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Why is it Hard to Innovate?
Why is it hard to innovate? What are the obstacles for innovation? Why is innovation success rate is so little? This paper is aimed at discussing these questions on an academic level.
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Date: 2006-03-31

Pros and Cons of Using Flash for Banners
Flash banners (those of .swf extension) are becoming very common in Internet promotion - they are so frequently used because Macromedia Flash is a rather simple tool for producing complicated animation effects of fine quality.
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Date: 2006-03-31

Why Comply? The Movement to W3C Compliance
The Internet: a powerful tool with endless possibilities to advance business, connect people and share information.
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Date: 2006-03-31

Microsoft's Mistakes Proving Costly
The wizards of Redmond turn thirty this year. Officially founded in 1976, Microsoft appears to have lost its edge as it enters its third full decade.
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Date: 2006-03-30

GoogleBot the "Spider of Doom"
A funny story is circulating in tech circles about how Googlebot inadvertently destroyed the database of a content management system (CMS) based site that took months of work to build.
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Date: 2006-03-30

We Have the Brains
At Do sandals and ponytails really hold back Linux? former Massachusetts chief information officer Peter Quinn complains that the Linux community is unprofessional and that this is holding back more widespread adoption of Linux. I'm sure he really believes that.
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Date: 2006-03-30

Creating A Small Business Technology Plan
The first step in creating a technology plan for your small business, or big business, is to understand clearly what you have now.
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Date: 2006-03-30

Innoopract Bases Ajax Platform On Eclipse
One of the founding members of the Eclipse Foundation debuted its concept for the "Rich Ajax Platform"; architecture and usage will be similar to Eclipse's "Rich Client Platform."
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Date: 2006-03-30

Intuitive Software Design: The gift that keeps on giving
Since the beginning of computers and software development, the user has wanted ease of use and an intuitive interface.
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Date: 2006-03-29

Insuring Your Small Business
The number of small businesses starting up in the UK increases every year. The people starting a new business do it for a variety of reasons, to follow a dream; the need to stay at home combined with the need to work, redundancy, the list is endless.
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Date: 2006-03-29

CSS Link Specificity
Love Hate is how I taught myself to remember the order. The acronym for the order (LVHA) just wasn't terribly easy to remember on its own.
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Date: 2006-03-29

Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Configuring EIGRP Packet Authentication
Configuring RIPv2 and EIGRP authentication with key chains can be tricky at first, and the syntax isn´t exactly easy to remember.
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Date: 2006-03-29

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: How To Spend Your Study Time
To pass the CCNA exam, you´ve got to create a study plan. Part of that plan is scheduling your study time, and making that study time count.
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Date: 2006-03-29

SEO versus Marketing: The Fine Art of Copywriting
Forget everything you've ever read, heard or seen about web marketing. Forget the marketing gurus and poo-bahs who tout the need for SEO (search engine optimized) text. The information upon which you've based your on-line marketing strategy is outdated. It is soooo last millennium.
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Date: 2006-03-28

SQL Server Indexes
A database index is similar to an index in a book - it is comprised of a lookup value, and a number identifier that corresponds to the row number in a table.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Decoding Web Hosting Reviews: ASP to FrontPage
Web hosts come under many names: ASP Hosting, Cold Fusion Hosting, Java Hosting, PHP Hosting; and as such, so must web hosting reviews.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Thinking Beyond PPC Bidding Wars
While bidding war tactics are intriguing to learn about, the costs of engaging in bidding wars are high, and these costs extend beyond the extra money marketers must pay to the search engines to engage in them.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Link Reciprocation - What's the Deal?
Link Reciprocation is quite a popular model for building link popularity for a website.
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Date: 2006-03-28

A Cup of Java Easier To Swallow
Sun Microsystems is promising easier times for web developers with its forthcoming Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Jave EE 5) and Java Platform Standard Editions (Java SE). In advance of those releases, Sun has released Java Web Services Development Pack 2.0 (Java WSDP), which features the same web service technology.
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Date: 2006-03-28

SEO For MSN
This is article one of a four part series on optimizing your website for the "Big Three". Part two will focus on Yahoo!, Part three will focus on Google and part four of this series will explain how to perform SEO on your website to attain high rankings across all three major engines.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Positive PR As a Marketing Tool
While controversial issues frequently attract attention they can also alienate potential customers.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Subcontracting your SEO and Web Development
Web development for the SEO (search engine optimization) expert includes using copywriters to generate SEO articles.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Paypal's New SMS-Based Money Transfer Service
PayPal has just launched a new service called PayPal Mobile.
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Date: 2006-03-28

