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Pinterest Analytics Lets Marketers Pin Down Who's Sharing What March 13, 2013 
The social bookmarking site Pinterest, one of the fastest-growing social networks of the last two years, released a new analytics tool Tuesday so that users -- especially businesses and marketing professionals -- can do a better job of tracking traffic and sharing aspects of the site.
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Algorithms for Rent: The Price Is Right March 12, 2013 
If you've been in the market for almost anything recently, you've probably noticed price fluctuations. You place a bicycle on your Amazon wish list at one price, only to see it shoot up a hundred dollars more a few days later, then drop to a hundred less a week or so after that. Everything from airplane tickets to apartment rentals seems subject to dramatic price changes from one day to the next.
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Storage Analyzer: A Must-Have App That Has No Business Being Free March 08, 2013 
I've been running into major headaches with file-storage memory on my Android tablet.
If you too have been having problems getting files to fit on your device, it may not
be that your device's memory or SD card is full, but that phantom files are hogging
resources. I'm usually -- carefully -- buying cheap gear. In the device business, that usually means limited on-board memory.
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FBI Wins Skirmish in War on Dotcom March 05, 2013 
Kim Dotcom experienced a legal setback late last week when the New Zealand Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that had required the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to disclose all of its evidence against him. However, his fight to avoid extradition is nowhere near closure.
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With Business Foundations Shaking, Good Enterprise Architects Are Hard to Find March 04, 2013 
Enterprise architects are looking at several trends impacting their roles in the business world -- the growth of cloud computing, the arrival of big data, more security challenges, the overall rate of technological advances. These are the topics discussed at conferences.
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Hackathon's Goal: A Smartphone Game That Scores Points for Cancer Research March 02, 2013 
A UK-based charity is sponsoring a weekend hackathon, but those invited won't be using their coding talents to advance any business causes. The 40 programmers, gamers, graphic designers and other specialists will spend the time designing a smartphone game that can let average users help with cancer research.
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Seamlessly Sync Photos Between Android and PC February 28, 2013 
The Last Mile has been the challenge of industries immemorial. What, you say?
Well, humor me, and I'll tell you. "Last Mile" -- usually -- refers to the last part of a network, the bit that delivers communications directly into a home. It's often the hardest and most expensive part.
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IBM's New PureSystems Promise to Ease Big Data, Cloud Adoption February 19, 2013 
Business IT solution development generally follows specific trends and overlapping eras. The first, calculation, occurred as digital products and services wholly replaced adding machines and other mechanical business devices. The second, computation, mirrored the evolution of digitized solutions for increasingly complex processes and applications.
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eScholar's Mike Gargano: Nothing Can Stop Open Source February 12, 2013 
eScholar's only business is helping state and local education agencies get the best bang for their buck from collecting and using educational data to drive better school performance results. That sometimes involves helping its customers work with data gleaned from a variety of commercial and open source enterprise databases.
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Cross-Domain Semantics and the End of 'Solution Sales' February 08, 2013 
Do your customers think of you as one of them? Do they think you truly understand their business challenges, their opportunities and what keeps them up at night? These are questions you should very seriously consider, because in the extraordinarily demanding B2B sales climate of our post-recession world, it's the vendor who can answer "yes" who will win the business.
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Auto Biz Game-Changers: Big Data Mashups February 04, 2013 
Ford has exploited the strengths of big data analytics by directing them internally to improve business results. In doing so, they scour the metrics from the company's best processes across myriad manufacturing efforts and through detailed outputs from in-use automobiles -- all to improve and help transform its business, says Ford researcher Michael Cavaretta.
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After the Storm: Social, Virtualization Allow Business as Usual January 28, 2013 
Today's workforce never truly switches off due to the proliferation of mobile devices and the blurring line between our personal and professional lives. On whether this "always on" mentality will ultimately cause more harm than good, the jury remains out. One positive aspect of the constant availability of technology is the impact on business continuity and disaster recovery.
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DNA Could Become the Next Big Data Warehouse January 25, 2013 
Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute on Wednesday announced their success at storing data by encoding it to DNA. The system could stand the test of time -- tens of thousands of years, perhaps. This method for archiving data could make it possible to store 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA, and given the trend toward Big Data, that could be a major breakthrough.
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Saudi Blogger Won't Face Death on Apostasy Accusation January 23, 2013 
A court in Saudi Arabia reportedly has declined to hear the case of Raif Badawi, a liberal blogger who was accused of apostasy. Apostasy,defined as the abandonment of one's faith, is a particularly grievous charge in Islam. Had it been so inclined, the court that turned down the case could have sentenced Badawi to death. As it stands, Badawi's charge was referred to a lower court.
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Machine Learning, TDA and the Future of Invention January 23, 2013 
Ayasdi came out of stealth mode and told the world it had a new way
to analyze big data, and I think the implications for CRM and social are very large
indeed. The new way is called "topological data analysis" and hearing about it has the feel of hearing about relativity for the first time and learning that space is curved.
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Dotcom Fights the Law With New Mega Site January 21, 2013 
Kim Dotcom on Sunday opened the doors to the new file-sharing website Mega. The site is making a splash in the file-sharing world with its promise of exceptional privacy and security. That is not the only reason Mega's debut is notable, though: Dotcom is the founder of Megaupload, which was shut down by U.S. authorities following indictments for piracy against Dotcom and others.
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Google Denies Killing Donkey on Street View Expedition January 17, 2013 
Google seems to have had a dustup with a donkey -- literally. Images plucked from Google Street View have raised questions about whether a Google Street View car ran over a donkey in the African nation of Botswana. Images culled from Street View show a donkey lying in the road. One of the images also shows dust hovering over the donkey, possibly suggestive of a recent tumble.
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Letting the Customer Experience Drive Innovation January 14, 2013 
By acting as a performance center of excellence, American International Group's Global Performance Architecture Group has improved performance of the company's services to deliver better experiences and payoffs for businesses and end users alike. The group looks at the user experience and tailors the company's technology to maximize customer satisfaction and utility.
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Bringing Order to Data Backup Chaos January 07, 2013 
Enterprise backup is broken, but there are methods being developed to fix it. Nowadays, methods for backing up and protecting enterprise data are fragmented, complex and inefficient. However, some new approaches are helping to simplify the process, keep costs in check, and improve recovery speed and confidence.
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Feds' Data Center Reduction Requires Spending Now to Save Later December 28, 2012 
How much do federal agencies need to spend on data center consolidation investments now, in order to save money later? It could be quite a lot. The U.S. Department of Labor, for example, figures that $60 million or so will do the trick in meeting its data center consolidation goals.
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