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Engineering giant Scientific Applications International (SAIC) in McLean, Va, Friday told us it completed work on software that predicts failures in distribution and transmission systems days, weeks or months before they occur. Called Distribution Monitoring System, it is ready for release after nearly a year of research, said project lead Paul Halpin in an exclusive interview.

“Making predictions like this is a very, very hard problem and we've done some really smart things to solve it,” said… Continue

by Louis Uchitelle
Monday, November 9, 2009

A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government's picture of the country's economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like trade, wages and job creation.

The shortcomings of the data-gathering system came through loud and clear here Friday and Saturday at a first-of-its-kind gathering of economists from academia and government determined to come up with a more acc… Continue

By Marc Poirier, Search Engine Watch, Sep 18, 2009

I've been concerned with click fraud since the beginning of PPC times. That is probably because I was one of the early victims of click fraud -- once with Overture, and again with the early Google AdWords. This was back in 2002 and 2003.

Since then, I haven't witnessed any serious instance of suspicious traffic coming from Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Obviously, that doesn't mean there's no problem, far from it. But I honestly thought click fr… Continue

Source: TheStreet.com

ARMONK, N.Y. (TheStreet) -- IBM(IBM Quote) is predicting that business analytics software will be one of 2010's hottest technologies, as companies attempt to squeeze as much value as possible out of their data.

"It's a market space that is growing substantially faster than other market areas," Steve Mills, IBM's senior vice president of software, told TheStreet. "Coming out of recession, hopefully, companies want to be more predictive."

Business analytics software is use… Continue

Hotel group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has signed a five-year deal with Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) for its Test & Learn Management System.

IHG has selected APT’s solution for its marketing programmes, guest service, hotel management, and capital investments. It is going to be used for seven hotel brands, including Holiday Inn, InterContinental, and Crowne Plaza.

The solution enables users to identify statistically significant results and build models directly from these… Continue