After much speculation about ads, licensing deals and souped-up enterprise versions, Twitter debuts its promoted tweets platform, giving businesses’ tweets a prominent position on the site.
After much speculation about ads, licensing deals and souped-up enterprise versions, Twitter debuts its promoted tweets platform, giving businesses’ tweets a prominent position on the site.
<b>Engadget:</b> "The report details some of what we've come to expect in stories of labor abuses -- near children, most of them women, working for 16 or 17 hours a day, living in nearly deplorable conditions, for less than a dollar an hour -- all so that the world's ever-growing need for / addiction to consumer electronics can be fed."
<b>Bright Hub: </b>"If you are looking to create a GUI application that can be easily ported to all major operating systems, wxWidgets is a great choice. It has a graphical tool for designing the forms, has bindings for many languages, and is an established, robust library."
Tip of the Trade: Finding a way to ignore files or directories in Subversion so they are not included in svn status output is easy; figuring out the exact syntax is not. Here's are way to simplify this Linux server management quagmire.
Small business CRM software to simplify customer follow-up, plus a secret weapon for selling on eBay, tips that save you time and a lesson from Honda on target marketing.
Small business CRM software to simplify customer follow-up, plus a secret weapon for selling on eBay, tips that save you time and a lesson from Honda on target marketing.
<b>TuxRadar:</b> "The main idea of this test was to see how well these distros would run in a restrained environment. To this end, they were tested, where possible, on an ancient Compaq laptop with 256MB RAM, Vesa graphics, a 4GB hard drive and a 200MHz Pentium processor."
<b>The H Open:</b> "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like Emacs. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like Emacs."
<b>Tech Source: </b>"If you happen to own a business and are looking for CRM applications, I have here a list of some of the most well-known free and open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software available today."
Server Snapshot: In the past year, Lenovo launched its second generation of ThinkServers, equipped with more memory and storage capacity, the latest Intel processors, and virtualization capabilities. Yet the company remains in the "other" category in the various server measurement surveys.
<b>DeveloperWorks: </b>"A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility."
<b>The Register: </b>"Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264 from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."
Insiders -- the people who already have access to your network -- can do a lot more damage than a hacker who's still outside the firewall. Learn ways to minimize your risk from the insider threat.
Insiders -- the people who already have access to your network -- can do a lot more damage than a hacker who's still outside the firewall. Learn ways to minimize your risk from the insider threat.
Global software piracy continued virtually unabated in 2009, costing software developers an estimated $51 billion, according to a survey by the Business Software Alliance.