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Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013. Analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 25. 
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Read about the latest cyber security trends in the Sophos Security Threat Report 2013. From Sophos, the leader in Antivirus, Encryption, Email Spam Protection, DLP, Endpoint and Network Security.
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Amazing description of the sophistication behind the Blackhole malware and "service" where affiliates are paid for redirecting users to be infected!
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Walmart is leveraging customers’ smartphones as one more way to make a sale. And the key is to give customers reasons to use Walmart’s app while they’re in a physical store. Walmart’s stores are “geo-fenced,” said Wire.com, so the location-aware app enters “store mode” when a customer enters through the door. Once their phones are in store mode, customers are given an interactive version of the weekly on-sale circular for that store. Customers can see what’s new in the store and can scan bar codes with the phone’s camera for prices and lists of everything in a shopper’s cart so they know their total before getting to the checkout. Wired.com points out that Walmart has effectively lured customer into two stores at once as the Walmart app interface lets you “flip” between the two stores–physical and digital.
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IT and business executives need to apply a risk-management approach that balances economic value against risks. A McKinsey Quarterly Business Technology article.
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Rachel Haot oversees New York City's online presence including its web site, its 280 distinct social media channels and she is working to bring free Wi-Fi to...
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If NYC can do it than why don't more companies follow the lead? Moreover, digital transformation of the NYC, open city and the introduction of mobile apps such as 311 NYC are key to empowering its citizens, no?
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Learn What Can Go Wrong When Employees Use Dropbox for File-Sharing and How to Secure Your Corporate Data. Download this Step By Step Guide from Sophos Today.
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The only Dropbox Security Strategy: restrict access and encrypt all data? Does not sound like a very good solution to me as people will always find way around the controls. Better to keep it open but have clear reports on the actual files being transferred and stored on the cloud?
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Lack of online opportunity means Canadians lag far behind U.K., U.S.
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No surprise, Canada is behind on eCommerce. Canada is 5-6years behind US+UK+DE in eCommerce, with Internet to account for 20% of holiday purchases. Interesting that Lowes hardware store was able to setup and launch an eCommerce website in only 8 months.
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Google Flu Trends offers grim diagnoses for Canada
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Ever wondered what "big data" is all about? Well Google Flu is a great example: it looks at searches for flu symptoms and reports the results, often providing results before the "official" ones....
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A wearable computer that displays information and records video
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What are the business opportunities here?
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Good alternative to writing down the passwords in a notepad or using the same password over and over...
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Get Your Business Ready For 2013
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This article shows how to use an enterprise architecture to specify requirements for public cloud service, using a hybrid software as a service (SaaS) example.
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Interesting presentation of the IBM cloud reference architecture and its ties to EA.
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Precursor view from a Canadian visionary.
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A bit dated (2005), this University research highlights the supply chain transformation from Industrial Age to Information Age.
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You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
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Very good overview of reasons why passwords fail. We must go beyond the password and encourage solution providers to build more advanced and seamless protection systems.
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Savez-vous que vos données partagées en public sur les réseaux sociaux peuvent être de précieux indices pour des personnes mal intentionnées ? Via Patrick Bouillaud
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Ging digital means you trust computer systems with more and more private and confidential information, Again here, one of the reasons why passwords fail. We must go beyond the password and encourage solution providers to build more advanced and seamless protection systems. Here, evidence shows that even the most complex passwords will fail when hackers can simply ask for them to be reset using publicly available information on Facebook and other websites.
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100 Resources For The Intersection Of Learning And Technology (Tech Ed Vision of the Digital Transformation: What 100 Experts Think About The Future Of Learning http://t.co/yuDp9VBR)...
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During the #digital transformation, Yellow Media pays $1.5B in debt: http://t.co/Y5aWVfw7
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What happens when corporations do not make the digital transformation fast enough and wait until the market has completely shifted to catch-up: shareholders have to pay the price, or the company goes bankrupt. Was the same for Netflix vs Blockbuster. Expect more of the same in the future. Amazon vs ? Who will it be?....
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Google is encroaching on Microsoft's traditional enterprise customers. Should the software giant be worried?
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Simple: knowledge workers that are not computer friendly or live inside of outlook for most of their days will be better off with office365. Others, especially those infrequent email users with minimal office needs - word, excel, powerpoint - will find google apps sufficient for their daily tasks.
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RT @CapgeminiConsul: Key Considerations for Digital Services Unit Implementation http://t.co/oYWoj0W4 #digitaltransformation
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Along with a Chief Digital Officer, looks like the corporations that really want to embrace digital transformation need to think in terms of the creation of a digital unit, ither controlled by IT or marketing. Interesting...
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Some users of online grocer FreshDirect saw a generic network solutions page after the company apparently was late in renewing its web address. As of Wednesday afternoon, the co...
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Internet is a new "property" that must be anaged like any other corporate asset. In particular domain names, which often are assigned to individual users and are not renewed in time. Domains must also be managed, so that the naming conventions are appropriate and easilly tracked and crawled. Along with it, analytics should be created to report on usage and traffic. I've seen corporations plan marketing launches without proper domain names, only to find the URL is not available.... after thousands of leaflets had been printed!
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RT @davidedelman: Major bank, major digital transformation: extracting value from every stage of the #CDJ http://t.co/48yBOj1S CC: @TasRobert
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digital transformation impacts both top line and bottom line
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Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe ... Via massimo facchinetti
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80% of business executives cite better value as the a key driver for choosing cloud applications
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Motorola engineers working on a handset to be released next year, that parent Google hopes will provide more potent competition for devices like Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy phones.
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what could a new phone bring to businesses?
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Today Toronto and San Francisco-based influencer marketing platform Influitive announced that it has added $7.3 million in Series A funding, only a few months after raising raising $3.75 million in early August.
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The trend is clear: B2B is now catching up with B2B approaches, methods and tools.
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