Hybrid-Location And Travel APIs Ready for Take Off At SXSW’s Travel Hack

March 5, 2013
Maureen Backe

Airline data is at the heart of the travel and hospitality industry. When you combine it with location-based information and the untethered freedom of mobility, you set the stage for innovation. Imagine mobile apps that use flight schedules,...

Secrets To Social Branding Success For Small Businesses

Cheryl Burgess

Welcome to the social media conversation of 2013, where business and marketing communities have accepted the why of social media, and now they have begun asking the how. Everywhere we look, small businesses are ready to go social, but many of them are wondering where to begin. With so many social media options...

Breaking Down Barriers

March 4, 2013
Geeta Nayyar

The practice of medicine is always seeking improvements. From leeches to laparoscopic surgeries, the medical field is dynamic and progressive by nature.  Standards of care are never stagnant, they move forward with the times. Likewise, the delivery of care has changed. There was...

Ready For A Small Business Barn Raising?

Susan Solovic

This past week I saw an inspiring news story about the success of a downtown business district in a small community in the St. Louis, Mo. area.  Only two retail spaces were vacant in this small town.  That’s in sharp contrast to many small town main streets with boarded up buildings and a ghost town appearance....

Raising the Bar On Global Mobility Management

March 1, 2013
ATT

A major issue confronting many of today’s enterprises is the need to manage mobile services and devices on a global scale. Multiple mobile service providers offering a multitude of plans, devices and ordering platforms and policies often add up to a major...

Cloud And Mobile Are Reinventing Your CDN

John Watson

Over the past 15 years, Content Delivery Network (CDN) services have been about one thing: delivering content, typically video and rich media, to end users on PCs. In 2013, however, businesses deliver a lot more than video streaming files to users and customers. Today they deliver complex websites; personalized and dynamic, non-cacheable data;...

Deal Of The Day

February 28, 2013
Jeff Morgan

The pitch Charlie Brown returned to that pitching mound year after year, looking for the elusive summer victory. He asked his team to have faith, see its potential, and no matter what never give in to despair no matter how long the odds. While victory eluded the Peanuts gang every summer, the competition for Big Data is ripe for a winner....

Let Cloud Do The Heavy Lifting

Hsuan-hua Chang

When we hear about the Cloud, we often hear about VM (virtual machine). VM is important to Cloud services because it allocates the resources that you need automatically. For those of us that use Windows, we are familiar with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.). Since those...

After Some Fits And Starts, Uncle Sam Is On The Way!

February 27, 2013
Josh Heard

We’re well into the New Year, and state and local governments are continuing to find ways to do more with fewer resources, and they are looking to technology to improve efficiency in the delivery of services. What does the rest of the year look like for our state and local governments and how their employees do...

Battle For The Marketing Budget

Brian Solis

Social is as social does. That’s me doing my best attempt to channel Forrest Gump. Why? Because like in the movie, this expression essentially signifies that people will follow what others do, often without knowing why. Sometimes it’s important simply because everyone else is doing it. Call it a form of social proof if you will, the age-old psychological phenomenon where, in...

6 Critical Questions For Your Healthcare Cloud Vendor

February 26, 2013
Barb White

Security is always a concern with any cloud service, but the sensitive nature of personal health information makes security for cloud storage of medical records, including digital medical images, especially critical. Cloud services can actually be more secure than your own local server, but it depends on the vendor’s standards and practices for protecting the imaging data....

Say “Cheese” With Social

Cheryl Burgess

Small businesses are realizing that social media is here to stay, and they are taking notice because becoming a social brand can help drive revenue.  Traditionally, small business have used outbound advertising platforms like direct mail, cable television, newspapers or yellow pages, but today outbound marketing strategies have largely been replaced by inbound strategies.  Integrating social...

Defining Cardholder Data

February 25, 2013
Chris Mark

Understanding the conditions under which a company is required to comply with the PCI DSS  (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard for those of you who are neophytes to the subject) is critical to all organizations that work with payment card data.   It is not only important for those companies trying to determine whether or not they must comply with the standard,...

Don’t Feel Like Talking? “Good Times” Can Tell

Maureen Backe

What do you get when you combine a pair of plush kitty ears, M2M, an Arduino development board, and cloud-based call management? If you’re neuroscientist Ruggero Scorcioni, you get a mobile app called Good Times and the $30,000 first prize in the Fast Pitch competition at the 2013 AT&T Developer Summit....

Two Sides To Every BYOD Coin:

February 22, 2013
Jim Dillon

How do you corral BYOD and utilize it to allow your organization to be more effective in the marketplace? The common belief around BYOD is it can be a management headache and data loss risk.  This can be true if your BYOD inventory is not properly...

5 Ways To Re-Up Your Social Media Resolutions For 2013

Mario Armstrong

This year, among other New Year's resolutions, I decided to dedicate myself to increasing my following on social media, interacting more with followers, and inserting myself into more conversations online. But now that we're in the middle of February, and things are starting to slow down and we're all finding that we're...

Good Luck Or Hard Work?

February 21, 2013
Paula Waldron

As luck would have it, my family decided to move to the Jersey Shore shortly before “Super Storm Sandy” struck the East Coast in late October 2012.   Our house, a turn of the century bungalow, sustained no storm damage....

New Ways To Go Deep With Cloud

Bill Strawderman

I am sure you could regale me in cautionary tales of colleagues who have made impulsive or uninformed decisions. And you had to deal with the fallout. As they say -- fools rush in. Thankfully, that doesn’t describe you or me....

Simplify, Save, And Boost Productivity With BYOD

February 20, 2013
Sander Biehn

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is an awesome opportunity for businesses to reduce costs AND improve productivity. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Trend Micro, July 2012 states that there are numerous ways to calculate these benefits, and they can be huge. But concerns about...

3 Habits Of Highly Successful Cloud Users

Catherine Scaramuzzi

The recent announcement of Atari filing for bankruptcy brings back misty memories of watching my brother’s epic Ms. Pac-Man-record-breaking afternoons when we were kids.  It was the stuff legends were made of.  I share these stories with my children in a magical way so that when they see the rare Ms. Pac-Man arcade machine, they are sure to say,...

How To Pull Your Marketing Budget Up by Its Bootstraps

Alan See

The term "bootstrap" is often used to describe situations of self-reliance.  It means to develop something that takes significant effort with little or no assistance.  In the world of marketing, this often equates to operating with a very limited budget.  The economic ruckus created by the fiscal cliff suggests 2013 will be a bootstrapping year...