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Businesses gain access to Google data through Local Business Center

Starting today, Google is putting valuable information in the hands of local business owners, giving them access to Google query data that led a customer - or potential customer - to the company's online listing. Google's Local Business Center is the place where local businesses have been able to...

Tags: Google Inc., Business Owner, Google Local Business Center, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Marketing Research, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Add videos of your business to Google Maps

Google's Local Business Center is a great place for businesses to get some free exposure. The few who are actually using this service are getting better exposure through Google Maps and even organic search results. When adding your listing, you have control over things like your address, photos...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Video, Google Local Business Center, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Additional Resources

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Cloud Engines Pogoplug

Photo gallery:Cloud Engines PogoplugWouldn't it be nice to quickly access your data from anywhere without a complicated network setup? That's exactly what the Cloud Engines Pogoplug offers. Priced at $100, this tiny gadget turns any USB external storage devices--anything from a Seagate FreeAgent Go to a Western...

Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, Pogoplug, network, home network

Product reviews 2009-11-10

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Young man yells at cloud

Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equation

Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equationMJ, have you read this?http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/07/chrome-os-netbooks-and-smartbooks.arsRE: Taking the 'PC' out of the Chrome OS equationI would have to agree with you. I certainly didn't like the idea of Windows 7 limiting the amount of apps I could run on a netbook. But, why...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Web browsers, Operating systems, Desktops, PC, operating system, netbook, Google Inc., Web browser, Chrome OS, Chrome OS equation, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Google's new data tools: it's all about business

For just a moment, forget about what Google's motives might be with the new analytics features that it's giving to users of the company's Local Business Center. Instead, think about how a business - whether a locally owned mom and pop shop or one of many stores in a national...

Tags: Google Inc., Tool, Business Owner, Internet, Financial Planning, Productivity, Channel Management, Search, Finance, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-03

News to know: Windows 7. iPhone in China, CircuitCity.com, Java, Google books, Apple history

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month Mary jo Foley: Windows 7: The incentives are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Circuit City Stores Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Businesses gain access to Google data through Local Business Center

Businesses gain access to Google data through Local Business CenterGoogle monetizing their spying effortsBit by bit, Google will not be able to resist making more money from the huge database they are building on all of us. To be avoided at all costs.

Tags: Google Inc., Local Business Center, gain access

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....

Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

What Sun can do now - and why you should help.

What Sun can do now - and why you should help.See where Open Source leads Sun to?The last decade marks the global failure to practice open source as a business model. The saddest part was that it happened despite people warned them not to go that route.Don't know what to...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Research & Development, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

Where cheaper is not better

Where cheaper is not better$2,500 -v- $40,000The cost of an PET/CT or MRI scan was about $2,500 when I had mine and a round of radiation or chemo is going to be at least $40,000. Identifying the efficacy of a treatment early can save some major dollars when the...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, PET/CT, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8350i (Sprint)

Photo gallery: RIM BlackBerry Curve 8350iFirst introduced at CTIA Fall 2008, the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8350i is finally available through Sprint. This is particularly good news for Nextel Direct Connect users, who haven't seen a new push-to-talk PTT BlackBerry model since the RIM BlackBerry 7100i, which was introduced back in...

Tags: Handhelds, Sprint Communications, full-QWERTY keyboard, trackball, RIM BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry Curve, Research In Motion Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-01-15

A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives

Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...

Tags: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm

First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse

Preparing for a Flickr ApocalypseHmmmm ..."sinking with all its hosted data on it, leaving its users with no recourse other than their own backups."If you rely in a third party as the only repository of your data, how valuable can it be? If you don't have a backup, how valuable...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Flickr, Flickr Apocalypse, Home Server, server, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-11-14