Crushing cybersquatters – fighting those who abuse your brand online

When the Web site FreeLegoPorn.com began publishing pornographic images created with Lego toys, trademark owner Lego Juris AS, which sells the popular plastic building blocks for children, acted quickly. "The content available on

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 26th, 2009 Robert L. Mitchell

iPhone light years ahead of the BlackBerry on almost every count – Part 3

Yesterday, Part 2 of our three-parter on the relative merits of the BlackBerry and the iPhone as a business device, focused on applications, discussing the colossal limitations of BlackBerry apps when contrasted with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 29th, 2009 Galen Gruman

Playing doctor – are self-help online health sites really effective?

I'm a wreck. I think I might have osteomyelitis, or peripheral neuropathy, or even retrocalcaneal bursitis. I just hope it's not tarsal tunnel syndrome. I'm also overstressed, overweight, losing my hearing and not

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 13th, 2009 David Ramel

Four reasons why some news organizations can’t make money online

It has been well documented that online media is eating away at print and broadcast media revenue. This decline in print and broadcast media has been going on for years, and newspapers, magazines

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 6th, 2008 Melissa Chang

Ontarians spend more time online than other Canadians.

Foreign and local companies set to launch an online service or product in Canada should consider Ontario as their testing ground, an Internet marketing expert says.That's because Ontario outpaces all other Canadian provinces

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 30th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

12 embarrassing reasons why you should be careful about posting photos on Facebook

You know the old cliche, a picture is worth a thousand words? Turns out that pictures have been deeply undervalued: A single photo can cost you your reputation, your job, even your freedom--if

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 16th, 2008 Dan Tynan

Adobe jumps into online collaboration with Acrobat 9

After so many years of trying to get its Acrobat software product to deliver the dynamic portable document format (PDF) capabilities that would make it a must-have application, Adobe Systems Inc. appears to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 15th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

Google’s glossy fa

Now that Google has reached its 10-year mark, the company is facing the cultural complexities and challenges that come with the transition from hip start-up to corporate giant.In Google Inc.'s early days, it

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 10th, 2008 Elizabeth Montalbano

Google’s Chrome browser users could face “carpet bomb” attack

Attackers can combine the months-old "carpet bomb" bug with another flaw disclosed last month to trick people running Google Inc.'s brand-new Chrome browser into downloading and launching malicious code, a security researcher said

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 5th, 2008 Gregg Keizer

How hackers pull a fast flux on security enforcers

In the continuing computer security arms race, a technique called fast flux is the bad guys' latest way of thwarting attempts to shut down phishing scams and other Web nasties.Fast flux was first

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 29th, 2008 Grant Buckler

Spammers step up “hit-and-run” operations

They were all the rage last year, but image and file attachment spam is definitely out in 2008, as spammers abandon complex techniques for simpler URL-based methods.Around 90 per cent of all spam

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 31st, 2008 Nestor Arellano

How to create a landing page that instantly entices customers

Courtesy of Entrepreneur.comYou put all kinds of work into creating a great pay-per-click ad, filling it with exactly the right keywords to catch the attention of your target market and drive them through

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 21st, 2008 Ralph Gabai

Social net strategies for SMBs

More than 20 million Canadians are on online social networks - a sea of marketing possibilities for small business that would dare to dip their feet into the Web 2.0 pool.Valuable business intelligence

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 15th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

Canadian IT career site jettisons Linux for .Net system

When an upgrade of its open source-based Web site threatened to overwhelm its budget, a Canadian IT career organization decided to give Linux the pink slip, and recruit Microsoft instead.The Information and Communications

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 11th, 2008 Nestor Arellano