Jul 18, 2011 | Google, news
When I opened Google News today, I was greeted by this screen, asking me to “collect private badges for [my] favorite topics”: Here’s the way it was described in the Google Blog: “On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics...
May 20, 2011 | Android, Apple, computers, news, phone
Everyone might get something useful out of David Pogue’s column today for the New York Times, a collection of tips and tricks for cellphones and computers. Some of them are basic, some won’t apply, but I’ll bet you find a pearl or two that give you an “A Ha!” moment....
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...
