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Alison Diana   bio   5/15/2013   5 comments
Enterprises are embracing open-source to avoid vendor lock-in, get better-quality software, and gain access to larger libraries of applications. In return, they may be putting themselves at risk for higher, more complex support costs.
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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.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 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.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 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?
Ron Miller
Ron Miller   5/17/2013   21 comments
Recently, the Obama administration has been of two minds where privacy rights are concerned. On one hand, you have an administration that vowed to veto CISPA and mandated open data for government websites. On the other hand, you have an increasingly out-of-control Department of Justice on a fishing expedition at AP and demanding legislation to let the FBI wiretap private, encrypted communications and levy fines if a company fails to comply.
Alan Reiter
Alan Reiter   5/16/2013   31 comments
The apartment and house sharing service, Airbnb, now requires members to verify their identities by demonstrating a presence on the web, and by either scanning a government ID or entering detailed personal details. Other enterprises should take a close look at Airbnb's verification policies.
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Cisco & Linksys: A Problem at the Edge

1|4|13   |   2:15   |   No comments


Cisco's rumored sale of Linksys suggests we may have problem with innovation and profit at the edge of our Internet, and that could be critical to the evolution of many Internet-delivered services.
Executive Takes
Crossing the Security Perimeter

11|14|12   |   2:56   |   No comments


Connectivity with enterprise partners creates an increasingly complex and challenging security environment.
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The Changing Face of IT Security

11|14|12   |   5:00   |   No comments


The growth of big-data, the BYOD phenomenon, and the popularity of social media all present challenges to the notion of defending the security perimeter.
Kim Davis
Samsung Angers Judge in Apple Patent Case

8|6|12   |   2:19   |   10 comments


How to annoy a judge? If you’re Samsung, share evidence ruled inadmissible with the media.
Mary E. Shacklett
Scrum Brings Social MediaThinking to Projects

7|30|12   |   2:12   |   8 comments


The very low-tech "scrum" project technique introduces "crowd talking" to projects and also sets the entire crowd to problem solving. So far, these new social-media-style meetings appear to have supercharged project execution.
Second Shooter
Open Letter to Marissa

7|18|12   |   2:11   |   13 comments


Yahoo's new CEO can't go back to what Yahoo was; that's how it got to what it is! Instead she has to look at something that Yahoo has always rejected, which is a relationship with the telcos and cablecos. They'd love a partner in creating service applications.
Mary E. Shacklett
Going Public Can Hurt Innovation

5|30|12   |   2:25   |   4 comments


Innovation and going public can be strange bedfellows. It's also a major reason many companies that can afford to do so remain private.
Mary E. Shacklett
Time to Think About Cloud ROI

5|4|12   |   2:41   |   4 comments


CIOs need to be developing their ROI metrics for cloud now. Why? Because there may be a number of "hidden" fees that need to be added to the vendor's user "per seat" cost.
Mary E. Shacklett
Cloud Honeymoon Set to End

4|18|12   |   2:24   |   9 comments


Many CIOs are findng themselves in the midst of a "cloud honeymoon," with little empirical data available about how cloud should perform and with other C-level executives just happy to have cloud. But this is likely to end in the next 18 months, when the hard questions about cost savings, agility, and speed of deployment begin to emerge.
Reiter's Block
The Web Needs National Grammar Day

2|29|12   |   2:59   |   56 comments


March 4 is National Grammar Day, and you enterprise and consumer bloggers need to pay attention.
Kim Davis
Another Bad Week for Yahoo!

2|16|12   |   2:01   |   8 comments


With new nominations to the board now challenged by alternative candidates, and talks with Alibaba collapsing, Yahoo is having another miserable week.
Reiter's Block
RIM's CEOs Must Go

1|9|12   |   3:03   |   21 comments


RIM's co-chairmen might be removed from the board. But they need to be removed as CEOs, too.
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Commerce Meets the Cloud

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Jim Comfort, vice president of global technology services, IBM, discusses the intersection of cloud computing and commerce applications and how this paves the way for better analytics.
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Let's Hear It for Outsiders!

11|15|11   |   2:25   |   8 comments


Steve and Nicole are at HCL's Unstructure conference at Disneyworld where Malcolm Gladwell and his hair gave a fascinating keynote on the advantages of being an "outsider."
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Broadband Takes to the Sky

10|14|11   |   02:22   |   4 comments


Executives always want to be in touch with the office. In response, airlines have been offering individuals broadband links. In fact, market research firm In-Stat expects revenue from such services to reach $1.5 billion in 2015. So, broadband has taken wings.
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IT & the C-Suite Can Get Along… Maybe

10|13|11   |   1:24   |   6 comments


Steve is live at Dell World in Austin, Texas, which he says is "hot" – and he has some advice for C-level executives.
Mary Jander
Bartz Speaks: The Air Turns Blue

9|16|11   |   3:06   |   9 comments


Carol Bartz was the CEO of an international public company. But that didn't stop her from cursing a blue streak when she was fired last week. Here's why she should have kept her mouth shut.
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Forecasting What's Next in Collaboration

9|8|11   |   2:15   |   9 comments


Skype recently acquired GroupMe, a startup developing tools to make mobile communications simpler. The move underscores dramatic changes in that market, ones that will change how executives communicate.
Second Shooter
No Cheers for Yahoo!

9|7|11   |   2:08   |   16 comments


Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been removed, and the question is whether the company can succeed under ANY leadership. It has two problems: its Internet startup culture and its unwillingness to take advantage of potential partnerships with telcos and cable companies.
Beau Brendler
ICANN CEO Exit Points to an Opportunity

8|23|11   |   2:37   |   12 comments


The board of ICANN, the international non-profit that administers the domain name system, announced CEO Rod Beckstrom would be leaving at the end of his term next summer. It's time for consumers and business to tell the organization what kind of person they want to lead it – and what priorities to set.
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preacher
preacher   6/26/2012   2 comments
Eighty percent of companies without well-conceived data protection and recovery strategies go out of business within two years of a major disaster. (According to the National Archives and Records Administration - US congress approved research...
IMRAN
IMRAN   5/4/2012   4 comments
Alas, my post yesterday somehow disappeared, so I will make this short comment. Mary, this is a great topic, and I wrote about it, mentioning you and some of the comments here, in my article on the topic.... Please enjoy CURES For Security...
Roman Yudkin
Roman Yudkin   5/13/2011   1 comment
When nearly 1.5 million user login credentials were stolen from Gawker Media group and published online, the breach harmed security not only for Gawker but also for a number of other, unrelated websites. Knowing that most people use the same...
Roman Yudkin
Roman Yudkin   5/13/2011   2 comments
More websites and online businesses today are beginning to rely on smartphones as a second factor of authentication. Some online banks have been using SMS-based authentication for transaction verification but recently, major websites and businesses...
Internet Evolution – not for thickies
Keep Critical Data With a Knowledge Management System
Taimoor Zubair
Fortune 500 companies lose at least
$31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge. A Knowledge Management System (KMS) can help companies significantly reduce these costs.

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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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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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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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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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
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.

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