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COO: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it
News Facebook's COO formally announces the social-networking company's "strategic alliance" to build social-media audience measurement tools with Nielsen.
Tags: Web 2.0, Tool, Australia, social networking, Facebook, brand, market research, emergency service, Web 2.0
Web-based e-mail: Businesses beware
News Businesses should think carefully before opting for low cost Web-based e-mail services.
Tags: E-mail servers, Communications, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Avant, Radicati Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., Backup, Small Business, e-mail
How to display pictures that appear to be partially hidden
Techguide Sometimes, an in-line text picture doesn't display completely--you can see just the bottom of the image. Find out what you can do to correct the problem.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Slide, Cell, Training, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
User stories: The starting point in agile development
Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.
Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, C, Development Effort, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
Facebook changes stock structure: IPO on the way?
News The social network has converted all existing shareholders' stock to the more powerful Class B; it'll go back to Class A if they sell it during an IPO. But the company says it still doesn't have IPO plans set.
Tags: Business plans, Business Strategies & Functions, Facebook, Business Strategies & Functions, IPO, Stock, Mark Zuckerberg, shareholder, Wall Street Journal, Business plans
Keep IMAP e-mail messages locally using OfflineIMAP
Techguide Vincent Danen discusses the uses of OfflineIMAP for synchronizing local and remote IMAP mailboxes and providing a good method for backing up e-mail.
Tags: Open source, E-mail servers, Mailbox, Fedora Project, POP3, IMAP, OfflineIMAP, SSL, Backup, Tool
Deciding to outsource: Is it cultural?
Blogs You may have been expecting this to be about cultural differences in relation to companies that outsource but it's not. ...
Innovative PMs use 'think time'
Techguide If you find yourself using the same project management solutions over and over again, you may need to carve out some "think time" to help stay innovative.
Tags: IT Management, Waltham, PMBOK, Information Technology, job, Tool, project manager, Bentley College, team-building, MBA
How to protect yourself from RAID-related UREs
Techguide An Unrecoverable Read Error during a RAID rebuild can ruin an entire day. Scott Lowe talks about UREs and how you can avoid falling victim to this silent threat.
Tags: RAID, Data centers, Data backup, disaster recovery, bit error rate, RAID array, RAID, Microsoft Corp., Scott Lowe, Backup, RAID 5
Facebook acknowledges access problems
News Some members of the social network claim to have been unable to access their accounts for several days now; it's a database problem, Facebook says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Database management, Databases, Facebook, Database, CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, Web sites, e-mail
Dell unveils Android-based Mini 3 smartphone
News The first carriers for the Android-based phone will be China Mobile and Brazil's Claro. Details on the devices will come later.
Tags: Google Android, Smart phones, China Mobile Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, U.S., mobile, Google Android, Wi-Fi, China
Google launches App Engine dashboard
News The new dashboard marks the latest move by a cloud provider to improve transparency in the event of an outage.
Tags: Search, Content management, Customer support, Google Inc., CPU, bandwidth usage, Dashboard, billing, ZDNet, blog
CounterSpy CD W/1 Yr Maint.
Product Reviews CounterSpy CD W/1 Yr Maint.
Tags: Security, Web Browser, Anti-spyware, On-demand, antivirus, phone, Sunbelt Software, spyware, Microsoft Windows, CNET Networks Inc.
Microsoft introduces 'Starter' version of Office
News New ad-supported, limited feature version will come preloaded on certain new PCs. The replacement for Microsoft Works is one of several new ways Microsoft is trying to create new customers for its productivity suite.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., advertisement, PC Company, Microsoft Corp., software, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Works
64-bit Snow Leopard defaults to 32-bit kernel
News Apple's OS X 10.6 operating system Snow Leopard by default loads with a 32-bit kernel, despite running 64-bit applications.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., Kernel, Apple Macintosh, performance, 64-bit, software product, Apple OS, marketing, 32-bit
