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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Are Cellphones Safe, Part 2

Today, the World Health Organization via the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields...

Friday, May 27, 2011

Banks Have PayPal In Their Sites, As Google Goes NFC

Looks like the big three banks, where one-in-three Americans have their checking account, want in to PayPal's gold mine.  No kidding. Wells...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Characteristics of Closed Bank Branches - Trade Area Lifestyles

Last week, we began our analysis of closed bank branches, suggesting that the next steps are profiling the trade areas involved, in terms...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Netflix & BitTorrent Eat Half The Internet

Sandvine reported today that Netflix traffic has increased nearly 50% over the past year, and now accounts for what is approaching one-third...

Monday, May 16, 2011

Analyzing Characteristics of Closed Branches

Along with the decision of when and where to open a new branch office, one of the key decisions made by banking administrators is when and where...

Friday, May 13, 2011

Great Debate - Interop Weathermen Tell Which Way The Cloud Blows

The session on "The Great Debate - Are Clouds More Secure?" revealed two things.  This is a rather simplistic question, and the answers...

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

IDC Reveals Cloud Adoption Keys At Interop 2011

If you made it to the 7:30am IDC breakfast today, you learned the two most important things in life. Never rat on your friends, and always...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Vint Cerf Blasts Off Into Space

Vint Cerf stressed extending the Internet into space, and into us, in today's discussions at Interop. Among other things, Cerf noted that...

Cisco Embraces Video at Interop 2011

Want to know how to manage video on a corporate net? Cisco's keynote presentation on Borderless Networking at Interop this morning was really...

Monday, May 9, 2011

Interop Forecast - Cloudy With A Strong Chance of Reign

Interop Vegas 2011 gets going for real tomorrow, with several keynotes that just might prove memorable and a conference session on just how...

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Apple iOS Update Offers Location Cache Fix

Apple released a 4.3.3 update to iOS today to deal with privacy concerns about the location database cache. Now, you can actually stop it from...

Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden Compound Mapped

After a mad scramble of geo & web developers, editors and average citizens, Google has the Osama bin Laden compound mapped and geo-referenced. DOD...