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Taking It to the Street: Q&A With Marketcetera CEO Graham Miller

The key to a successful business plan often hinges on who gets there first with a market-revitalizing product. Being first may not guarantee instant success, but it certainly makes those that follow behind play catch-up ...

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LeapFish Easily Swims Through Multiple Search Ponds

California-based LeapFish launched a new style of search engine last month, offering users a multi-dimensional search aggregator that combines several features to provide more focused results. This one deserves a prominent spot in your browser bookmarks ...

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Windows Shopping, Part 1: Getting a New View

In a broad strategy change, Microsoft released its much-awaited beta version of its next operating system (OS), Windows 7, the second week of January. The software giant eliminated the usual restrictions surrounding its OS betas by making it available to anyone who wants to call him or herself a beta tester. Perhaps the idea was to jump-start a stampede of interest away from the widely criticized Windows Vista OS, which has failed to convince some potential users to upgrade from its predecessor, Windows XP...

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Spinvox Delivers Handy Talk-to-Text Service

Toolbars and add-ons bring increased functionality to Web browsers andthe computers that run them. UK-based SpinVox does the same thingfor cell phone users. The company offers several services that convertvoicemail to text messages or e-mail and allow message broadcasting tolisted recipients and social networks ...

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The Undoing of ubExact, Part 2: Market Malaise

Part 1 of this two-part series started a conversation with ubExact.com CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson. Part 2 continues the discussion ...

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The Undoing of ubExact, Part 1: Searching for Answers

What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods ...

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Portable Password Protector Locks Your Secrets Tight

Creating strong passwords with letters and numbers is vital to keepingsecure access to computers and online accounts. Remembering them andeasily retrieving them are equally vital. A password is only as goodas the user's ability to remember it ...

How the Virtual Workforce Is Changing Everything

In a society far away and long ago, people mostly farmed and ran storefront businesses where they lived. Then came the migration to the cities, where a new generation of workers stuffed into bulgingurban-based factory jobs. Many spent their entire adult lives working for The Man in an upstairs office ...

The Making of an Open Source Developer Hero

Every industry has a hero who paves the way with innovation. Cisco is looking for developer heroes for the open source software industry and hopes to find three as winners of its Think Inside the Box Developer Contest ...

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Gogimon Machine Delivers Serendipitous Search Experience

The drawback with using most search engines is they all seem to give similarresults and generally all have the same look and feel. They lackpersonalization and offer a mostly boring environment ...

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Sylvania Netbook With Ubuntu: A Good Mix

Given the many options out there, someone in the market for a portable computer may have a hard time deciding whether to go with an ultra-small netbook or a small-but-not-THAT-small notebook computer. ...

Linux Netbooks: What’s on the Menu?

I recently carried out a personal quest for a netbook computer.Relying on a bit of insider snobbery since I write about computertechnology almost daily, I was not expecting a big problem in making aselection ...

Closing the Sale With Live Video Chat

The Internet provides opportunities for businesses to interact withcustomers in new ways. As innovations in social media appear,enterprises slowly adopt those same trends to offeralternatives for making the sale online ...

The Search for an Open Source Killer App for Web 2.0

A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in thesoftware industry. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing haveevolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications ...

Report: Hackers Will Be Bolder, Smarter, Craftier in 2009

As malware writers and Internet attackers become moresophisticated, 2009 looks to be a year of more focused attacks byprofit-driven criminals bent on stealing data from businesses,employees and consumers ...

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No More Napkin Plans: Q&A With Syncplicity CEO Leonard Chung

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for US$2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing ...

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No More Napkin Plans: Q&A With Syncplicity CEO Leonard Chung

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for US$2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing ...

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No More Napkin Plans: Q&A With Syncplicity CEO Leonard Chung

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for US$2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing ...

Suckers for Spam: When Will They Ever Learn?

The old adage about a sucker being born every minute is no less true among respondents to spam. Dishonest people have always been trying to make a fast buck by duping others into confidence scams, and the Web has give those people an easy way to communicate with more potential marks. However, modern-day scam artists may be capable of making a faster buck from a lot fewer suckers...

The Linux Licensing Labyrinth

It's a small wonder that the Linux operating system remains vibrant in multiple industries and is poised to make a dash for more consumers' desktops, considering how often misunderstandings get in the way of its advancement ...

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