How To Clean Up The Apps Connected To Your Social Media Accounts
How many apps have you allowed access to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts? The answer is probably more than you think - and…
David Strom
David Strom is a Writer at ReadWrite. He has held editorial management positions for numerous print and Web publications and was the founding editor-in-chief for Network Computing magazine and DigitalLanding.com. He has more than 30 years of IT and tech journalism experience and has written two books on computer networking. He lives in St. Louis and is married with three children.
Articles by David Strom
Mon, 5 November 2012
Tue, 9 October 2012
Captchas With A Conscience: Can You Prove You're Human?
Can websites get visitors to prove they're human by forcing them to make a moral choice? This is not a hypothetical question.
Wed, 12 September 2012
5 Ways To Run Your IT Department Like SEAL Team 6
This past week we’ve heard a lot from “Mark Owen,” the name attached to the author of a new book called No Easy Day about his…
Wed, 22 August 2012
How 3 Big Enterprises Are Building Their Own Internal iPad Apps
The heavy influx of iPads into large enterprise organizations is posing new kinds of challenges for IT departments, particiularly around…
Mon, 20 August 2012
How the Air Force Is Flying Toward IPv6
The United States Air Force is one very high-tech organization, and we’re not just talking about jet fighters. The Air Force’s latest…
Mon, 13 August 2012
How Chattanooga Transformed Itself into America's First Gig City
What can you do with a ubiquitous metropolitan gigabit Ethernet connection? Google has recently gotten lots of attention with the metro…
Wed, 8 August 2012
Charting the Underground Twitterverse
How bad is the underground Twitter economy? According to security vendor Barracuda Labs, pretty bad.
Thu, 26 July 2012
What Would Make AOL Relevant Again (Not Refreshed Email)
As attention fades for Yahoo's latest CEO switch, we turn to another Internet pioneer -- AOL. That company has a new version of its…
Wed, 11 July 2012
From Contest to Company: 6 Tips for Taking a Startup to the Next Level
From hackathons to programming contests to business plan competitions, competitive events are a great way to test the potential appeal and…
Tue, 10 July 2012
Microsoft's Imagine Cup Student Software Contest Holds Lessons for Startups
The 10th annual student software contest, Microsoft's Imagine Cup, is wrapping up in Sydney, Australia, and there are some important lessons…
Mon, 2 July 2012
Indiana's Sewers: An Outpost on the Internet of Things
An unlikely place to look for the latest trend for the Internet of Things is inside the sewers of the City of South Bend, Indiana. For the…
Wed, 27 June 2012
P2P and Streaming Video Gobble Up Increasing Corporate Bandwidth
Since we wrote about Palo Alto Networks' applications study in January, the company has continued to track corporate networking trends…
Tue, 26 June 2012
Noteworthy Upcoming Big Data Conferences
Big Data has had its marquee conferences with Strata and Structure, but there are several newer venues that you might want to consider…
Wed, 20 June 2012
Study: B-Schools Need a Better Handle on Using, Tracking Social Media
A study on the usage of social media by the top MBA programs in the United States shows that while all are using Facebook for recruiting and…
Tue, 19 June 2012
Google's BigQuery Gets Big Dashboards and Expanded Multiple Queries
Google has been busy adding features to its BigQuery service in the six weeks since it became available. There are new visualization…
Tell Your Children to Learn Hadoop
It is time for your kids to start learning about Hadoop, the formless data repository that is the current favorite of many…
Wed, 13 June 2012
5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Your Company's Social Media Tools
If your enterprise is shopping around for an internal social media provider, chances are that you have thought about putting together your…
Thu, 7 June 2012
What Ever Happened to Intranets?
Back in the mid-1990s when the Web was young, corporate Intranets were popping up at companies all over the place. They were usually quick…
Thu, 24 May 2012
New Prize for Bio-Sensors Announced by X Prize Foundation
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.25 million Nokia Sensing X Challenge to produce a new generation of health care and biometric…
Cartoon: Why Social Media Matters for Your Customers
It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck. If your management still thinks Facebook and Twitter are…
Keeping Your Cloud Presence Straight: Spiceworks Launches Free Detection Feature
If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would…
Mon, 21 May 2012
Tracking the Performance of Past Tech IPOs
With the lackluster first day issue of Facebook on Friday, we thought we would take a moment to look at the memorable tech IPOs of the…
Fri, 18 May 2012
The Fastest Online Payment Processor? It's Google
If you are thinking about changing your online payment provider, you should take a moment to look at an interesting infographic from…
Thu, 17 May 2012
The Most Sought-After Silicon Valley Startups for Engineers
On LinkedIn's blog today is a post about the top 10 most sought-after engineering startups in Silicon Valley. And no, Facebook and Google…
