How Hard Is It To Get And Use A 3D Printer?
3D printing seems to be everywhere these days, used to create everything from handguns to headphones. But what does it really take to get…
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Mon, 15 October 2012
Fri, 12 October 2012
Want Microsoft Office For Christmas? Sorry, Only Developers Likely To Get It
Microsoft said Thursday that its latest Office suite has been released to manufacturing, although consumers won't find it under their…
Wed, 10 October 2012
Aging of America: Grandma p0wns Tech
If your image of a computer geek is a scruffy, awkward kid in T-shirt and jeans, you may want to think again. The biggest technology…
SQL Injection Hacker Attacks Are On The Rise. Here's How To Defend Your Servers
Last week, a hacker group claimed that it breached computer systems at 100 major universities. Team GhostShell gained access to servers at…
Tue, 2 October 2012
Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online
Buying positive product reviews is unethical and sometimes illegal, but always sleazy. Yet the practice flourishes on popular sites like…
Fri, 28 September 2012
The Flipside of BitTorrent
Last week, I wrote a popular post on the continuing popularity of BitTorrent, and how some artists are now choosing to embrace it as…
Thu, 27 September 2012
Small Business Owners Renew Pay-For-Play Allegations Against Yelp
Yelp, the leading website for online reviews of restaurants, hotels and other service-based businesses, has long denied ongoing…
Sorry, Google: Why Yahoo May Be Stuck With Microsoft's Bing
It all makes sense: prominent ex-Googler Marissa Mayer takes over Yahoo, which uses Microsoft's Bing as its search provider. But Microsoft…
Wed, 26 September 2012
Can "Big Data as a Service" Help Smaller Companies Compete?
The common perception of how big data is used centers around giant multi-national enterprises spending millions trying to fine tune their…
Mon, 24 September 2012
Do You Really Want to Subscribe to Microsoft Office? Yes, You Might
For the first time this fall, consumers will have the choice between subscribing to Microsoft Office as a service - Office 365 - or buying a…
Wed, 19 September 2012
Pharma Goes Farmville: PR Through Social Gaming
If you've ever dreamed of running your own pharmaceutical company without the gargantuan research costs and pesky lawsuits, have we got…
Tue, 18 September 2012
BitTorrent Downloads Booming - And Benefitting Musicians
A new report from UK analytics firm Musicmetric has pegged the U.S. as the world's leading downloader of music via BitTorrent. It's the…
Fri, 14 September 2012
HP's Turnaround Effort Fails To Plug Leaks
Has it been only one year since Meg Whitman took the reins at HP? The latest in a daisy chain of top executives, Whitman…
Digitally Integrated Burberry Flagship Store Opens in London
Burberry's London flagship store recently underwent a renovation that turned the 192-year old building into a digitally integrated…
Fri, 7 September 2012
eBook Settlement Big Win For Amazon & Consumers
Consumers should soon be getting a more of a price break on electronic books following approval of a settlement between the US Department of…
Wed, 29 August 2012
How Online Payment Upstart WePay Aims to Undercut PayPal
PayPal is recognized as the dominant player in the online payments sector, but upstart WePay is attempting to beat PayPal on two key…
Tue, 21 August 2012
How eBay Turned Around a Dying Business (Secret Word: Mobile)
As Yahoo plots a new course under CEO Marissa Mayer, it may want to study what's happened with eBay in recent years. After a long and…
Wed, 15 August 2012
Amazon Pursues Growth at the Risk of Brand Identity
It's a fundamental law of tech business: Grow or die. Few online companies are better examples of that maxim than Amazon, which has made a…
Wed, 25 July 2012
Helping Microbusiness Take On Megabusiness
A new Israeli startup hopes to upend the dominance of mega-companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart over local businesses. The idea has been to…
Thu, 19 July 2012
Dear Marissa Mayer: Don't Change Yahoo
I don't get the big deal about Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer. Sure, she's a woman. Yes, she's coming to a struggling tech giant from…
Tue, 17 July 2012
Amazon Gets Ready for Sales Taxes
It was a good run, and a long one: After nearly two decades of largely tax-free e-commerce, a growing number of states are forcing online…
Fri, 13 July 2012
Epic Fail: Barclays' Facebook Debacle Highlighted the Chasm Between the Bank and Its Customers
In late June, the banking and financial services giant Barclays introduced a fictional character named Dan on its Facebook page. Dan's…
Tue, 10 July 2012
5 Million YouTube Subscribers: Comedy Duo Shores Up Premium Content Offering
This week Smosh, the Web celebrity duo comprised of Millennials Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, hit five million subscribers on YouTube…
Mon, 9 July 2012
Kayak Tests the Post-Facebook IPO Market
In the wake of the troubled Facebook public offering, Kayak is finally launching its own IPO into uncertain waters. The move seems…
