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posted in November 2012
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Comment: Mobile growth - DavidSilversmith - 11/30/2012
Comment: Both Worlds - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: Cyber Monday Numbers - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: The other market - jwallace - 11/30/2012
Comment: I got mine for free - KMT568 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Mobile Device Shopping - KMT568 - 11/30/2012
Cyber Monday: Online Shopping Reaches an All-Time High
Todd Watson  
11/30/2012   9 comments
IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark delivers insights into the behaviors and trends of holiday cyber shoppers.
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - aum007 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - aum007 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - Ariella - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Alison Diana - 11/30/2012
Comment: Examples Abound - Alison Diana - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Alison Diana - 11/30/2012
Comment: No Return Returns - kq4ym - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - chuckgregory - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - nimantha.de - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - swijeyakumar - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - Ariella - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - rswinney - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - smkinoshita - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - NicoleH - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Alison Diana - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Alison Diana - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Mr. Roques - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Kim Davis - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - Alison Diana - 11/29/2012
Comment: Balancing both - Kicheko - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - Ariella - 11/29/2012
IT to the Rescue of Both Retail Worlds
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
11/29/2012   25 comments
Despite growing evidence of the importance of integrating physical and virtual stores, most retailers keep the two worlds separate. Given the green light, IT could fix this.
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - Ariella - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - aum007 - 11/29/2012
Comment: Returns a Challenge - NicoleH - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 11/29/2012
Avoid the Season of Unhappy Returns
Mary E. Shacklett  
11/29/2012   75 comments
Brick and mortar, as well as e-commerce, retailers dislike returns almost as much as you do.
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - kq4ym - 11/29/2012
Price, Not Features, Driving Smartphone Sales
Wisdom of the Big Chair  
11/29/2012   7 comments
A survey by JD Powers found that customer interest in product features is lessening as phones evolve.
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kim Davis - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Mashka - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Mashka - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kim Davis - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kim Davis - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Mashka - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kim Davis - 11/26/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kim Davis - 11/26/2012
Comment: not to mention - slfisher - 11/26/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Mashka - 11/26/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - mtechie - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Know Your Reviewer - kiranIE - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - Kicheko - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - syedzunair - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - aum007 - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Facebook - keveend - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Moving forward - keveend - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Usman Ejaz - 11/24/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - hounhosp - 11/23/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - hounhosp - 11/23/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Jason Adams - 11/23/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Jason Adams - 11/23/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - syedzunair - 11/23/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - kq4ym - 11/22/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - kq4ym - 11/22/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - abdlah - 11/22/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Jason Adams - 11/22/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Jason Adams - 11/22/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Mr. Roques - 11/21/2012
(Not) Home for the Holidays
Todd Watson  
11/21/2012   9 comments
Turbo looks ahead to the holidays and the holiday shopping season.
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - abdlah - 11/21/2012
Comment: Usually Helpful - abdlah - 11/21/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - jabailo - 11/21/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - jabailo - 11/21/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - lin crampton - 11/20/2012
New LEDs Shed Light On Data Transmission
Reiter's Block  
11/20/2012   Post a comment
LED lightbulbs will be used not only for home and business lighting automation, but possibly also for locating shoppers inside stores and transmitting data at hundreds of megabits per second.
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - syedzunair - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Kindle Fire HD - syedzunair - 11/20/2012
Comment: A Day Late - Bolingbroke - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Square - Jason Adams - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Midsize advantage - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Almost had me there... - DukeW - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Kindle Fire HD - kiranIE - 11/20/2012
Comment: Kindle Fire HD - NicoleH - 11/19/2012
Comment: Taking on Amazon - DHagar - 11/19/2012
Comment: Midsize advantage - Mitch Wagner - 11/19/2012
Taking on Amazon
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
11/19/2012   47 comments
Midsized retailers succeed against even their largest rivals by tightly integrating their sales channels.
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - lin crampton - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Ariella - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - RonnieFillingim - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews?? - Joe Stanganelli - 11/18/2012
Comment: Truth in Reviews - stotheco - 11/18/2012
Comment: Re: Know Your Reviewer - DukeW - 11/18/2012
Comment: Reviews?? - RonnieFillingim - 11/17/2012
Comment: Re: Square - RonnieFillingim - 11/17/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews - Joe Stanganelli - 11/17/2012
Holiday Shopping Chatter
Todd Watson  
11/16/2012   2 comments
Turbo invites you to an upcoming Twitter chat on the holiday shopping season.
Comment: Re: Know Your Reviewer - jabailo - 11/16/2012
Comment: Re: Reviews - Alison Diana - 11/16/2012
Comment: Reviews - Joe Stanganelli - 11/16/2012
Comment: Know Your Reviewer - Kim Davis - 11/16/2012
A Smarter Food System
IBM Videos  
11/16/2012   Post a comment
Consumers are more demanding than ever when it comes to food safety, freshness, and price. Growers, processors, and retailers are using innovative and collaborative technologies to improve safety, distribution, and revenue opportunities, while also reducing waste. Find out how specialty food retailer Fairway Market is creating a smarter food network using advanced technologies from IBM.
User Reviews Customers Can Believe In
Russell Rothstein  
11/16/2012   52 comments
Customers' opinions can be the most invaluable sales and marketing tool -- as long as they're legitimate.
Comment: Re: Square - Jason Adams - 11/15/2012
Comment: Re: Square - RonnieFillingim - 11/14/2012
Comment: Re: Square - Jason Adams - 11/14/2012
Comment: Square - RonnieFillingim - 11/13/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Kim Davis - 11/12/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - dcawrey - 11/12/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/9/2012
New IBM Study: The Business of Social Business
Todd Watson  
11/9/2012   Post a comment
A new IBM study looks at ways organizations can effectively apply social business investments.
Comment: Re: Rakuten - KMT568 - 11/9/2012
Comment: Mobile payments - Mitch Wagner - 11/8/2012
7,000 Starbucks Get Square
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
11/8/2012   16 comments
Starbucks today began accepting Square Mobile, a move that could heat up the digital wallet war.
Comment: Re: Rakuten - George Taylor - 11/8/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Kim Davis - 11/8/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Alison Diana - 11/8/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Alison Diana - 11/8/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - George Taylor - 11/8/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Joanne Goldman - 11/7/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mashka - 11/7/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - KMT568 - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - nimantha.de - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - DukeW - 11/5/2012
Comment: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/5/2012
The Battle Over Global E-Commerce: Amazon vs. Rakuten
George Taylor  
11/5/2012   19 comments
Having succeeded in their own countries, Amazon and Rakuten Ichiba are using different strategies to infringe on each other's businesses.




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David Weldon   5/22/2013   9 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.
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   15 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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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
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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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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
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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