Friday 29 June 2012

How to Buy a Business Desktop

business pcsBusiness PCs may not be the sexiest players in the PC market, but where the actual number of units the big PC makers ship each year is concerned, they do represent a significant segment. Think about it: You can still write a novel on a typewriter, shoot photographs with film, or play music live and record it with a DAT deck, but very few businesses can get their work done without a PC. Even a mom-and-pop shop that caters to a non-technological audience (say, a buggy whip maker) needs a PC to communicate with suppliers, customers, and potential customers. E-mail, Twitter, the Web: All of these technologies make today's business happen.
Read more about Desktop on PCMag.com

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Fact or Myth: Website Positioning is Connected with PR

question markFact. Positioning has a lot in common with PR because you have to work on your message, effectively select words and share information about your products or business activity. In public relation you want to make customers interested in your company. In case of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) your recipients are Internet search engines and users who can be reached, for instance, via Internet ads built on the basis of keywords.

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Symantec Survey Reveals Online File Sharing Poses Great Security Risks To SMBs

security SMB employees are increasingly adopting unmanaged, personal-use online file sharing solutions without permission from IT.








Monday 25 June 2012

Dot.what? Which Web Address Would You Buy?

The full list of submissions for new internet address endings has been published by the global organisation co-ordinating the expansion. Requests to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) include .porn, .ninja, and .ferrari. The BBC's Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asked bidders why they applied for their web address endings. See video on BBC.com

Saturday 23 June 2012

The Mobile Future of Business

mobile appThe key advantage of smartphones over traditional mobile phones is that smartphones are able to run mobile applications (apps). The growing number of smartphone users is an ideal opportunity for businesses to extend their market share.

Mobility of service is unavoidable.


Wednesday 20 June 2012

Fact or Myth: Positioning is a One-Time Action

question markMyth. Positioning needs continual involvement – you can’t optimize a website once and then forget about it. Optimization for Internet search engines has a beginning but no end. Search engines themselves are constantly changing, likewise systems of evaluation and website position. You should analyse keywords that users type in to find a website, maintain the positioning base of your website as well as update its contents.

Tuesday 19 June 2012

The App as Health Aide

rules on medical carry-on bags.Travelers with chronic ailments like diabetes or high blood pressure have long struggled to remember when to take their pills as they cross time zones. Or they may have had a hard time finding emergency care in a foreign country or communicating about complicated health conditions. But there are now a rapidly growing number of mobile health and medical apps that aim to deal with those types of situations.

Read more about The App as Health Aide on NYTimes.com

Monday 18 June 2012

Web Design: Find the Elements of a Website – part 1

Designing a website requires involvement of several different people but it is most demanding for the designer, who has to think about the layout of its elements, so that the website will have an attractive and user-friendly design.

Sunday 17 June 2012

Phone App Colour Codes Messages to 'Help Manage Stress'

stress messageA new mobile phone app will prepare users for receiving good or bad news on their phones, say researchers. Made by a team from the University of Portsmouth's School of Computing, the app distinguishes good messages from bad and neutral ones, and colour codes them accordingly. Users may choose not to open negative messages if they are already having a stressful day.  Read more on BBC.com.

Thursday 14 June 2012

The 100 Best iPhone Apps

iphone appsPCMag proclaimed Bing for iPhone "the best general search app" in the iTunes App Store when it debuted in 2009. Since then, Microsoft has expanded the functionality of its Bing app to include voice, barcode, and photo-based search to give users a variety of ways to gather information. The iPhone app sports a simple, yet elegant, black-and-white interface, highlighted by a large wallpaper image. The Vision Search feature needs more time to mature, but Bing delivers consistently good search results on the iPhone. 

Click here to see the slideshow with 100 iPhone apps. 

Wednesday 13 June 2012

Fact or Myth: Sitemap is Important

question mark Fact. The best way to help Internet robots to gather information about our website is to create a sitemap. It is usually an XML file (created with Extensible Markup Language), which includes a list of URL addresses occurring in a given website. This information helps search engines carry out more effective analysis of the website. Sitemaps are especially useful in case of websites which include contents unavailable through the interface

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Get Organized: When is it Okay to Delete?

how to deleteThe saving of digital data is a funny thing. There's often no value in keeping it (a debatable statement, and I'll get to that), yet because it takes up no physical space and virtual space is cheap, we hang onto it. But there are consequences to saving everything. If you struggle with whether to keep or delete data, from work files to photos to email, this column will help you think through your current dilemma and devise new strategies for managing the ever-growing load. 

Read more on PCMag.co

Sunday 10 June 2012

5 Ways Social Changes How We Work

social networkingSocial networking may not eliminate the need for some business processes and applications entirely, but it's changing the status quo in areas ranging from email to call centers. Video might not have killed the radio star, but it sure did change things. The same can be said for social networks and any number of business processes and applications. Here are five upstart social trends that might not kill old school, but have already changed how we work.

Read more on InformationWeek.com

Thursday 7 June 2012

Wednesday 6 June 2012

Fact or Myth: Internet Robots and Spiders Gather Data About Website

question mark Fact. Spiders and robots (crawlers) are your friends. You have to learn to draw their attention by introducing elements attractive to them. Each search engine has its own bot and sends it all over the Internet coping text and code from websites. Web crawlers help to generate databases of a given search engine allowing them to provide search results quickly and effectively. Some bots copy whole websites, other gather only selected content.

Tuesday 5 June 2012

Google to Abandon Older Browsers

googleGoogle is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working for those sticking with older browsers.

Read more on BBC.co.uk