CRM Update – Mar 02 : 2:51 pm

Liam lives in England and has a cat. As all people owned by cats know, warm, feline-posterior-sized electronic devices are irresistible to cats worldwide, and the DSL modem/router thingy provided by his Internet service provider, Be, is no exception. The problem is that this particular router doesn’t work very well with a cat on top of it. He made a joking forum post that featured a photo of his cat communing with the router and pleaded for a decoy router so he could keep his cat happy but also have functional Internet…

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Computers and Electronics

TigerDirect: [Computers] [Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 1GB Video Card (28nm, PCi-E 3.0, 1GH) $129.99AR Free Ship]Adorama: [Computers] [Pogoplug POGO-P21 Multimedia Sharing Device $26.99]Adorama: [Electronics] JVC Everio 64GB Full HD Camcorder $199…

Anthony’s faith in the U.S. Postal service was clearly misplaced. He dropped off a package with a prepaid label at a local post office, with the misguided belief that it would enter the shipping system, and that the delivery confirmation barcode on the label would show the package’s path through the mails. That’s not what happened. What happened was that the prepaid label, with no package attached, was returned to Anthony’s house. Where’s the package? No one knows. But it’s not the post office’s problem, since there’s no proof that he even mailed it in the first place…

Universal will not follow the lead of Warner Bros. by restricting sales of DVDs to rental services for 56 days. Instead, the studio worked out an extension of its current deal with Redbox that will continue to keep Universal’s discs out of renters’ hands for 28 days.

Engadget reports the deal lasts through 2014, and that so far Warner Bros. is standing alone in its efforts to make renters wait eight weeks to taste their wares. Netflix accepted the Warner Bros. delay, while Redbox vowed to buy its own DVDs…

If you were hoping for the next version of Windows to come in only one flavor, you’re probably out of luck. Digging through registry entries of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, windows 8 beta found references to nine different editions of the OS.
The full list (which definitely may change before the final release, if Microsoft decides so) goes as follows:

Windows 8 Enterprise Edition
Windows 8 Enterprise Eval edition
Windows 8 Home Basic Edition
Windows 8 Home Premium edition
Windows 8 ARM edition
Windows 8 Professional edition
Windows 8 Professional Plus edition
Windows 8 Starter edition
Windows 8 Ultimate edition

For comparison, Windows 7 came in six different editions: Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate…

Journalists aren’t the only ones finding it difficult to deal with the success of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. Ben & Jerry’s released a limited edition frozen yogurt dubbed “Taste the Lin-sanity” at a store in the Boston area, flavored with crumbled fortune cookies and lychee honey. Customers complained about the culturally insensitive choice of ingredients and quality of the product, and the company responded by pulling the flavor and apologizing.

The Washington Post relays Ben & Jerry’s “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” apology:

“On behalf of Ben & Jerry’s Boston Scoop Shops, we offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Linsanity flavor that we offered at our Harvard Square location…

Here are nine of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness.

(#2 – MeneerDijk)

(#3 – Michelle Rick)

(#4 – photographynatalia)

(#5 – David Blackwell.)

(#6 – Photos in the Sunset)

Yes, it’s a mural.

(#7 – Scoboco)

(#8 – troy.b.asher)

(#9 – Yo Spiff)

Do you attend a lot of boring meetings? Here’s a fun way to make them more interesting. (Whiskey might help, too.)Boring meetings are the bane of the business world. However, you can make them a lot more interesting by playing “buzzword bingo.” It’s easy.Simply print out this column (there’s a “printable” version link underneath the “like” buttons), and hand out copies to your friends and colleagues before a big meeting. Be sure to bring a full mug of coffee and have a pot (or two) ready by the meeting room…

A social marketing platform is launching a new feature for alcohol brands on Twitter to help them make sure their tweets are reaching an age-appropriate audience.
Vitrue — a platform that helps companies such as American Express and McDonald’s manage their social-media presences across sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ — will introduce “Twitter Gate” to screen and control who has access to their promotional content. The move will also restrict interactions and engagement on Twitter with age-appropriate audiences…

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: MindSnacks
Quick Pitch: MindSnacks are language-learning games for your brains.
Genius Idea: Fun, interactive games that help users learn 13 different languages and SAT vocabulary.

Memorizing flash cards and reading from a textbook aren’t just ineffective ways to learn a new language – they’re also, well, really boring…

Don’t make these mistakes.

In this video I interview Liz Strauss, founder and business strategist at SOBCon.Liz shares why businesses need a community to exist today and what you need to know to successfully build one to develop your business.Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.Here are some of the things you’ll learn in this video:Why a business needs to build a community to exist todayHow to get your community members to bring their friendsTips to embrace community and empower othersWhy it’s important to notice things The difference between high-level execution and strategyHow to position yourself for the right opportunities for your businessHow to find your value propositionNotice the decisions you make and how they motivate peopleWho should come to SOBConConnect with Liz on Twitter @lizstrauss, check out Liz’s Successful Blog and find out more about SOBCon…

We’re happy to announce the launch of a completely new Mashable for iPad app today! And, we’re proud to say that Mashable for iPad is presented by Mercedes-Benz.
We enlisted our old friends at Code & Theory to help us, and time-boxed ourselves into releasing in March. This made our design and development process as agile as it could ever be. And, after many late nights and weekend hours, it’s great to see it live in the App Store today.
The rule of thumb for this app: As you swipe to the right, you’ll get deeper into specific content…

Over the last few decades, engineers have invented amazing things and have gone on to build multi-billion dollar companies. Take Google, Apple and Facebook as examples. They are the three biggest global IT companies in the world today. They were preceded by the likes of Microsoft, HP and Oracle. All led by engineers. However, one fact seems to be obscured by all the razzle and dazzle of tech success. A company is not run by engineers alone, however talented. For instance, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin figured they were onto something big, they need a guy with the marketing and strategy savvy to take their vision forward…

The panic that sets in after emptying the Trash folder only to realize that it contained files you actually needed is a feeling that can only be match by the one that arises after hard drive fails and you realize you have no backup.
Losing certain files through user error, hardware failure or some other problem can cause inconvenience and lead to a great deal of work, but when it comes to photos and other images files, it is often the case that replacing files is simply not possible. EaseUS Mac Photo Recovery Free is a data recovery tool that may be able to help…