Accessing Sites that are Down
Its happened to most everyone at one point or another, a friend sends you a link to check out or a Google Search returns a perfect result, but upon clicking the link you find that the page cannot be loaded. It happens. The servers or networks that host the site are clogged, the page could [...]
Yahoo! to Microsoft: How cheap do you think we are?
Recent pen-pals Microsoft and Yahoo have had yet another exchange. As expected, the latest “Dear Steve” letter responds to Microsoft’s initial 3 week ultimatum – otherwise known as ‘take our deal or we’ll take it to your shareholders.’ It’s been rumored that the email exchanges before PR got ahold of them actually went something like [...]
Web advertisers know what you did last summer
One would imagine that only the most neophyte Internet users understand that their movements are being watched and recorded. A study by TNS Global on behalf of TRUSTe only confirms that; web users are aware of the monitoring – and they hate it. From the survey of 1,015 randomly selected adults in the US:
57% are [...]
The fools have at it
Another April Fools’ Day has come and went. If you were like myself, you stayed away from the Internets and all the shenanigans that come with the date. Here are a few highlights (lowlights?) of what you missed:
Google’s gDay with MATE technology searches into tomorrow
Toshiba announces HD DVD+
Google and Virgin tag team on Mars exploration [...]
CIA Enlists Google’s Help for Spy Work
US intelligence agencies are using Google’s technology to help its agents share information about their suspects. But what of “don’t be evil” I wonder?
