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While touch screen technology has become increasingly popular among smartphone users, the sleek screens have proved to be an obstruction for blind users, who rely on tangible clues to feel their way around.  A pair of engineers at Google has been working diligently to resolve this issue, Charles...

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8, (IE8 RC1) and many have been anticipating the Web Slices feature.  Similar to live bookmarks, which are periodically updated with new information, Web Slices go a step further and offer the option of displaying a preview window when clicked. The p...

A common mistake made on websites today is linking to other websites when it is not necessary.  The attention span of potential clients who are surfing the web is mere seconds, and once you have them on your site, why would you open a door for them to exit and likely not return?  It is uncommon f...

Facebook seems to have been going through a stealthy re-branding over the past months, steadily changing features, incorporating behavioral targeted advertising, attempting to alter the user agreement policy and many other details. All of these changes have left many wondering where the old Faceb...

In the midst of all the recent controversy surrounding Facebook's seemingly unpopular decision to declare rights to all user content, and then hold a democratic-style vote among users on the matter, popular social networking site Facebook has opted to hire a Public Policy Director, Timothy D. Sp...

Microsoft is under scrutiny once again, this time for its seemingly stubborn approach to investing in the search market.  Some investor's shareholders are questioning aloud why the company is willing to spend billions to compete in the dominated search market, continuously losing money and marke...

Behavioral targeted advertising has begun-and as most issues that revolve around privacy tend to be, it is generating controversy.  Those in favor recognize the value of the ability to reach your target audience without the need to funnel funds into an abyss hoping for a bite and those opposed c...

Online marketing is a highly competitive field with an endless scope of options and advancements.  The world of search has begun to lead the marketing industry, and for this reason, companies are investing more into their website-and they are seeing the financial gains. Businesses are becoming s...

Since its inception just a couple years ago, the free software program Hadoop has conquered some of the largest and most impressive Web sites.  Hadoop controls the top search engines, quite impressive, but it also determines which ads will be displayed next to search results and what users see o...

Hot on the heels of the vastly unpopular Randy Falco and his chief aide Ron Grant, AOL has successfully recruited Tim Armstrong of Google to take the hot seat as the new chief executive.  Tim Armstrong was Google's top sales representative, running the sales department successfully since 2000. Th...