Articles by Jason Z. Cohen

Part 1 in this series explored what sort of content small businesses should send through their social media channels Incorporating social media strategies into your marketing plan is no cut-and-paste job. You've got to know your clientele and what appeals to them, and you have to engage them in a conversation rather than simply spew offers at them....

Social networking platforms can be powerful tools. Twitter strikes fear into the hearts of repressive regimes, and Facebook was nearly single-handedly responsible for the revival of Betty White's career. So how can something with that much influence be easy and unintimidating for a small-business owner to use? There's no need to be intimidated, blo...

Handcent SMS, an SMS messaging application by Handcent, is available free from the Android Market.I had an idea the other day: I wondered whether there was a text-messaging application available for Android that offered a soft keyboard similar to the iPhone's. I checked out the Android Market and found that Handcent's SMS app had the highest ratin...

"Guitar Hero: World Tour Mobile" is a mobile version of the popular console game from Activision and Hands-On Mobile. It is available from the Android Market for US$9.99.I'm not what you would call a major gamer, but I've played the console version of "Guitar Hero: World Tour," and I didn't get booed off the stage every time. So that makes me an e...

QuickOffice for Android, a productivity application by QuickOffice, is available from the Android Market for US$7.99.If nothing else, you've got to give the people over at QuickOffice credit for being early movers. They are the first to bring us an application that will open Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets on an Android-based phone...

Where is a location-based application that's been around for a while in BlackBerry and iPhone versions, as well as for the Symbian S60 platform. Now, there's an Android version, which is free and available at the Android Market, Handango and MobiHand.Where aggregates content from a variety of content providers, and they're all location-based. Need...

TeeDroid Caddy, an application for Android phones with versions for BlackBerry and iPhone, is available on the Android Market as a free trial. The premium services subscription costs US$19.95 per year after a two-week free trial period....

Brain Genius Deluxe, a brain training game by Glu Mobile, is available free from the Android Market.When I first spotted Brain Genius, I figured it would be a fun way to while away some extra minutes and maybe beef up my brain cells a bit....

FBook, a Facebook application for Android by Next Mobile Web, is available free from the Android Market.I admit it, I've developed a bit of a Facebook addiction. It's nothing serious -- I can stop any time I want, but this app might prove to be a bit of a setback for me....

Wikitude is a location-based information application for Android by Mobilizy. It is available free on the Android Market.Wikitude was a top-50 finalist in the Android Developer Challenge, and like ShopSavvy, it is a good illustration of what's possible with the mashing together of the G1's capabilities. In this case, Wikitude uses the GPS for loca...

CardioTrainer, a GPS-based workout tracking application for Android by WorkSmartLabs, is available free on the Android Market ...

Imeem for Android is a music application from Imeem.com available for free at the Android Market.This application caught my eye as one of the early front-runners in popularity at the Android Market. I've been using it for about a month, and I listen just about daily....

PicSay, a photo editing and sharing app by Shinycore Software, is available free from the Android Market.PicSay is one of the winners of the Android Developer Challenge, a contest Google set up to get a batch of decent apps into the Market in time for its launch. Cash prizes went to the devs who built the coolest apps for the platform.

Kevin Martin has had it pretty rough these last few weeks The guy can't catch a break -- from being painted as a bully and a bad manager by a House committee report to being dressed down by the Commerce Secretary and called out as crooked by The Wall Street Journal....

I've been using a T-Mobile G1 for about a month now, and while it's the best phone I've ever owned (yes, I bought it), I haven't yet found myself saying "I love this phone." I like it plenty, don't get me wrong, but like any device, it's got things about it that are frustrating and other things that are pretty cool.

Microsoft has angered Chinese computer users with its latest antipiracy move On Tuesday, during its Global Anti-Piracy Day, Microsoft turned Windows Genuine Advantage loose on the Chinese people....

As editor for LinuxInsider for more than a year now, I figured the time was right to start walking the walk with my personal machine So I took my Dell Inspiron 1150 to this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo with the intention of switching my operating system to one of the many Linux distros....

In 2005, as Web content was beginning to grow more dynamic and audiences more sophisticated, Benjamin Wayne hatched the idea of offering video delivery services to companies for their Web sites. The result was Fliqz, which counts among its clients Monster.com, PBWiki and Friendster The E-Commerce Times spoke with Wayne about how video can help driv...

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, ...

IBM fired the opening salvo at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and to the surprise of no one, it was aimed squarely at Microsoft Sure, it was the low-hanging fruit -- Microsoft's an easy target. It's kind of like taking pot shots at John McCain at an Obama fund-raiser. But here, the ammunition was more notable than the target....