Thinking Up A Great Domain Name That's Still Available
I'd be a zillionaire if I earned a dollar each time someone complains that all the great domain names are already taken.
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Date: 2006-03-27

Digging Deep To Get The Most From RSS Technology for Marketing
An integral part of getting the most from RSS is really understanding how RSS works as a technology --- basically understanding its structure and how to best use it to get more readership and better search engine rankings.
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Date: 2006-03-27

Upgrading to ASP.Net 2: Why Your Site Might Stop Working When You Do
Asp.Net version 2 was released last year by Microsoft and contains a feature rich set of classes that can do just about anything imaginable.
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Date: 2006-03-27

What You Must Know About A Drop Shipping Directory And its Company...
When I originally wrote this article a few years ago, it was titled "Eleven Things You Must Know About A Drop Shipping Directory And It's Company", and the drop shipping market was different than it is today.
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Date: 2006-03-27

Redesigning: How Often Is Too Often?
You've all seen it on some websites. They completely overhaul the look of the website every other month. Or at least it seems that way.
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Date: 2006-03-27

How HR Professionals Can Get Management to Listen
The human resources (HR) press and professional associations continue to produce volumes of information about HR becoming a strategic partner.
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Date: 2006-03-24

User Experience - Buzz Word or the Way Forward for Web Development?
User experience might sound like just another bit of marketing candy, but there's a lot of science hiding behind this feel good phrase.
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Date: 2006-03-24

Pay Per Click in 2006 :The Latest News and Tactics
There is probably no one who doubts that PPC is here for the long term. And while many dismissed PPC in the early days, it is clear, based on earnings reported by the search engines, that PPC is here to stay.
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Date: 2006-03-24

MIR3 Says ‘Spit It Out Already!’
If the communication structure of your company is as effective as using cans and strings, there are ways to improve that. MIR3 has released a technical white paper to explain how companies can improve responsiveness, productivity and efficiency in pre-existing communication infrastructures.
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Date: 2006-03-24

The Changing Facets of the SEO Business
The word "change" has over a dozen definitions, at least according to my electronic source at Princeton University.
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Date: 2006-03-23

Putting into Place Project Management Processes for SMEs (Small/Medium Businesses)
To many SME managers, the majority of project management literature can seem overwhelming, complex or downright inapplicable to their business environments.
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Date: 2006-03-23

IT Specialists: Branding Your Company
As IT specialists, a big way to differentiate yourself is to make sure that you're branding your company. Focus on selling your company name with its new industry twist.
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Date: 2006-03-23

C Programming References – A Quick List
Whether it is C or C# or C++, somewhere there is a website that can help the vaunted programmer find some useful bit for his or her work.
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Date: 2006-03-23

Importance of W3 Standards
When the Internet first began its boom, the technologies used in design were forgiving. W3-Compliance wasn't as necessary because there were fewer browsers, fewer users, and overall fewer technologies in use.
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Date: 2006-03-23

Building Relationships for your Business By Volunteering
"...entrepreneurs need to interact with their target market and then communicate effectively with them in order to build any relationships that may lead to a sale. How do you reach your customer if you can't afford well-placed advertising, need a larger budget to produce a radio or tv spot and want more of a connection than one night networking events?..."
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Date: 2006-03-23

Understanding Social Bookmarketing and Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular.
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Date: 2006-03-23

Tomorrows's Date
At How can I find tomorrow's or yesterday's date in a script?, some anonymous person left what I consider to be a stupid comment.
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Date: 2006-03-22

Compiere ERP Selected For Software 2006
The highly selective Sand Hill Group has chosen Compiere as one of the twenty featured companies at its Software 2006 conference.
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Date: 2006-03-22

AJAX Isn't All Purpose Soap
In this article, my goal is to provide you with a thorough AJAX primer and give you a real-world illustration of its usefulness.
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Date: 2006-03-22

CFDynamics Gets A Dell, CFEclipse Gets You
While Dell Computers will partner withh CFDynamics to include its client on a line of Dell servers, while CFEclipse needs a few good contributors.
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Date: 2006-03-22

DoubleClick Acquires Falk eSolutions AG
Digital advertising technology and services provider, DoubleClick Inc., announced an agreement to acquire German-based distribution and management company, Falk eSolutions AG. The transaction is expected to close prior to March 31, 2006.
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Date: 2006-03-22

