NYTimes has a post on uptime. 99.999% Reliable? Don’t Hold Your Breath By RANDALL STROSS   ATT’s dial tone set the all-time standard for reliability. It was engineered so that 99.999...

Shrinking cash pots will drive IT to the cloud...(silicon.com - CIO Insights)

Unlike many of the existing Platforms, in this second-generation phase, its not going to be enough to package and bundle different individual middleware services and products (Web Containers, Messagin...

Some people might think that optimizing a payment form page is a waste of time. But, I would have to disagree. In fact, I would argue it’s one of the most important places to test. And when it comes...

This post is part of the Friday QA section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Mayur asks: Is the number of pages viewed on my site equal to the number of banner ad impr...

Web page speed and performance is very important to the user experience. If your site is too slow, you’ll not only be losing visitors, but also potential customers. Search engines like Google facto...

A week from today, Facebook’s developer relations team will host a presentation on Hypertext Markup Language 5. The event description includes some unabashed evangelism: Develop third-party applicat...

Box (formerly known as Box.net) announced a new version today. It's revamping the user interface, adding discussion tabs to documents, activity streams and an app market. The new version will be roll...

comScore’s latest study on email usage returned a result we already suspected was true – more people are using their mobile phones to access their email causing a drop in web-based email usage....

By: Laurie McCabe, Partner, SMB GroupPosted: 20th January 2011Copyright SMB Group © 2011 I was just briefed yesterday by Raju Vegesna on the launch of Zoho Books, Zoho’s new on-demand accounting s...

Co-Founder Larry Page will take over as CEO in April, with current CEO Eric Schmidt becoming Executive Chairman

The Content Marketing Institute just released the B2B Content Marketing 2010: Computing/Software Industry Report, representing the experiences of 121 computing/software firms, mainly in the small- and...

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally confirmed it’s buying the 58 percent of Lovefilm it doesn’t already own - its bid to become a ma...

Reposted from TheTrendWatch.com Mobile devices, and particularly smartphones, are building a silent revolution, happening at the edges of the mainstream. While many are playing Angry Birds or checking...

Last week there was some really good discussion going on over at the Brains On Fire blog.  Seems that UnMarketer (Scott Stratten) made a video recommendation to his tribe.  He sugges...

Loic LeMeur says that he has ditched Europe for Silicon Valley, and I can’t say I blame him. For my personal life, I’ve made a deliberate choice to stay based in London, but pretty much all of my...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to co-present on a webinar with Amanda Batista, from DemandGen Report and Chris Parisi, from Bulldog Solutions, on the State of Marketing Automation i...

When Amazon made its deal to invest $175 million in LivingSocial, it wasn’t entirely clear how Amazon played in the local deal space. Sure, Amazon has its own non-local deals. And it owns Dallas-ba...

While methodologies and approaches abound for understanding where customers or prospects are in the social channel and how they use it, we’ve found no better guide than our buying cycle. I’ll use...

A couple of announcements (or in one case a leak) this week for those who follow the SaaS accounting space – both Zoho and Sage introduced products to the market. TechCrunch broke the news that Zoho...