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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.
Factors to consider when tweaking, updating or overhauling your website
Creating a responsive design for content-rich news websites can never be an easy task – at least not for those...
Ways you are part of the CRM funnel without even knowing it
As a smart consumer, you’re probably aware that you’re being "managed," but what you might not realize is what big...
The world without the internet
For many, it's a scary thought. What if the internet simply disappeared tomorrow? What if all of the connections we...
A breakdown of our mobile payment future
Every day we see more people using their smartphones to make payments whether through apps directly on them or by...
Cats vs Bacon: Which is more viral?
It's not exactly a debate for the ages. It might not even be the best debate you've checked out today,...
How is the recession treating the IT industry?
When the economy starts showing an ominous downward spiral, companies begin to cut jobs, wages start to decrease, the...
Klout adjusts “+K” kudos to include reasons for influence
Klout, the social influence measure that is likely the most used and well-respected, rolled out a series of changes yesterday....
Can futuristic apps bring business email out of the Dark Ages?
Email is one of those rare holdovers from the dawn of the Internet that continues to have practical applications to...
Verizon’s “Share Everything” plans make everything unlimited for up to 10 devices
Verizon has had its share of foibles over the last few months over how their customers interact with their cellular...
Last stands: 7 movie scenes where the heroes die fighting
Not every movie has a happy ending. Not every final death is necessarily sad. Great movies have a way of...
To mark, or not to mark: The nuisance of spam
Spam is annoying. Period. There is always a random e-mail that we receive and don’t even bother to open but...
Ambitious Mars One project would have people live there for their entire lives
Forget about Newt's plan to settle the moon. The folks over at Mars One want to put a human settlement...
Have you used the right technology in business communication?
Beatles used semaphore signals to promote Help!, their 5th British album. On original British cover, band members hand-gestured to spell...
A new way for kids to learn Chinese: Discovering Chinese iPad App
As our society becomes increasingly globalized, the ability to speak more than one language becomes increasingly useful. Members of today's...
How did you guys meet? On Spotify!
Technology has made it easier for our generation to stay connected to each other in a variety of ways. We...
Google takes on online MBA programs, MIT and the mainstream education system
Google, New York City, Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology join forces to form a school offering classes in...
Five apps for processing mobile payments
With everyone being on the go these days, it’s only natural that the smart small business or entrepreneur would take...
What do you really get from an online education?
The recent announcement that Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are collaborating to provide free online classes through a...
For Salesforce, Buddy Media plus Radian6 equals corporate social gold
When all considerations are tallied, it's possible that Salesforce has invested over a billion dollars into social media through the...
TIL Twitter has a relatively-small number of employees
It only takes 140-characters or less to send a Tweet and it takes under 1,000 employees to operate the company...