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I ran across this article on Mashable (McDonald’s Foursquare Day Campaign Increased Checkins by 33%) and was thinking something like this would be great for a bank.  Doing some searching I found that it looks like banks have started to take advantage of Foursquare. North Shore Bank, a $1.8 Billion bank based in Brookfield, Wisconsin [...]

Even if you don’t follow the mobile industry you’ve probably heard of mGive. The company was behind the Haiti aid campaign that has raised over $40 million.  Interest in mobile giving has since skyrocketed. So what can we learn from this story?  I see several takeaways but the big one I see is how your [...]

IBM was recently awarded a $17.4 million contract to upgrade the GSA’s  Integrated Acquisition Environment.   The part of the article that caught my eye was the statement that IBM will integrate 9 applications into 1 system based on open-source software.  I’m curious what open-source software/platform is being used as that basis.   Here’s an excerpt [...]

The National Security Agency is set to help help Google analyze attacks against its systems that possibly came from China. There are already rumblings about privacy and how much the NSA will have access to but in terms of cybersecurity the partnership should be a win-win. Google with more secure systems and the NSA with [...]