We have seen net neutrality going back and forth between various groups this year and the end result is a lot of inaction. The main sticking point has been the difference between broadband and wireless connections with respect to how things will apply to each. Various carriers have advocated treating wireless far different from broadband [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
7 Simple CMS Solutions for Quick Website Creation
From CMS Report WebmasterFormat.com: Best Simple Content Management Systems – There are a lot of CMS solutions available that seem to do everything except your laundry. While these more complex CMS solutions are exactly what some webmasters need, they can just easily be way to...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
OpenOffice Leaves Oracle
When Oracle purchased Sun Micro Systems, they picked up a number of products that are used as being public domain software. Items such as MySQL, Sun Solaris, OpenOffice and Java to name a few. These have been freely distributed for many years and relied upon by many for developing software. MySQL as an example, is [...]
Finalists in Packt’s 2010 Open Source Awards announced
From CMS Report Packt Publishing recently announced the finalists in each of the categories for their 2010 Open Awards. While award categories for content management systems are still included, this year Packt is also adding additional flavors of open source projects to be judged. The...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New Blackberry Tablet Announced – PlayBook
We have been expecting to hear about the new BlackPad device from RIM, or so it has been called in the various rumors that have been going around. Today, there are numerous descriptions of the 7 inch Playbook with a variety of information and the expected anticipation of what it has to offer. Here are [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
Has Verizon Answered The iPhone Rumor?
Recent comments from the Verizon CEO appear to sort of clarify the direction that Verizon is headed and what it will take to get the iPhone. The one that caught a lot of people off guard was the need to get the new 4G network in place, which may remove the current rumors for a [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
iPad To Be Sold By Retail Stores Other Than Apple Stores
The iPad has been exclusively sold by Apple and the Apple Stores. They have controlled the supply, price and distribution of the tablet device and how it may be sold. For a time, they would not even accept cash as a method to purchase one as they wanted a credit card to attach to the [...]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Roku Set-Top Boxes Challenges Apple TV
Apple announced their new Apple TV which is much smaller than previous version which resulted in a lot of excitement and conversation about the potential. They have since been negotiating with TV networks to provide television programming for 99 cents per show. At the moment, ABC and Fox are on board with this new platform [...]
Friday, September 24, 2010
Dell Exploring Beyond The Computer
Dell has been long known for the computers and servers that it sells over the years and many companies rely on their equipment to run their business. Individuals have purchased computers and laptops from Dell for home use, driving Dell to be consistently in the top 5 in computer sales for well over 10 years. [...]
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Social Networking Security – Twitter Hacked
This week, Twitter was hacked and caused a stir when people were getting redirected to a Japanese porn site. We have seen a lot of this as it appears that social networking sites are currently a target for hackers to see what they can inflict on the largest of sites. The hack apparently involved mouse [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Verizon iPhone Rumor Will Not Go Away
There are many out in the smartphone world who would love to have an iPhone, but prefer to not have AT&T as a provider. There are many people with this feeling which has been written about over the years. Service appears to be the biggest complaint for not going with them. Verizon appears to provide [...]
Joomla 1.6 – Another Beta Version
Joomla continues to make changes and fixes to the coming 1.6 version. Version 9 was release on September 7th and version 10 was released on September 20th. They are closing in on moving this to a general release and the anticipation is growing, which some...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
iPad Spells Death for Laptops
You may have seen similar headlines streaming through the Twittersphere last week, as I did. Is this true, is the iPad killing off the laptop market? Of course it’s not. First of all, most of the articles showed declining sales stats of Netbooks, not Laptops. There is a difference here: a netbook is closer in [...]
Monday, September 20, 2010
Has The Move To IPv6 Been Lost?
Every so often there are articles that talk about the fact that IPv4 addresses are running out and they will be exhausted soon. Exactly what soon is becomes a generally moving target depending on who you talk to and what time of year it is. There are many factors at play here, including how fast [...]
Sunday, September 19, 2010
More Coming Tablet Computers
With the holiday selling season less than two months away, we are expecting to see a number of tablet devices coming to market to leverage the success of the iPad. Many are trying to catch up to that successful product and are not directly in competition with the iPad. One of those is the Dell [...]
Saturday, September 18, 2010
iPad To Control Market Through 2012
We have all seen how the iPad has been successful and with all the announcements from companies about tablet devices, it makes one wonder if they can keep that going in the coming years or whether they will lose market share to all the competitors that are reportedly coming. A recent report from iSuppli.com is [...]
Friday, September 17, 2010
Bing Now Powering Yahoo Search
A deal last year between Yahoo and Microsoft where Microsoft provides search engine capabilities to Yahoo has been completed with an announcement last week, that Bing was now providing search engine results to Yahoo searches. Both companies did not have significant rankings in the search engine world and hopefully this provides Bing with what it [...]
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Will Net Neutrality Get An Agreement?
It has been several weeks since things died down from the Verizon-Google agreement and the AT&T support for that proposal. Since that time, not much has happened to move towards some solution to what is going on other than to do nothing. That appears to be the order of the day. There is some doubt [...]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Android’s Future
If you have been following the mobile phone market, you have noticed the increase in the number of smartphones that run on the Android OS, which includes some of the prominent phone manufacturers in the market. Reports have been coming out regarding the impact on other phone OS’s in relation to the Android OS. IDC [...]
