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Have you seen QR codes? Those black modules arranged in square patterns on white backgrounds that can be found everywhere these days? We are sure you have. Known as Quick Response Codes, these matrix two dimensional barcodes are machine readable and contain encoded information which may be text, a URL, or other data. Unlike linear [...]

Guest Blogger:  Wendy Zak There’s a lot of buzz around about monetizing your social media or your blog.  After all, you’re building relationships, sharing dialogue and creating the ideal conditions for business.  Sounds great, doesn’t it? Or does it miss the point entirely?  One of the most important tenets of social media marketing is that [...]

Another month has past and again a lot has happened in our world. MYOB was sold for $1.2 billion.  Bain Capital had beaten off Sage and agreed to buy the MYOB accounting software business for a reported $1.2 billion. HP kills off WebOS  Less than 4 days after its release the HP TouchPad was discontinued. This lead [...]

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc., has had a widely successful career. It wasn’t without its ups and downs as he actually was let go from the Macintosh division of Apple in 1985. From the development of the Apple I computer in 1976 on through to the Apple II and the Lisa and Macintosh, Mr. [...]

MYOB, the leader in the financial software space for SME’s in Australasia, has been sold to Boston’s Bain Capital for a reported $1.2 billion. Bain defeated British software firm Sage for Australia’s biggest software vendor despite the firm’s higher $1.3 billion bid. Sage’s higher bid was derailed on Friday and falling share price and weak [...]

Mobile phones and tablets have revolutionized the way we work today. Working even while you are away from your office desk has now become a possibility and so has working from home, working while travelling and working from anywhere for that matter. But this, of course, has its own set of disadvantages. What if your...

Facebook and Twitter are not the only key players in social networking what with Google+ entering the scene. In a cool graph assembled by Altibox’s Leon Haland, a Norwegian technology evangelist, it has been shown how Google+ has surpassed Facebook and Twitter in reaching the 10 million mark; in a relatively shorter time that is. [...]

With innovations continuously taking place in Cloud Computing service offerings these days, a CIO or business owner should always keep his/her eyes open for four trends, according to IDC analyst Chris Morris at a recent CIO Summit in Australia. The trends include a scaling of services, data center transformation, big data provisioning and a consolidation [...]

In our fast paced lives, we are becoming more and more dependent on connectivity. No matter where we go or what we do, staying connected is always on our minds. When we are not calling, we are chatting and when we’re not chatting, we are emailing, texting or even Skyping. At an age when all [...]

Keywords are the life of your paid search campaign. The right ones can keep it alive (and make it thrive too!) while the wrong ones can kill it. So, here are 5 tips you should keep in mind when selecting your paid search keywords. Do your homework: Keyword selection is something that should never be...

Do you know what is the ultimate way (at least for now!) to harness technology for your business, keep up with marketing trends, and reach your customers in new and interesting ways? QR codes (short for quick response code)! You’ve probably already seen them; the bar-code like images that are popping up everywhere from flyers...

There are two different meanings to the term ‘Cloud computing.’ The general term ‘Cloud Computing’ refers to data, email, programs, contacts, calendars etc. being saved and accessed within the internet. There are a few different commercial services which offer cloud computing; Google being one of the most common. The “Private Cloud” refers to these services...