Imagine your manager offered to eliminate much of the red tape, bureaucracy and distractions you encounter daily.
If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful?
Sales of so-called “smart watches” will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines “success” remains an open question.
Twitter acquires Trendrr to get a better handle on tweets about TV
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users’ tweets about television to draw in more advertisers.
Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring
We began testing social media monitoring and sentiment-analysis tools about two years ago, when the buzzword was really taking off.
Yahoo aims for consistency with site redesign
Yahoo has redesigned its Sports, Movies, Music, TV, omg, Games and Weather sites with a more consistent look and some personalized tools, the company said Tuesday.
With Ballmer retiring, tech world awaits white smoke from Redmond
Mere days into the Steve Ballmer Successor Watch, guessing who will be his replacement has become a new tech industry …
SSDs still maturing, new memory tech still 10 years away
Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced …
Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries
When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer steps down in the next 12 months, his successor will be left with the …
9 Proven Ways to Generate Sales Leads
When it comes to the best way (or ways) to generate sales leads, or find new customers, “there is a lot of buzz surrounding social media,” says Mick Hollison, the CMO at InsideSales.com, a provider of cloud-based sales automation and predictive analytics for inside sales professionals. Social media “is exciting and highly utilized.
Apple and the enterprise: A complicated relationship
When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn’t really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS – the first version of which had shipped on the first Mac in 1984 — to OS X.
Twitter's new Vine video service hits 40M users since January
Vine, the video service introduced by Twitter in January, now has 40 million registered users, it said Tuesday. The mobile …
'Instagram for PC' application is a marketing scam
An advertisement circulating on Facebook and Twitter for a desktop version of the photo-sharing application Instagram is a scam, according to security vendor Symantec.
8 Things You Need to Know About SEO Now
Google, like time itself, stands still for no one. Over the past 18 months or so, the search engine giant …
Mark Zuckerberg Wall hacked by researcher after bug warning ignored
Facebook has blamed a misunderstanding for an embarrassing incident last week in which founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline was hacked to draw attention to a security flaw a researcher believed was being ignored by firm.
Outlook.com and Skype integration starts to roll out
Microsoft has integrated Outlook.com with Skype in several countries, including the U.K., the U.S. and Germany, offering users the ability to tap Skype functions and contacts from within the interface of the webmail application.
Surface channel distribution tempo shows Microsoft lacks Plan B after sales debacle
Microsoft’s slow expansion of commercial sales of its struggling Surface line is proof that the company had no backup plan …
Syrian Electronic Army targets Washington Post, CNN, and Time
Just days after they targeted the New York Post, the pro-Assad hacking group – Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) – has targeted …
Apple plunges to No. 79 on Forbes innovative companies ranking
Apple’s innovation problems were highlighted today when Forbes published its 2013 list of the world’s most innovative companies and ranked Apple at No. 79.
Intel proposes new standard to light up data transfers
Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical …
The New York Times website suffers outage
Visitors to the site, which claims to be the most viewed newspaper on the Web, were greeted with a “Http/1.1 …