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	Bots and social media engagement As people in the online world become increasingly connected, the reasons to engage with social media expand with remarkable speed. Just consider that only a couple of years ago the leading edge of the Twittersphere was the Los Angeles-based mobile Kogi Korean BBQ which was using Twitter to drive sales. Now, there are scores of similar players all over America using the same strategy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Collecting Compliance Evidence: The Role of Event Logs This Quest Software white paper discusses how to maximize the power of event logs. You'll learn about recent regulation changes, how your company can best prepare for an audit and the solution you need to address these issues. 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Read More 5 awesome free tools for small businesses These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an established business, you're probably feeling the pinch. Read More Be cautious about open source data mining software Businesses should not deploy open source software for data mining just because it is generally cheaper, an open source consultant has advised. Read More Yahoo looks to regain past glory with location services Yahoo's new location-based services mark the company's latest move in its effort to reshape its business and reclaim its position as a top Internet company. Read More Windows 7 and IE6: 4 tips to solve the incompatibility catch You want to deploy Windows 7 but you can't let go of Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, that's no longer feasible: IE compatibility problems need to be solved fast to prevent Windows 7 delays, according to recent report from Gartner. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More ERP gone bad: Lessons from real-world failures Spectacular flameouts have much to teach managers about the right way to run projects. Read More Google adds offline inventory data to product search Google has enhanced its product search engine with new capabilities to find items in physical "brick and mortar" stores and to browse their "offline" inventories. Read More Facebook messaging throws a blow at Google Facebook's new messaging system may not be a Gmail killer, but it's definitely another blow in the growing battle between two Internet bigwigs. Read More Photo! Editor: Free, but not full-featured Photo! Editor (free) is an interesting combination of easy-to-use image editing tools that can produce good results for the person who wants to simply clean up their photos, though the program does have highly limited functionality. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off. Read now! New Mathematica 8 eases user input The new Mathematica 8 software now understands the human syntax, easing the calculation process. Read More What if Facebook and Chrome mated: Meet RockMelt Does the world need yet another browser? It depends. If you're like me, and spend a lot of time on the Web, but not too much time with social networking sites, you don't. Firefox and Chrome and even IE (not to mention Safari or Opera) are more than enough. But if you can't live without instant Facebook updates and the latest Tweets, you should check out RockMelt, a new browser designed for the social networking aficionado. Read More Social networking to overtake email in future says Gartner Gartner has claimed that 20% of business communication will be over social media sites by 2014. Read More MainStage update offers performance, stability fixes Musicians weren't left out of Apple's spate of software updates this week. Late Wednesday, the company released an update to MainStage that promises performance and stability fixes to the Logic Studio component. Read More
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