Search or Email?
Posted on August 10, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Online Tools | Leave a Comment
Which one do you do more frequently on a daily basis?
According to a new study, almost half of all Internet users use search engines on an average day, though I can’t imagine a day without searching or researching.
I Was Working…
Posted on August 6, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Site News | Leave a Comment
Is that what you tell your boss?
Do you need to prove it or like Dilbert’s Wally can you just slough your way through with meaningless drivel aimed at your pointy-haired boss?
Firefox vs. Windows
Posted on August 2, 2008 - Filed Under Firefox, Internet, Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Microsoft has shrugged off the presence of alternative browsers over the years, including Firefox. While all the rest have made minimal impact in the way users browse the Internet (lots of people have tried lots of different browsers but inevitably seem to return to IE for one reason or another), Firefox has been the one […]
Read More..>>More than 1 trillion…
Posted on July 26, 2008 - Filed Under General, Google, Internet | Leave a Comment
McDonald’s announced in 1963 via signs at all their restaurants — ‘more than 1 billion served.’
Google has just announced an almost unbelievable figure as well. They have now discovered
Google Search Growing
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
The climb continues. Google accounted for over 69% of all U.S. Internet searches in June of 2008, that according to new data from Hitwise. What’s even more unbelievable is that even at that level,
Read More..>>Cuomo and Child Porn
Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Internet, Usenet, Verizon | Leave a Comment
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the ‘coup’ that Andrew (Andy) Cuomo, Attorney General of NY pulled off this past week. He got AT&T and AOL (more on that one later), to join some other major players like Verizon and voluntarily shut off access to a large segment of newsgroups hosted on the ISP’s own […]
Read More..>>Election Agenda
Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Politics | Leave a Comment
There are plenty of platforms developing for discussion in this year’s election process in the US.
Being thrown into the fray for part of this discussion is this country’s lack of true commitment to broadband saturation.
Speed Trump
Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under Fiber, Internet, Verizon | Leave a Comment
Backup Comcast with that paltry 16MBps down and 2Mbps up, Verizon has just tapped you….with a sledge hammer.
Beginning next week, Verizon will make available to more than 10 million homes and businesses the nation’s fastest consumer broadband connections, with download speeds up to 50 Mbps and upload speeds up to 20 Mbps.
Comcast Ups Speed
Posted on June 15, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, Comcast, DSL, Internet, Time-Warner | 1 Comment
Comcast says it will increase the upload speeds of two levels of its cable Internet service, providing a faster way for customers to upload files. The upload performance will increase at no additional cost. Comcast will increase the upload speed
Read More..>>AT&T Surcharge
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, DSL, Internet | 2 Comments
My good friend AT&T Inc., the country’s largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. (Grrrr!)
The top 5 percent of AT&T’s DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.