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Comment: Re: Isis - Alan Reiter - 5/28/2012
Comment: Re: Good timing - magneticnorth - 5/27/2012
Comment: Isis - nasimson - 5/25/2012
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM Product Manager Mark Frigon on Smarter Web Analytics & Privacy
Todd Watson  
5/24/2012   Post a comment
Talking with Mark Frigon about analytics and Internet privacy.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM VP Maria Winans on Smarter Commerce Marketing
Todd Watson  
5/24/2012   Post a comment
Maria Winans of IBM Software on the trend toward communicating more with the "line-of-business" customer set.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Marriott’s Stephan Chase on Customer-Centricity
Todd Watson  
5/24/2012   Post a comment
A top hotelier talks about customer relationships.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM VP & GM Yuchun Lee on Marketing Automation & Optimization
Todd Watson  
5/24/2012   Post a comment
Chatting with Yuchun Lee about smarter commerce and enhanced social metrics.
Comment: Dwolla security - Cameron Laird - 5/24/2012
Comment: Re: Progress so far? - nasimson - 5/23/2012
Online Gaming Is Legal Again & Ready to Boom
Dan Cypra  
5/23/2012   39 comments
New legislation is making last year's closure of three top online poker sites ancient history. Online lotteries, casino games, and other cash-driven betting activities are reappearing with a vengeance.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM’s Yuchun Lee Doubles Down on Social Marketing
Todd Watson  
5/22/2012   Post a comment
Smarter commerce is an important opportunity for enterprise marketing management.
Dwolla Could Speed Online Payments, If Banks Go Along
Scott Koegler  
5/22/2012   12 comments
Dwolla challenges PayPal in cost and transaction time. But banks and credit companies must deploy its API for merchants to benefit fully.
Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: Craig Hayman on Remembering Great Customer Experiences
Todd Watson  
5/22/2012   Post a comment
How smart customers benefit from adopting smarter commerce.
Comment: Re: Wow - nasimson - 5/22/2012
Comment: Wow - Mashka - 5/22/2012
Comment: UK Cybercrime Costs - Kim Davis - 5/21/2012
No More Business as Usual: The Road to Smarter Commerce
Todd Watson  
5/21/2012   2 comments
The evolution of commerce has led to today's demand for a better system of doing business, in which the customer is at the center of all operations.
Comment: Facebook IPO and G+ - hounhosp - 5/18/2012
Comment: Re: Good timing - Alan Reiter - 5/18/2012
Comment: At their peril? - hounhosp - 5/17/2012
Brand Marketers Neglect Google+ at Their Peril
Daniel Sayer  
5/16/2012   34 comments
Google's social network is likely to get more important with time, and brand marketers should be taking full advantage of it.
Comment: Re: ability to think - mtechie - 5/15/2012
Isis Unveils 50+ Retailers for Mobile Payment Tests
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/15/2012   2 comments
Isis readies its mobile payment system for testing.
Comment: Re: ability to think - mtechie - 5/15/2012
Comment: Re: ability to think - mtechie - 5/14/2012
What’s Your Mobile Use Case?
Todd Watson  
5/14/2012   Post a comment
Turbo ponders a recent Nielsen survey about how US smartphone users use their phones.
Comment: Re: ability to think - mtechie - 5/13/2012
Comment: ability to think - Mashka - 5/12/2012
Google Debuts Android Maps With Indoor Directions
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/11/2012   9 comments
Google's new Maps for Android has directions for walking indoors.
MasterCard Unveils PayPass Wallet Services
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/10/2012   4 comments
MasterCard launches its digital wallet platform.
Comment: Re: Mortifying - Beau Brendler - 5/9/2012
Comment: Re: Mortifying - Beau Brendler - 5/9/2012
Comment: Re: No. - nathanwosnack - 5/9/2012
Comment: Re: No. - Paul Whyte - 5/9/2012
VeriFone Debuts SAIL iPhone, iPad POS Reader
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
5/9/2012   Post a comment
Verifone's credit and debit card reader expands the mobile payment environment.
Comment: No. - nathanwosnack - 5/9/2012
Comment: Re: Mortifying - Mary Jander - 5/9/2012
Comment: Mortifying - Nicole Ferraro - 5/9/2012
ICANN Now Offering Refunds to Domain Applicants
Beau Brendler  
5/9/2012   6 comments
ICANN is now offering refunds to new applicants for its top-level domain initiative.
Smart Wallets
Internet Evolution Poll  
5/9/2012   21 comments
Digital wallet uptake has been slow, but MasterCard joined the ranks of providers this week. Do you plan to start using a digital wallet this year?
Comment: Re: Mature Market - jwallace - 5/4/2012
IBM to Acquire Mobile Analytics Provider Tealeaf Technology
Todd Watson  
5/4/2012   Post a comment
IBM acquires Tealeaf Technology to help organizations react faster to consumer trends.
Comment: Mature Market - Kim Davis - 5/3/2012
Comment: Re: Curious - bmargolies - 5/3/2012
Comment: Curious - Nicole Ferraro - 5/3/2012
Comment: Re: Paypal putoff - Ariella - 5/3/2012
Comment: iDespise when - jwallace - 5/3/2012
Comment: Thoughts - Joe Stanganelli - 5/3/2012
When Social Media for B2B Just Doesn't Work
Brian Margolies  
5/3/2012   14 comments
The CIO of New Jersey's largest distributor of wine and spirits is stumped by his firm's lack of social media traction.
More Criminals Will Move Online, Says MasterCard
Editor's Blog  
5/2/2012   14 comments
Head of processing products at MasterCard believes online criminals will get more aggressive as the US market moves toward EMVs.
Comment: Re: Economic cost - Kim Davis - 5/2/2012
Comment: Re: Economic cost - Kim Davis - 5/2/2012
Don't Underestimate Cybercrime
Security Clan Editor's Blog  
5/2/2012   10 comments
Claims that the cybercrime wave has been exaggerated do not stand up to examination.
Impact 2012: Steve Mills on How Transaction Processing Rules
Todd Watson  
5/1/2012   1 comment
Transactions make the world go around.
Analytics Sticks Its Nose In
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
5/1/2012   2 comments
Predictive business analytics should avoid being annoyingly intrusive.
Forbes Business Leadership Forum @ Impact 2012: Put the Customer at the Center of Every Action
Todd Watson  
5/1/2012   1 comment
Forbes executives explain their approach to customer engagement.




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Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   8 comments
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   3 comments
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   14 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.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 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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