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Comment: Re: Question - cvargas - 3/31/2012
Comment: Question - nathanwosnack - 3/31/2012
Comment: Re: Fuzzy indeed! - scbennett - 3/31/2012
Comment: Wow! - DavidSilversmith - 3/31/2012
Comment: Re: Self Service - nimantha.de - 3/31/2012
Comment: Thanks! - nathanwosnack - 3/31/2012
Comment: What an insight! - cjon316 - 3/30/2012
Impressions From SXSW Interactive 2012: Gartner Fellow Mark McDonald on the Social Organization
Todd Watson  
3/30/2012   Post a comment
Sitting down with Gartner's Mark McDonald to discuss social media and social business.
No More New WiMax Phones for Sprint
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
3/30/2012   Post a comment
With the news that Sprint will release no more new WiMax phones, Sprint customers face difficult choices.
Comment: Unbiased timeline - WaqasAltaf - 3/30/2012
Comment: re: Timeline - Nicole Ferraro - 3/30/2012
Comment: re: Timeline - Kim Davis - 3/30/2012
Comment: re: Timeline - mariannemadden - 3/30/2012
Comment: re: Timeline - Brian Newby - 3/30/2012
Timeline: Amazing Tool for Online Marketing
Marianne Madden  
3/30/2012   28 comments
Facebook's Timeline interface offers marketers a great opportunity for promotion and brand building. Here are examples galore.
What's the value of analytics without great customer service and quality products at competitive prices?
Tutorial Q&A  
3/30/2012   Post a comment
Your lesson intro seems to state that analytics will make or break your company. The common business practice for making a company prosperous has always been providing great customer service and quality products at competitive prices. What makes analytics successful when these factors are not present?
Comment: Re: Self Service - Paul Whyte - 3/30/2012
Comment: Re: Self Service - Paul Whyte - 3/30/2012
Comment: Shop with Siri - magneticnorth - 3/30/2012
Comment: thank you! - magneticnorth - 3/30/2012
There's a Virtual World Land Grab & It's Easy to Join
Maria Korolov  
3/29/2012   20 comments
Creating virtual worlds is suddenly and dramatically cheaper, thanks to Kitely and a range of OpenSim content.
Comment: Re: Good for the FTC - Kicheko - 3/29/2012
Comment: Good for the FTC - Mary Jander - 3/28/2012
'Do Not Track' May Need Congressional Muscle
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
3/28/2012   8 comments
The FTC sets out voluntary privacy guidelines but calls for Congress to act if companies fail to comply.
Impressions From SXSW 2012: 'Conversational Commerce' With Opus Research's Dan Miller
Todd Watson  
3/27/2012   Post a comment
Talking "conversational commerce" with Opus Research co-founder Dan Miller.
Comment: Self Service - DavidSilversmith - 3/26/2012
Comment: not there yet.... - Chris Poley - 3/23/2012
'Outsourcing to the Customer' Needs Work
Editor's Blog  
3/23/2012   48 comments
Retailers are leaving it up to the customer to do more of the work in their stores, but there's a fine line between doing this to improve the shopping experience and making it worse.
 Brian Margolies, CIO, Allied Beverage Group
IE Radio  
3/22/2012   103 comments
Brian Margolies is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Allied Beverage Group, New Jersey's largest distributor of wines and spirits. As Allied's first CIO, Brian has been tasked with setting the company’s strategic technical direction. We will talk to Brian about the changes he has made during his tenure so far, as well as the challenges he's faced in taking on this brand new role.
Join Us for IE Radio With Brian Margolies at 2 PM ET
Editor's Blog  
3/22/2012   Post a comment
Brian Margolies, CIO of Allied Beverage, joins us as our guest on IE Radio today at 2:00 p.m. ET. Tune in!
Comment: Re: Fuzzy indeed! - kq4ym - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Paypal here - Alan Reiter - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Paypal here - nasimson - 3/21/2012
Comment: Re: Interesting Model - abdlah - 3/20/2012
Comment: Interesting Model - abdlah - 3/20/2012
Business Analytics Shifts Power to the Consumer
Editor's Blog  
3/20/2012   6 comments
Katharyn White's smarter analytics tutorial gives insight into the age of the empowered customer.
Comment: Re: Paypal here - Alan Reiter - 3/20/2012
Comment: Fuzzy indeed! - Chris Poley - 3/20/2012
Comment: Paypal here - nasimson - 3/20/2012
Comment: Paypal here - nasimson - 3/20/2012
Line Between Privacy & Promotion Still Fuzzy
Steven C. Bennett  
3/19/2012   15 comments
The debate rages on about where to draw the line between consumer privacy and useful data about buying habits.
