Apr 13, 2011 | Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, mobile, news, tablet, web_services
The iPad was not the first tablet on the market. Microsoft was one of the first companies to deliver a tablet, with the first prototype demonstrated more than ten years ago. No one cared. Apple created the demand for the iPad more or less from scratch, leaving...
Feb 12, 2011 | Google, Internet, news, search, spam
Previously: Google Spam Google Spam – Google Responds If you are interested in Search Engine Optimization and the business of running web sites, the New York Times has published a must-read article, “The Dirty Little Secrets Of Search.” The paper launched an...
Jan 28, 2011 | Internet, news
As internal unrest in Egypt worsens, the government has cut off nearly all Internet traffic into and out of the country. A few days ago the government cut off access to social networking websites, including Facebook and Twitter. Today the entire country is offline...
Oct 19, 2010 | broadband, Internet, network, news
You’re looking at a graph that will get an inordinate amount of attention in the global technical community and cause tremendous disruption for the next few years. Let me give you a very broad overview of an issue that you hope will be solved long before you ever have...
Oct 14, 2010 | bruceb, news
Ooh! A milestone! I’m sure you’re as excited as I am! This is article number 2000 in the never-ending series of Bruceb News posts! I get such joy out of writing these articles for you, using too many words to describe things that normal people find uninteresting....
Apr 27, 2010 | Adobe, law, news, Office, Politics, security
In December the Transportation Security Administration released its airport security screening procedure guidelines with redactions that failed to remove the underlying text. (Boing Boing: “Unfortunately, the security geniuses at the DHS don’t know that drawing...