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10 Simple Steps to Boost Search Engine Rankings

There are several steps to follow to ensure top rankings in search engines. Sites that follow these simple steps will likely see their traffic and search engine rankings soar through the roof. The better optimized your site is for the search engines, the better results you can expect The following tips will help you understand how the search engine...

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Active and Passive CRM

Active is much better than passive in most things, not just CRM. In writing, I am constantly reminded to write in the active voice because active voice is terse, to the point and more intelligible Passive voice takes perfectly good sentences and turns them into gobbledygook. For example, the actively voiced, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" be...

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Botnet Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Bot Herders at Their Own Game

Early adopters are typically characterized as progressive risk-takers who have little to lose and much to gain. Following this logic, it makes perfect sense that within this crowd we find bot herders -- hackers who control a large number of compromised PCs (or bots) for malicious purposes Yet it's unsettling that these unsavory characters are using...

TECHNOLOGY LAW CORNER

No April Fools Joke: Patents in Peril

Last Halloween, the intellectual property community was mesmerized by the preliminary injunction hearing on the motion filed by GlaxoSmithKline and others to enjoin the Patent Office on the very eve of enactment of new rules. At issue was a draconian rules package that placed serious restrictions on patentees, hampering their patenting efforts The ...

Advanced Auto Parts Scrambles to Placate Customers Following Data Breach

A network intrusion atAdvance Auto Parts has put the credit card, debit card and checking account information of up to 56,000 customers in jeopardy Data security at 14 stores in Georgia, Ohio, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia and New York, has been compromised, according to the auto parts retailer....

Sony Pushes Old Movies to Cell Phone Screens

Haven't seen "The Karate Kid" in a while? Soon, AT&T customers will be able to catch it on their mobile phones On Monday, Sony Pictures Television said it is launching Pix, the first movie network for mobile TV in the U.S....

Shenanigans Alleged on Road to OOXML Vote

After a long and bitter battle, Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) appears to have finally been accepted as a standard for open documents by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Or has it?...

Google Heats Up Office Battle With Offline Docs Access

Google announced Monday it plans to take its Google Docs word processing application into unchartered territory -- offline "We've taken another small step toward making Web applications accessible anywhere and everywhere. We're rolling out a way for you to edit documents in Google Docs even without a connection," Jason Freidenfelds, a Google spokes...

Microsoft Drums Its Fingers on the Table While Yahoo Sweats

Despite widespread belief it would dig deeper into its pockets if necessary to land Yahoo, Microsoft has no plans to sweeten its offer for the Web portal, according to published reports Microsoft sees no reason to boost its bid at this time, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources close to the company....

EPA Probe Bars IBM From Government Contract Bidding

The government has temporarily banned IBM from attaining new contracts with federal agencies while investigators look into interactions between some company workers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees The EPA issued a notice of temporary suspension related to an agency investigation of possible violations of the Procurement Integrity...

TECH BLOG

The Beauty of Not Asking Permission

Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube andspotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue Only after many months did other giant TV networks put the finishing touches onHulu, a site that d...

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A Look at Tech Exec Compensation During Shareholder Season

In the 2007 proxy season, public companies complied with the new Securities and Exchange Commission requirements regarding executive compensation disclosure, which provided more data about salary, bonuses, stock options, perks and long-term incentive compensation plans Today, CFOs at U.S. technology businesses are finding that some of the other leg...

CRM BLOG SAFARI

Bloggers Hopped Up on My Starbucks Idea

You would think, based on blogosphere chatter, that Starbucks invented Web 2.0. The company's introduction ofMy Starbucks Idea last month has inspired numerous bloggers -- some who make it their business to follow Web 2.0, some who could care less about the space -- to post about the new site Basically, My Starbucks Idea lets users post suggestions...

Cyber-Thieves' New Target: Business Processes

The business use of e-mail worldwide has become so critical that the ever-increasing number of spam attacks containing malware are placing corporate and customer information at the highest levels of risk yet, according to an industry-wide survey Internet security firm Webroot conducted last month While companies are generating huge volumes of e-mai...

ANALYSIS

Better Monitoring With Smart Medical Devices

About 90 million people in the U.S. suffer from one or multiple chronic conditions, with diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory conditions having the highest prevalence. These conditions are also the most suitable for medical monitoring devices Glucose meters and test strips are a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S. (industry data...

New Utility Enforces Policies Across Linux, Unix and Windows Networks

Symark International on Tuesday released PowerADvantage, an integrated authentication and configuration tool that extends features of Microsoft Windows' Active Directory to networks also running Unix and Linux systems PowerAdvantage adds centralized authentication, authorization and account access functionality to Unix and Linux systems. It's also ...

AT&T, EDS, T-Systems Win Billions in Shell IT Contracts

Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure Shell signed the master service agreements, or MSAs, as part of a push to improve its busines...

AT&T, EDS, T-Systems Win Billions in Shell IT Contracts

Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure Shell signed the master service agreements, or MSAs, as part of a push to improve its busines...

AT&T, EDS, T-Systems Win Billions in Shell IT Contracts

Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure Shell signed the master service agreements, or MSAs, as part of a push to improve its busines...

Doctor Suggests Cell Phones May Be Riskier Than Cigarettes

The dangers associated with cell phones could far outweigh those tied to asbestos and smoking, an Australian doctor recently warned in a new report In his paper, "Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors -- A Public Health Concern," Vini G. Khurana, a staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital and associate professor of neurosurgery with Australi...

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