Qualys: When rules finally meet technology
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Automating credit card compliance Rumour has it that TJX, the embattled US retailer trying to recover its reputation following the loss of 45 million credit and debit card details, is dishing out free ice creams to entice shoppers back in to their stores in major US cities.â¦
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IT vendors are championing highly integrated and flexible systems through offerings such as IBM's 'on-demand computing' initiative and HP's 'adaptive enterprise' strategy. But what's really important, users say, is support for open standards.
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Fast company It&#146;s a familiar tension in business. Business people think designers are mere stylists; designers think business people are Neanderthals who forfeit quality for profit. That&#146;s because traditional business runs on logic that is inductive (using observation to prove something works) and deductive (using principles to prove that something must be). But designers rely on abductive reasoning. Huh? It&#146;s ...
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While human chess masters now have silicon overlords, players of Go -- an ancient Chinese game of territory -- are still far ahead of the programmers. The computers are catching up, though, thanks to some tricky innovations. Brendan Borrell talks with computer scientist RÃ©mi Coulom.
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Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot, a search tool that has the added feature of summarizing results. Very often, the intent of a user is to obtain brief information on a concept or a keyword. In [...]
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After decades of research and development, speech recognition is finally moving toward mainstream use. Advances in statistical modeling, pattern matching algorithms and processing power have
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Scelta infrastrutture ricalca logiche precedenti
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Among the factors sited: the ability to customize the software and avoid vendor lock-in.
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Jonathan Street has officially released his version of a Complete API (for Complete.com) to grab traffic information for a particular site.    With the exception of a link from the homepage, which is apparently in the works, Compete has made good on the points I raised so it's time for me to fulfil my part of the deal and release a PHP5 wrapper for the compete API.   The wrapper is simple at this point, only containing only a few methods to make the connection with Complete.com, generate the query and pull out one of three bits of information (including the traffic).
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Technical and legal pact calls for product interoperability and legal protections for common customers.
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Jonathan Robie explains the role of XQuery, a query language for XML data, and its importance to IT business users.
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Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds.
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David Pogue explores the time-saving qualities of macro software.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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One of the most important recent events in the world of free software has been the release of version 3 of the GNU GPL.  There were fierce arguments about its utility while it was being drawn up, and although the rhetoric has abated somewhat, there is still a big question mark over its eventual success.  Some evidence suggests that GPLv3 uptake is coming along nicely, while other reports indicate a reluctance to adopt it (but note also Matt Asay's neat reconciliation of these contradictory messages).  To see what's likely to happen in the long term, it's useful to look back at the past history of licence adoption.
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Baffled about which wine to pick up en route to an important holiday party where you happen to know they'll be serving elk? Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech International AB may be able to help you resolve that thorny little problem with its wine selector application.