Choosing IT Vendors in the Age of Big Data IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/28/2011 3 comments IT vendor strategies can wind up confusing even the most discerning professionals. An analyst offers some observations to help.
Play It Again, Spotify Editor's Blog 7/26/2011 19 comments Spotify, the music streaming service which just launched in the US, is providing unrivalled quantities of free content. But it's still not all free, all the time -- and it could be.
IT Clan Chat: Parting Shots from the Federal CIO IE Radio 7/25/2011 195 comments As Vivek Kundra leaves his post as US Federal CIO for a Harvard fellowship, his outspoken comments resonate not just for government IT but for enterprise professionals as well. A key point: Abandon old ways of thinking about technology and its procurement.
Parting Shots From the Federal CIO IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/21/2011 18 comments The outgoing federal CIO has some choice words for his soon-to-be-former employer that apply to other enterprises as well.
Cloud Expansion in Japan Todd Watson 7/15/2011 3 comments IBM has announced a broad expansion of its cloud computing services for customers in Japan and the Asia/Pacific region.
Wanted: Enterprise Architects IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/14/2011 22 comments The enterprise architect is emerging as a kind of unicorn in the IT pantheon, possibly signaling what's needed more than who's being hired.
Video Killed the Radio Star Todd Watson 7/5/2011 Post a comment Facebook and Google offer video chat, raising questions of functionality, availability, and marketing.
Choosing IT Vendors in the Age of Big Data IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/28/2011 3 comments IT vendor strategies can wind up confusing even the most discerning professionals. An analyst offers some observations to help.
Play It Again, Spotify Editor's Blog 7/26/2011 19 comments Spotify, the music streaming service which just launched in the US, is providing unrivalled quantities of free content. But it's still not all free, all the time -- and it could be.
IT Clan Chat: Parting Shots from the Federal CIO IE Radio 7/25/2011 195 comments As Vivek Kundra leaves his post as US Federal CIO for a Harvard fellowship, his outspoken comments resonate not just for government IT but for enterprise professionals as well. A key point: Abandon old ways of thinking about technology and its procurement.
Parting Shots From the Federal CIO IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/21/2011 18 comments The outgoing federal CIO has some choice words for his soon-to-be-former employer that apply to other enterprises as well.
Cloud Expansion in Japan Todd Watson 7/15/2011 3 comments IBM has announced a broad expansion of its cloud computing services for customers in Japan and the Asia/Pacific region.
Wanted: Enterprise Architects IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/14/2011 22 comments The enterprise architect is emerging as a kind of unicorn in the IT pantheon, possibly signaling what's needed more than who's being hired.
Video Killed the Radio Star Todd Watson 7/5/2011 Post a comment Facebook and Google offer video chat, raising questions of functionality, availability, and marketing.
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
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.
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
IT Clan Chat: Parting Shots from the Federal CIO
