Posts Tagged "Internet"
Fireside chat with Home Depot's CIO Matt Carey
Maryfran Johnson interviews Home Depot’s CIO Matt Carey who is on a mission to create an interconnected retail experience that harnesses the physical and digital assets available across 2,200+ stores and distribution centers. The $80 billion retailer is pushing to…
Government websites best Amazon, Google in user satisfaction
Show of hands: Who thinks the best site on the Web is maintained by the federal government? By one measure, a well-established gauge of user satisfaction, the government actually beats out many of the top business sites on the Web,…
Facebook's new Reaction buttons are a hot mess
Yes, you can, in fact, have too much of a good thing. Here’s why the five new Facebook reaction buttons are poised to wreak social media havoc. Facebook's new Reaction buttons are a hot mess Source: Internet {$excerpt:n} Facebook's new…
Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, who is credited with inventing email and putting the now ubiquitous “@” sign in addresses, has died at the age of 74. Tomlinson, who helped in the evolution of single-computer email into electronic mail that could send…
IBM sues Groupon for infringing four of its patents
IBM has sued online deals marketplace Groupon for infringing four of its patents, including two that emerged from Prodigy, the online service launched by IBM and partners ahead of the World Wide Web. Groupon has built its business model on the…
How to get started with Google Analytics
Google Analytics (GA) is a free online service designed to help marketers and Web masters better understand their sites’ visitors — where they come from, what they do on the sites, which pages they linger on, content that causes them…
EU adds detail to Privacy Shield agreement, prepares to give it force of law
The European Commission has detailed the steps businesses must take to comply with the Privacy Shield data protection agreement reached with U.S. authorities earlier this month, and published a draft of the order that will give it force of law….
Internet2 at 20: Alive and kicking
Nearly 20 years after its launch, Internet2 is quietly humming along on university campuses across the country, doing its R&D work and connecting researchers who might otherwise not be able to share information so readily. To read this article in…
Google piggybacks on fiber to jump-start ISP efforts
A new, refreshing development is beginning to ripple through the broadband world. We’re finally seeing a glimmer of true competition — and it’s giving telecom giants the jitters. When Google Fiber was first announced in 2012, Wall Street analysts dismissed…
Google Fiber to use existing fiber optic cable in San Francisco
Google Fiber announced Wednesday it will use existing fiber optic cables in San Francisco to bring its gigabit Internet service to some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties instead of building the fiber from scratch. Using existing fiber brings the…