Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Intuit service shows how little patients count
- OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...
- Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...
- Tags: Games, information technology, game, HTTP, crowdsourcing, Web, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- Why PayPal lost this customer over credit card fees policy
- I have this event coming up and will be be the funds-collector from people scattered across different locations. Initially, I thought of PayPal as the easy way to go. Boy, was I wrong. Today, thanks to a very poor experience with the company's Web...
- Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PayPal, eBay Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack
- Albert Gonzales, previously accused of breaking into TJX's computer systems, was indicted on charges that a separate group he was involved in breached Heartland Payment Systems. Also indicted but unidentified and still at large were "Hacker 1" and "Hacker 2," labels that suggest Thing 1 and...
- Tags: SQL, SQL Injection, Attack, Albert Gonzales, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- IT skills top the in-demand list at online freelance marketplace
- When it comes to the tech job market, we'll take good news where we can get it - even if it's a big demand for IT skills in a booming online marketplace for freelancers. Called elance.com, the site is seeing about 50 percent growth in the number...
- Tags: Google Inc., Skill, Information Technology, Site, Recruitment & Selection, Desktop Publishing, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?
- Privacy is currencyI generally understand what it is you are saying, even if it makes too much use of the "If you have nothing to hide..." argument which I doubt needs to be discussed here. However, I think some of your points are missing the bigger picture. For instance, you...
- Tags: privacy issue, Google Book, Google Books privacy, privacy, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- The How and Why of PCI
- Companies that offer online credit card transactions must understand and follow Payment Card Industry PCI standards, particularly the Data Security Standard DSS. This standard includes comprehensive requirements to secure and protect electronic payments, and to assure the privacy of customer account information. Compliance involves building and maintaining a secure network,...
- Tags: PCI, MessageLabs Ltd., Operational Accounting, Security, Financial Services, Finance
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'
- Chris Dawson thinks this: If you don't like buying online products only to have them remotely deleted without so much as a "have a nice day," ... Don't buy a bloody Kindle! Chris thinks that Amazon's terms of service create...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Chris Dawson, Chris, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon
- Ridiculous lawsuit against AmazonRE: a quick read of [the TOS] shows that Amazon absolutely [has] the right your claim is ludicrous. The health insurance industry wants to takeyour money until you get sick-- then you're on your own; the creditcard industry reserves the right to change your lending agreement--...
- Tags: health insurance industry, Amazon.com Inc., lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- PayPal opens payments platform, launches features for app developers
- PayPal said today that it will open its online payment system to third-party developers, allowing them to incorporate payment transactions to be conducted in their applications. Called Adaptive Payments Service, it was made available to 300 PayPal partners today and will be enter a public beta in November, right around...
- Tags: Developer, Payment, PayPal, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data
- Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...
- Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Performance, Information Technology, Service, Paglo Logs, Log Management Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- The United States of broadband: All of the speed is on the east coast
- The United States of broadband: All of the speed is on the east coastWhich is not surprisingas the United States is the third most populated country in the world, with the third largest land mass per country behind Canada and Russia, I would imagine it takes time and money to...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, fiber, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Free is not a business model
- Free is not a business modelPutting mium in free-miumHi Phil,Excellent post. I share your shock about people's mis-characterization of the importance of "free," particularly in SaaS business models.One minor comment on freemium models. As I talk to "Web 3.0" as you call it entrepreneurs, I realize that the...
- Tags: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, business model, advertisement, social networking
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Follett Protects Customer Data and Complies With PCI DSS With Thales
- The Follett Higher Education Group FHEG sells more than 20 million textbooks annually in stores and online, and it operates more than 700 campus book stores for colleges and universities. Since it began operating stores and taking credit cards, FHEG has taken protecting its customers' privacy seriously. To protect customer...
- Tags: Payment, THALES, Follett, Follett Higher Education Group, PCI, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Finance
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- eBay scammers try to scam security expert
- eBay scammers try to scam security expertIt sounds like the system works quite well!Since in both cases the scammer failed, I would have to say that the system works quite well. What this story does tell us though is that sellers might want to hold off a day before sending...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, security, PayPal, eBay Inc., Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- The Cost of the Free Internet
- The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free†Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...
- Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free
- Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...
- Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Intuit drops restrictions on Quickbooks app development
- Intuit, the makers of the Quickbooks financial software for businesses, is jumping on board the open source app frenzy. The company this week announced Federated Applications, an enhancement to the Intuit Partner Platform that allows any software developer to use the tools of his or her choice to create applications...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks, Small Business, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
SmartPlanet
-
Thought-provoking progressive ideas on diverse topics that intersect with technology, business, and life, and matter to the world at large.
Visit SmartPlanet
- More from IBM
-
-
Innovate your business' process model, play against the market, compete against others on our scoreboards and WIN!
Try INNOV8 2.0: A BPM Simulator
-
Enabling Real-World Business Transformation through IBM Service Management
Read the EMA Analyst Report
White Papers and Webcasts
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost-effective solutions to real-life IT problems.