CSS Cursors - How To Use Them
One thing that CSS allows us to use for screen presentation are alternate cursors. This is not the idea of downloading or forcing a download of a cursor, as was done in the past (though that is possible as well), but instead, we use several built in concept cursors.
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Date: 2006-03-22

Five Steps to a Successful CRM Implementation
For the professional services person, some iterations of CRM may be confusing - many are slanted toward automating customer service operations.
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Date: 2006-03-22

OpenOSX Virtualization for OS X
OpenOSX is a port of QEMU for OS X. It's a universal binary, so it works on the Intel Macs without translation.
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Date: 2006-03-22

File Date Comparison
Sometimes you want to use the date of a file somewhere else. For this example, we'll use the case where a file shouldn't be overwritten if it was created or changed today.
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Date: 2006-03-21

Consulting Firms: Should You Be a Product Reseller?
In this article, we'll explore the two schools of thought on whether computer consulting firms should resell products.
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Date: 2006-03-21

Build Your Mailing List Or Die!
Is having a mailing list really all that important?
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Date: 2006-03-21

Have You Seen What Is Being Drop Shipped To Your Customers Lately?
Do you remember the last time you bought a product and you were unhappy with the quality of the product?
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Date: 2006-03-21

IBM Wants To Eclipse Unix Developers
The command line is a wonderful thing, and a developer skilled in the ways of vi (or emacs if you must) can build great applications; IBM thinks developers can do even better with its Eclipse IDE.
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Date: 2006-03-21

Multi-Channel Retail - Plan For Success
The maturation of multi-channel commerce
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Date: 2006-03-21

Blogs, Podcasting, And RSS Within Ecommerce
You probably have heard all these terms an awful lot lately. You wonder about what these technologies do? What value to they provide? If you aren't up to speed on these new applications and how they are impacting retail online interaction then read this brief further.
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Date: 2006-03-21

iTunes Under Siege In France
Apple has made a tidy profit on its iPod music player, the only device that can accept music downloads directly from iTunes; the French government wants iTunes to be able to place music on any digital media player.
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Date: 2006-03-20

CRM On-Demand Is In Demand
There are many factors involved in this significant shift from the traditional software purchase and implementation to the On-Demand offerings from companies like Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Siebel.
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Date: 2006-03-20

The Trouble With Personalization
Personalization has rarely been implemented well. Its failure is usually because of a lack of understanding of customer behavior.
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Date: 2006-03-20

Static VLANs
BCMSN exam success and earning your CCNP certification requires you to add to your knowledge of VLAN configuration.
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Date: 2006-03-20

How To Communicate Value Proposition and ROI
As part of my continuing series on Value and Pricing, the following article shows you how to position your company's value contribution to support the highest value-for-value exchange.
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Date: 2006-03-20

Solve the CIO Problem by Properly Organizing Our Capital
Our CIOs have a problem. One person has to have capabilities in managing diverse kinds of capital.
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Date: 2006-03-20

Using Animation & Rich Media In Web Design
The use of special effects on web pages has literally exploded. Special effects are used either to draw potential client's attention to a web site or to show off technical expertise.
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Date: 2006-03-20

End User Council at Storage Networking World
Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2006 is covering a lot of new ground. One area of discussion is going to be interoperability and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) End User Council (EUC) will attempt to explain the issues surrounding interoperability.
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Date: 2006-03-20

Meeting Your Bandwidth Requirements For SCM Applications
As I pointed out in a previous article, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a complex animal.
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Date: 2006-03-17

ASP.Net: Great Products, Great Caching
Fans of ASP.Net products can vote for their choice in the asp.netPro Readers' Choice Awards online; also, Gadgetopia's Deane Barker praises the "Output Cache" directive.
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Date: 2006-03-17

A Guide To IPv6 Address Types
Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it´s going to help in your real-world networking career as well.
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Date: 2006-03-17

CCNA Recertification Requirements
Passing the CCNA exam and earning this coveted Cisco certification is an important step in your career, but it´s not the end of your responsibilities as a CCNA!
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Date: 2006-03-17

Could the New Google Spider be Causing Issues with Websites?
Around the time Google announced "Big Daddy," there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I've heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and previously unindexed content getting indexed.
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Date: 2006-03-17

So Many Managers Doubt PR's Value
As business, non-profit, government agency or association managers, what they'll tell you they DO know is, "PR is pretty much all about press releases, broadcast plugs, brochures and special events."
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Date: 2006-03-17

Complexity Compels Changes for SEO Firms
The process of search engine optimization and placement has undergone a number of fundamental changes over the past year.
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Date: 2006-03-16

