In an attempt to quell the uprising in Egypt, officials have essentially disconnected the Internet. Hoping that preventing people from accessing social media sites like Twitter and Facebook will stop them from taking to the streets. Telecome Egypt provides much of the Internet service to Egyptians and is owned in majority by the government. Egypt’s [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: January 29th, 2011

Mozilla announced yesterday that their popular Firefox browser will have a feature that will allow you to opt-out of targeted ads. Shortly afterwards, Google announced that their Chrome browser will implement the same feature and Microsoft has the feature slated for a December launch (perhaps earlier now). This sounds fantastic but wait… this feature will [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: January 25th, 2011

At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the first of 3D Monitors made their debut. Samsung has incorporated their proprietary 3D technology into a aerodynamically designed monitor. The monitors will be released in 23″ and 27″ sizes and include their own 3D wireless glasses. Before you get to excited, and pre-order your own, [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: January 24th, 2011

Pingdom, one of the Internet’s premiere monitoring services on the web has released a set of figured describing Internet activity over the past year. Here are some of the highlights. Think you send a lot of emails, the make up a small portion of the 207 trillion sent in 2010 (unfortunately almost 90% of which [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: January 16th, 2011

Just announced prior to New Years Eve, WordPress alerted their users to a critical XSS (Cross-site Scripting) flaw that could threaten millions of web sites using the popular blogging tool (including this blog). This flaw is also not a complex one – so if you are using WordPress you should immediately upgrade the software. WordPress [...]

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Every year technology becomes more entrenched in society and day to day living. Think about where we were only 10 years ago – cell phones were for the rich now everyone has at least one, a 40+ inch television cost 10 times what they can be purchased for now, social networking was when people would [...]

Read Full Article     |     No Comments     |     Posted: January 1st, 2011