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posted in December 2009
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Comment: Re: Right Direction - Alan Reiter - 12/28/2009
Comment: A dearth of ecards - Mary Jander - 12/28/2009
Comment: Falalala... - Mary Jander - 12/28/2009
Comment: Re: Too restrictive! - SeanFromIT - 12/28/2009
Comment: Re: Right Direction - Mr. Roques - 12/28/2009
Comment: online shopping - Asad - 12/28/2009
Comment: Re: Right Direction - pjpugliese - 12/27/2009
Comment: Re: Right Direction - Alan Reiter - 12/27/2009
Comment: Right Direction - pjpugliese - 12/26/2009
Comment: Re: online or bust - ivka - 12/26/2009
Comment: Re: Tuxedo - Alan Reiter - 12/26/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/26/2009
Comment: online or bust - ivka - 12/26/2009
Comment: Tuxedo - cjon316 - 12/25/2009
Comment: Re: great - hrcohen - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - hrcohen - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - hrcohen - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: Online groceries? - torriatte - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - ChrisTOP - 12/24/2009
Comment: Re: great - Alan Reiter - 12/24/2009
Comment: great - Mashka - 12/24/2009
Amazon Fosters Emergence of 'Digital+Physical' Sales
Alan Reiter  
12/24/2009   36 comments
Disc+ On Demand should spark companies to consider new ways to sell and distribute electronic and physical product combos
Comment: Our turn - Michael P. Kassner - 12/23/2009
Comment: Online groceries? - PaulJ - 12/23/2009
Storm-Struck Shoppers a Boon for Online Retailers
Rob Salkowitz  
12/23/2009   10 comments
Snow's not the only thing accumulating in the run-up to the end-of-year holidays
Technology Santa Claus
John Soat  
12/23/2009   4 comments
Santa offers a few words of advice to IT professionals: ‘Be careful what you wish for.’
Comment: Re: E-xactly - mamaflynny - 12/22/2009
Apple or Orange?
TeleGraham  
12/22/2009   1 comment
Telcos are falling over themselves to launch app stores – but are the app developers listening?
Comment: You see it clearly - lpricci49 - 12/19/2009
Google’s Motto: What You Can't Eat, Burn!
Second Shooter  
12/18/2009   21 comments
Tom wants a Google 'unlocked handset' for the holidays because he thinks they could just break the telco monopoly on handset distribution and thus empower the Internet as the driver of mobile broadband now and forever.
Comment: Re: E-xactly - Insultant - 12/17/2009
Comment: Re: E-xactly - Insultant - 12/17/2009
Comment: Re: E-xactly - Kurtkeys - 12/17/2009
Comment: Re: E-xactly - Insultant - 12/17/2009
Comment: Google next year - Mary Jander - 12/17/2009
If a Google Phone Arrives, Does It Even Matter?
Reiter's Block  
12/17/2009   13 comments
Techies are going crazy over the possibility that Google might design and sell its own Android phone. Some writers say it's a very big deal. Reiter questions whether it will happen and, if it does, whether it even matters.
Comment: Re: E-xactly - Susan Fourtané - 12/17/2009
Comment: E-xactly - Chris Poley - 12/17/2009
Comment: Re: Netbook silliness - Insultant - 12/16/2009
Big Cloud Barriers
Full Nelson  
12/16/2009   Post a comment
If you listen to the hype, clouds are everywhere. But if you look at the data, it turns out most customers say they still wouldn't use cloud computing for mission-critical apps or data. What's holding them back? Fritz investigates.
E-Holiday Cards Are E-gregious
Steve Saunders' Outernet  
12/16/2009   22 comments
Steve laments the 'advent' of the the e-card.
Comment: Re: Insane - Alan Reiter - 12/15/2009
Comment: you said a handful - Chris Poley - 12/15/2009
Comment: Re: Insane - Nicole Ferraro - 12/15/2009
Comment: Re: Insane - Alan Reiter - 12/15/2009
Comment: Insane - Nicole Ferraro - 12/15/2009
Stop the Cellphone Touch Screen Insanity!
Reiter's Block  
12/15/2009   11 comments
Ever since the iPhone debuted, cellular manufacturers are rushing to incorporate touch screens into their phones.
Comment: smoke and mirrors - Chris Poley - 12/15/2009
Comment: Re: Biometric WHAT? - Mary Jander - 12/14/2009
Comment: Biometric WHAT? - Mary Jander - 12/14/2009
Comment: argh. - jennwallace07 - 12/14/2009
Businesses Go on Year-End Spending Spree
Sweeney Blog  
12/14/2009   5 comments
They are burning through the last of 2009's cash with some last-minute spending and acquisitions.
Comment: Re: Tough Girl to Please - kerryf - 12/11/2009
Comment: Tough Girl to Please - lpricci49 - 12/11/2009
Comment: Re: Netbook silliness - Insultant - 12/11/2009
Comment: Netbook silliness - Mary Jander - 12/11/2009
Tech I Don't Want, Part 3: Netbook
what.the.ferraro  
12/11/2009   21 comments
Don't buy Nicole one of these laptop wannabes for the holidays.
Bad Move: Nokia Closing US Stores
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
12/10/2009   4 comments
Nokia's shortsighted closure of key flagship stores could hinder its efforts to improve its stateside profile
Comment: why? - dbergman - 12/9/2009
Comment: Too optimistic - Mary Jander - 12/9/2009
1990s Stock Flashback: AMZN to the Moon!
R. Scott Raynovich  
12/9/2009   12 comments
Amazon.com's stock price is inflated beyond reality, resonant of the bad old bubble days of the 90s
Tech I Don't Want, Part 2: Kindle
what.the.ferraro  
12/8/2009   11 comments
This holiday season, do not buy Nicole a Kindle.
Comment: The Twoddler - M Hulot - 12/8/2009
Four Tips for Building Online Loyalty
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
12/7/2009   6 comments
Midmarket companies may want to adopt some of these strategies since their online products and services may not be household names
Comment: Buyer, beware! - Mary Jander - 12/7/2009
Tech I Don't Want, Part 1: The TwitterPeek
what.the.ferraro  
12/7/2009   8 comments
In Part One of 'Tech I Don't Want for the Holidays,' Nicole trashes the TwitterPeek.
Point-of-Sale Breaches Bring Out the Law
Jart Armin  
12/7/2009   14 comments
A recent lawsuit pits a group of restaurants against POS suppliers that ignored industry security standards
Comment: 5 P's - javeriayounes - 12/6/2009
Comment: think positive - Mashka - 12/6/2009
Comment: SMS can also be used - nasimson - 12/5/2009
Comment: Pandora is a victim! - jwallace - 12/3/2009
Comment: Re: Thanks! - Nicole Ferraro - 12/3/2009
Comment: Your Klout! - jwallace - 12/3/2009
Comment: Re: Thanks! - Nicole Ferraro - 12/2/2009
Comment: Re: Thanks! - Paul Whyte - 12/2/2009
Comment: Re: Thanks! - Nicole Ferraro - 12/2/2009
Comment: Thanks! - daniellesamantha - 12/2/2009
What Brownie Did for Me
Todd Watson  
12/2/2009   4 comments
Can a delivery service's customer phone alert software be extended to other parts of the supply chain?
A Bug in Pandora's Box
what.the.ferraro  
12/2/2009   10 comments
There's a loophole in Pandora's music service that lets users dodge the 40-free-hour limit.




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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   9 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
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
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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