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Comment: Its takes a team - abdlah - 10/31/2011
Comment: Re: The End of Books - Kim Davis - 10/28/2011
Comment: I love it - scucci - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - Ron_Miller - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - Kim Davis - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - kq4ym - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - smkinoshita - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - nimantha.de - 10/28/2011
Comment: Re: The End of Books - dlavie - 10/27/2011
Comment: Re: Oink's Cred - Mary Jander - 10/27/2011
Comment: The End of Books - DHagar - 10/27/2011
Comment: Re: The End of Books - Kim Davis - 10/27/2011
Comment: The End of Books - DHagar - 10/27/2011
Comment: Oink's Cred - Kim Davis - 10/27/2011
Comment: Re: The End of Books - Kim Davis - 10/27/2011
Comment: The End of Books - DHagar - 10/27/2011
Comment: Re: The End of Books - dlavie - 10/27/2011
Digg Founder Joins Online Ratings Game
Michelle Manafy  
10/27/2011   18 comments
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has launched Oink, a ratings site with a few twists that may -- or may not -- catch on with consumers.
Comment: Re: Social Engineering - kq4ym - 10/27/2011
Comment: One Day Only - The Dream Chaser - 10/26/2011
Comment: Sad indeed - nasimson - 10/25/2011
Comment: The End of Books - DHagar - 10/24/2011
Information On Demand 2011 Breaking News: IBM Accelerates Big Data Analytics
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Today, here at Information On Demand 2011 in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled new software that brings the power of managing and analyzing big data to the workplace.
Information on Demand 2011 Live: Opening General Session – Data Puzzles
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
The opening session of IBM's conference in Las Vegas included reminiscence about the company's years of contributions to data management and a view of its ongoing participation in managing global information.
Comment: Re: card catalogue - Kim Davis - 10/24/2011
Comment: Re: Depressed! - Kim Davis - 10/24/2011
Comment: Re: Depressed! - Ariella - 10/24/2011
Comment: card catalogue - Ariella - 10/24/2011
Comment: Re: Depressed! - Paul Whyte - 10/24/2011
Information on Demand 2011: Big Data, Bigger Insights
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Enterprises looking to turn data into effectual insight through business analytics and optimization (BAO) are headed to IBM's event in Las Vegas this week.
Information on Demand 2011: Let the Interviews Begin!
Todd Watson  
10/24/2011   Post a comment
Interviews at IBM's conference in Las Vegas reveal key themes in the area of business analytics and optimization (BAO).
Comment: Re: Depressed! - Mary Jander - 10/24/2011
Comment: Depressed! - Nicole Ferraro - 10/24/2011
The End of Books
Kim Davis  
10/24/2011   24 comments
Many trends threaten the traditional business of publishing and selling physical books.
Comment: From farm to plate - nasimson - 10/24/2011
Comment: Thanks - Mashka - 10/24/2011
Comment: Re: such a pity - Mashka - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - aum007 - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - jabailo - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - aum007 - 10/23/2011
Comment: What about rent? - aum007 - 10/23/2011
Comment: But enough about the 1% - jabailo - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - jabailo - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Wow! - Michael Bennett Cohn - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - jabailo - 10/23/2011
Comment: Wow! - Mashka - 10/23/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - taimur_tz - 10/23/2011
Comment: Wow! - Mashka - 10/23/2011
Comment: Wow! - Mashka - 10/23/2011
Comment: Good coverage - nasimson - 10/22/2011
Comment: Feel I was there! - Mary Jander - 10/21/2011
Comment: Re: A bit depressing - knoxzoo - 10/21/2011
Comment: Re: Incredible - Kim Davis - 10/21/2011
Web 2.0 Summit Slideshow: Visualize the Data Frame!
Editor's Blog  
10/21/2011   13 comments
Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin... see them all in pictures from this year's Web 2.0 Summit. Exciting!
Comment: Re: Lockers - jabailo - 10/21/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Mary Jander - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Bolingbroke - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - hounhosp - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Mary Jander - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Bolingbroke - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - SteveGNYC - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - SteveGNYC - 10/20/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - The Dream Chaser - 10/19/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Mary Jander - 10/19/2011
Comment: Re: Lockers - Kim Davis - 10/19/2011
Comment: Re: Incredible - Kim Davis - 10/19/2011
Comment: A Trojan Horse ? - Bolingbroke - 10/19/2011
Comment: Lockers - The Dream Chaser - 10/19/2011
Amazon Puts a 'Lock' on Future Sales
Michael Bennett Cohn  
10/19/2011   36 comments
A trial of lockers – physical ones – portends a new direction for Amazon's retail operations.
