John Naughton, writing in the Guardian, has penned a wonderful, must-read article about the Internet and its place in our lives. Really, this is fifteen minutes worth of reading that will change the way you look at network technology and the world. Nine things that are Everything You Need To Know About The Internet:...
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The Geek Lamp is lit. I had a loong evening a couple of weeks ago struggling to get my shiny new Motorola Droid (running Android 2.1) to synchronize Contacts, Calendar and Mail with my Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. Although I love the phone as a stand-alone phone, obviously for work purposes the ability to...
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Finally utterly disgusted with the sluggishness, low storage and poor application support for the BlackBerry, I bought a Motorola Droid today. I like having a real keyboard to type on and am revelling in the fact that apps are useful and easy to use. Now, must get our Exchange server patched to allow for...
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Last week Google announced that it will no longer support older browsers. Specifically, this means that Internet Explorer Version 6 will no longer be supported by Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of the Google suite. This isn’t really that much of a shock. Microsoft itself has been pushing its users to dump IE6...
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Every now and then a cultural and economic game-changing technology sneaks up on us. Who in 1987 would have predicted that 20 years later, the Internet would have completely transformed economics and mass communications? I think that in the early part of this century that the technology that will really begin to work magic...
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Oh, goody. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture...
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Starting last Friday, Mediacom, the nation’s 8th largest Internet service provider changed their mail servers. For a long time, Mediacom had hosted their mail servers with AT&T. Last week, Mediacom transitioned to Zimbra.com as their mail hosting company. And everything fell apart from there. Most customers report that receiving mail works fine but sending...
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Health Insurers Caught Paying Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill: Health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama’s health care reform bill are paying Facebook users fake money — called “virtual currency” — to send letters to Congress protesting the bill. Here’s how it’s happening: Facebook users play a social game,...
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And it is a pretty happy day. Our experience with Windows 7 at the office has been very positive. I have been running it as my only OS after an in-place upgrade from Vista a week ago. I have almost no complaints. Ryan Voss installed it on his laptop, a lower-end, three year-old HP...
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Since Windows 7 is right around the corner and since people have somehow been given the impression that I know stuff about technology and stuff, I had to go and install Windows 7 on my every-day work computer. Why expose myself to this potential productivity killing activity? I do it for you, my loyal...
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