Recently, there has been much tweetage amongst the #prodmgmt community in the Twitterverse on the subject of personas. It all started innocently enough when @bstnmelody tweeted “Need help from #prod...

BusinessCloud9s Martin Banks is in Atlanta at the Convergence conference. In the first of a series of diary pieces, the seasoned Microsoft watcher offers his personal view on the events of the first d...

Large brands like the ones we work with typically include social media marketing as part of a much larger marketing mix, as they should. They frequently run TV ads, banner ads, PR programs, pay-per-cl...

In B2B marketing, numbers drive everything. They define lead generation success, they give marketing relevancy within the organization and they drive strategies and campaigns. Especially in this buyer...

Writing ad copy is an art and a science, right?  First you get creative and figure out how to distinguish yourself and persuade searchers to click on your ad, all in 95 characters. Then you get scien...

Customers are expensive things to find, so you should be doing absolutely everything in your power to keep them as a customer and ensure your benefiting from the customer lifetime value formula. This...

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There are many out there who believe Facebook's Open Compute Project published all the details on Facebooks new data center.  When I see the Open Compute website  I see what is missing more than wha...

If you want to run into Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of Juniper Networks, your best bet is one of Palo Alto’s many cafes. Chances are, if you spot Sindhu, chairman of a $23 billion (in market capitali...

Bloomberg Businessweek has launched their iPad app called Bloomberg Businessweek+, and it is the first app from a major publisher to use Apple’s in-app purchases for subscriptions. In addition to Bu...

It has been nearly 3 years since I wrote my original 3 part series on “How to Optimize for Google”. Since writing that article some things have certainly changed, while others have remained exactl...

ChannelBuzz.caIBM Offers Cloud Partners New Financing, Rental OptionsCRNBy Rick Whiting, CRN Looking to give its channel partners a leg up in cloud computing, IBM is offering new pricing and financing...

ReutersMicrosoft Unveils Plans To Adapt Its ERP Applications For Cloud ComputingCRNMicrosoft will develop cloud-computing versions of its Microsoft Dynamics ERP applications and the company is promisi...

SIIA is pleased to announce the finalists for the 26th annual CODiE Awards in the business software categories. A list of the finalists is shown below, but may also be reviewed at http://www.siia.n...

NTT America Announces Commercial Availability of New Private Cloud OfferingBusiness Wire (press release)NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT America, a global infrastructure services provider and wholly own...

Ben Fried explains the unique experience of running Google’s corporate IT, from constant online software upgrades to a homegrown videoconferencing system.

Bookmarklets considered harmful Exclusive  Apple has ordered the developer of a web browser for iPhones and iPads to disable vital functionality. The gatekeepers at the iTunes store, which sells the...

Gartner gives game away It's weird: Gartner is now Iron Mountain's news outlet and tells us that bruised Iron Mountain is giving up on its public cloud storage and closing the business down. The belea...

No, you don't have to tell me, because I know what you're about to say: your new product is brilliant. It's a game-changer. Problem is, you need a killer logo. Well, today, designers, inventors, and i...

Like all social networking sites, Facebook is banned (others say it is blocked which I guess is the PC way to talk about censorship) in China. No surprise there. What is a surprise, however, is that a...