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GPS Fleet On-Page Tracking
When you have many different areas of your business that all need to come together, you might wish that they were all coordinated by GPS. GPS fleet tracking is a method of following around all of your vehicles, employees and … Read more
Learning From the Best: How Tech Support Can Improve Customer Support
One of the biggest blind spots for tech companies all over the globe boils down to customer service. The common trend in tech is that the product should speak for itself, and that excellent customer service is merely an afterthought. … Read more
5 Popular Software as a Service Cloud Offerings
Cloud computing is more than using a third party server provider for content hosting. Many people think of Amazon or an Amazon alternative when they think of the cloud. Though those are true clouds, they aren’t the only type of … Read more
Digital Strategy and Cloud Services
A business plan without a digital strategy is basically a car without gas. The car will make lots of noise, but it really won’t get anywhere without the right fuel. As companies delve into digital strategy development, there’s always talk … Read more
Design Shift: The Web Becomes More End User Focused
In an age where people’s attention spans are about as long as a television commercial break (Hey, hey! Pay attention! This is only the first sentence!), companies are finding it increasingly necessary to create interactive websites that engage their current … Read more
Adreno: Going Beyond Gaming
The Adreno 3D GPU is typically touted for gaming. After all, that’s the first thought that someone has when you talk about high powered graphic processing units, whether or not computer gaming is the context. There’s a whole other world out … Read more
Brewing the New Platform
The landscape of mobile phones is rapidly evolving. New operating systems allow for advanced customization, new applications, and tools for both business and fun. Besides the mobile operating systems put out by major game changers like Apple, Microsoft and Google, … Read more
Increased Social Interaction For Mobile Future
The 4G network is still hot n’ fresh from the oven, but it’s only the first step on the road to the future for mobile. Signs point to increased fluidity and synthesis of mobile operating systems/devices. What does that mean? … Read more
High Aspirations for GovCloud
The U.S government’s IT structure is not particularly efficient. That’s probably not surprising to most readers. A White House document The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy bluntly stated the case: “The Federal Government’s current Information Technology (IT) environment is characterized by low … Read more
Mobile World Congress 2012 Wows the World
Barcelona was recently host to the 2012 Mobile World Congress, an exposition where manufacturers of all things related to mobile computing and devices gather to showcase their newest innovations. While there is no disputing the fact that the highlights of … Read more
Ready Player One: Advergaming in a Social Landscape
Marketing channels have become extremely diverse in the age of the web. Email marketing is sort of the grandfather of advertising on the web, and the landscape has since grown into a morass of social sharing via Facebook, Twitter and … Read more
Preparing for the Red Hat Exams
If you’ve applied for an IT gig in recent years, you’ve probably seen an assemblage of cryptic words, collected together in the Requirements section of a job description page: “Must be Red Hat certified.” Who can forget the confusion and … Read more
Outlook in the Cloud: Do or Don’t
Gmail may be the longest running cloud based email application and it was used by million before “the cloud” even entered into the popular lexicon. Gmail has also conditioned its users to be able to log in to their e-mail … Read more
The Touch Generation
When’s the last time you pressed a button? You probably press buttons all day, but do you ever get the feeling that you’re pressing less of them? That’s because you probably are. Touch screens have moved to the forefront of … Read more
Real Results
Remember Christmas? In lieu of the recent Superbowl, it may be difficult to harken back to the past holiday season. Even if it isn’t hard, why would you look back that far? History is worth studying, if only to give … Read more
Does Slower Mean Dead?
With the recent news of drastic cuts that the USPS is making—cutting more than half of their mail processing centers and losing 28,000 employees—in order to avoid bankruptcy, a bright light is shining on the Internet and the irrevocable changes … Read more
SEOing the Shopping Season
Cyber Monday is rising to incredible prominence in the landscape of the American retail economy. This presents a salient confluence of the two core tenets most important to SEO: the Internet, and shopping. How relevant are the two, you ask? … Read more
Investigating Google, Verbatim
Google’s Verbatim update will make searching for specific terms easier, but what does that mean for SEO, PPC, and online marketers? In a previous life (read: last month), users could enter in search queries linking words with a ‘+’ operator … Read more
Locations Matter
When designing a website for your company, there are all sorts of things to take into consideration. Is there an appropriate amount of content? Is the site easy to navigate? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Do all of the links work? … Read more
Google Buying Yahoo?
Google is looking to expand their share of virtual real estate: according to several reports, Google has been in talks with private-equity firms to help them purchase Yahoo’s core business. Microsoft, whose Bing search engine is a distant second to … Read more




