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Comment: Re: No. - nathanwosnack - 11/29/2011
Comment: Re: Great Column - nathanwosnack - 11/29/2011
Comment: Re: captchas - Mike Acker - 11/29/2011
Comment: Re: captchas - Nicole Ferraro - 11/29/2011
Comment: captchas - Mike Acker - 11/29/2011
Comment: Re: 12? - Nicole Ferraro - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Great Column - Nicole Ferraro - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/28/2011
Comment: 12? - The Dream Chaser - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Great Column - kq4ym - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - scucci - 11/28/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Mike Acker - 11/27/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/27/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Mike Acker - 11/27/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: Great Column - Joanne Goldman - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - scucci - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/26/2011
Comment: Yes and no - nasimson - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - scucci - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - scucci - 11/26/2011
Comment: Great Quote - scucci - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: No. - scucci - 11/26/2011
Comment: Regular Updates - pcharles - 11/26/2011
Comment: Re: No. - nathanwosnack - 11/25/2011
Comment: Re: No. - scucci - 11/25/2011
Comment: No. - nathanwosnack - 11/24/2011
Comment: Great Column - Mary E. Shacklett - 11/23/2011
Comment: Re: No facebook? - Nicole Ferraro - 11/23/2011
Comment: The Lost Turkeys - Bolingbroke - 11/23/2011
Comment: No facebook? - taimur_tz - 11/23/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kim Davis - 11/22/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Kurtkeys - 11/22/2011
Comment: Again with the Google+? - kenton - 11/22/2011
Comment: Re: Google+?! - Nicole Ferraro - 11/22/2011
Comment: the afore mentioned - Mike Acker - 11/22/2011
Comment: Google+?! - Ron_Miller - 11/22/2011
Comment: Butterball - The Dream Chaser - 11/22/2011
Comment: Re: Question, Jart - Jart Armin - 11/22/2011
Comment: Oops - The Dream Chaser - 11/22/2011
Top 11 Turkeys of 2011
Editor's Blog  
11/22/2011   54 comments
Happy Thanksgiving to the Internet industry's Top 11 Turkeys
Infrastructure Hacks Call for Security Rethink
Jart Armin  
11/21/2011   23 comments
Cleverly targeted phishing emails sent to specifically named personnel is a favored attack method of the modern day industrial spy.
Multnomah County: Sharing Resources Is Key
Jane Williams  
11/17/2011   2 comments
The ability to share resources is one of the benefits of moving the county's intranet to the cloud.
Piracy Crackdown
Internet Evolution Poll  
11/17/2011   6 comments
Should the government enact tougher piracy regulations on ISPs?
Comment: You Think You're Slow! - kq4ym - 11/17/2011
Comment: Pay the past DEBT first - DHCIR - 11/15/2011
Comment: Re: True - Nicole Ferraro - 11/15/2011
Comment: Re: True - Kim Davis - 11/15/2011
Comment: Re: True - The Dream Chaser - 11/15/2011
Comment: Re: True - Nicole Ferraro - 11/15/2011
Comment: True - The Dream Chaser - 11/15/2011
Bill Clinton Urges US to Get 'Back Into the Future Business'
Editor's Blog  
11/15/2011   19 comments
Bill Clinton issued a keynote address for an audience of CIOs and innovators in Orlando this week with a plea to plan for the future.
Blame It on Rio
Todd Watson  
11/10/2011   Post a comment
IBM announces finalists for its SmartCamp in Brazil.
Comment: Re: Good Start - Mary Jander - 11/8/2011
Comment: Re: Don't Agree - Mary Jander - 11/8/2011
Comment: Re: Don't Agree - Ron_Miller - 11/8/2011
Comment: Re: Don't Agree - Ron_Miller - 11/8/2011
Comment: Don't Agree - The Dream Chaser - 11/7/2011
Comment: Internet factor - Mary Jander - 11/7/2011
McKinsey Measures Internet's Economic Impact
Ron Miller  
11/7/2011   20 comments
The Internet has a huge influence on the world economy. And if were listed as a separate sector, it would overtake many others in size.
Here Comes Santa Claus… With His iPhone!
Todd Watson  
11/7/2011   Post a comment
Based on data from the IBM Coremetrics Benchmark, record numbers of consumers are expected to shift their shopping from their PCs to their mobile devices this holiday season.
Comment: on surveillance - Mike Acker - 11/6/2011
Comment: Re: freedom or safety - Mashka - 11/5/2011
Comment: freedom or safety - Mashka - 11/5/2011
Tweeting for the Feds
Editor's Blog  
11/4/2011   19 comments
News that the CIA is tracking Tweets and other social media posts suggests that the so-called social media revolution will be won, not by the dissidents who started it, but by the government.
Comment: Figureheads? - NoHandle - 11/1/2011
Privacy Is Everyone's Responsibility
Ann Cavoukian  
11/1/2011   17 comments
Ontario's privacy commissioner offers advice for protecting privacy online.




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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   6 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   9 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   |   1 comment


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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Sometimes business travel can be a royal pain in the you-know-what, and sometimes all things go well with the planes, trains, and automobiles.
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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
As
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