Happy Birthday Linux - 15 years! Happy happy joy joy. The lovable penguin turns 15 today (actually the penguin was created two years after the kernal introduction). Linux also gave birth to some of the most popular flavors of open source : Ubuntu and Red Hat. And the lovable managed to battle the biggest company in the software industry, sometimes been called bad names, Microsoft. Here's to you, Linux, sticking it to all those big bullies out there.
Apple unveiled a new iPod Shuffle this week. It is smaller, sleeker, smaller, buttonless, speaks to you, and comes with headphones. Wait, did you say the Shuffle has no buttons? Yes sir, it just has the hold button that serves as a hold/off/on. I have a feeling people are going to mistake these miniature mp3 music players for sticks of gum. I still do not who Apple is trying to market with their Shuffle; kids, toddlers, small pets? They already have a special sports one so no point in reinventing the wheel. Oh, and there is only one color to this ipod: silver.
Facebook revamps its homepage. Luckily it is only the front page that got a makeover. For me, it won't do. It's more confusing, more crowded, and more visually stupid looking. I love FB and have been using it for a few years now, but come'on, is this what the team thought as better? Whatever happened to usability and web design? Besides the fact that loading times are terrible and links don't always work, Facebook has failed on the user interface. I hope next time they have a bigger test group telling them what makes sense.
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2012-02-07
Last month, the United States Congress stopped consideration of two bills, the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the US Senate and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) in the US House of Representatives,...
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2012-01-31
Other web host providers may take a lesson from the recent set of problems that have been the experience of DreamHost, a domain name registrar and web hosting provider founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles, C...
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2012-01-31
With the overwhelming reaction against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), a few members of the United States Congress have put forth an alternative bill. Oregon Democrat Senator Ron...
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2012-01-30
At its simplest, Magento is a robust e-commerce solution built on a foundation of open-source technologies. The blended approach that Magento uses provides the best of both worlds for end-users. On one hand, the...
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2012-01-24
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced last week that the application system for the new gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains) of the Internet began on January 19th and is proceedi...
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2012-01-19
Amid Internet site blackouts and public outcries, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been placed on hold in the Senate while sponsors regroup and reconsider their position on this controversial topic. Along w...
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2012-01-18
Over the weekend, Zappos, the online store famous for its vast array of shoes for sale, announced that personal confidential information, including such items as email addresses, partial credit card numbers and ...
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2012-01-12
The United States Congress, returning from its holiday recess this month, will be resuming their consideration of three bills whose passage or rejection will have enormous effects on the ...
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2012-01-11
The Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet usually runs without any hiccups, but a company that offers itself as an alternative DNS resource caused a severe problem last week for several hundred thousand web s...
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2012-01-04
An EV-SSL or Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer certificate was used in December to give a greater aura of legitimacy for a phishing hack-attack against PayPal and its customers. A sub-directory of the web...
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