March Madness Tests IT Rubber Rooms
This is the time of year when office pools run rampant and some research anticipates employees becoming virtually worthless for long periods of time for the next three weeks. This year, all the games will be streaming live online as well. This year however, computer networks could be in for an overload as millions stream live their favorite college basketball games.
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Date: 2006-03-16

Enabling Linux telnet
This has to be one of the more common support calls that I get. The telnet daemon is no longer usually installed by default, so people are surprised when their newly installed Linux system won't answer telnets.
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Date: 2006-03-15

Change: It Doesn't Have To Be So Difficult
The old adage goes: no one likes change. But I believe that people enjoy change; they just don't know how to change without disrupting their status quo.
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Date: 2006-03-15

Bringing Clients in the Door: How Professionals Can Encourage Business
You're a professional - either a doctor, or a dentist, or an artist. Maybe you're an independent sales person who works on commission, or a speaker who must sell yourself.
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Date: 2006-03-15

Red Hat’s New Linux Software Development Tools
San Francisco based Linux dudes Red Hat announced a "Integrated Virtualization" strategy on Tuesday. This new tool should simplify deployment in a new virtualization environment. They claim this will allow customers to deploy resources at minimal cost while maximizing utilization.
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Date: 2006-03-15

McObject Releases Database Combo
Data management company McObject (I'm storin' it!) has a new embedded systems tool combo. The new version of eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database comes with Accelerated Technology's Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS), a side and a drink. Okay, no side and drink.
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Date: 2006-03-15

Test Making Software
It has become obvious that a company is only as efficient as its software.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Save Face, Time, and Money on Your Next IT Project
How many times have you been involved in a project where a newly-released piece of software required an immediate enhancement because the right people were not "in the loop"?
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Date: 2006-03-14

Do Newsletters Help Your Marketing?
Newsletters act as part of your "keep in touch" marketing strategy. They provide a vehicle for keeping in touch with your current customers or clients and providing them with additional value.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Computer Training School Tutorial: Know Your Instructor
Making the decision to attend a computer tech school can be one of the best decisions of your life.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Oracle Produces Oracle SQL Developer
The kids out in Redwood Shores announced a new product called SQL developer, known previously as Project Raptor. The product is a free database development tool designed for use by Oracle Database developers.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Option Trading Tip - Covered Call Cashflow
Writing Covered Calls is a conservative strategy where you buy a stock that you would like to invest in and then write a call option against that stock.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Lady and the Scamp (SCO does the Web)
If you visit SCO's website (yeah, I know, why would you?) soon enough, you may see SCO's new Scamp logo: an evil looking bulldog grinning at you across folded arms.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Unexpected entries in Apache error_log
For some time now I have noticed a large number of entries in my Apache error log.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Doodle Your Search Query
DMNews has word of a new search engine that utilizes pattern recognition. With 3D-Seek, simply use the blank "canvass" interface to draw the product you are looking for.
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Date: 2006-03-14

SCJA - An entry level Java certification
Sun certification exams are valued and trusted by employers worldwide due to its high quality, credibility, and skill-focused assessments.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Was Your Last Software Specification Really Appreciated?
If you are still trying to write system specifications in English then you are in trouble.
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Date: 2006-03-14

Google Adds Demographic Targeting to its Contextual Ad Network
Many marketers will likely find Google's new demographic features interesting and useful. The big question is: when will Google add such capabilities to Search campaigns?
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Date: 2006-03-13

Corporate Events, Team Building Positively Impact Business' Bottom Line - Every Time!
In today's increasingly global marketplace, companies are forced to set themselves apart from a sea of look-alikes and, as many CEOs are finding out, perhaps the most effective way to do this is through corporate team training events.
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Date: 2006-03-13

Websites Reflect True Face of an Organization
A website shows the true face of the organization as never before. A website is increasingly the place where customers get that vital first impression.
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Date: 2006-03-13

Assertivenet is Gigablast Spider (Gigabot)
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence and information to counteract the suggestion that Assertivenet is potentially used for malicious purposes.
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Date: 2006-03-13

Keep in touch (tcp keepalives etc.)
You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself.. (Ricky Nelson)
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Date: 2006-03-13

Best MovableType Plugins
My personal list of the Best Movabletype Plugins will be the first article to kick off a new category on ProfitPapers reflecting my love of everything development.
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Date: 2006-03-10

MovableType SEO
Alright I touched on Movabletype and SEO this last week in my best movable type plugins article with the intent to come back and provide some specific details.
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Date: 2006-03-10

