Google Makes Sales Call To Federal Government

When you consider that Google’s net income in 2006 was well over $3 billion, it becomes apparent that individual customers don’t matter much to the company’s overall business. Google may be trying to change that, however: yesterday and today, it’s holding a special sales meeting with “nearly 200 federal contractors, engineers and uniformed military members.”

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YouTube Gives MySpace, TV Networks A Thumpin’

It's been nothing but up for YouTube lately, a hill steep enough to send a few key competitors tumbling backwards. MySpace added a video component? Wouldn't know it by recent stats. Viacom copyright lawyers strip-searching everybody? So, what? Traffic's never been better. According to Compete.com, YouTube controls a 43.3 share of the online video market in January, up from 41.1 percent in December. That translates…

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Book Publishers Half-way Getting it

They may not be all the way there yet, but at least HarperCollins and Random House — both ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — are trying to bring books into the Web era with their new “browsing” widgets.

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Explaining Windows 2003 Terminal Server Licensing

When it comes to licensing your Windows 2003 Terminal server environment most people can never remember what is needed and the Microsoft documentation seems to go on a bit:) Here I try to make it simple for you… 9 times out of 10 it’s just a matter of the following: 

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Why Your Vlog or Podcast Might Fail

I don’t want to sound like an old, crotchety, cynical, email-will-never-overtake-fax-machine dinosaur but I don’t think podcasts or video blogs are all they’re cracked up to be. I’m the first to admit that I may be way off the mark here, because this is a somewhat counter-intuitive argument. The newer media of internet videos and podcasts seem like the next logical evolution of the written…

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