If Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true: Understanding how to code is the new literacy. Take Zuck and Gates' advice -- learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs and opportunities. But you're probably thinking, where do I even begin? Will code classes drain my money and time? Fortunately for you, there are loads of ways to learn coding online, w

Gartner Finds Corporate Websites Still A Higher Digital Marketing Priority For U.S. Marketers Than Facebook — Just If you thought corporate websites were gathering the equivalent of digital dust as marketers moonlight on social media to lure in the punters, think again. According to a new poll of U.S. marketers conducted by Gartner, corporate websites are ranked as the top digital activity for mar

Forrester: U.S. Online Retail Sales to Hit $370 Billion by 2017 Up, up and away: Ecommerce, which generated $231 billion in sales for U.S. retailers last year, is expected to increase 13% to $262 billion this year, according to forecasts technology and market research firm Forrester plans to release Wednesday. The growth of ecommerce, which already accounts for about 8% of total retail sales in th

Mars has captured the imagination of both scientists and popular culture buffs going back centuries as books, movies and even games have attempted to encapsulate the isolation and vastness of the red planet seen in our imaginations. Now it’s caught the eye of indie video game developer Tyler Owen, who hopes to take players to a 25-square-mile stretch of the red planet in his in-development game La

Dropbox Revamps Its Desktop Clients With A New Menu And A Bigger Focus On Sharing The cloud storage buffs at Dropbox have spent quite a bit of time optimizing the service for mobile devices (and mobile developers, naturally), but the Dropbox desktop client looks and works much the same way it did a few years ago. Well, that’s not the case anymore — the company has just pulled back the curtain on a

Google Launches “Help For Hacked Sites” To Teach Site Owners How To Recover Their Hacked Sites No site is fully immune to getting hacked, but there are some obvious things every site owner can do to make it a bit harder for hackers to break into a web server and add rogue links or take over a site completely. Today, Google launched its new “Help for Hacked Sites” series to teach webmasters how to