E-Backups Picks Up 20 New VARs
E-Backups a wholesale provider of branded HIPAA compliant, remote back-up software, services and managed storage, was selected by twenty VAR's to be the remote back solution of choice to present as a value added service to their clients. Each has had the solution customized and branded to their specifications.
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Date: 2006-03-10

Adobe To Flash Lots Of Cash
The expanded availability of Macromedia Flash player on more mobile phones should lead to greater profits for Adobe.
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Date: 2006-03-10

"The New Kid in Town": MSN AdCenter
If you use Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly known as Overture) for your pay per click advertising, you'll want to "listen up".
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Date: 2006-03-10

Compiling on Mac OS X
There are a lot of pre-compiled binaries available for Mac OS X, but sooner or later you will need to compile something from source.
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Date: 2006-03-09

Why Human Resources Training Is Essential For Your Business
In today's business world proper training in human resources is imperative.
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Date: 2006-03-09

A New Book On C
The C programming language has been around for quite a while now. A new book by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford called "C in a Nutshell" makes some interesting assertions and provide some useful information for the programming language first used in Unix.
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Date: 2006-03-09

OSPF Router Types
When you´re preparing to pass the BSCI exam on the way to the coveted Cisco CCNP certification, you can be quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of BGP and OSPF knowledge you must demonstrate a mastery of.
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Date: 2006-03-09

Linux Adds OpenIB InfiniBand
Novell's soon-to-be released Linux distribution will pack with it open source OpenIB InfiniBandsoftware, according to the OpenIB Alliance, now called The OpenFabrics Alliance. The inclusion opens up a wider availability of InfiniBand to IT professionals, increasing interoperability and support within the industry as the Alliance extends its focus on RDMA over Ethernet.
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Date: 2006-03-08

Flex & Ajax Together: FABridge
Macromedia has a lot of wonderful tools for the developer community. One of the most impressive new tools, Flex 2.0, has been developed with ColdFusion integration in mind. Macromedia threw out a new resource by introducing a new library of code called the Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge). The new code can be inserted into a Flex application, a Flex component or an empty SWF file in order to expose it to scripting in the browser.
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Date: 2006-03-08

ERP Opening To Open Source
One well-known name and one relative newcomer have designs on the enterprise resource-planning world, and will use open source technology to take on the entrenched powers in the industry.
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Date: 2006-03-08

Personalizing Autoresponders
Have you ever walked into a store in your town, and been addressed by name?
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Date: 2006-03-08

Internet Marketing: Confessions of a 'White Paper' Junkie
I'm a sucker for a good white paper.
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Date: 2006-03-08

Measuring Success as an SEO
"How do I know if my SEO campaign has been successful?"
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Date: 2006-03-08

Reuse or Write New?
Sometime last summer I was involved in a fairly complicated Perl project. It was one of those "Well, it's just like the thing you did for X, but now we need it for Y and Z".
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Date: 2006-03-07

Simple Schedule
I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I've done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don't like modifying other people's code.
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Date: 2006-03-07

How to Choose the Right IT Certification Training
IT training is an important part of your professional formation, offering a range of alternatives in software training, technical training and certification training, that sometimes make it hard to find out which one is the most convenient when it comes to deciding.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Misunderstanding Security
At UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth, Thom Holwerda makes a rather silly argument that Unix security is no better than the worst of Windows security because the result to the user is the same: his personal files can be damaged by a worm or virus even if system files are more protected.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Organic SEO
The fabled tales of successfully tricking search engines into high rankings have given way to a new truth, to achieve decent consistent ranking you cannot engage in tricks but on focused optimization done in a professional ethical manner.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Do's and Don'ts of Launching a Small Business Website
Launching a small business website can seem like an enormous task, although it does require some research, if done right it might be just the marketing tool your business needs.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Site Maps and Your Website
Sometimes websites have so much information available that it becomes difficult for visitors to get to all the information.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Java Posse Keeps On Podcasting
The guys behind the Java-focused podcast at JavaPosse.com marked their seventh month of podcasting about the programming language.
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Date: 2006-03-07

SQL Injections Abound
Danish security firm Secunia reported on Monday several moderately critical vulnerabilities in various software products that allow SQL injection attacks. Products like Gregarius, Total Ecommerce, Akarrus Social Bookmarking Engine and others.
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Date: 2006-03-07

Fold Looks Promising
Fold is a Web 2.0 start page that looks promising.
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Date: 2006-03-07

