| Thursday, December 08, 2012 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | 10 Cities Raise Tech IQs In IBM Challenge IBM's three-year Smarter Cities Challenge is the company's largest ever philanthropic initiative, bringing a $50 million competitive grant program to 100 cities worldwide. Launched in 2010, the Challenge will see grants awarded to three waves of winning cities from among more than 400 applicants seeking innovative, technology-driven solutions to major challenges such as economic and workforce development, transportation and infrastructure planning, downtown revitalization, and urban planning. Read on to learn about the tech innovation plans in Boston; Chicago; Durham, N.C.; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Louisville, Ky.; Malaga, Spain; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; St. Louis, Mo.; and Syracuse, N.Y. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | |  COMMENTARY Windows 8 Fizzling, Time For Windows Classic? By Paul McDougall The early results are in, and the news isn't good for Microsoft. Indications are that initial sales of Windows 8 are dismal. The question now facing Redmond is whether to stick with this radical re-imagining of its veritable OS or revert to the familiar Windows environment of old. Microsoft hasn't released official sales numbers for Windows 8 or related products, like Surface RT, which hit stores in late October. But evidence is building from numerous sources that consumer response to the new products can be summed up as: "Meh." Salesforce.com Revenues Surge, But Should You Ignore Losses? By Doug Henschen Salesforce.com reported yet another quarter of double-digit revenue growth last week, but financial analysts didn't seem to blink about the losses it reported. In fact, most prominent cloud application vendors do report losses, at least as measured by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). So why do they appear to play by different rules than their on-premises counterparts? What GE's $15 Trillion Industrial Internet Needs By Chris Murphy General Electric predicts that the "industrial Internet" could add $10 trillion to $15 trillion to the world economy in the next 20 years. Indeed, $15 trillion is a "wow, that's big" number, but it's not the most important part of GE's major new report on its industrial Internet vision. The most important part--beyond the marketing value--is that GE needs a whole lot of help from other vendors, regulators, financiers, and users of technology before this vision and its $15 trillion payoff can come true. This report looks like an attempt to rally an ecosystem. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By Dillon: "I'm not in total agreement with this article. Yes, there are two different ways of doing things in each version. But everyone already knows the "classic" way, and learning the new way (with the option to use the classic way while learning) isn't as difficult as everyone having to learn Android (which changes slightly in every version released) or iPad. The real problem is they jumped into the game too late against Android and iPad, and now that people are more attracted to those two because of their apps, "coolness," and ease of use, they're having a harder time competing." In reply to: Windows 8 Fizzling, Time For Windows Classic? View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Research: 2013 Analytics & Info Management Trends Predictive analysis is faster, more accurate, and more accessible than ever before. And now, combined with big data, it's driving a new age of experimentation. The University of Kentucky and Taylor University are among the new users of advanced analytics. Both schools are using predictive modeling to improve student retention, and their work offers lessons for any business trying to minimize customer churn. Insurers UnitedHealth Group and Allstate are old hands at advanced analytics, but that doesn't mean they're resting on past achievements. In addition to these use cases, this report explores how emerging techniques, including in-database analysis, text mining, and crowdsourced competitions, are yielding breakthrough results. Download Now (Registration Required)
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| WEBCASTS The Myth Of Systems Of Record Vs. Systems Of Engagement Everyday, workers create business records within email, collaboration, and social networking applications. At the same time, they seek to communicate and work with others within the context of work processes supported by their organizations' back-end systems, including those used to manage content.
In this InformationWeek Webcast, Larry Hawes, principal at Dow Brook Advisory Services, will make the case for digital environments that provide the data and content, as well as the communication and collaboration tools, needed to perform specific tasks, while shielding most workers from the complexity associated with the capture and management of legal business records.
It happens December 11, 2012. More Information & Registration |
| | | | | VIDEOS Valley View For November's Valley View program, we're going to switch to the upstart side of the conversation, focusing on a handful of new companies that are threatening to unravel established businesses or established ways of thinking.
In our opening segment, we'll talk with Dwolla, the new darling in the online payment space. As always, we'll feature some new technology in our Elevator Pitch segment, where we ask companies to pitch us (as if we were in an elevator) and then face our judging committee. For this month's segment, we've got a couple of big data players: Kaggle and Clearstory, each with a unique approach to this incredibly interesting market. Finally, SugarSync, one of the early players in the personal cloud movement, will talk about how they're evolving to take on fierce competitive forces.
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