Category: Web/Internet

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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The Wireless Web

Google just announced that it is leading an effort to develop technologies that will turn celluar telephones into powerful mobile computers that will be connected to Web anytime and anywhere [“Google Enters

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Africa and the Digital Divide

I have occasionally written about efforts to connect African countries to the Internet (see, for example, Update on Wiring Rwanda to the World]. In that post, I cited an article that indicated

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Globalization, IT, and Innovation

In a Special Report on innovation, the Economist looked at “how globalization and information technology are spurring faster innovation.” [“Revving up,” 13-19 October 2007 print edition]. The article began by discussing motorcycles

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America Remains in the Broadband Slow Lane

Last November I posted a weblog about America’s slow progress towards better broadband connectivity [Broadband Bound]. According to a Washington Post article by Blaine Harden, things have not improved much since then,

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Wiki Maps

Anyone who has done much web surfing has surely come across Wikipedia, a site whose encyclopedic-like entries are created by web users themselves. The results have mostly proven beneficial and accurate. Capturing

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Virtual War in Estonia

Since the Internet first became popular, users have suffered at the hands of those seeking to cause mischief, commit fraud, or profit by jamming email boxes with spam. There has also been

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