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Tagging, the emblematic activity of the “Web 2.0″ and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have tagged online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover.

Webtalkforums.net announces the official launch of its exclusive “Top Webmaster Forum” for Webmasters and Internet Marketing Experts from all over the world to discuss latest happenings on the webmaster resources including, hosting, advertising, web design and seo industry fronts. This forum allows visitors to share recommendations, news and trade about webmastering. This forum welcomes webmasters, website designer, software programmers, editors, writers and seo inductees to participate in the online and off line forum activities.

You like chatting online and you spend too much time on YouTube. You're addicted to your cellphone. And what's a Sunday night without HBO? But even if you're tied to your Internet, phone and TV services, you can still find ways to pay less for them. As cable, satellite, telecommunications and wireless carriers duel over your business, some great deals are out there. Companies throw discounts and perks to win your business from competitors, and your existing providers might even fight harder to keep you. Use this tip sheet to help you trim your technology bills.

With the advent of cellphones, Internet phoning and new technologies such as Skype, you can save a lot of money on long-distance (and local) calls. But navigating the myriad options and still getting the best service for your buck can be confusing. Consumer Reports offers some suggestions on how to save

Upstarts are taking on the A-Team of the desktop software world: Microsoft Office. Do they have a chance? This is as close to a soap opera as the tech world gets. An unknown company sets out to take on the largest software maker in the world. It raises millions in funding and creates a product—only to see its potential market vanish in the tech crash. Forced to sell itself to survive, it perseveres long enough to make a comeback six years later to rapturous users.

Backing up data is a critical and important aspect of business strategy and planning for smb (small and midsize businesses) and for individual PC users. It is a key element in information technology policy. Statistics show that data loss can mean a severe blow to any business. Data backup is simple to do, at least on paper. There are a number of

More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms. Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating on hijacked home computers. E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the com

Shalin Mody’s computer held innumerable things he’d love to have forever: TV shows, video games, papers and more than 50 gigabytes of music. So normally he would have panicked the day the PC completely failed, unable to start up.