A few weeks ago, I spoke to someone who had finally reached the end of her rope with an obdurate boss. Having suggested a series of social media initiatives, only to see them wither on the vine as he refused

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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest

announced a pro version of its iPhone application this week that syncs with Salesforce.com and other cloud-based services or on-premsie sales environments. It's a visualization application, providing mobile workers with a pretty cool way to see sales information. Integration is

Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than

It appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with

The Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem

The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data

Writing a book will never be easy, but s mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for

It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the

Adobe's online office suite, , is getting its first major upgrade since the service left beta back in June of this year. The new release, launching tomorrow, is an entirely unified experience thanks to the addition of a much-requested file

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iPhones are becoming a standard in the enterprise. And with the the iPhones, we are seeing a number of applications for a variety of different uses.The latest is an application for security managers made by Cisco. The application alerts managers

In the wake of a leak of an , U.S. House representatives are introducing legislation to curtail the greatest of American freedoms: the illegal download.Let's not kid ourselves, dear readers. P2P's best use cases all revolve around the liberation of

Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more. tweetmeme_url

In his keynote this morning, continued his critique on software companies for their lack of development and sense of entitlement. And not surprisingly, the full-on pitch continued for cloud computing with a parade of executives showing the applications they developed

When Heroes actor Greg Grunberg tells you to download an iPhone application, you can't help but listen. Best known as television's mind controlling savant Matt Parkman, Grunberg demoed location-based coupon startup at today's Grunberg's offers users deals from nearby stores,

Twitter turned on its long-awaited today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of for analysis.tweetmeme_url = = 'rww';"You

It always gives us joy to tell our readers that Microsoft is actually doing cool things. The company's Live Labs has been the source of a few interesting projects: a 3D photo-stitcher called , a bookmarking service called (which was