If you are not all aware by now, you NEED to beware NOW!! I’m talking about the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA for short. SOPA, also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on the 26th of October in 2011, by House Judiciary Committee ...
Well if you haven’t realized by now Mozilla has been releasing updates for its products like crazy. This applies to both the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client. This is due to its new rapid release strategy, following in the footsteps of Google’s chrome browser. While the changes might not be as apparent in ...
I recently downloaded a music platform called Spotify, which is still in beta in the US but has been established for a while in the UK. It’s an online music library that has nearly any band or musical act you can think of, even a few obscure acts. Now seeing that it’s still in beta, ...
At the end of WWII, many families were left torn apart. To this day, survivors are left with only a memory of the ones they lost so long ago. However, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. has decided to use the modern day tools that technology has given us to reconnect people with ...
Pandora is internet radio done right, and that means something coming from someone who’s sworn off of radio. It starts with one artist, that you enter, and from there it gives you a bunch of songs that you could like, and it’s fairly accurate. I have to say, after one day of using it, I ...
What company provides you with the ability to make a phone call? If it’s AT&T, then you should know that AT&T is going to start offering deals on things outside of phone and internet service. These deals are supposed to appear online daily through their page on yellowpages.com. I don’t think it has quite made ...
Google has done some amazing and innovative things in the past. Their search engine revolutionized the internet and how we go about finding things. Then their browser came along to change how fast we find those things. Their phone has given us a smarter and easier way to go about our day. Now they’re doing ...
How often do you think about people with disabilities when developing your website? Most people do not have the disabled community in mind when developing websites which could hurt them in the long run. Web technology is becoming more abundant everywhere. From smartphones to ipads to laptops anyone can access the internet and view your ...
Newspapers vs. the Internet This website here lists some great facts that you all should really look into. One of them states that to produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. That’s a lot of trees, but is getting the news from the internet better for the environment in the end? ...
Wow Microsoft – When IE first hit the scene it was spot on! The standards were up to date (Because there were not much for standards back then) all the way up to IE7 – then it goes downhill… Lagging behind other browsers in both speed and w3c standards for years. Finally you release the ...