Latest Tech Industry Opinion

• 30 May 2013

• Opinion: Bad social media strategy for any business

  Until last month, few had heard of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro restaurant in the US city of Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a family-owned eatery offering slightly upmarket burgers, pizzas, and cakes.

• 21 May 2013

• Opinion: Mageia Linux 3 brings a raft of key updates

  Mageia has long been what you might call a "best-kept secret" of the Linux world, consistently residing among the top five distributions in DistroWatch's page-hit rankings despite minimal marketing and hoopla.

• Opinion: 10 tech patents that should have been rejected

  Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents--a place where you'll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but some ideas that seem so minute or so obvious that you wonder how they ever qualified as patentworthy.

• 16 April 2013

• Opinion: The perils of corporate tweeting

  Many enterprise level-tech firms have sophisticated social media strategies. Unfortunately, all it takes is one employee with inflammatory social media skills, and the firm's brand takes a beating.

• 15 April 2013

• Opinion: All PCs great and small: how competition and collaboration is driving tech innovation

  A strange set of competitive and interdependent business relationships is driving innovation in PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets. And for the consumer that's mostly good news.

• 03 April 2013

• Opinion: Six ways to cope with flaky hotel Wi-Fi

  During a recent trip I stayed at a hotel offering free Wi-Fi--always a nice perk. Just one problem: the network was terrible. The connection speed reminded me of my old dial-up modem, but without the consistency.

• 02 April 2013

• Opinion: YouMail Business Edition: Smarter voicemail for business

  YouMail has long been a champion of smartphone users, offering visual voicemail on phones that lack it and better visual voicemail on phones that include it.

• 14 March 2013

• Opinion: Create gorgeous animated business presentations with Prezi

  How can I put this delicately? Your presentations? Bo-ring.

• 12 March 2013

• Opinion: No end in sight to telework, survey finds

  When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting at her company was followed soon afterwards by a similar move at Best Buy, it was tempting to think a new trend had been started, and that more firms would soon follow suit.

• 15 February 2013

• Opinion: Infographic: The top 10 productivity-killers (and how to beat them)

  Time is on your side, at least according to Mick Jagger. (Think: song lyric.) But it rarely seems that way when you get to the end of the day and realize you didn't have nearly enough of it. Where on earth does the time go?

• 08 February 2013

• Opinion: Discuss and organize team projects with Dispatch

  If there's one thing the Web probably doesn't need, it's another project-management tool aimed at teams. I mean, hello? Basecamp? Bitrix24? Yammer? How the heck does start-up Dispatch hope to compete?

• 05 February 2013

• Opinion: Aaron Swartz suicide: who's to blame, what happens now

  On January 11 2013 programmer and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was found dead in his New York apartment having taken his own life. He was 26 years old. We investigate the circumstances of Aaron Swartz's death, and what happens next.

• 01 February 2013

• Opinion: iOS apps for resellers

  Whether you're cleaning out your closet, reselling items that you purchased at a sample sale, or selling your own original works of art, apps can help you stay on top of your online reselling ventures.

• 29 January 2013

• Opinion: Get a free shared workspace for your small business

  I truly believe that effective organization and communication can make the difference between business success and business failure.

• 22 January 2013

• Opinion: Linux pros saw a giant salary leap in 2012: Dice

  It's been clear for some time now not only that IT professionals face better-than-average prospects in today's tough marketplace for jobs, but also that those with Linux skills tend to fare even better.

• 14 January 2013

• Opinion: Six quick Safari tips

  Little things mean a lot--especially when tiny tips save time. Ramp up your Web-browsing skills with these speed-friendly techniques for Safari 6.

• 19 December 2012

• Opinion: UberConference: Best conference-call manager yet?

  Lately it seems like software developers are falling all over themselves to take the hassles out of conference calls.

• Opinion: 2012: the year Microsoft ran out of ideas

  2012 was the year in which Microsoft finally ran out ideas, Google resorted to paying for tablet customers, and wireless speeds increased.

• 15 December 2012

• Opinion: 3 reasons Windows Phone 8 will succeed

  PC Advisor readers offer three reasons that they believe Windows Phone 8 is set to be a big success.

• 14 December 2012

• Opinion: What's the point of Windows Phone 8?

  Android and iPhone can co-exist happily, but Windows Phone 8 has no real place in the smartphone market.

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