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When you think of your website, do you see design or content? If you see content, chances are you want to get the right content to the right audience at the right time. In order to effectively achieve the holy grail of targeted content, you need to first identify what users want. In other words, you need data.

Managing your personal or corporate mobile plans can be a hassle, especially if you're prone to going over your monthly voice, messaging and data allocation. Under-utilizing your monthly plan can also be a waste. Tucows is launching a service that will help deal with changes in usage patterns more easily.

Last week Forrester taught us about the issues of mobile device management within the enterprise. The next day it released a report that helped us put it in perspective.

When your mobile phone starts transmitting huge amounts of data without your knowledge and consent, you might get really mad. This is what happened to some Windows Phone 7 users recently.

There has never been a more exciting time for the mobile broadband market than today. At the start of 2011, the mobile broadband market accounts for about 500 million subscribers worldwide, and this number is expected to reach a billion before the year ends. In the Asia Pacific region alone, mobile data revenues are expected to double in the next five years. However, there is still a huge disparity between emerging and developed economies, in terms of mobile broadband capabilities.

When you think of your content strategy, are stories a part of the user experience? Randall Snare, Elizabeth McGuane of iQ Content thinks that telling stories should be a major component of your sales strategy.

Solutions provider Pagos offers a way for companies reliant on their old spreadsheets to kick them into the modern web-based age.

Information access, if it isn't already a big issue for your business, is going to be massive as we approach data meltdown in the coming years, IDC names those who could save us.

Despite persistent global economic difficulties, a recent survey from technology consultancy IDC (news, site) shows that the world-wide storage software market continues to hold its own with 6.3% growth between Q3 and Q4 last year.

However, while the combined market for all top vendors increased by 0.5% in Q4 last year compared with Q4 in 2008, the overall picture is gloomier with a total contraction of the market year-on-year of 4.7%.

If you live in the US or Canada you probably know that you can dial 911 for emergency services and 411 for directory assistance. However, did you know that many communities in these two countries offer 311 service as well?

The Open311 project promises to bring 311 services into the digital age.

Last time we talked about our audit, we were talking about mechanisms to collect data from your infrastructure. We discussed how to leverage a couple of different collection mechanisms for your data. What we haven’t discussed, is what to do with the data after you collect it.

Intranet-specific software company Intranet DASHBOARD just released key data with global intranet usage and trends in tangent with its launch for Intranet DASHBOARD 2.0. Intranet DASHBOARD recently pulled in a couple of honors at the Product of the Year Awards.