From YouTube celebrities to chief social-media officers, these unexpected players exert outsize impact and power online -- offering new channels of communication that businesses can't afford to ignore.READ»
Over the past few years, I have been watching the role of women increase at the global level. Corporate initiatives such as that of Cisco, Nike, and The Cola Cola Company have embraced the position of women not only within the ...READ»
Mainstream video calling seems like it's just getting started, given the excitement over Apple's FaceTime iPhone app. But a new Pew survey reveals nearly 20% of Americans have already placed a call via video.READ»
At last week’s “Summer Davos,” the annual World Economic Forum meeting in China, talk about innovation was everywhere. Not surprisingly, the sense of the meeting was that waiting for governments to set consistent rules and incentives for a low-carbon economy is a fool’s game.
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Within five years, I predict, the word "social" will seem as cliché as "synergy" feels now. Social connection will be like a dial tone, something we once expected to hear and now don't bother listening for as we dial. What it represents is just there.READ»
The best-selling digital video cameras will offer image stabilization and 60 fps, along with over a dozen custom-made accessories, starting in October.READ»
When did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with building cities? Last month it was Cisco’s SVP of strategy Inder Sidhu describing the company’s smart city play as the $36 billion company’s “biggest opportunity.” Then, at the ...READ»
Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»
Imagine a world where it takes just one second to download a terabyte of data. Well, that world just got a little bit closer, with Intel's breakthrough, known as silicon photonics, in data transfer methods. It works using a ...READ»
By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “decade of smart,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building? Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even non-profits with the ...READ»
As figures for the lobbying spend of Q2 of 2010 were released, all eyes were on Google. With a total of $1.34 million over the past three months, it's definitely an increase, as Consumer Watchdog will tell you. However, it's worth ...READ»
In our earlier story (Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre, and the Ugly), we asked you to send us more corporate social media policies, and you delivered. Here is a second batch, with good, mediocre and ugly ...READ»
Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.READ»
Developer's fees to access the tools to build webOS apps for Palm's smartphones are being dropped, according to an official email. More than any other rumor, this confirms HP is serious about Palm's smartphone future. When we learned ...READ»
Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»
Cisco has made a big push into the smart grid industry recently, first with two pieces of substation gear for utilities and now with a home energy display that allows users to monitor power use. The Home Energy Controller--Cisco's ...READ»
What makes "Silicon Valley" Silicon Valley? I offer my random thoughts on the "secret sauce" that makes Silicon Valley truly unique in the world as Russia embarks on a journey to duplicate what we cherish here in Northern California.READ»
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up his whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley yesterday, and while it’s fun to imagine Steve Jobs giving him the five-cent tour of One Infinite Loop or Ev Williams and Biz Stone teaching him how ...READ»
