Daily Archives: November 3, 2011

USDA awards $44.6 million for biofuel projects

USDA awards $44.6 million for biofuel projects

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week it has set aside $44.6 million to fund a variety of advanced biofuel production projects in over 38 states. The 156 projects, it should be noted, are not aimed at achieving research breakthroughs. Instead, the money will help expand existing facilities using established technologies to produce fuel … Continued

You Can Now +1 Photos on Google+

You Can Now +1 Photos on Google+

Dave Girouard, Apps Guy at Google Bradley Horowitz, VP of product at Google Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President, Commerce & Local at Google Nikesh Arora, SVP and Chief Business Officer Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President, Chrome and Apps, Google Urs Hoelzle Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering

7 Ways to Create a Memorable Customer Experience With Social Media

7 Ways to Create a Memorable Customer Experience With Social Media

Dave Toliver is the Director of Corporate Marketing at Angel, a leading provider of cloud based customer experience solutions. By developing innovative IVR, call center and voice applications that put the customer first, Angel is changing the way enterprises serve their customers. There’s bad news and good news about the way consumers interact with brands … Continued

7 Easy Steps for Creating Buzzworthy Content

7 Easy Steps for Creating Buzzworthy Content

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. We’ve heard for years now that “content is king” in the world of Internet marketing — yet so few marketers seem to understand how to create useful content that isn’t overly … Continued

BlackBerry Torch 9810 up for pre-order, illuminating T-Mobile stores November 9th

BlackBerry Torch 9810 up for pre-order, illuminating T-Mobile stores November 9th

T-Mobile is getting ready for another BlackBerry-flavored spark — the Torch 9810 is now up for pre-order for the carrier’s business customers. The 3.2-inch slider will be bringing its full QWERTY keyboard, 4G, 1.2GHz processor and BlackBerry OS 7 to T-Mobile stores on November 9th for $250 — after the mail-in rebate and with a … Continued

HP and Calxeda’s Moonshot ARM servers will bring all the boys to the yard (video)

HP and Calxeda’s Moonshot ARM servers will bring all the boys to the yard (video)

HP and Calxeda’s indiscreet partnership has been revealed to the world: Project Moonshot is a new server based around a brand new ARM-based EnergyCore system-on-chip. These new units are so efficient that a four core version, packing 4GB DRAM, consumes just five watts at full pelt — for perspective, that’s less than your average tablet. … Continued