Archive for the ‘Tech News’ Category

Over the years as others have pontificated about how the Web will one day be everywhere and available to all I have for the most part pointed out the stupidity of this kumbaya Web 2.0 warm and fuzzy ideology by raising the issue of cost of access. I like to point out that as long as the Full story

Just as the SXSW conference in Austin a few years saw the launch of a service that has had an incredible impact on our Web we could see a repeat again this year with Twitter’s announcement of its new @anywhere platform. Curiously just as we barely had an idea of what Twitter was then or how Full story

I’ve been going through some of the posts to come out of this year’s SXSW conference that had anything to do with the issue of privacy; especially after Danah Boyd’s great keynote speech. It is reassuring to know that some-one of Danah’s stature may still believe that privacy is alive and well, except that nothing Full story

A lot of noise is being made today about the fact that Hitwise is reporting that Facebook is now the most visited in the United States, beating out long-time top dog Google. The problem is that it isn’t even close to being correct. While third-part analytics companies numbers always vary wildly from one to the Article originally published by StarterTech.comSkewed Data Makes Facebook ... Full story

While the long-awaited Apple iPad missed its original launch window by about a week, it looks like those that are wanting to add some accessories to their sleek new device may have to wait a bit longer than that for them to arrive. When Apple began taking orders last week for its new tablet device known Related posts:... Full story

It seems that Google may be the champion when it comes to search engines and other online products, but apparently when it comes to selling cell phones, they can’t quite beat even other phones that carry the same operating system. According to just released numbers, in the first 74 days of its release, the Google Nexus Related posts:... Full story

We start of this week’s show with a bit of a catch-up from last week since Sean forgot by announcing our winner of the illustrious Braindead Award of the Week but you have to listen to find out who it was. From there we carried on with our new Monday feature for the podcast called Moronic Full story

Anyone whoas been around the web for any length of time will have at some point come across those great videos by Common Craft that explain the common, and yet confusing, aspects of the Web using great diagrams and whiteboard drawing. You can be almost assured that any new video from them will be an Full story

On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com was registered as the first domain name, and the rest, as they say, was history. VeriSign, the first company to watch over domain names, has launched a site aptly named 25YearsOf.com to celebrate this historic event.  It is doubtful that at any other time in history have three letters and a punctuation mark Article originally published by StarterTech.comHappy Birthday, .com Full story

While it seems that most online news outlets are at least pondering whether they should charge for their content, the users are already letting them know that they real leave in droves if they do. A new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism suggest that only seven percent of current Related posts:... Full story