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Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mitch Wagner - 10/31/2012
Comment: Mainframe vs the cloud - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - jwallace - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mary E. Shacklett - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Kim Davis - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Kim Davis - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mary Jander - 10/31/2012
Comment: Showrooming At Walmart - kq4ym - 10/31/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mitch Wagner - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Mitch Wagner - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Mitch Wagner - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Kicheko - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - nimantha.de - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Mobile - keveend - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Mobile - keveend - 10/30/2012
Comment: Re: Mobile - Paul Whyte - 10/29/2012
Comment: Mobile - Kim Davis - 10/29/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Brian Newby - 10/29/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/29/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Kicheko - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Kicheko - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - chuckgregory - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Mashka - 10/28/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - hounhosp - 10/27/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - chuckgregory - 10/27/2012
Comment: The disposable Kindle - nasimson - 10/27/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/27/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/27/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - hounhosp - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: Re-purpose - Mary Jander - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mary Jander - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Mitch Wagner - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Mary Jander - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: btcstore17 - Chris Poley - 10/26/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - Chris Poley - 10/26/2012
Comment: Facebook - Mitch Wagner - 10/25/2012
Comment: Re: Re-purpose - Kim Davis - 10/25/2012
Comment: Re-purpose - Chris Poley - 10/25/2012
Search-Based Advertising Ain't What It Used to Be
Chris Poley  
10/25/2012   42 comments
Marketers are faced with big changes in the search-based advertising market.
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - taimur_tz - 10/25/2012
Kindles Are Disposable
Kim Davis  
10/25/2012   11 comments
Amazon seems to regard the Kindle as a junk item, not worth fixing.
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - SteveGNYC - 10/25/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mitch Wagner - 10/24/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Kim Davis - 10/24/2012
 Vala Afshar, Chief Customer Officer, Enterasys Networks
Smarter Analytics Clan Radio  
10/24/2012   100 comments
Vala Afshar is chief customer officer for Enterasys Networks. Afshar is responsible for worldwide services operations and technical support functions, including contact center operations, field engineering, support engineering, and infrastructure technologies. Afshar and his team have implemented an award-winning (CRM Magazine Elite Services) cloud computing customer relationship management framework that uses business and performance management analytics to achieve best-in-class customer satisfaction and employee retention.
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - SteveGNYC - 10/24/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - SteveGNYC - 10/24/2012
Comment: Big-data analytics - Kicheko - 10/24/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - eric.simone - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Speed Spending - Mitch Wagner - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - jabailo - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mitch Wagner - 10/23/2012
Safe Bets for Analytics in 2013
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
10/23/2012   6 comments
Predictions for 2013 in analytics are flooding in, and some of them are just obvious.
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Kim Davis - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - jabailo - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Relevance - Mary E. Shacklett - 10/23/2012
Comment: Relevance - Mitch Wagner - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Mr. Roques - 10/23/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - stotheco - 10/23/2012
How to Link Mainframe to Mobile
Mary E. Shacklett  
10/23/2012   15 comments
Linking mainframe data to Web applications is vital to enterprise IT; here are some suggestions for making a successful connection.
Comment: Re: Speed Spending - Kim Davis - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Kim Davis - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Kim Davis - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Kim Davis - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - WaqasAltaf - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - nasimson - 10/22/2012
Comment: Speed Spending - Joanne Goldman - 10/22/2012
Comment: Re: Help! cries yelp - Ariella - 10/22/2012
Comment: Help! cries yelp - nasimson - 10/22/2012
Businesses Will Ignore Yelp's Crackdown on Fake Reviews
Robert McGarvey  
10/22/2012   51 comments
Companies that purchase fake positive reviews on Yelp and other sites will be outed by Yelp, according to a new policy.
Comment: Re: Moving forward - aum007 - 10/21/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Kim Davis - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Mitch Wagner - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - stotheco - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - kq4ym - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Ariella - 10/19/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Mashka - 10/19/2012
Showrooming With Santa
Todd Watson  
10/18/2012   5 comments
Many brick-and-mortar retailers promise to match online retail prices.
