August 30, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
As the U.S. economy continues its sluggish recovery and worker morale sinks, the IT department needs to pay attention to moves that make users even more dissatisfied. One thing that’ll be sure to put ‘em in a bad mood: website blocking.
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Tags: blocking, Robert Half Technologies, survey, users, website, workers
August 23, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Fans of Cameron Diaz may want to rethink any plans they have for online banking or investment activity. That’s because a web search for the popular movie star is very likely to infect a PC with nasty malware and viruses that can be used to steal passwords and access IDs for sites where money is exchanged.
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Tags: Cameron Diaz, downloads, Jessica Biel, Julia Roberts, malware, McAfee, theft, Trojan, virus
July 20, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Facebook’s expected to announce its 500 millionth user soon, but the news is likely to be overshadowed by a recent survey that found its current users are terribly dissatisfied with the site.
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Tags: ACSI, American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumers, E-Business Report, Facebook, popularity
July 13, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Debt collectors have a new, insidious weapon in their search for folks who skip paying their bills: Facebook. The social network site has become a new way to track down deadbeats.
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Tags: debt collectors, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FTC
July 12, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The gaming wizards at Blizzard learned some valuable lessons recently: Their customers like being nasty to each other online and they’re timid about anybody knowing. Interfere with either of these things at your business peril.
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Tags: anonymously, blizzard, Cataclysm, forum, Mike Morhaime, StarCraftII, World of Warcraft
June 30, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Forget the recession. At least where digital advertising is concerned, there doesn’t seem to be one.
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Tags: advertising, forecast, IPG Mediabrands, magna global, online, research, revenue
June 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
What content really drives online traffic? Seems that web fanatics are looking for a good laugh, and if pictures of a cat lusting after a cheeseburger will give it to them, there’s gonna be an Internet entrepreneur out there who’ll host a site on the topic.
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Tags: Ben Huh, cats, Cheezburger network, humor, I can has Cheezburger, Websites
June 14, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
It’s a safe bet that few states want their broadband users to win in this category, but the place in the United States with the most porn subscribers per web user is (drum roll please):
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Tags: adult dating, popularity, porn, sex, Utah, Websites
June 7, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seems that consumer advocates and politicians smell blood in the technology waters. The red stuff is flowing from the direction of Facbook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose awkward performance at a tech industry conference recently sent schools of predators swarming.
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Tags: CEO, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
May 25, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
All those insomniacs out there who went shopping on 6pm.com last Friday got some great bargains when the folks who run the site made a huge mistake on their pricing engine. The foul up?
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Tags: 6pm, Amazon, glitch, pricing engine, Zappos
