LinkedIn just revealed the results of its study on the most overused buzzwords on LinkedIn profiles. As a dynamic, creative writer with extensive experience and effective communication skills, I’ve got some advice about which terms should be used or abandoned. 1. Creative This was the most abused...

If you’ve ever contributed to Wikipedia, you’re no doubt familiar with the markup coding it’s long relied on for formatting its articles. That wiki markup language, in fact, may well be at least one reason behind Wikipedia’sdwindling ranks of contributors, the Wikimedia Foundation...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company’s $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized. “Sometimes you’re lucky,” he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference co-chair John Battelle. Careful not to offend...

Oracle has issued an emergency patch to fix a vulnerability it says could bring down HTTP application servers it sells that are based on Apache 2.0 or 2.2. Attackers can exploit the weakness remotely without a username or password, Oracle said in a security alert issued Thursday. Products impacted by the bug...

Hell hath no fury like a consumer scorned–a fact Netflix is discovering since it restructured its pricing in July. One million consumers have bailed since the restructure, and the company’s stock price is falling precipitously. Netflix released its membership projections for the third quarter,...