face the consequences of his actions, whatever his motives
Comment: Agreed - Mary Jander - 8/5/2009
'Off' Switch a New Tool in Security Arsenal
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
8/5/2009   11 comments
Two different entities recently took networks or Websites down, reactively and proactively – each had its reasons
Comment: ahead of everybody - Mashka - 8/4/2009
Comment: So what is the upside? - TNT - 8/3/2009
The Upside of Web Censorship
Editor's Blog  
8/3/2009   6 comments
Saudi Arabia is an active Web censor, but the country is also waging an effective war against terrorists online in the process




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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.
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Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   5 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   9 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   |   1 comment


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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