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Comment: Nice, but not fair - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: Sandy & the Cloud - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: Both Worlds - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: Translation - sarahp - 11/30/2012
Comment: sweet farewell - nasimson - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - KMT568 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - KMT568 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Yahoo's patent suit - jwallace - 11/30/2012
Comment: transcribing brail - jwallace - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - aum007 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - aum007 - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - Kicheko - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - Kim Davis - 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: Re: My point - StaceyE - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - chuckgregory - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - StaceyE - 11/30/2012
Comment: No Return Returns - kq4ym - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - chuckgregory - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - StaceyE - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: Balancing both - chuckgregory - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - chuckgregory - 11/30/2012
Comment: Re: My point - nimantha.de - 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: Can you hear me? - pcharles - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - Mr. Roques - 11/29/2012
Comment: The World's Last Twinkie - DHagar - 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: Re: Can you hear me? - Kim Davis - 11/29/2012
Comment: Balancing both - Kicheko - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Returns a Challenge - Ariella - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - Kicheko - 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: Can you hear me? - pcharles - 11/29/2012
Comment: Returns a Challenge - NicoleH - 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: Drafts - Kim Davis - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: what's new? - kq4ym - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Drafts - kq4ym - 11/29/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - Kim Davis - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: My point - Kim Davis - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - pcharles - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: DR as a Service - pcharles - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: My point - StaceyE - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: My point - taimur_tz - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: DR as a Service - taimur_tz - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Can you hear me? - taimur_tz - 11/28/2012
Comment: DR as a Service - DrT - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: My point - Joanne Goldman - 11/28/2012
Comment: Can you hear me? - DrT - 11/28/2012
Comment: Innovative minds - DrT - 11/28/2012
Comment: translation - Ariella - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: My point - StaceyE - 11/28/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - StaceyE - 11/28/2012
Translation Tools for the Modern Road Warrior
Maria Korolov  
11/28/2012   34 comments
Smartphones equipped with speech recognition, translation, and reading text out loud capabilities are changing the rules for international business travel and outsourcing.
Comment: Re: Balancing Act - swijeyakumar - 11/28/2012
Comment: Balancing Act - DavidSilversmith - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: My point - Robert McGarvey - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - robjvargas - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - robjvargas - 11/27/2012
Comment: My point - Michael P. Kassner - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - Joanne Goldman - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - Joanne Goldman - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - Robert McGarvey - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - Kim Davis - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - Kim Davis - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Confusing - robjvargas - 11/27/2012
Comment: Re: Pros and Cons - Alison Diana - 11/27/2012
Comment: Confusing - Michael P. Kassner - 11/27/2012
Sandy Brightens Financial Firms' View of Cloud
Robert McGarvey  
11/27/2012   38 comments
Sandy's disaster recovery and business continuity lessons may encourage more financial services firms to rethink their anti-cloud stance.
Comment: Re: This was good to read - kq4ym - 11/27/2012
How Facebook, Paypal & Mozilla Fill the Skills Gap
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
11/27/2012   34 comments
Employers have a tough time finding candidates with the soft skills needed to succeed in IT.
Comment: Drafts - Kim Davis - 11/26/2012
Comment: it's a balancing act - slfisher - 11/26/2012
Comment: Re: Pros and Cons - swijeyakumar - 11/26/2012
Comment: Pros and Cons - DavidSilversmith - 11/25/2012
Comment: Re: Personal analytics - pcharles - 11/24/2012
Comment: Re: what's new? - Usman Ejaz - 11/24/2012
Comment: what's new? - Mashka - 11/22/2012
(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: Robocars - jabailo - 11/21/2012
Comment: Re: Robocars - Mitch Wagner - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Robocars - jabailo - 11/20/2012
Comment: Re: Robocars - Mitch Wagner - 11/19/2012
Comment: Encouraging sprawl - Mitch Wagner - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Personal analytics - pcharles - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Personal analytics - pcharles - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Absolutely possible - Ariella - 11/19/2012
Controlling the Smog of Information Sprawl
Cloud Clan Editor's Blog  
11/19/2012   10 comments
The cloud is an IT department's ally in the war against information sprawl.
Comment: Re: Robocars - Ariella - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Robocars - WaqasAltaf - 11/19/2012
Comment: Absolutely possible - WaqasAltaf - 11/19/2012
Comment: Re: Robocars - DukeW - 11/19/2012
Comment: The serious side - Mitch Wagner - 11/18/2012
Comment: Robocars - Mitch Wagner - 11/18/2012
Comment: call me old fashioned - slfisher - 11/17/2012
Comment: ironically - slfisher - 11/17/2012
Comment: shirtless guy - slfisher - 11/17/2012
Comment: Re: William Shatner - Kim Davis - 11/16/2012
Comment: If you ask me... - Kim Davis - 11/16/2012
The World's Last Twinkie
Todd Watson  
11/16/2012   5 comments
Turbo reflects on the demise of Hostess, the F1 Grand Prix, Google Maps vs. Apple, and more.
Revealed: Petraeus & McAfee Scandals Are Hoaxes by the Onion
Editor's Blog  
11/16/2012   4 comments
Apparently, emailing shirtless photos is an FBI investigative technique.
Comment: William Shatner - Kim Davis - 11/15/2012
Comment: What about accidents? - nasimson - 11/15/2012
The Age of Affordable Luxury Travel
Tad Donaghe  
11/14/2012   40 comments
Take a ride in a robo-car of the future, and see just how enjoyable travel could be.
Priceline Squeezes the Travel Deal Market
Kim Davis  
11/13/2012   4 comments
In buying out Kayak, Priceline signals a concentration of the online travel deal market.
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Kim Davis - 11/12/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - dcawrey - 11/12/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/9/2012
Comment: Smart guy - Kim Davis - 11/9/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - KMT568 - 11/9/2012
The Vindication of Nate Silver
Todd Watson  
11/8/2012   1 comment
Electoral predictions provide an excellent object lesson on the state of big-data.
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: Photographers - mtechie - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - Mitch Wagner - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Splunk - Susan Fourtané - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Rakuten - nimantha.de - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Splunk - Ariella - 11/6/2012
Comment: Re: Splunk - Susan Fourtané - 11/6/2012
US at Risk of Internet Leadership Loss
Second Shooter  
11/6/2012   Post a comment
We need to be sure that the United States steps up in Network Functions Virtualization.
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.
Comment: Re: Splunk - Ariella - 11/5/2012
Comment: #Sandy Humor - stotheco - 11/5/2012
Comment: Re: Social weather - stotheco - 11/5/2012
Comment: Re: Missing something - Ariella - 11/4/2012
Sandy Tests the Internet
Second Shooter  
11/1/2012   2 comments
The superstorm demonstrates that we need to improve Internet reliability and its infrastructure.
Hurricane Sandy: No Match for Cloud Providers
Christine Parizo  
11/1/2012   28 comments
The East Coast hurricane that devastated New York and New Jersey did not put a stop to leading cloud services.




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Kevin Jacoby
It's safe to assume Microsoft isn't going anywhere.
Jason Mick
Jason Mick   6/19/2013   Post a comment
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Charlotte Erdmann
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan   6/17/2013   4 comments
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
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How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

6|13|13   |   1:07   |   1 comment


Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   10 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   |   1 comment


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.
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