Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8. This new version comes with a new feature called "Web Slices." It is a new approach to publishing and consuming content from any web site. It allows you to publish a fragment of your web site that users can subscribe to. Very easy to implement, you would place some special html tags around the piece of the content of your web site you want published. When the user visits your web site, they see a green highlight around the fragment you published and gives...

Streamlining operations of an organization and achieving operational efficiencies has always been a worthy goal but it is especially true in bad times. One of the approaches to achieve this goal is to getting your existing programs to work together. The tools are widely available and in some cases they are so inexpensive and simple to implement so as to be a complete no-brainer. Integrating your existing legacy applications together rather than implement new software could yield some truly positive...

You are probably familiar with Flash™ and don't even know it. Flash™ is a multimedia authoring tool made by Adobe®. You've seen those fancy animations on web sites or maybe a rich interactive game online or even YouTube™. These applications are usually built with Adobe® Flash™. Microsoft® has released a very similar application called Silverlight™. This tool allows developers to create the ...

Cloud computing is quite a fluid term that means so many things to many people. The idea is pretty simple ... think of the Internet as your operating system or platform. Microsoft® released a new product called Azure™. The idea with this platform is to run your mission critical applications on a pay-as-you-grow basis using Microsoft's data centers. Instead of buying and supporting expensive servers and infrastructure with the anticipation ...

Add another one to your Three Letter Acronym (TLA) dictionary: Content Management System (CMS) The days of static pages are long gone and a number of attempts at creating an easy way to create and deploy a website, corporate intranet, or vendor extranet are here. A content management system is an application that empowers a user to "own" or manage their own website content without the help of IT staff. There are thousands of CMS platforms available and a great number of them are free. You can use...

In the last two decades we have seen a progression of technology paradigms focused one basic question: how to meet business objectives via automation/technology. But innovation for the sake of innovation is not an approach to solving business problems. The focus should be at employing...

What kind of thing would be healthy if it spreads around and has anything to do with the word virus? When it promotes your business. They sure could have come up with a more elegant name like pervasive or ubiquitous but the term is viral marketing or viral advertising. The concept is nothing new, as you refer to it as word of mouth. In the context of the web, however, it refers to using software that provides social networking features ...

Awesome technology ... "a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content." While only available for commercial purchase Microsoft Surface is a sign of things to come. In a nut shell, the technology is based on a table with a touch screen and a set of five cameras that allow for scanning of hand gestures and movements and the ability to scan and...