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In the past week, business has taken me to Vancouver, BC and San Jose, Costa Rica with a pit stop in South Florida for a day or so at home. None of that was a big deal until my colleague Mike Atkin noted at dinner that we've been hitting these spots...

Marketers online have always wondered: How much would it have cost to attract the same media exposure through traditional advertising? Many of the answers have been released in a new report called The General Sentiment Media Value Report. This report atte

The Internet has made it possible, through social media sites, for small businesses to truly market themselves with the same tools and applications available to the larger companies.

All those pesky Windows 7 battery issues? Nothing to fret about says Microsoft, Windows 7 is operating as it should be.

There was a time where every blog under the Sun had the ubiquitous "Digg" button so that you could vote their stories up on the popular news aggregation site, but seemingly over night those buttons got replaced with the Twitter ReTweet buttons....

``When we opened, I went to all of the office buildings nearby with coupons for 25 percent off a deli sandwich on a particular day of the week,'' Hirschfeld said. ``That got a lot of people in the door. I want to get people talking about Super Deli online

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton will star in "The Thing," Universal's latest take on the shape-shifting alien who terrorizes a group of people in a remote facility...

It might come as a surprise to learn that the Royal Navy was issuing daily rum rations to all enlisted men (even those in nuclear submarines) until 1970...

For the 69th edition of The Round Up, Andy plays a mashup by MadMixMustang joining the sounds of Daft Punk and Bob Marley called Is This Digital Love? Greg then takes a look at the film adaptation of the graphic novel The Losers directed by Sylvain White

Saints quarterback Drew Brees was named Super Bowl XLIV MVP after New Orleans won its first-ever championship with an 31-17 win over the Colts. Brees tied a Super Bowl record with 32 completions. He finished 32 of 39 for 288 yards and two touchdowns...

It took the New Orleans Saints a full quarter to settle in at Super Bowl XLIV. But once Drew Brees and the Saints found their rhythm, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts could only try to keep up. Brees threw for 288 yards and two touchdowns...

Saints Super Bowl XLIV Champs

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, average sea ice extent in the Arctic last month was 5.32 million square miles, which was 69,000 square miles above the record January low, set in 2006, but 417,000 square miles below the 1979-2000...

Chris McGill from Mixx.com brings some breaking news to Social Blend 100 with some announcements of upcoming developments at Mixx. We also reflect on the evolution of Mixx and Social Blend over our past 100 shows, after Greg goes on a rant about Lawton M

When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X"

On February 6th, 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs published his "Thoughts on Music" letter. iTunes was by then the major player in online distribution, and the iPod had become the widely recognized face of portable music. DRM was controversial....