Last week, Slate’s technology columnist Farhad Manjoo posted an interesting article about Google’s Android phone operating system vs. the iPhone. While the Google phone (and the brand new Nexus One) have been met with mixed reviews and a lukewarm response from the stock market (as well as a lawsuit from the estate of science fiction author Philip K. Dick), Manjoo believes that the Android’s open-source, cross-provider reach could put a real dent in the iPhone’s marketshare.
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 By Alex Goldmanon December 21st, 2009 Google has become so synonymous with the internet that “Googling” has become a catch-all term for doing internet searches. In a little over a decade, Google has gone from being the brain child of two Stanford graduates to being the deliverers of internet data, shaping the way we interact with information online through sophisticated searching tools, indexing projects and applications. According to this article in the Daily Telegraph, Google is once again poised to revolutionize the way we receive information by developing software that will translate non-English webpages and include them in user search results. And that’s just the beginning. By Alex Goldmanon December 17th, 2009
Continue reading AT&T and the iPhone – The Best Worst Cell Provider?  By Kenneth Chiaon December 15th, 2009 Netbooks are low-cost, ultra portable computers that have recently become the hottest trend on the hardware computing market. They are essentially really tiny laptops, or as the industry likes to call them, “sub-notebooks”, which you can take almost anywhere.  By Ashawn Knighton November 20th, 2009 Burning CDs and DVDs used to be available on only the most expensive machines. Nowadays they’re pretty much standard. This article will give you simple instructions on how to burn a CD or DVD on your computer.  By Mike Violaon November 19th, 2009 According to a website called www.domaintools.com which runs metrics on internet usage, over 50,000 new .com domains have been added to the internet in the past 24 hours. The web is now an essential tool for leveraging information, from personal interests to email to business. Still, for all of the websites that we visit every day, most of us have little idea of exactly what it takes to create one and keep it online. This is the story of what happens to a website before all of the content creation; this is about how to make content accessible to the web. By Mike Violaon November 11th, 2009 For many of us, 9 to 5 is the most productive portion of the day, not necessarily because we don’t desire to get work done outside of the office, but because the logistics of doing so are difficult to manage. Fortunately, new technologies have made it much easier to bring the office with you anywhere on the planet (with an internet connection). Today we focus on the first step in the process: the Virtual Private Network. Continue reading Virtual Private Networks: Paving the Way to the Global Office  By Tony Simoeson November 4th, 2009 It is sometimes referred to as “The Monitor”, sometimes as “The Display”, and on occasion (more often than you think) “The Computer”, the computer monitor is the most recognized component of the modern day computer. In recent years there have been dramatic improvements in the manufacturing process of LCD screens that has driven the prices of them way down. Even though LCD screens are the default display for the modern computer, there are still some niche markets where the CRT still holds some ground. Why has the LCD taken over? Let’s find out. By Kenneth Chiaon September 30th, 2009 Today e-mail is key to communication, and has become a essential and powerful business tool. Like any powerful tool, it can be used and abused. We’ll look at some tips and tricks to help you get the most from your company e-mail. By Tony Simoeson September 28th, 2009 DING! You’ve Got Mail! You just received an email from your bank informing you of some change to the privacy policy and a link to sign in and confirm the changes. You click on the provided link and fill in the username and password to log in. The moment you click submit, your very private username and password have been sent to some hacker who now has access to your bank account and your money! Continue reading What Is Phishing and Why Should I Be Concerned? |
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The iPhone, which can currently only be used with AT&T’s wireless data plan, has been a monolithic success. Racking up sales of over 4 million units per quarter, it’s the first handheld that’s taken a real bite out of Blackberry’s previously dominant market share. And as a device it’s not hard to love. It’s intuitive, easy to use, attractive, it can be customized with thousands of applications, and has all the features of a miniature computer. It is a nearly perfect phone except for one glaring complaint – AT&T’s voice and data reception are consistently ranked the lowest among all providers. But is it as bad as its reputation would suggest?