Out of Africa, Or In? Todd Watson 6/29/2011 Post a comment IBM's $3 million deal with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia supports the bank in a major modernization and business expansion program.
Midmarket Clan Chat: ICANN Vanity Domains IE Radio 6/21/2011 185 comments The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it will drastically expand the number of domain name suffixes from the current 22, with the addition of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). While this sounds like a great opportunity for midmarket companies, caution is advised before spending big bucks on a vanity domain.
Join Senior Editor Michael Singer in a Live Chat on Tuesday, June 21 at 1 p.m. Eastern to discuss the pros and cons of gTLDs.
Executive Clan Chat: Apple Store Czar Named Penney's CEO IE Radio 6/17/2011 163 comments Ron Johnson, who recently served as Apple's senior vice president of retail, is coming to the iconic department chain. Join Senior Editor Michael Singer as we discuss what lies ahead for both companies and how retail is making a comeback in the digital age.
Stopping Spam at the Bank Michael Kassner 6/2/2011 77 comments The banks that process transactions for spammed products represent a bottleneck that could be used to stop a lot of spam in its tracks.
Cybersecurity Summit Touts Cooperation Jart Armin 6/2/2011 18 comments International cooperation is the goal of 450 government, industry, and technical leaders from 43 countries meeting in London this week.
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Out of Africa, Or In? Todd Watson 6/29/2011 Post a comment IBM's $3 million deal with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia supports the bank in a major modernization and business expansion program.
Midmarket Clan Chat: ICANN Vanity Domains IE Radio 6/21/2011 185 comments The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it will drastically expand the number of domain name suffixes from the current 22, with the addition of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). While this sounds like a great opportunity for midmarket companies, caution is advised before spending big bucks on a vanity domain.
Join Senior Editor Michael Singer in a Live Chat on Tuesday, June 21 at 1 p.m. Eastern to discuss the pros and cons of gTLDs.
Executive Clan Chat: Apple Store Czar Named Penney's CEO IE Radio 6/17/2011 163 comments Ron Johnson, who recently served as Apple's senior vice president of retail, is coming to the iconic department chain. Join Senior Editor Michael Singer as we discuss what lies ahead for both companies and how retail is making a comeback in the digital age.
Stopping Spam at the Bank Michael Kassner 6/2/2011 77 comments The banks that process transactions for spammed products represent a bottleneck that could be used to stop a lot of spam in its tracks.
Cybersecurity Summit Touts Cooperation Jart Armin 6/2/2011 18 comments International cooperation is the goal of 450 government, industry, and technical leaders from 43 countries meeting in London this week.
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?
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.
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.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. CLICK FOR MORE
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. CLICK FOR MORE
Midmarket Clan Chat: ICANN Vanity Domains
