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<item><title>Social Bots Could Automate Web 2.0</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:49:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Twitter bots are nothing new, but now sophisticated social bots could help businesses tweet and retweet relevant and interesting information. Such tools could even help promote human-to-human introductions.   -  Twitter
“bots” are machines that automatically post and retweet comments based on
particular keywords and links. Although bots are good at their jobs, theyre notoriously
impersonal, and people with any Twitter savvy can quickly spot a machine. But now,
researchers have created a more sophisticat...]]></description>
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<item><title>Computer Sci High School to Open in NYC</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:49:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A high school specializing in computer science, set to open in September 2012, will prepare students of all academic backgrounds for college studies and eventual careers in the technology industry.   -  New York is one city making strides in smart, tech-savvy investments like its new applied science and engineering campus. This year, a high school dedicated to training students in software engineering will open as the first school of its kind in the city.
Called The Academy for Software Engineerin...]]></description>
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<item><title>Las Vegas PD to Get Crime Analytics</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:16:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is one of the largest crime-fighting organizations in the country. New analytics tools will help it to better process and organize information about the crimes that occur in its massive network.   -  Business analytics improve the speed and efficacy of organizations, and no team needs these effects more than a police department, where efficiency can be a matter of life and death. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) is now using IBM crime analytics software to improve safety in t...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Best Fitness Apps: Part 2</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:16:40 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Building on yesterdays article, here are the best fitness apps that include analytics and social media integration.   -  In
this, Part 2 of  quot;10 Best Fitness Apps, quot; certified CrossFit instructor
and founder of Watch It Now TV
Inc., Darren Capik, describes
fitness applications that include analytics and social media integration. (Part 1 of this article can be found here.)
6) Nike
Training Club
 quot;Bes...]]></description>
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<item><title>Part 2: Benefits Abound When Marrying Health Care With Social Media</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:08:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Health care organizations, like business in other industries, are using innovative forms of social media to inform and engage users.   -  In part one of this article, which ran earlier this week, we talked about how health care and social media are a natural fit.   Here are more examples of the innovative ways health care organizations are using social media to inform and engage users.
No Bitter Pill?
Although millions of people are...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Best Fitness Apps Revealed</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:08:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Want to get fit? Of course, theres an app for that. An expert in fitness training video courses picks the 10 best apps for exercise and nutrition from among the thousands of offerings.   -  When Hollywood starlets and fitness professionals want to make a video--from  quot;Jane Fonda's Workout quot; to  quot;Billy Blanks' BootCamp quot;--they go to Watch It Now TV Inc., a leader in fitness production with hundreds of celebrity workout DVDs. But founder and certified CrossFit instructor ...]]></description>
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<item><title>SmartCamp Picks Winning Ideas</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:17:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The smartest new startups will be announced this week at the IBM SmartCamp 2012. The three-day event will see entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders gather to pick a winner in the programs competition to help build a Smarter Planet.   -  The world's smartest startups will be hawking their ideas this week at IBM's SmartCamp 2012 in San Francisco. 
IBM has major investments in funds sponsored by mainstream venture capitalists, and acquires up to 20 companies per year, but it does not directly invest in startups. Instead, it sponsors ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Cloud Computing at the Quantum Level</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:17:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Using quantum computers to create cloud infrastructure could enable faster and more complex cloud systems. But the intricacies at the quantum level could risk security. Now a team of Austrian researchers has successfully demonstrated a security feature for future quantum cloud computing.   -  Although most companies and organizations are embracing cloud computing, security concerns still abound. Doubts about data protection on the cloud remain a key reason why some still havent adopted the technology. Add quantum computing to the mix, and security concerns grow at an exponential rate. Bu...]]></description>
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<item><title>Social Media Conquering Ebooks</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:17:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Annotating ebooks--that is sharing notes in the margins with other readers of the same book--is poised to be the next ubiquitous use of social media.   -  Social media in the form of ubiquitous user-generated product reviews, where people who have bought and used a product previously can alert new buyers to their experiences with the product, are something that in pre-Internet days had to be obtained from a publication like  quot;Consumer Reports.  qu...]]></description>
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<item><title>In-Memory Computing Is Big Data's Best Friend, at Least for Some Enterprises</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:38:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While in-memory technology makes analysis faster all around, it's an expensive proposition.   -  A new report from Aberdeen
Research offers up more than a few interesting nuggets on Big Data, the
challenges in processing and analyzing today's growing data loads, and how
in-memory computing can play a critical role in speeding up the collecting, managing
and sharing of data in the enterprise...]]></description>
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<item><title>Synergies Abound When Health Care Organizations Tap Social Media</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:20:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Health care organizations are using innovative forms of social media to inform and engage users.   -  Health care and social media are a natural fit. After all, 84 percent of health care professionals polled in one small survey use social media for personal reasons, and 75 percent use it for professional reasons within their institution. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed use social networking fo...]]></description>
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<item><title>Delivering Business Value With Workload-Optimized Systems</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:34:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[x86 servers are good for general-purpose applications like email and file storage, but higher-powered servers with multicore processors and large memory capacities can turbocharge database and transactional applications while maximizing utilization.   -  The idea behind workload-optimized systems is simple:
Instead of buying and deploying the best and latest technology in order to reap
performance benefits, you buy the technology that's best-suited for your
workloads, and you make sure each application has the optimal mix of resources
for high p...]]></description>
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<item><title>A Retailer Learns Data Is Just Data Without Analytics</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:34:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Collecting data is a great thing, but if you cant parse it for business-strategy needs, its a useless effort.   -  Whats the value in collecting, organizing and sharing data if thats as far as you can take it? There's very little value, basically. 
Collecting, organizing and sharing data are key parts  to a data-analysis strategy, but if the analysis aspect is barely touched, then there is no benefit to the upf...]]></description>
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<item><title>Make the Move to Cloud for the Right Reason</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:44:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A smart cloud infrastructure automates many IT tasks, such as virtual machine creation and deployment, which needed to be manually performed in the past. This makes automation the key reason why companies should move to the cloud.   -  Tough economic conditions are forcing companies to look for ways to rein in spending. At the same time, they must be more responsive to emerging opportunities and deliver more and better services to constituents, business partners and customers. 
Faced with the prospect of having to do more with le...]]></description>
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<item><title>Rent a Virtual PC in the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:44:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Your next PC may be in the cloud, where free storage and rentable apps allows anyone to sync their Windows desktop with an iOS device such as an iPad, an Android tablet, a laptop and a desktop computer, whether its Windows, Linux or even a Mac.   -  Virtualization allows cloud servers to execute Windows applications remotely from any iOS, Android, Mac, Windows or Linux device, including iPads, Android tablets, laptops and desktop computers. And by renting apps by the month--only paying during months you use them--all your software and storage c...]]></description>
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