From Farm to Plate: Using Analytics to Make Safer Foods
Todd Watson  
10/19/2011   1 comment
Cherry Central, a leading cooperative of hundreds of US growers of fruits and vegetables, is using IBM analytics to prevent food-related illnesses.
Comment: Re: Incredible - Kim Davis - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: Incredible - Joanne Goldman - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: Incredible - dcuperus - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: Incredible - Joanne Goldman - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: A bit depressing - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: A bit depressing - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: A bit depressing - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: tragedy, then farce - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: Invasion? - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: such a pity - knoxzoo - 10/18/2011
Comment: A bit depressing - Nicole Ferraro - 10/18/2011
Comment: Invasion? - Joe Stanganelli - 10/18/2011
Comment: such a pity - Mashka - 10/18/2011
Comment: such a pity - Mashka - 10/18/2011
Comment: Re: I'm trying to think - Mashka - 10/18/2011
PepsiCo's Invasion-of-Privacy Machine
John Myers  
10/18/2011   27 comments
The PepsiCo "social vending" machine has some interesting benefits – and some are not for consumers.
Comment: Looking good - Mary Jander - 10/17/2011
Comment: Dr. Vinny Boombots - Chris Poley - 10/17/2011
Comment: Extremely funny but true - victor - 10/17/2011
Comment: The Kindle Swindle - Bolingbroke - 10/17/2011
The Midmarket Invests in Tech
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/17/2011   2 comments
A new report shows the midmarket preparing for turbulent times by investing in technology.
Comment: Incredible - Nicole Ferraro - 10/17/2011
Comment: ... - jay4662002 - 10/17/2011
The True Cost of a Kindle
Kim Davis  
10/17/2011   14 comments
The real cost of a Kindle may be $30 more than what Jeff Bezos has advertised.
Comment: I'm trying to think - slfisher - 10/16/2011
Courts Stir Controversy Over Electronic Signatures
Steven C. Bennett  
10/14/2011   16 comments
Laws on the books have defined electronic signatures for years, but recent court decisions call them into question.
Comment: Re: Question... - Kim Davis - 10/13/2011
Comment: Re: Question... - MisterNails - 10/13/2011
Steve Jobs's Legacy of Failure
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
10/12/2011   42 comments
Steve Jobs didn't just leave executives a model for unbroken success. His failures have a lot to teach us as well.
Comment: Re: Accessories - Ariella - 10/11/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - aum007 - 10/11/2011
Comment: Re: Idiocracy - kq4ym - 10/11/2011
Comment: Call Me Clueless - Bolingbroke - 10/11/2011
Comment: Re: Just got my e-mail - dcuperus - 10/10/2011
Comment: Worst of Both Worlds - Kim Davis - 10/10/2011
Comment: Just got my e-mail - dcuperus - 10/10/2011
Netflix's Qwikster Cut May Be Too Little, Too Late
Joe Stanganelli  
10/10/2011   34 comments
Getting rid of Qwikster may not be sufficient to save Netflix's brand. Some are calling for the head of CEO Reed Hastings.
Comment: Re: Accessories - Ariella - 10/10/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - aum007 - 10/10/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - Ariella - 10/10/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - aum007 - 10/10/2011
Comment: Re: Interesting Move - abdlah - 10/8/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - Kim Davis - 10/7/2011
Comment: Re: Accessories - Ariella - 10/6/2011
Comment: Accessories - Kim Davis - 10/6/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Tom Nolle - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Kim Davis - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Tom Nolle - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Ariella - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Tom Nolle - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Nicole Ferraro - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: iCloud - Tom Nolle - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: Cookbooks - Alan Reiter - 10/5/2011
Comment: iCloud - Nicole Ferraro - 10/5/2011
Comment: Cookbooks - Kim Davis - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: French Chef - Alan Reiter - 10/5/2011
Comment: Re: Apple's letdown - Tom Nolle - 10/5/2011
Comment: Apple's letdown - Mary Jander - 10/5/2011
iPhone? More Like iPhony!
Second Shooter  
10/5/2011   10 comments
People should be disappointed with Apple's lack of innovation with iCloud.
Comment: French Chef - Bolingbroke - 10/5/2011
Comment: Formatting problems - Kim Davis - 10/3/2011
E-Book Formatting Is Awful!
Reiter's Block  
10/3/2011   34 comments
The formatting and copyediting of too many e-books are much worse than paper books.




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Jon Carter   5/21/2013   18 comments
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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   14 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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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   3 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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Alison Diana   5/21/2013   1 comment
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
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