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Small businesses already working to hold costs down during the recession have another expense to contend with: higher postal rates. The price of a first-class stamp went up two cents to 44 cents on Monday, the latest in a series of increases this year by the U.

If you shop but don't buy, online stores could use a new system that would immediately try to bring you back.

Online, volunteer translators are helping to provide the nuance that machines can't.

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Internet censorship used to be pretty easy to spot. When China blocks YouTube or prohibits anything on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, it's not hard to figure out what's going on. But as governments and commercial firms get savvier about the internet, censorship is getting more subtle. A slow Web site could be an accidental glitch or something more intentional.

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The economy came crashing down in September 2008 as the credit markets seized up, a massive dislocation which is now, tsunami-like, causing huge damage to the economy. This has significantly reduced the amount of credit available for businesses. Many news organizations are being forced to close their doors.

Consumers and content creators have been the losers in the war against piracy, says Matt Mason, but the creative industries can learn from pirates to thrive in the 21st Century.With the file-sharing wars heating up again in the wake of convictions in The Pirate Bay case in Sweden, Matt Mason told the audience at the Thinking Digital conference how companies have to learn from pirates to survive in the 21st Century.He sees the problem as this:We have 19th Century intellectual property laws and 20th Century business models in the complexity of the 21st Century.He says that for business to deal with the complexity of the 21st Century, they need to spend less time fighting pirates and more time and energy developing new business models that can support artists and give consumers what they want.Matt, the author of The Pirates Dilemma, said that we're in this period of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, we have the internet and a wide range of new communication tools. It's no longer a br

Google and other cloud-based services have been experiencing outages of several hours' duration throughout 2009. While that may be fine for members of the general public, who can live with e-mail occasionally being down for an hour, it is of potential concern for businesses of all sizes, including larger enterprise companies, where constant uptime equals revenue and even survival. Are services such as Google Apps and Microsoft Azure ready to meet that need? - The downtime experienced by Google on May 14, the latest in a series of temporary shutdowns experienced by cloud-based service companies throughout 2009, evokes one of those questions of burning importance to the enterprise: Are cloud-based services truly ready to meet business needs that requir...