There’s a general anxiety that has settled over much of the IT profession in recent years. It’s a stark contrast to the situation just over a decade ago. At the end of the 1990s, IT pros were the belles of the ball. The IT labor shortage regularly made headlines and IT pros were able to
Online greetings card retailer Moonpig.com has been sold to online digital photo service PhotoBox for £120 million in a merger that will create one of Europe’s largest personal publishers, the companies have announced. Nick Jenkins, the founder and chairman of Moonpig, is set for a multi-million pound windfall after agreeing to sell the business, including
SEO is critical to your website’s success, but if your site is targeting the wrong keywords, you are doomed for failure. Keyword Research Background Info Keyword research revolves around finding the perfect keywords (or key phrases which refers to the same thing as keywords) for your website to target. For example, one of the key
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest handset maker, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc. in smart-phone sales in the second quarter, driven by the popularity of Android-based models, according to Boston-based Strategy Analytics. Samsung is estimated to have sold up to 21 million smart phones globally in the period, compared with 16.7 million
According to a study released Friday by web-tracking firm comScore, the web search giant’s new social networking tool, Google Plus, has amassed 20 million users in just three weeks since its launch on June 28. While that figure is still far from the 750 million registered users of Facebook, it is still enough to make
An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses. Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales in half. Mr Duncombe says when recruiting staff he has been “shocked at the poor quality of written
A couple weeks ago, a stealthy startup called Prism SkyLabs was formed in San Francisco. Already it’s creating buzz among angel investors. It’s site is not much more than a place holder right now with this vague description: We are pioneering ways to bring physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to
– Citrix announced on Tuesday that they were buying startup Cloud.com, adding to their portfolio a market that could bring $8 billion in sales by 2013. The deal also brings more competition to Amazon’s Web Services, which targets a different market. Web Services allows companies to run programs on Amazon servers instead of their own.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Skype’s Tony Bates announce a deal to include Skype’s video conferencing into Facebook’s social network. PALO ALTO, Calif. — For months, Facebook was uncharacteristically quiet about its membership growth. Whispers among those who closely follow the social-networking giant reached full-throated debate a few weeks ago, with word that Facebook’s numbers
Just after Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced plans in May to buy Skype, he and Skype Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates had one more order of business. “The day we announced, we definitely came to see Mark,” Bates said, talking of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, at a press conference today announcing Facebook’s
Google has apparently killed off its Realtime search feature, or disabled it for a while, at the very least. Google’s recently unveiled social network, Google+, brought a host of changes with it, including a cleaner-looking user interface. An unexpected casualty of these changes may be Google’s Realtime search, developed to integrate real-time data from Twitter
Microsoft’s Office in the cloud takes on Google Microsoft on Tuesday started selling Office 365, a cloud subscription version of Office that starts at $6 per user a month that targets small businesses. By Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times technology reporter / GETTY IMAGES In this photo from Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer launches cloud-based Microsoft