Wireless Trojan
Posted on June 11, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Online Tools | Leave a Comment
A new Trojan horse posing as a video codec required to view content on some Web sites tries to change settings on the user’s router so that all of their Internet traffic goes through servers controlled by the attackers.
Recent versions of the “Zlob” Trojan (also known as DNSChanger) will check to see if the victim […]
Wonderful World
Posted on June 10, 2008 - Filed Under General, Site News | Leave a Comment
On a lighter note than some of our posts -
“The Wonderful World of Disney,” the long running prime-time TV show originally hosted by Walt Disney himself (back in my day), is going geeky on us.
For the first time, Disney plans to stream full-length movies online on its Disney.com website..
Hypermiling
Posted on June 9, 2008 - Filed Under Autos, Economy, General | Leave a Comment
With gas at four bucks a gallon, some folks still enjoy filling up. It’s a contest, a chance to see how many miles one can squeeze from every tank.
It’s called hypermiling. It’s a growing number of people going to all kinds of extremes to see how far they can go on a tank of gas. […]
Gmail Lab
Posted on June 8, 2008 - Filed Under Google Gmail | Leave a Comment
Are you a Gmail user? The service was around for a while before people began to catch on to how good it is. Most were saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got an email account. Why do I need another one?’ But millions of people have caught on and most stay with it. Like the Google search engine, […]
Read More..>>Google Expansion
Posted on June 7, 2008 - Filed Under Google | Leave a Comment
For Google to expands its Internet empire, it will need from time to time to expand in the real world also. You can’t grow by leaps and bounds in market share and not put on employees, lots of ‘em. So you better have a place to put them and that’s what Google is looking at.
Read More..>>Name That…
Posted on June 6, 2008 - Filed Under Advertising, General | Leave a Comment
Company or Product or Concept….
It has always amazed me that companies have felt they have to go out and hire a naming consultant or whatever they are called to think up a name for their business or product. And what names they come up with. Often, they are simply unmemorable enough that we…well, forget them.
Adobe Online
Posted on June 5, 2008 - Filed Under Adobe, Google Docs | Leave a Comment
Adobe has just joined the online gang. Headed by Google Docs and including companies such as Zoho, the online apps game is heating up. Seems more and more companies are wanting to put office production software online. As broadband access increases,
Read More..>>New ‘iPod’
Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Internet, Television | Leave a Comment
There will be a new kid in town this summer with the introduction of the PoD. I recently reported on the Netflix Roku which is able to receive broadband feeds of Netflix subscribed content and play to a TV rather than a computer.
Verismo Networks has previewed “the PoD,” a tiny box that brings web content […]
Auctionless eBay
Posted on June 3, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, eBay | Leave a Comment
Once upon a time, you could put most anything up for auction on eBay and feel like it had a pretty good chance to sell. On top of that, for years there was such a feeding frenzy at the online auction site, you could often sell new merchandise for more than it would bring in […]
Read More..>>Data Throttling
Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under Cable, Internet | 3 Comments
This week, new Time-Warner cable Internet customers in Beaumont, Texas will not be given unmetered Internet bandwidth - they will instead become the first to be billed under TW’s new choke-’em down plan that will provide users between 5 and 40 gigabytes in total monthly data usage (that is total, uploads and downloads combined).
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