PayPal Debuts Mobile Credit/Debit Card Reader
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
3/16/2012   5 comments
PayPal's mobile credit/debit card reader and payment system will go head to head with Square.
Comment: Re: Fancy - kq4ym - 3/15/2012
Comment: Re: Fancy - Michelle Manafy - 3/14/2012
Comment: Re: Fancy - hounhosp - 3/14/2012
Comment: Re: Fancy - Michelle Manafy - 3/13/2012
Comment: Fancy - Nicole Ferraro - 3/13/2012
E-Commerce Goes Social
Michelle Manafy  
3/13/2012   8 comments
A growing roster of social e-commerce sites indicates the demand among users to combine social networking with online purchasing.
Comment: Re: fool me once... - SteveGNYC - 3/13/2012
Comment: Re: fool me once... - Ariella - 3/12/2012
Comment: Re: fool me once... - Kicheko - 3/10/2012
Comment: Re: fool me once... - tech_ed - 3/8/2012
Comment: fool me once... - tech_ed - 3/8/2012
Try This Cheap, Easy (& Surprising) Email Marketing Trick
Scott Koegler  
3/8/2012   15 comments
Offering a tiny online payment could encourage email prospects to open your message.
Comment: Re: Maybe QE III - Mary Jander - 3/6/2012
Comment: Maybe QE III - Chris Poley - 3/6/2012
Square Launches Revised iPad Cash Register App
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
3/6/2012   Post a comment
For small businesses with modest financial database requirements, a new app from Square could be a useful and inexpensive tool.
Comment: Re: Count me out - Ariella - 3/5/2012
Forget Politics: Clouds Are the Future of Jobs
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
3/5/2012   5 comments
An IDC whitepaper sponsored by Microsoft claims that cloud computing will dramatically increase job creation worldwide.
Comment: Re: Count me out - Kim Davis - 3/5/2012
Comment: Re: Count me out - Ariella - 3/5/2012
Comment: Re: Count me out - Kim Davis - 3/5/2012
Comment: Count me out - Mary Jander - 3/5/2012
A 'Heads Up' on Google Glasses
Wisdom of the Big Chair  
3/5/2012   8 comments
Google is reportedly working on Android glasses that will use a low-res camera to monitor the world.
Comment: Re: Ubiquitous - cvargas - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: Ubiquitous - antonis - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: Ubiquitous - cvargas - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: Ubiquitous - antonis - 3/1/2012
Comment: Re: Ubiquitous - cvargas - 3/1/2012




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Ron Miller   5/17/2013   15 comments
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
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Alan Reiter   5/16/2013   30 comments
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
Harry Hawk
Harry Hawk   5/15/2013   20 comments
Facebook advertising is a lightning rod. It seems neither brands nor consumers are 100 percent happy about the social media site's policies, placement, or procedures. But the real controversy about Facebook ads and promotions is over whether they work.
Rasheen A. Whidbee
By now, you've most likely heard about the 3D-printed gun that Texas-based Defense Distributed demonstrated last week. But we haven't heard the last about the censorship war that began soon afterward.
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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.
Second Shooter
Locked Handsets Aren't the Problem – Subsidies Are the Problem

3|13|13   |   2:09   |   10 comments


Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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Todd Watson   5/17/2013   1 comment
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IT Suffers From Obama Admin's Jekyll & Hyde Approach to Privacy Rights
Ron Miller
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to
veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.

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IT Suffers From Obama Admin's Jekyll & Hyde Approach to Privacy Rights
Ron Miller
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to
veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.

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IT Suffers From Obama Admin's Jekyll & Hyde Approach to Privacy Rights
Ron Miller
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to
veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.

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Websites Should Consider Tougher ID Verification Policies
Alan Reiter
The apartment and house sharing service,
Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.

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