Jan 21, 2011 | Google, Internet, search, spam
Google search results are becoming less useful. Have you noticed? I started thinking about this last fall, when I noticed that most of the Google alerts coming into my mailbox led to spam sites – sites with no real content other than random snippets vacuumed up...
Jan 3, 2011 | broadband, Internet, network
Previously: The Increasing Need For Bandwidth, Part 1 You should know the basic details of the Internet connection at your home or business. Find out the speed of your existing service. If you have a DSL line – typically from AT&T or Sonic, occasionally from...
Jan 3, 2011 | broadband, Internet, network
Many small businesses and homes will feel the need to increase the speed of their Internet connection in 2011. In the late 1990s, we began the serious movement away from our dialup modems and started signing up for DSL service as it became available in selected areas....
Dec 16, 2010 | Facebook, Internet, Office, Outlook, web_services, Windows Live, Windows7
Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Person Of The Year. Every person on earth has a Facebook page. Most household pets have their own Facebook pages. On average, people in the US spend more time reading Facebook than sleeping. The federal government will spend $740 million next...
Oct 21, 2010 | broadband, business, hardware, Internet, network
Previously: First Rumbling Of The Coming IPv6 Transition In the early 90s, a bunch of smart people in a position of authority got together and put together a replacement for IPv4 named IPv6, after many committee meetings and a few false starts. Since the immediate...
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...
