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Computers » Information Technology | By Gregory Smyth @ Tuesday, 25th November 2008 @ 3:38 PM

The online advertising world has been abuzz with talk of how a planned merger of sorts between Google and Yahoo might unfold, and when. A meeting in 2008 revealed that there were serious plans afoot for Yahoo to display Google search advertising results. The Association of National Advertisers in America sent a letter to the Justice Department opposing Yahoo\'s plan to give its search advertising over to Google, and many other parties in the USA have been crying \'antitrust leg... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Gregory Smyth @ Tuesday, 25th November 2008 @ 3:25 PM

The Google rank number one is the holy grail of internet marketing. Search engines are used by billions of people worldwide, trillions of times every day. The amount of money spent over the internet increases every year, by unprecedented amounts, and search engine optimization techniques ensure that the customer\'s dollars go to the companies that are best at it. How can you get your company to the top of the customers\' spending lists? Search engine optimization is a n... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Amy Nutt @ Tuesday, 25th November 2008 @ 9:00 AM

Many businesses use managed hosting because they don\'t have the time or the manpower to manage it on their own. In other words, they do not have to worry about a lot of the grief that comes along with managing their own hosting. The truth is that they are able to let someone else worry about keeping everything up and running. However, the idea is that the managed hosting service provider will keep everything up and running the way it is supposed to. That means going on the search t... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Jaspreet Singh @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 8:38 PM

Some vitals stats I could gather from google/IDG/Gartner around - 1. Almost 200M employees work remotely (off their desk) 2. Close to 637K laptops are lost on US airports annually 3. 65% of users do not do a backup before they start the travel 4. 90% of users do not backup while on the move In the last 6 weeks I (personally) have heard same statement from at least 8 VPs or CXOs - \"I lost my data/notebook during last travel at ...\" and none of them had... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Nick Nikolis @ Friday, 21st November 2008 @ 8:43 PM

Traditionally, hotels were largely dependent on cards and paperwork at the front desk to keep in touch with old and current customers. They were largely at the mercy of the desires of vacationers to arrive, and on their own efforts and staff to be ready for potential surges or long droughts of occupancy. Luckily, such inconvenience and old-fashioned methods are long since past, thanks to advances in information technology. The first area in which information technology became important wa... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Musa Aykac @ Thursday, 20th November 2008 @ 7:51 PM

We are in the midst of worst financial crisis and there is no better way to come out of it than fighting it out. In this age of fast technological changes, it is always better to stay abreast with all the happenings. There is absolutely no dearth of tools or software programs in the market to come to our rescue. It all depends on how we use them, if we want to. We must always ensure that our IT systems and programs run to their full capacity in providing us with best possible results. If ... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By jon crain @ Thursday, 20th November 2008 @ 11:15 AM

Customer service is the base on which businesses are formed. Unless you know your customers and take care of them with deference, you will go out of business. That is a well known fact. However, too often leaders not make the grade to see that making high quality products or delivering excellent services is needy on people, not corporations. Individuals within your firm must be treated well and managers must be instilled with a caring attitude toward others in order for your business to function... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Alan Biron @ Wednesday, 19th November 2008 @ 2:34 PM

One of the fastest growing industries today is the online entertainment industry. A good-sized chunk of that industry is related to casual gaming which in turn boils down to online arcade sites. These sites are easy to create, take very little work to maintain and can be very profitable if done correctly. However, often, many of these sites go down because of excessive resource usage or because they are exceeding the bandwidth limit on their hosting server. Moreover, a large number... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Gregory Smyth @ Wednesday, 19th November 2008 @ 1:33 PM

An enormous amount of people now use a computer for work - and a large percentage of these depend on networks. They can be fast, or they can be slow, but when they are necessary, and aren\'t working as they usually do, they make a big impact on a business bottom line. Here we look at exactly what network performance management frustration means for businesses, and some of the best ways to address it. According to a recent study, some of the media that information technology infrast... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Shaun Parker @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008 @ 3:49 PM

Custom software is an on-going development. As new research is developed, more opportunities for customising it come to the fore and more companies are able to benefit. The idea of custom software is to make business that much easier and quicker, thus cutting back on wasted staff hours, even with the possibility of scaling down work force. Any method that helps to keep a company going through the current credit crisis will help and while nobody wants to see jobs lost, we also don\'t... more...