Comment: Re: Policing needed - Kim Davis - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: Policing needed - Mary Jander - 10/18/2012
Comment: Policing needed - Mitch Wagner - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Ariella - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - ChrisTOP - 10/18/2012
Comment: Curious - Michael P. Kassner - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: Good to know - Mashka - 10/18/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Apple Contractor Woes Raise Issue of Enterprise Offshoring
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
10/17/2012   3 comments
New trouble at the Apple contractor Foxconn raises issues about the value of offshoring to enterprise supply chains.
Comment: Good to know - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Retailers Should Pass on Mobile Wallets
Robert McGarvey  
10/17/2012   22 comments
When it comes to mobile wallets, the best action may be no action for retailers and financial institutions.
Comment: Re: Penney's - Joanne Goldman - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/17/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - mtechie - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Kim Davis - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - mtechie - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - jabailo - 10/16/2012
Comment: Re: The big Mo - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: The big Mo - Mitch Wagner - 10/15/2012
Wal-Mart Reportedly Doubles Down on OpenStack
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
10/15/2012   17 comments
Word that Wal-Mart has lined up to use OpenStack for data analytics prompts questions about IaaS adoption by enterprises.
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
 Lora Cecere, CEO, Supply Chain Insights
Smarter IT Clan Radio  
10/15/2012   4 comments
Lora Cecere is the Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, a research firm focused on the use of enterprise technology to drive supply chain excellence. Among the firm's current research topics are market-driven value networks, the evolution of predictive analytics, emerging business intelligence solutions, and technologies to improve safe and secure product delivery.
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - Mary Jander - 10/15/2012
Comment: Geewhizzing - kq4ym - 10/15/2012
IE Radio: Join Today's Discussion on Supply Chain Excellence
Editor's Blog  
10/15/2012   Post a comment
Our IE Radio interview at 2:00 p.m. ET today with Lora Cecere, CEO of research firm Supply Chain Insights, will be followed by a live-chat discussion. Bring your questions!
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - stotheco - 10/15/2012
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - abdlah - 10/13/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Alan Reiter - 10/13/2012
Comment: Re: Self Pay but... - Alan Reiter - 10/13/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Mary Jander - 10/12/2012
Comment: Self Pay but... - abdlah - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Alan Reiter - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Mary Jander - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Alan Reiter - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Alan Reiter - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Alan Reiter - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Mary Jander - 10/12/2012
Comment: Re: Penney's - Bolingbroke - 10/12/2012
Comment: Penney's - Mitch Wagner - 10/12/2012
Comment: battling showrooming - Ariella - 10/12/2012
How IT Keeps Retail Stores Lively Despite Online Ordering
Alan Reiter  
10/12/2012   41 comments
IT professionals who work for big retailers have a range of options for dealing with the effects of showrooming on brick-and-mortar stores.
Tackling the Enterprise Information Tsunami
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
10/9/2012   Post a comment
IBM's PureData System gives enterprises a chance of staying afloat on the ocean of big-data.
Why Bypassing the CIO Isn't Advisable
Karyl Scott  
10/9/2012   15 comments
In many enterprises, marketing or HR will bypass the CIO in implementing social media applications. That doesn't mean the CIO should be out of the loop.
Comment: Re: Moving forward - aum007 - 10/8/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 10/8/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 10/8/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 10/8/2012
Santa's Virtual Elves
Todd Watson  
10/5/2012   1 comment
Christmas is coming.
Comment: Boloco's Tech - stotheco - 10/5/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - aum007 - 10/3/2012
Take Our Poll on Competing With the Big Guys
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
10/1/2012   4 comments
Midmarket companies can be more agile than big businesses.
Comment: Re: Moving forward - abdlah - 10/1/2012
Competing With the Big Guys
Internet Evolution Midmarket Clan Poll  
10/1/2012   6 comments
The midmarket stands to reap special benefits from current digital developments.




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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.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 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.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 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   |   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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