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Is Microsoft crazy to offer $100,000 for Windows Phone 8 apps?

Is Microsoft crazy to offer $100,000 for Windows Phone 8 apps?

The short answer: no. The longer answer is that they have to do something. When Microsoft first made the jump...

Use social media to educate consumers… and possibly blow their minds

Use social media to educate consumers… and possibly blow their minds

The days of businesses focusing their efforts on entertaining their fans on social media are behind us... at least they...

Bieber reaches 40 million Twitter followers… kind of

Bieber reaches 40 million Twitter followers… kind of

In recent years, social media has become the fuel to boost celebrity popularity. Whether it’s Amanda Bynes tweeting about whom...

Highlights from the Apple WWDC Keynote 2013

Highlights from the Apple WWDC Keynote 2013

The tech world has been buzzing for the past 24 hours with news from Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote. Apple hosted...

Samsung bares its teeth and takes a bite out of Apple

Samsung bares its teeth and takes a bite out of Apple

Round one of the epic battle between Apple and Samsung started last year. The patent war began when Apple accused...

IBM starts cutting employees after first earnings shortfall in 8 years

IBM starts cutting employees after first earnings shortfall in 8 years

For decades, International Business Machines Corporation, better known as IBM, has been one of the most solid representatives in the...

The iOS 7 features visualized

The iOS 7 features visualized

It's an all new design, and while many aren't very impressed early on, it's still going to get  a ton...

Four types of Facebook posts that businesses can rotate if they must

Four types of Facebook posts that businesses can rotate if they must

There are too many opportunities out there in the world of social media that makes it a bad idea to...

The video-sharing war: Microsoft battles Google for equal YouTube rights

The video-sharing war: Microsoft battles Google for equal YouTube rights

Since January, Google and Microsoft have been clawing each other’s eyes out over YouTube.  The trouble started way back in...

#Serena: not done serving on the court, nor on Twitter

#Serena: not done serving on the court, nor on Twitter

Let me just get this out of the way: I have a girl crush on Serena Williams.Her badass physical and...

Reach versus inaccuracy: should social media be at the forefront during a crisis?

Reach versus inaccuracy: should social media be at the forefront during a crisis?

The use of social media to report events has become a normal occurrence. Any time anything happens that is newsworthy,...

How to start over with a Facebook page

How to start over with a Facebook page

Oh, the regrets. Things happen. We start heading down the wrong direction and suddenly we find ourselves in a bad...

Which Big Brother do you prefer?

Which Big Brother do you prefer?

The hot news item this week is that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records...

Visualizing the giant piles of cash the tech giants are sitting on

Visualizing the giant piles of cash the tech giants are sitting on

If you had a quarter for every time someone said, "If I had a quarter for every time...," how much...

Android or Windows 8? How to choose between HP’s two new detachable PCs

Android or Windows 8? How to choose between HP’s two new detachable PCs

Perhaps you've heard that HP has launched two detachable, hybrid PCs and you aren't sure which of these cool devices...

First Tumblr executive leaves after Yahoo buyout

First Tumblr executive leaves after Yahoo buyout

It took longer than most thought and may be a lighter hit than expected, but the exodus of a Yahoo-owned...

If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images

If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images

When Google+ first rolled out their change, we called it "Twitteresque". After exploring it further for the last couple of...

6 benefits of going digital with your music

6 benefits of going digital with your music

Life can quickly become encumbered by clutter. It seems like you turn your head and suddenly counter tops are piled with stacks...

One small step for Twitter, one pretty decent sized leap for spam haters

One small step for Twitter, one pretty decent sized leap for spam haters

If there's one thing that could bring down the whole Twitter empire outside of a catastrophic meltdown of all of...

How technology in schools has evolved

How technology in schools has evolved

The early 1920s were the years of the one-room schoolhouse. A few years later, in 1923, classrooms began incorporating radios...