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The world is yours, or at least that's the promise e-commerce offers. Get your products, services or information online, and you can gain customers anywhere. It can be challenging, though, to build an active worldwide customer base that buys and comes back for more. It's a competitive world, and studies have shown over and over that people prefer ...

Mobile marketing has at last emerged as an important part of the marketing mix. Through a confluence of technologies and standards related to mobile devices, including 3G networks and data packages, the mobile channel can now enable large-scale marketing activities capable of engaging consumers in unprecedented ways. According to a new Aberdeen be...

"The IRS isn't interested in the show that flopped." If you're unfamiliar with that line, it's straight out of the Broadway musical The Producers, which was a notoriously over-the-top story about how to increase profit by making something, a product, that does not strike it big. It was a comedic yet interesting idea that by now has permeated the minds of marketers and businessmen everywhere, due largely to Chris Anderson...

Intel on Tuesday demonstrated the first chip based on its Larrabee architecture for graphics-centric coprocessors It held the demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum, which is being held in San Francisco through Thursday....

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison can be a wellspring of newsworthy comments. Little wonder, then, that for close to an hour on Tuesday, IT journalists were rapt as he ruminated on the subjects of the day in an interview with Sun Microsystems' Ed Zander at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley Ellison didn't deliver any of his trademark colorful zingers, but...

You didn't even have to open up your notebook computer Wednesday to hear the alarms and klaxons going off in the technology blogosphere: Someone had leaked images and video of a dual-screen, multi-touch tablet PC that's supposedly in the "late prototype" stages at Microsoft ...

Facebook, meet Facecard. The name itself implies a digital-age marriage of e-commerce and social networking, and that's what the founders of Edo Interactive intended in 2008 when they came up with the idea of prepaid debit cards -- Facecards -- that a key demographic of teen and twenty-something friends could send to one another.

Modularity is next to motherhood, hot dogs and apple pie in the pantheon of unarguably good things. However, for every rule there are exceptions, and in technology, at least, we may have entered the age of demodularization. For the moment, hot dogs and all the rest are safe, at least at my house For decades we've had it drilled into our heads tha...

Linpus Technologies on Tuesday released Linpus Linux Lite 1.2, a new version of its consumer Linux software based on Moblin version 2 that's been enhanced with improved social networking applications and power management capabilities The first version of the Moblin v2-based technology was released earlier this year. Linpus's Moblin v2 Enhanced Vers...

Part 1 of this series discusses the history of cybercrime. Part 2 looks into common varieties of malware currently found in the wild With the constantly evolving Internet security threatscape, being able to actually get a grasp on the latest threats, let alone arm oneself against them, can seem overwhelming.

You may have seen the link recently sent to you by one of your Facebook friends: If the social network were its own country, it would be among the five largest in the world, thanks to its 300 million members That "country" includes fertile, undiscovered territory for online advertisers, as represented by the announcement Tuesday of an agreement bet...

Dramatic, down-to-the-wire finishes aren't the sorts of things one generally associates with technology prizes. However, the team behind the US$1 million prize awarded by Netflix says that's exactly how that contest went down The team received the award Monday in a New York ceremony hosted by the online movie rental company, which called the contes...

While the term "startup" is often associated with high-tech companies, it can readily be applied to any company that is in an early phase of development and market research From a financial perspective, startups may have more potential for rapid growth -- compared to established businesses -- due to their lower costs, higher risks and higher potent...

Amid all the talks, workshops and training sessions now under way at LinuxCon, attendees hoping to get an up-close look at some of the latest open source technologies were not disappointed A wide variety of products are being demonstrated by a diverse set of vendors in the technology showcase at the Linux Foundation's first annual LinuxCon event, w...

Even in the best of times, job hunting is a taxing task, but in these economic conditions, it can be a crushing experience. Fruitless replies to job notices, dead-end interviews and inhuman human resource departments can grind a job seekers' resolve to dust. One way to beat the no-job blues is to purge the word "unemployed" from your vocabulary. Y...

Amazon has launched its own line of consumer electronics products, starting with audio video cables and blank DVD media. It plans to add more accessories and other items in the coming months. The company is leveraging its formidable brand name for this endeavor, positioning AmazonBasics products for customers "that want exceptional value." ...

For so-called Net neutrality advocates, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's Monday morning speech at the Brookings Institution must have reached their ears like sweet music -- legally downloaded music, that is, delivered on a very fast wireless connection. Genachowski told the Brookings audience that he will begin the process of transforming the age...

Microsoft is reportedly getting set to show off two new smartphones early next year as part of its so-called Pink project Writing on the 9to5Mac blog, Cleve Nettles cites an unnamed source in reporting that the devices will likely debut at the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas Jan. 7 through 10....

While cloud computing is a familiar term, its definitions can vary greatly. So when it comes to online backup, the cloud is an important feature that can play a large role in securing and protecting during a disaster, which I like to refer to as "cloud recovery." In order to be worthy of this cloud recovery title, a solution should have the follow...

On March 21, 2006, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet: "Just setting up my twittr." A mere three years later, in February 2009, Twitter had approximately 4 million visitors. At that point, Twitter set an audacious goal of one day reaching 1 billion users and becoming "the pulse of the planet." ...