Due to the wide spread nature of internet and web 2.0 trend the online presence is becoming increasingly competitive. Search engines are continuously working towards improving their search results to give accurate and relevant information to the users.

PC makers aren’t going to be compelled to put that Green Dam Internet filtering software on their boxes in order to sell them in China, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper quoted industry minister Li Yizhong as saying in a turnabout Thursday that the program was always inte...

The 2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that through the year 2016, demand for network administrators and system administrators will grow 53%. Comodo now provides a means for resellers and integrators who want to grow the managed support se...

Nimbuzz has announced the launch of its multi community mobile social messenger application for Android handsets. Unique for Android users, Nimbuzz introduces a revolutionary buddy list layout, Skype IM, a time-sensitive user interface, home-screen notifications, auto-reconnect, clicka...

Twitter’s had problems again. On Tuesday at around 3 p.m. New York time the status page of its web site said it’s responding to site downtime. “We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more.”

Just as the Year of the Ox comes around on a 12-year cycle, 3-D movies seem to return on a somewhat less predictable cycle. Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks Animation, a huge 3-D advocate, has predicted that over a dozen 3-D feature films will be released in 2010. But, will 3-D save Ho...

Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that it serves more retailers on the 2009 Internet Retailer 500 ranking than any other social media competitor. Bazaarvoice dominates the Top 100, where it beats out i...

Will reading from ink on paper bring the same odd glances that those who still type (if any) on a typewriter now receive? There is something mystical about the experience of settling in with a newspaper. A park bench, a library couch, a kitchen table is transformed into a sacred place ...

I feel lost without my social web. As I sit waiting for twitter to return. I figured hey, it's been a while since I've logged into facebook. To my shock and possibly horror, facebook is also down. I can help but wonder if the sudden influx of users from twitter or vice versa facebook o...

Glide Engage launches today and is available at http://www.glideengage.com and http://www.GlideOS.com. Glide Engage is a rights-based social networking and micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read messages that carry Breaking News, documents, images and other file...

A few more details of the hard-won Microsoft-Yahoo deal came out Tuesday when Yahoo filed an 8-K with the SEC: The pair has until October 27 to negotiate definitive agreements. If they can’t it goes to arbitration. Microsoft will pick up the check for getting the deal over the regulato...

To prevent 2009 from becoming the “Year of the Phish” in Asia Pacific (as opposed to the Year of the Ox), SAS, the leader in business analytics, has launched innovative new software to fight fraud, but also to better understand customer sentiment. SAS® Social Network Analysis and SAS’ ...

Marketers today demand solutions that allow them to move quickly to take advantage of immediate business opportunities, continually test and optimize their landing pages, and stay within budget. Businesses require easy-to-use tools in order to rapidly build landing pages that can maxim...

Social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration and at times filling them before the enterprise can fully grasp and control the flow. In a new study released this week, user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group found that many o...

Today INQ Mobile took the next step in its mission to bring easy-to-use mobile internet to the mass market with the launch of two new 3G Social Mobiles complete with internet-based Twitter and media sync capabilities. The new phones offer high-spec functionality without the hefty price...

After going through hundreds of applicants and conducting a battery of tests and evaluations topseos, the independent authority on search, has completed their list for the month of August. The list consists of the best of the best when it comes to SEO and topseos.com has collected the ...

Online Banking Solutions (OBS), a provider of next-generation cash management and business banking revenue-generating solutions for banks, announced the availability of its new Messenger Financial Center, a Web 2.0 cash management and business banking portal based on its latest version...

Microsoft’s long pursuit of Yahoo has finally culminated in a 10-year deal. It’s not the deal people expected, which is why Yahoo stock took a 12% fall in the hours after the companies laid it out Wednesday. Yahoo is going to sell search ads for the both of them. It’s going to use Micr...

Google sold back its 5% stake in AOL for $283 million to Time Warner, a loss of better than $700 million, which Google wrote off in January. According to Reuters the numbers value AOL at $5.7 billion. AOL is supposed to spin out later this year. Google bought the position in 2005 for a...

