Sep 13, 2020 | business, Facebook, Google, Internet
The advertising business doesn’t work the way you think it does. You figure you’ve pretty well got it – you watched Mad Men, right? Back in the 1960s, cigarette-smoking men from ad agencies would wine and dine with publishers and TV executives to get a...
Aug 16, 2020 | Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, law, news, Politics, Privacy
“If people are at cross-purposes, they do not understand each other because they are working toward or talking about different things without realizing it.” Definition of “at cross-purposes”, Collins Dictionary “One example of arguing at cross purposes would be two...
May 11, 2020 | Android, Apple, audio, Google, phone
As we enter into the twentieth year third month of the global pandemic, technology news has slowed down as much as everything else. There aren’t many things to tell you about! Here are a few bits of tech news that have caught my eye in the moments between bouts...
Apr 22, 2020 | Dropbox, file_sharing, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, Teams, web_services
Dropbox started as a drop-dead simple product for individuals: a folder on your computer that seamlessly syncs with the cloud so you can work with the identical folder on all your other computers. That’s it! That’s all there was to it. Ten years ago, that...
Mar 30, 2020 | Azure, business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, news, remote, Teams, video, web_services
Across the globe, hundreds of millions of people are using their Internet connection more intensely than they did just a few weeks ago. Usage ramped up so quickly that the infrastructure is being stretched past its limits. I don’t have any tips. You don’t...
Mar 4, 2020 | Android, Facebook, Google, Privacy, security
Previously: Location Tracking: They Know Where You Are Location Tracking: LA LA LA I DON’T WANT TO HEAR YOU Our phones track our movements every minute of every day. We carry around beacons that continuously broadcast their location. Our phones are remarkably...
