Since Thursday I have been away attending a conference of about 30 adults and I discovered some surprising facts. Two of the people in the group did not own computers. It wasn’t that they could not afford a computer, they just didn’t see a need to have one. The second thing I learned is that [...]
Scalable Vector Graphics have the support of most of the major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. But few web sites currently support this feature. Google and others are going to try and change this. So why should we be interested in this feature?
SVG promises to change the way we view web sites:
Bitmap images, [...]
I don’t want to get involved in the political situation in Iran, but would rather address how technology could actually topple a regime. One Iranian youth believes that he and others can overthrow the current government of Iran using technology and the Internet to present their case to the world. In a recent news article [...]
HP is introducing their new Dreamsceen computer which as of this writing, is currently not available. But over at Best Buy they have some information on what the HP Dreamscreen is going to be, but more importantly what it is not going to be. It is not going to be enabled with touch screen technology, [...]
According to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), 12% of Internet users have admitted to ordering a product that was advertised in a spam message. Though this is not surprising, it is these idiots that cause the remainder of us to fight spam and the junk mail that persists year after year. No matter how [...]
I read an interesting article which covered what Steve Ballmer had said about Google and their new Chrome operating system. The interview took place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and the following sentence caught my eye:
As for Microsoft’s own plans, Ballmer said the company did not see a need for a [...]
I just happened to stumble onto an article by Mark Cuban and his take why everything that is free will eventually fail. He makes mention of some of the web’s favorite freebies such as Twitter, Facebook, and also Google. His theory is that there is what are called “Black Swans” who will have a better [...]
If these numbers are accurate they say volumes about how we users rely on Google to be our search preference. During the week that Bing launched, Google’s market share shrank from 78.72% to a whopping down turn of 78.48%. Before Microsoft released Bing their market share was a dismal 7.81% to a stunning 8.23%. Much [...]
This is different. HP is introducing a printer that connects to the Internet, has a touch screen, and needs no computer to function. According to one article, the device is meant to print out stuff from the likes of Google such as documents, maps and so forth. HP states that the printer will be called [...]
According to some people like Barry Diller, who operates some 30 Internet sites which make $1.5 billion, he thinks we will all be paying to view sites in 5 years. According to this man, the Internet is just “an accident of historical moment that will be corrected”. An accident? Historical moment? Corrected? By who?
According to [...]
While Murdock and his boys stumble around the Internet, blaming everyone except themselves for their failings, Craigslist seems to be doing very well. If estimates are correct, Craigslist will take in over 100 million big ones this year. Impossible, you say! We are in a recession! The newspapers are failing and it is all the [...]
We knew it would be happen. It was only a matter of time before the fur would start to fly between Google and Microsoft over search. Microsoft is spending some $100 million on advertising their new Bing search engine. But as I have previously mentioned, TV advertising didn’t work for Ask and I doubt it [...]
Bong, bong, bong, no BING! Microsoft has launched their latest rendition of their new search vehicle called Bing in beta format. The new search is designed to replace Live Search and according to their web site will make finding such things as travel, shopping, health and local stuff easier to find. When you enter into [...]
A new version of the popular HDMI cable has been ratitifed by some of the leading manufacturers. The companies have agreed to a new standard dubbed version 1.4 which will add Internet connectivity to the standard video and audio that HDMI cables currently support. The new cables will start becoming available soon once the companies [...]
Scribd is an Internet start up which proclaims itself to have some 60 million readers ever month. They state on their site that the purpose of Scribd is to provide a place where people can express themselves via their writings and have a built in reader base. They also say that anyone can get their [...]
The European Union is asking that the U.S. cede control of the Internet over to an international body. Citing that the Internet is being used by millions world wide, the EU feels that this would be a fair approach to the issue of who has control of the net. In a recent article at the [...]
A bill is getting ready to be introduced into Congress next week, that could spell the end of tax-free shopping on the Internet. With declining sales tax revenues and states clamouring for increased revenues, this could be the time that a bill may just pass. For about a decade this issue has been addressed but [...]
Like many of you I use the Internet for a good portion of my waking hours to do a multitude of tasks including researching for articles and writing my blog posts. Last evening while roaming around the Internet I stumbled upon an article which covered how TV content would be coming our way on the [...]
There is a bill working its way through Congress that would change some of the parameters and authorities when it comes to securing the Internet. The law, if passed, will provide more power to the President and also to the Secretary of Commerce. The essence of the bill would give more federal authority over security [...]
For about 17 hours, those in and around Silicon Valley, returned to the 1960’s as vital services were disrupted. For those of us who remember the time before 911 dialing, ATM’s and Internet service it may not of been a big deal. But for some who couldn’t buy gas using a credit card the outage [...]
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