Google Calendar Overview
Google calendar is a great way to manage meetings and schedules with a group where not a members have are on the same platform. Some use Outlook, others use Entourage and their are plenty of others. I have found Google calendar effective in collaboration even...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Netbook And/Or Tablets
We are seeing discussions about the coming wave of tablets and the possible impact on netbooks. It is unknown what the impact of the tablets will be on netbooks as each currently serves different purposes, but that could change as tablet features continue to improve where netbooks can only improve performance through faster processor speeds. [...]
Monday, September 13, 2010
IPv6 – Issues And Concerns
Acceptance of the IPv6 used for network addressing schemes should be in full swing right now with projects on the books or completed for 50 60% of all companies. That is not the case and makes you wonder since things are expected to be forced on companies in 2012. Given that IPv6 has been tested [...]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Coming Tablet Computers
We have been hearing a lot about announcements and coming tablet computers, which compete directly with the iPad. What we have not seen is a lot of them coming to market. That is now starting to change. Apple has taken several steps in an effort to stem the impact of this coming wave. We have [...]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Google Music Coming
With Google going after Apple businesses on multiple fronts, the music area holds significant promise for Google. This week, the talk of the Google TV took center stage after comments by Eric Schmidt, while in Berlin, which have created a lot of talk about the possibilities. With rumors continuing about Google Music, it is likely [...]
Friday, September 10, 2010
Amazon Expanding Music Offerings
Amazon has purchased the online music store Amie, which sure looks like they are gearing up to fight for a share of the music area. With recent activities with iTunes and Ping along with the continuing announcements by Google about their music offerings, it appears they are staying the news in an effort to stay [...]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Google Instant Search Now Here
Google seems to be always looking for ways to improve their search and search results to aid users in finding information. When they displayed a drop down list of type ahead suggestions on what you might be looking, that was a great time saver and at times, those suggestions made it easier as you may [...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Battle For Mobile Advertising
With the significant interest in mobile advertising with the release of the iPad this year. Smartphones have presented opportunities for several years and many companies have successfully taken advantage of this. This sets the stage for competition between companies to fight for ad revenue and the largest percentage of the market. Facebook has created “Facebook [...]
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Japanese GPS Navigation System Indentifies Landmarks via Built-in Camera
Say you’re walking around Tokyo guided by your hand-held GPS navigation system. You come upon an interesting looking temple you want to know more about, but your Japanese is not so good, and you’re too shy to try to ask someone. Wouldn’t it be great if you could take a photo of the building with [...]
Menus In WordPress
When you work with setting up your web site, one thing that you look at is the menu structure that you want to display and have your visitors to the site navigate the pages. There are different ways to look at menu structure for a...
Monday, September 6, 2010
Keywords In Your Content
There are many articles on the web about methods to generate traffic to your site. Along with that, there are many that are asking you to engage their services without proving to you their value. We have been performing activities to drive traffic to web...
Google Mobile Maps Milestone
Google has announced that its Mobile Maps is getting over 100 million unique visitors every month. These are pretty significant numbers for something that we do not hear very much about in the news. Mobile maps has been out for about 5 years and is quite a bit hit. If you have never used it, [...]
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Mobile Advertising
We have been seeing changes in the mobile space involving the purchase of companies that can provide ads on mobile devices. This is still evolving and many are trying to strategically place themselves in the right space to leverage this to their benefit. Many companies are doing this and it is probably going to continue. [...]
WordPress Plugins To Consider – Part II
So, continuing on the list of WordPress plugins that you should be considering using on your site, you often want to provide a way for people to communicate with you. The simplest way to do that is through a contact form, which should be flexible...
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Simplicity Of Content Management Systems
If you have ever worked for a medium to large size company, you know there are rules and procedures in place to get things done. In working with the technology department in one of these companies, there are documents and forms to fill out, meetings...
Android OS’s Growing Mobile Web Usage
The iPhone has had a significant mobile OS web usage of all smartphones OS’s on the market today. This is according to a report from Quantcast released today. In that report of the four (4) major OS’s running on smartphones, the iPhone still tops the list with the vast majority, which probably is not a [...]
Friday, September 3, 2010
WordPress Plugins To Consider – Part 1
Creating a WCM site using WordPress seems to be a very simple process, but that is not the end of the considerations that your should do when getting a site up and running. Adding original content is critical to the success of your site, but...
Social Networking From Apple
Yesterday, Steve Job’s introduced Ping, a music centric social network offering that is integrated tightly with iTunes. The latest release of iTunes, version 10, has the features in it so that you can share things with your followers and those that follow you. At first look, you wonder if this has hooks with Facebook, which [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Google Unleashes Real-time Search Results
Google Real-time search is an amazing new option for those who will be searching the web. Options to search for the latest information, news, products or shopping and just about everything else can now be done in real time. This is one of the things that is simply revolutionary in the world of search engines. [...]
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