Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, whi…
So, you have a great idea. You want to move your vision from whiteboard to web host, but the trade-offs (resources, time, money) make it difficult to decide what to spend your hard earned capital on. What can you do to get your idea out to the m…
Microsoft has just posted the results of its fiscal 2010 second-quarter, which ended December 31. The company reported $19.02 billion in revenue and diluted earnings of $0.74 per share, beating analyst expectations of revenues of $17.8 billion and …
Awhile back I wrote a post titled: 7 ways to boost your SEO career profile. One of my suggestions was to get SEO certified. Many people had an opinion about that so instead of just giving the advice, I decided to go for it! I am now a student with M…
iCall, a service that allows for free calls on the desktop, web, and iPhone, has come across an interesting revelation in the new iPhone/iPad SDK released earlier today: Apple has dropped the restriction that made it impossible to have VoIP calls ov…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will not try to limit use of Google’s Android mobile phone platform in the Chinese market, its information technology regulator said on Wednesday.
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizS…
Over the past few weeks I have been reading a book called Twitter Power by Joel Comm. As many of you know I am not a big fan of books, but I have to say it is one of my favorite books. Even though I already know a lot about social media it made me t…
20 million people watched Friday’s live broadcasts of Hope For Haiti Now on the Internet, while only around 16 million watched on broadcast television in the United States.The 20 million live streams figure comes from a Twitter update by Faceb…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Cablevision, the cable unit of media giant Televisa, will boost its broadband speed, following the lead of rival Telmex, owned by tycoon Carlos Slim, as competition in the telecom market heats up.