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Archive for June, 2009

US Senators Push Legislation to Punish Nokia Siemens

Should foreign companies that sell technology to Iran be barred from receiving federal contracts in the United States? According to two US Senators, the answer is a resounding yes. Hot on the heels of several news reports ... more

Will the Declaration of Health Data Rights Help Drive Health Care into the Digital Age?

Bloggers from the medical, technology, and patient advocacy spheres are banding together to spearhead an initiative designed to let people—and medical care providers—know that patients have an “inalienable” right not only to access their medical records in electronic format, ... more

Iranian Web Spying Enabled by Western Technology

Communication technology in the digital age is a double-edged sword. By building a communications network, you also intrinsically provide the technological means to use that network for all sorts of nefarious purposes, many of which do not conform, exactly, ... more

Forgo the Silos: Convergence is Key

Long ago, it used to be that a company’s technology assets were locked up in the datacenter, and its business assets were in the hands of its business people, and never the twain should meet. “A white collar professional,” ... more

One Person Equals One Broadcaster

In the wake of the hotly-contested presidential election in Iran, internet social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as the primary—if not only—means of disseminating information in a country in which ... more

Salesforce.com Extends Enterprise Cloud Computing to Website Creation

Companies looking to solidify a robust presence on the web with a site that makes use of databases, integration with back end systems, workflow and approval rules, analytics, and more can now do it all on the cloud with ... more

What’s the Right Mix of Technology and Security?

The current state of the economy has led many companies to re-examine budgets and how resources are being allocated.  As many have experienced, this has meant layoffs, company restructuring, and policy changes.  During down times in the economy we also ... more

In the Hyperconnected World, Video Is King

Hyperconnectivity.  If you’re a back-to-nature type purist, it’s a bad thing, but if you’re a networking equipment maker like Nortel or Cisco, it’s not merely a good thing, but the type of ... more

Is Twitter Putting Too Many Eggs in the Ambiguity Basket?

To call Twitter’s recent growth explosive is an understatement.  Citing numbers from comScore, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, in the past year alone, the number of Twitter users has increased from an ... more

Will Bing Be Big?

Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about Bing, Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good.  ... more

Google Gives Small Businesses Quick-and-Easy Metrics with Free Dashboard

Traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, those old-fashioned businesses with a physical address, now have even more reason to like Google: free analytics.  As reports TechCrunch, by claiming their listing profiles on Google Local, businesses now will ... more

Lessons in Offline Metrics: The Body Count

Of all the metrics in the world, none is perhaps more chilling, or more somber, than the body count.  The number itself is a testament to perhaps the most despicable aspect of mankind’s nature: man’s willingness to destroy ... more

Surprised? Smart Phones Selling More Smartly

Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s Blackberry smart phones may make up only a small percentage of the mobile devices sold worldwide this year, but that doesn’t mean they’re not powerhouses ... more

Unilever to Measure Mobile Coupon Use and Effectiveness

How many people in Hillsborough, NJ, will go on the web, send coupons to their mobile phone, then redeem those coupons at a local ShopRite grocery store by using their mobile phone?  That’s what packaged goods ... more

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