Right now it seems Spotify can do no wrong; the streaming music platform is steadily growing numbers, more people are paying to stream music and somehow music industry distributors and artists are seeing it as the spot to be. This wave of good fortune has obviously given the founders and engineers some verve and given [...]
December 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
Ever wondered what happens to publicly traded companies when they get in trouble? Students go to the principal’s office; companies get scolded by the SEC. I am not so sure where Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would prefer to be (school principal’s office perhaps) but reports are that the Netflix boss is under investigation for talking [...]
December 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
DECISION 2 is a flash game that combines shooting and strategy. It is not just about shooting zombies, you need to make sure to distance yourself well from the zombies and reload your gun on time before shooting. The story goes like this. Most of the cities have been invaded by zombies and it is [...]
November 25th, 2012 by Loic Cobbina
I know 1.04% isn’t a lot and probably not much to write home about but given that Windows 8 is a tablet-focused OS, news that its now gaining acceptance among Windows users is very good news indeed—at least for Microsoft. The launch of the much anticipated Windows 8 came and went in a flash and [...]
November 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
Google’s annual transparency report is the search giant’s way of letting you (the user) know how it’s been storing and handling any personal information that it collects. The report has sort of become a synonym for “what did the government ask for this year Google” and this year’s report is quite telling. The report also [...]
November 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
These days making in a dent in your competitor’s efforts means dominating all channels of business and communication, even those areas that are not core to a company’s strategy and branding. In the enterprise software and communications space, few do it well like Salesforce.com ad in the last couple of years; the company led by [...]
November 12th, 2012 by SiteTrail
The battle to dominate the mobile industry is fierce for good reason—there are billions of dollars at stake. So when Apple and HTC started to slug it out over proprietary software and other bits of kit connected to mobile devices, the battle was always bound to get nasty and ugly. The fight between companies like [...]
November 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
Local marketing has long been the preserve of your local small and medium-sized businesses. But that dominance or stranglehold over the space may be coming to an end, thanks in large part to the increased focus on dominating local markets by national brands. A new study conducted by local marketing firm Balihoo has found that [...]
November 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google has turned the loveable Panda and Penguin into agents of mass destruction—search engine destruction of course. The last two years has been quite a ride for companies and webmasters who’ve come to rely on organic traffic from Google. Some have vowed to switch strategies all together, while others have thrown down the gauntlet and [...]
November 7th, 2012 by Anthony West
Drupal is an open source content management system that you can use to build almost anything right from personal blogs to complex business applications. Drupal provides various add-on modules and designs to choose from. For many of you wondering how much exactly it would cost to build a website of your own, here is some [...]
October 30th, 2012 by Manasa
Twitter stated that during the final 90 minute presidential debate there was 6.5 Million tweets which escalated to 7.2 million tweets at the New York debate, finally making it’s peak in Denver with 10.3 million tweets. As social media analysts, we are trying to distinguish whether this is a propaganda drive, or indeed the spin [...]
October 28th, 2012 by SiteTrail
The date was penciled in ages ago and for die-hearted Windows software users, October 25, 2012 couldn’t come soon enough. Well, that momentous day came and by all accounts Microsoft didn’t disappoint. The software giant chose New York as the Launchpad for the release in what many are calling the biggest revamp of Windows in [...]
October 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
With all the promise that the cloud brings, it still has some major kinks that can make things bad for those rely on it too heavily. Case in point is Amazon’s cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS); according to reports across the web, the service has been down in North Virginia and this has caused [...]
October 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Apple had a blockbuster launch of the iPhone 5 and it looks like Microsoft is having its own version of the ‘run on the iPhone’ with the launch of its Surface tablet. The Surface RT tablet actually goes on sale October 26 but Microsoft been allowing people to pre-order the device ahead of the launch [...]
October 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
To build a Facebook fan page or not to build, that is the question. If you are brand manager for large company it seems like a foregone conclusion, but given the costs involved in building a responsive engaging fan base on Facebook, the latest findings on the efficacy of having fans deserves a second look. [...]
October 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s been three weeks since Apple released iOS 6, its mobile OS across devices like the iPhone and iPad. Aside from the hiccup experienced with the Maps feature, the updated OS has been largely well received. In terms of geographic reception however, some interesting facts have emerged. Figures have also been telling regarding adoption by [...]
October 18th, 2012 by Anthony West
Skype has seen its fair share of competitors in recent years and many thought that when Microsoft acquired the company last year, the popular VOIP platform would see a decline in its popularity. Well, the so-called ‘Microsoft effect’ hasn’t materialized and Skype is now more popular than ever; in fact, many would argue that the [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft doesn’t seemed to have learned much from its anti-trust troubles in Europe which to date has cost the company over $2 billion in fines. Now new reports are surfacing that the software giant may be in trouble again over its continued bundling of Internet Explorer with its operating system, while not giving users adequate [...]
October 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
