Google Adwords To Penalize Slow Loading Ads
Businesses that use Adwords live and die by their "quality score". Google has announced that starting this month they will be adding a new benchmark that ... Read story
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Can You Treemap That For Me?
I am a human mashup of two traits; I'm a data nerd and I love visuals. The treemap was made f... Read story
Why Your iPhone Battery Is Always Low
This is serious stuff, considering each battery only has so much life and can only be replaced by mailing it in to the Apple mothership. (Insert pained ex... Read story
Microsoft Vista: Service Pack One in Two Parts
It's like a curse. What happened? Did the Vista team open the wrong Pharaoh's tomb and doom themselves to humiliation and disaster at every turn. They can... Read story
The Way We Woz
As the saying goes, with friends like these... The other Steve that co-founded Apple offered a few choice criticisms about the latest products com... Read story
Memo to Microsoft: Widen Your Margins
This was pointed out to me by my friend, Chad Washburn, at the Naples Botanical Gardens in Florida. Microsoft Word's default margins are set at 1.... Read story
Tech Designs that Aren't Business Friendly
Got to have an iPhone for business? But what kind of message does that send your customers? Tech products can sometimes either help -- or hurt -- your abilit... Read story
10 Money-Saving Technologies
In a recession, sometimes spending a bit on technology can actually end up saving your business money over the long term. Investments in virtualization, thin... Read story
Protecting Data: The Old Fashioned Way
Online backup isn’t for every business. And tape is a backup media of the past. Here are some options in traditional -- or file-based -- backup programs. Read story
When The Price Isn't Right
I got a great little tip this week from my friend, Reuben Swartz, President of Mimiran based in Austin, TX. Reuben's company develops and sells pr... Read story
Coming Soon To A Notebook Near You: Blu-ray DVD
This winter hosted two big showdowns. The New York Giants beat the Pats at the Superbowl and Sony's Blu-ray DVD format KO'd Toshiba's HD DVD format. I'm a... Read story
Cell Phones: More Than One Billion Served
Cell phone sales broke a big barrier in 2007, according to new research released by Gartner. Worldwide, more than one billion mobile phones were sold; 1.1... Read story
How Much is Network Solutions Charging for Dirtypool.com?
If this story proves to be true (let's let the courts decide), then there is a special place in H-E-double toothpicks for those responsible. A fe... Read story
Don't Let Hackers Catch Your Laptop While Napping
Man in the middle attacks, monkey jacks, evil twins! Isn't there enough to worry... Read story
Five Reasons All Businesses are Local - Including Yours
Pah, you say! Okay, so you're one of those fast growing online businesses serving clients online literally allover the world. You work collaboratively thr... Read story
Microsoft Offering Sneak Peeks of New Small Business Servers
Nicknamed "Cougar" (They even rip off Apple's nickname preferences - i.e. Leopard became OS X last year), Microsoft is dropping the big cat moniker and un... Read story
The New Credibility Gap
I love to tell this story. When I was growing up, my father went through a period of time in his career as a doctor coming home night after night... Read story
New Intel on Wi-Max
How's that for a play on words? The Street ... Read story
Starbucks and AT&T's Wi-Fi Deal
Is it me? I find a certain sense of irony in the recent deal announced between Starbucks and AT&T. The Read story
A High Tech Lovefest for V-Day
If you want to make your business more of a labor of love; here's my list of five technologies you can invest in to make your work days more blissful (hop... Read story
Attention e-Tailers: Watch Those Shipping Costs
If your postal and shipping costs are a big part of your overhead then you've likely already noticed a jump in costs. It's not your imagination. All the m... Read story
Memo to Blackberry: Get it Together
It was a black Monday for Blackberry users yesterday, with RIM (Blackberry's parent company) admitting a major outage across North America characterizing ... Read story
Polaroid Cameras: Gone Too Soon
The high tech age has been brutal with the low tech age. Try finding a typewriter these days. But, how many times have you wished you had one lay... Read story
eBay Getting Pushback on Feedback Changes
If you've ever bought or sold on eBay, then you know buyer and seller feedback is a major cog in the wheels of commerce. eBay just changed the ru... Read story
Its Official: Netscape is Now Just a Trivial Pursuit Question
A little over a decade ago, Netscape was the bomb. It was the first major web browser that not only put itself on the map, but made the Internet a househo... Read story
IT - The Recession Proof Field For Now
If you planned on cutting corners this year by scaling back IT salaries, think again. Despite the economic downturn, IT salaries are apparantly still on t... Read story
Micro-hoo! Mash of the Titans
It's not a big shocker and yet, we're all shocked anyway. I'm referring, of course, to the big announcement on Friday about Microsoft's self-invited bid t... Read story
PC Sales Versus Mobile Device Sales
Ye'sterday's posting about the shutting down of Dell's Kiosks and Palm's retail outlets got me to thinking. The two announcements are really apple... Read story
Still Have a Cash Register? It's Time to Upgrade
Computerized point-of-sale (POS) systems are becoming more accessible to small businesses. They may save money, increase productivity, and cut down on the ti... Read story
Lean and Mean IT Budgeting for the Shaky Economy
The economic times are uncertain these days -- what with the mortgage crisis and the big swings in the stock market. CIOs or IT managers can do their part to... Read story
Pay for Storage? Weighing the Free -- and Low Cost -- Options
Google's entrance into online storage, offering users some free storage – with more available for a fee -- increases the choices for small businesses. Here... Read story
Wi-MAX: A Viable Alternative to DSL or Cable?
Wi-MAX is the sister technology to Wi-Fi, but it has wider area coverage. It's already up and running in such major cities as San Francisco, Chicago, and New... Read story
It's How, Not Where, You Buy Your Tech Solutions
I'm intrigued by two recent announcements and whether it means anything. Dell announced this week it'... Read story
5 Easy Pieces...
of information every owner should have a copy of regarding the company web site. 1. The company hosting your site and the login and passw... Read story
How to Save Money on Off- The- Shelf Technology
This may sound like a big "Duh!", until you hear the statistics. Technology vendors love to offer rebates, especially on software. It sounds great... Read story
Apple and Batteries - What Gives?
FYI... The new Macbook Air will apparantly be hitting the shelves of Apple stores tomorrow. As lon... Read story
Google PowerPoint Knockoff Adds New Features
Hey, it's still not as slick as the real thing. After all, Microsoft PowerPoint turned 20 last year. Google's "slideshow" application is less than a year ... Read story
Prophetic Words From Mini-Microsoft
Mini-Microsoft, perhaps one of the most famous or infamous blogs among techies, has been around since 2004. The author, who remains anonymous, is believed... Read story
Cupertino, We Have a Problem
It's called the economy. Just as Apple (based in Cupertino, CA) is Read story
Mobile Devices and Melatonin
Apparently, the two don't mix. A new study published jointly by The Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Wayne State University in Indiana (How oft... Read story
