15 Tools to Help Speed Up Your Website
The speed at which a Website loads is paramount to maintaining a positive user experience and, as we learned last year, has a direct impact on the site’s organic search rankings on Google.
The search giant’s recent beta launch of its Page Speed Servi…
Read More →Why Amazon Should Buy Hulu
Amazon announced earlier today that it has reached a content licensing agreement with NBC Universal to stream video over its Amazon Prime Instant Video service. The agreement fleshes out a growing library of content offered by Amazon of 90,000 TV shows…
Read More →Feds Will Pay Doctors For Using Medical Records iPad App
Drchrono, a free iPad health care app for doctors, has become the first app of its kind to be included in a federal program that encourages medical professionals to use digital instead of physical record keeping. Medical practices that use drchrono to …
Read More →IT Poll: How Important is Pricing in Enterprise Software?
One of the issues brought to mind by VMware’s new pricing scheme is how important price actually is in enterprise software pricing. For SMBs, pricing can make a break a deal. But for large enterprise, it’s not as clear-cut. In some cases, as Sameer Pa…
Read More →3 More OpenStack Announcements from OSCon: HP Joins OpenStack and More
In addition to the launch of Nebula, ex-NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s OpenStack-based startup which we covered yesterday, there have been some other important announcements regarding OpenStack this week.
HP is joining the OpenStack community, Dell is rolling…
Read More →Gaming and Entertainment Dominating Mobile Usage [Infographic]
The mobile entertainment industry is heating up. From gambling to gaming to music and video, there is a lot that can be done with a smartphone or a tablet these days to keep consumers occupied. And the money is rolling in.
In 2010, the mobile entertai…
Read More →Assistly Goes Freemium
Assistly, a social CRM and help desk software-as-a-service, announced version 2.0 of its product this week, including a new feemium pricing model. Your first Assistly user is now free, with no limitations. It costs $1 an hour for additional part-time …
Read More →Will Daily Deals Pull a Craigslist on the Media?
This chapter in Web history is marked by a number of big companies doing business at a small scale. Groupon, LivingSocial, and even broader tech companies like Google and Facebook have been relentlessly working on ways to match consumers with the local…
Read More →Google Releases 2-Step Verification in 40 Languages
In February, Google announced a new security protocol for Google accounts holders by the way of “2-step verification.” Essentially, 2-step verification is a layer of protection outside of the normal password layer of protection between the wild Web and…
Read More →Twitter’s New Ads Are Smart Like Google Adwords
How do you leverage an attention economy in a newsfeed world? If you’re a brand on Twitter, you can now pay to give your Tweets privileged placement in the streams of your followers.
Twitter has long promised that when advertisements came to the strea…
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