CIO Enterprise Identity Project Approaches
The Enterprise Identity Management project is all about automating business processes and synchronizing identity-related information across the enterprise.
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Date: 2006-03-06

The True Cost of Content
Most content will never show a return on investment. The Web is overflowing with low-quality content. Sooner or later, senior management is going to pay serious attention to all this waste.
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Date: 2006-03-06

How to Drive the Right Customer Management Software
As companies battle to win new customers and keep current ones, more companies wanting to leverage their sales and marketing strategies, strengthen their workforce, and utilize the best tools available, are making Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software choices.
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Date: 2006-03-06

Google GDrive Is Coming
To paraphrase a movie line, "INFINITE COSMIC STORAGE! Itty bitty living space." This is what the kids at Google see in the future. On Friday, Google sponsored their Analyst Day and they offered some new analysis on this very topic.
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Date: 2006-03-06

Top Seven Strategies to Help You Market Your Local Business Online and Market Your Virtual Business
Roughly 75% of the business owners I speak with in any given town or city see little, if any, need for an online presence.
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Date: 2006-03-03

New Partnership In Medical ASP
Mercury Computer Systems announced an extended partnership with image management specialist Acuo Technologies. Part of the deal includes Acuo working with U.S. service providers and including Mercury's image management solution as bundled offering in the ASP package in the U.S.
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Olympics End But Flash Hangs Around
Though much of the US Olympic performance left sports fans disappointed, the Olympic website has enjoyed a gold medal showing with the use of Flash throughout it.
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ASP.NET “How Do I” Video Series
Microsoft put together a video series called "How Do I." The purpose behind the series is to help educate developers by answering common questions regarding ASP.NET 2.0.
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Date: 2006-03-03

Will Writing a Business Book Generate Sales Leads?
If you have more than a passing interest in writing a business book, this is worth checking out.
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Date: 2006-03-02

What Do Your Business Emails Reveal About You?
I am a huge fan of email. In fact, if you do business with me the bulk of our communication will not be through the telephone, but via email.
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Date: 2006-03-02

NeoSEO, Optimization in The Emerging Search Sphere
About ten years ago my brother and I ventured to the Edge of the World. It is located a few hundred kilometers (120mi) northwest of Thunder Bay Ontario.
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Date: 2006-03-02

3G Scenarios For C++ Interface
European tech firm Rohde & Schwarz produced a new package of 3G test scenarios for the MLAPI C++ programming interface, with plans of providing a more flexible environment for laboratories.
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Date: 2006-03-02

Microsoft Certification: The New MCTS Tracks And Exams
Microsoft is revamping its certification tracks, and will eventually retire the familiar MCSE certificatons.
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Date: 2006-03-02

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization
Preparing to pass the BSCI exam and earn your Cisco CCNP?
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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization For RIP, EIGRP, And OSPF
Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification?
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Date: 2006-03-02

Risk of Investment
Identifying and minimizing risks needs to be part of the ROI equation.
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Date: 2006-03-02

Eliminate Extra Steps and Get the Sale
In case you haven't heard of a company called Volusion, they have offered eCommerce software, website design services and advanced online solutions for both large and small businesses since 1999.
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Date: 2006-03-02

Oracle’s Free Database: 10g XE
Database monster Oracle popped out a new child yesterday in the form of their Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (XE). The nifty thing about XE is it's free and is considered a starter edition.
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Date: 2006-03-01

DreamWorks Imagines Linux Development SOA
Hewlett-Packard announced DreamWorks would implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution based on Linux.
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Date: 2006-03-01

Logitech’s New CS2 Tool For Developers
Two major tools in the toolbox for many developers remain the Mac and Adobe Software. Logitech recently announced new tools for use with Macs and Adobe's Creative Suite 2 (CS2), which consists of Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.
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Date: 2006-03-01

Powering Up Managerial PR
For many managers, talking about how to power up managerial public relations means talking about favored communications tactics such as press releases, broadcast plugs, special events and brochures.
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Date: 2006-03-01

PR: Here's What Works
When it comes to public relations, what can work best for you as a business, non-profit, government agency or subsidiary manager, is doing something meaningful about the behaviors of those key outside audiences of yours that MOST affect the department, group, division or subsidiary you manage.
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Date: 2006-03-01

The Top Five LAN Security Issues Facing IT Managers Today
IT managers face many difficult LAN security issues today, but are confronted with a huge array of established and emerging security technologies that promise to deal with these issues.
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Date: 2006-03-01