SHIFT Communications and Whitley Media today transformed static Twitter profile pages into powerful personal branding tools with the launch of www.clickablenow.com Until today, the background pages on Twitter profiles were largely useless from a marketing standpoint, since urls, email...

Email Data Source, Inc., the email marketing industry’s original source for email competitive intelligence, has announced that Twitter has officially become the most linked to social media outlet in email marketing campaigns. “In the data Email Data Source has been tracking, there ...

With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It...

Social Media Ventures announced a new online banner promotion for its social networking site for pet enthusiasts, PetsPlaces.com (www.petsplaces.com). A banner advertising PetsPlaces.com will be featured on approximately two hundred active web portals in the United States, which are ho...

The answer is yes, suprememly well in terms of promoting your site rather than improving your website ranking in Google. The question is, where you syndicate your articles to, and in turn, which news and press outlets pick those articles up for maximum exposure, and also if those artic...

Akamai Technologies, Inc., and Alvenda have announced that they delivered the industry’s first online interactive ecommerce-enabled advertising campaign for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. Akamai was chosen to accelerate performance of the Shoplets™ (shop-able advertisements) application, improve r...

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sal...

Business Wire’s free award-winning webinar series continues with an investor relations twist, answering the perplexing question July 30, “Press Releases, Public Companies and Social Media—What to Do?” The webinar joins the series of presentations on press release tips and how-tos. ...

The future of e-commerce is "social commerce" as online shoppers, particularly younger generations, are heavily influenced by social media and Web 2.0 technologies, according to a new "Future of Commerce" report from Hill & Knowlton. "Online retailing is being profoundly impacted b...

Genius.com announced the world's first URL shortener specifically designed to track both structured marketing campaigns and ad hoc social media "conversations." The easy-to-use Genius URL shortener ("GURL(TM)" for short) enables any member of a Genius customer organization to include t...

New Zealand’s Postal Services Group (PSG), a business inside New Zealand Post Group that connects businesses and the community through mail and online services, is moving from Microsoft to Google Apps, security, compliance and web filtering. PSG has signed a three-year agreement with F...

No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a reasonable understanding of the very basics. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind, It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into th...

"You CAN Measure Social Media: True Tales from the Social Media Measurement Trenches" is the topic of a Web Seminar from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Royal Oak. Host is the Detroit chapter of the International Association of Business Communications (IABC Detroit). Pre...

Jahia (www.jahia.com), the first Web Content Integration software to combine all business, collaborative and social application portals into one simple user interface, today announced the expansion of its US headquarters in Washington, DC to serve North American clients. Two years ...

A search and online advertising deal between Yahoo and Microsoft is imminent - unless of course it's blown off course again, according to Yahoo know-it-all All Things Digital, the Dow Jones blog. Under the circumstances blogger Kara Swisher isn't guaranteeing a deal will happen thou...

Social networking has become a mainstream online activity among all age groups, with 80 percent of the total U.K. online population having visited a site in the category in May. Penetration was highest amongst 25-34 year old Internet users, 89 percent of whom visited the category durin...

Social sites have grown significantly in recent months and years. Users are becoming more sophisticated in the way they interact with companies. In true Web 2.0 fashion the dialog between companies and users is becoming more frequent. Customers share their experience with their entire ...

DisplaySearch figures netbooks will represent 20% of the worldwide notebook market this year based on projections that close to 33 million of the little things will sell, up almost 100%. According to its numbers traditional notebook sales will only be up this year in China, Latin Ameri...

IDC thought PC units were going to dive 6.3% worldwide in the June quarter. Turns out they were only down 3.1%. Revenues, when those numbers come out, will be another matter because the consumer, who has single-handedly kept the pot simmering without any help from his corporate counter...

Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader in business ...

Covario announced a new, economics-based solution for managing online presence that challenges the traditional agency model. With its launch of D3 -- Data Driven Decisions for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Covario has identified an automation-driven solution that dramatically reduc...