In a perfect world could you neglect outdated Internet Explorer versions? Of course. However, the reality is enough users still use the outdated browsers that just completely neglecting them would mean cutting a percentage of traffic that you may not be able to afford to lose.
Continue reading »In working to maximize application speed one often-overlooked element that can affect performance more than almost anything else: database design.
Continue reading »With a decline in PC sales, consumers are looking for a budget-conscious alternative when all they want is email, Facebook, and Instant Messaging.
Continue reading »SHOUTS AND MURMURS casual about cost-cutting measures in an office. A memo is sent from the C.E.O to inform the staff of certain cost-cutting measures in order for the company to remain competitive. The company will no longer be serving complimentary cold cuts and soda on Cold Cuts & Soda Day.
Continue reading »How changing a button increased a site’s annual revenues by $300 million.
Continue reading »As a business it doesn’t look good when you’ve got a spelling error on your website. It took awhile to catch the mistake that I had on this very website which could have been avoided with a simple spell check.
Continue reading »One of Gmail’s most popular add-on features, the Tasks list, has arrived on your web-enabled mobile device.
Continue reading »Video games remain big business, and casual games are becoming an increasingly large slice of the industry’s pie. Near the end of last year, online super-merchant Amazon.com purchased the casual game developer and portal Reflexive, and the industry wondered what fruit it would bear.
Continue reading »Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less than professional—or even (if the frolleague happens to be a frupervisor) grounds for dismissal.
—Jonathon Keats jargon@wired.com
The goal with products is to give people a great story to tell, so they can tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on. Being new is a great advantage on this front. Would you go tell a friend about Pepsi? No, because they’ve been around too long. That’s the advantage of being David in the David and Goliath story.
—Mark Hughes, author of “Buzzmarketing”
Just hours after announcing plans to sell a high-end Mac clone, niche electronics reseller EFIX USA changed course in order to avoid a nasty legal confrontation with Apple.
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