The advent of the iPad has triggered a new round of innovation in the startup community. And few startups have utilized the iPad's touchscreen UI to create a unique user experience more than Flipboar...

If you’ve been business blogging for some time, or involved in social media for business since 2005 or thereabouts, you probably know about Kryptonite. The case of the Kryptonite bike lock and how i...

I was pleased to see that my current town of Boston ranked fifth on the NetProspex list. The top four were, in order, San Francisco, San Jose, Calif., New York, Austin, Texas. They al...

TweetForrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users. For the first time, the percentage of U.S. con...

Gmail's support site has a security checklist that's useful if you want to make sure that your Gmail account is secure. There are some obvious tips like updating your operating system and your browser...

As I promised to you all in the final monthly report, today I’m releasing an analysis of the growth of this blog over the last 12 months. Although ViperChill doesn’t turn one for another 10 days,...

As social media grows and matures, it seems pretty clear that there are a few aspects of this integrated discipline that are becoming increasingly important, yet are undeveloped skills...

The demand for closer engagement with customers and users is driving companies to use portals in new and interesting ways. Throw in all of the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, cross...

The demand for closer engagement with customers and users is driving companies to use portals in new and interesting ways. Throw in all of the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, cross...

Opportunities and potential projects associated with cloud computing are looming large on virtually every CIO’s to-do list. The IT team needs to assume that cloud-based initiatives will move down hi...

I’ve already built a half-dozen groups on my Facebook profile (groups is a new feature that Facebook announced this morning). In my experience they are Twitter lists done right. Twi...

The things people have said about the cloud this week… Best Cloud Tweets Ever (This Week) @alexwilliams (Alex Williams) tweeted: HP appointment of Leo Apotheker as CEO is as confusing as Larry Elli...

This week we have Ray Wang, Partner of Enterprise Strategy at Altimeter Group and author of enterprise blog, A Software Insider’s Point of View.

The Better Profiles Series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com.Last month, Twitter unveiled a total site redesign. The new Twitter homepage is robust...

More than three-quarters of adults in the U.S. in e-reader households read a newspaper in print or online during the past week, compared to 71 percent of all adults, according to a new report from Sca...

Facebook launched a new groups product today at an event at its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters. CEO Mark Zuckerberg called groups “a fundamental building block” and “the biggest problem in socia...

A while ago I had a chat with a fellow CCIE (working in a large enterprise network with reasonably-sized Data Center) and briefly described vMotion to him. His response: “Interesting, I didn’t kno...

Vowing to create "people-centric software," SAP's retooling for greatly accelerated development, deployments, and time to value, says Jim Hagemann Snabe.

Sam Palmisano and Michael Dell believe the federal government's tech infrastructure is wasteful and inefficient.

Raised floor on the show floor: Tate Access Flooring demonstrated its raised floor product offerings. The Data Center World fall conference presented by AFCOM at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas offered...