
According to one statistic, half of all local searches are performed on a mobile device. With more people accessing websites using their smartphones, making sure you website is readable on a phone is not something you can ignore. Load times, readability and images often render differently on a…

Today, online marketing tool provider Constant Contact announced its acquisition of mobile loyalty application CardStar. CardStar is the mobile version of the loyalty cards we all carry around in our wallets…only condensed into a single app.
CardStar, which is available as an application for…

Infusionsoft, which offers marketing automation software (including email marketing software) to 8,000+ small businesses, recently announced that it has added social features to its offering. According to the company, the new features will let its customers capture leads from social media,…

Does your small business rely on high-tech workers to compete? You’re not alone. Increasingly, being up to speed on technology is crucial to business success, which means you need a savvy tech team in-house. But hiring those tech workers might be getting harder—and the risks of making a bad…

One of the holy Internet startup commandments lately seems to be “Thou shalt not launch.” But I launch all the time, and I love it. Why? Because my startup’s most valuable commodity is time. I need to get as much user feedback on my product as I can get – and I need it fast. There are…

U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe is up in arms against Amazon since the online retailer released its Price-Check app for Android just in time for the 2011 holiday season. Amazon’s iPhone version was released a year ago, so the uproar now seems less about the app itself and more about Amazon’s…

Are you confused by the terms SaaS and cloud computing? In their simplest forms, software as a service (SaaS) is the application, and the cloud is the place where you store the data from that app (and in most cases the application itself). Many of the latest technology announcements have…

We’ve become accustomed to websites ending in .com for some time now. Other gTLDs, which stands for “generic top level domains,” have peeked their heads out, like .org, .edu, .mil and .biz. But a new initiative from ICANN, the not-for-profit corporation that manages Internet…

Let’s begin at the end. There’s a disaster. Your data is gone. What do you do? Well, hopefully, you’ve already done everything you need to do; otherwise, you’re in a heap of trouble. You can’t recover data if you haven’t backed it up or if you haven’t planned in…