Dec 27, 2007 | Amazon, business, Internet
I’d like to take a tour of an Amazon warehouse! I placed an order on December 21 at midnight and got the shipping confirmation at 10:30 in the morning. How do they do that? This was Amazon’s best holiday season ever, with more than 99 percent of orders...
Nov 30, 2007 | Internet, search, security
Google has just purged its index of thousands of malware sites that were being displayed in results lists for hundreds of innocuous search phrases. It’s a quick end to a huge attack that could have caused a global uproar. The criminals registered tens of...
Nov 12, 2007 | Internet, mobile, web_services
Some of you may have another reason to consider setting up Bloglines to organize your list of the websites that you read daily: it’s immediately useful on a mobile device with an Internet browser. (Here’s my short introduction to blogs and Bloglines.)More...
Nov 1, 2007 | Internet, web_services
If you’re interested in technology, one of the first sites to check in the morning is TechMeme, a wildly popular service that checks thousands of blogs and news sites and presents a constantly updated overview of the day’s hot topics in an organized way....
Oct 31, 2007 | IE, Internet, web_services
Let’s talk about blogs and RSS feeds. It might have more relevance than you think.If you’re like most people, most of your web surfing time is spent visiting the same few web sites every day. That might start with news pages and weather, then a few pages...
Oct 21, 2007 | broadband, business, Internet
Advocates of “network neutrality” have trouble conveying the real world implications of an arcane-sounding technical issue. Two items in the news help illustrate why it’s an issue to fight about.”Network neutrality” is the underlying...
