Monday, March 31, 2008Corporate IT vs. the iPhone
Shortly after the recent news that Apple is revamping its iPhone to make it safer for corporate use comes a story by the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Worthen that sheds some light on why Apple may feel that such a step is necessary.
“Designed with the consumer in mind, the iPhone is less secure than business-oriented [...]
Friday, March 28, 20082011: The Year the Internet Crashes?
For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet. The threat, according to some industry groups, analysts and researchers, stems mainly from the increasing visual richness of online communications and entertainment — video clips and movies, social networks and multiplayer games.
So [...]
Thursday, March 27, 200868 Helpful SEO Tools and Resources from Docstoc.com
If you’re in the eCommerce game, and you’ve never checked out this docstoc list of 68 great SEO tools, we’d like to encourage you to give it a look.
It’s a collection of basically everything you need to analyze and optimize your site’s SEO situation (not to mention, a great way to take a peak at [...]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008Yahoo Joins Google and MySpace in “OpenSocial Foundation”
With the recent addition of Yahoo, the new lineup of the OpenSocial Initiative is now comprised of the three biggest names in Internet commerce — or what CNET calls “the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.’s MySpace.com”.
“The OpenSocial Foundation is expected to be formed within 90 days, with more OpenSocial partners [...]
Tuesday, March 25, 2008Google and Microsoft Tackle Health Care Issues
Personal health records, or PHRs, are seen by many observers to be a key to solving the health care problems in the U.S.A. It’s not a new concept (Wikipedia reports that the term itself goes back to the 1970s); however, the association it now has with electronic records is somewhat new.
In short, a PHR represents [...]
Monday, March 24, 2008Old Technology Doesn’t Always Die
“Technologies want to survive, and they reinvent themselves to go on.” (Paul Saffo, technology forecaster in Silicon Valley.)
Technology expert Steve Lohr, writing in yesterday’s New York Times, shares a fascinating theory centered around the fact that, contrary to popular opinion of recent years, many of yesterday’s technologies aren’t dead yet; they’re alive, kicking, and often [...]
Friday, March 21, 2008BNET’s Web 2.0 Tutorial
Ask a dozen tech pundits to describe Web 2.0 and you’re likely to get two dozen explanations as to what it is. The precise definition remains open to debate — and in some ways, that’s exactly the point.
So begins “What Is Web 2.0?,” a recent article by BNET’s Mike Wolcott that attempts to attempts to [...]
Thursday, March 20, 2008Apple Evolves iPhone for Business Use
As part of his goal to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently announced a reworking of the popular consumer product to make it compatible with business email programs. This is being done by the introduction of a software development kit that allows users to write additional programs — an essential [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008Tracking of Consumer Internet Activity Escalates
Last week, the New York Times reported on the growing tendency of Web companies to catalog customers’ every move. This phenomenon, in which advertisers gather as much info as they can about customers, is nothing new, and historically goes hand-in-hand with the very basics of advertising itself.
But what is new is the expanded capabilities to [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008Google Wins EU Approval, Finalizes DoubleClick Purchase
The final act of one of the decade’s biggest business stories unfolded yesterday in Brussels, Belgium. The European Commission (the regulatory arm of the European Union) officially and unconditionally approved Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of New York-based DoubleClick, an Internet advertising corporation that specializes in “ad serving” (a method of delivering targeted ads to specific [...]
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