IE Radio: Todd Davis, CIO, Choice Hotels IE Radio 5/30/2013 Post a comment A longtime member of the Choice Hotels International team, Todd Davis was named CIO earlier this year. Davis oversees IT at a technology-oriented hospitality company that was an early adopter of cloud and which recently spun off a separate software company. Learn what's next for Choice Hotels, which franchises approximately 6,200 hotels, representing more than 499,000 rooms, in the United States and more than 30 countries and territories, over about 11 brands.
Dose of Telehealth: 10 Caplet-Size Updates Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 9 comments Collaborative apps, high bandwidth networks, and mobile devices empower healthcare professionals to deliver better care, faster, to more patients. Yet telehealth adoption is not widespread -- at least yet. Here's why.
Recovering From Disaster in 140 Characters or Less Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 18 comments Celina Insurance once used a telephone tree to notify employees about disasters and emergencies. Now the carrier uses Twitter and tells everyone at once, with one click.
Friday File: In Honor of Conspiracies, IT Pros & Mom Editor's Blog 5/10/2013 33 comments What could be better than a Friday File dedicated to moms? A Friday File that also finds out IT pros' secret TV idols, updates conspiracy news, looks at Facebook's next ad move, and uncovers what happened to AOL.
Non-Tech Firms Expand Into High-Tech Businesses Editor's Blog 5/7/2013 13 comments Companies like Canadian Tire, Choice Hotels, and Probus One Touch are expanding out of their traditional comfort zones to offer IT products and services such as cloud, hotel-management solutions, and analytics.
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IE Radio: Todd Davis, CIO, Choice Hotels IE Radio 5/30/2013 Post a comment A longtime member of the Choice Hotels International team, Todd Davis was named CIO earlier this year. Davis oversees IT at a technology-oriented hospitality company that was an early adopter of cloud and which recently spun off a separate software company. Learn what's next for Choice Hotels, which franchises approximately 6,200 hotels, representing more than 499,000 rooms, in the United States and more than 30 countries and territories, over about 11 brands.
Dose of Telehealth: 10 Caplet-Size Updates Editor's Blog 5/15/2013 9 comments Collaborative apps, high bandwidth networks, and mobile devices empower healthcare professionals to deliver better care, faster, to more patients. Yet telehealth adoption is not widespread -- at least yet. Here's why.
Recovering From Disaster in 140 Characters or Less Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 18 comments Celina Insurance once used a telephone tree to notify employees about disasters and emergencies. Now the carrier uses Twitter and tells everyone at once, with one click.
Friday File: In Honor of Conspiracies, IT Pros & Mom Editor's Blog 5/10/2013 33 comments What could be better than a Friday File dedicated to moms? A Friday File that also finds out IT pros' secret TV idols, updates conspiracy news, looks at Facebook's next ad move, and uncovers what happened to AOL.
Non-Tech Firms Expand Into High-Tech Businesses Editor's Blog 5/7/2013 13 comments Companies like Canadian Tire, Choice Hotels, and Probus One Touch are expanding out of their traditional comfort zones to offer IT products and services such as cloud, hotel-management solutions, and analytics.
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.
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.
Facebook advertising is a lightning rod. It seems neither brands nor consumers are 100 percent happy about the social media site's policies, placement, or procedures. But the real controversy about Facebook ads and promotions is over whether they work.
By now, you've most likely heard about the 3D-printed gun that Texas-based Defense Distributed demonstrated last week. But we haven't heard the last about the censorship war that began soon afterward.
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.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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