You may remember our announcement in January rejoicing with the rest of America that Verizon now carries the iPhone! Well it turns out that the nation’s largest carrier might have nailed their own foot to the floor. In 2008, Verizon accepted the contingencies that were attached to the wireless spectrum offered by the FCC in [...]
Ever get tired of the same poor-quality sites coming up for your search engine queries? As effective as Google usually is, it hasn’t always been successful in stopping search spam from content farms. Enter the Personal Blocklist. This extension for Google Chrome allows you to block specific websites from displaying in search results. While you [...]
I knew there was a reason I didn’t like Bing and it’s because they cheat. Here is a great write up of how Bing was caught steal search results from Google by creating fake searches and results.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page together founded the behemoth we all know as Google back in 1997. After pressure from Venture Capitalists years ago, Eric Schmidt was named CEO as a move to bring leadership to the vast company. Fast forward to today. Even though Google had the largest Q4 profits of their 12-year history [...]
With the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has created quite a buzz around the interwebs. I would like to think the design team really put their heads together for this one. They’ve created a phone that is actually useable, for both personal- and corporate-types. On the personal side, the phone is a pretty decent [...]
Google is at it again, this time developing technology that will drive your car for you. Advantages include less travel time, quicker reaction to traffic due to 360 degree awareness and higher productivity as drivers no longer need to watch the road while commuting to work. This write-up by CNN asks a fundamental question – [...]
URL redirection and monitoring has exploded since before the creation of Twitter. Some of the more famous URL shortening services include ow.ly, bit.ly and TinyURL. Google has entered the scene with it’s own product, Goo.gl. It was originally a proprietary way for Google to abbreviate its Web addresses within services such as Google News (for saving article [...]
Small business owners don’t have enough hours in a day to run their business, let alone keep track of industry news and trends all while keeping a keen eye on their competition. Enter Google Alerts. This handy service practically does the work for you, leaving you to focus on managing your business. Google Alerts not [...]
Google recently released the App Inventor, an easy way to make applications for the Android based phones which includes the Droid, Incredible, and others. While this will undoubtedly mean a flood of simple games and ridiculous ideas, it will also allow more people the resource to create some really brilliant developments. Because you don’t need [...]
I don’t know about you, but when I’m looking for information I like to get it in as few clicks as possible. What I don’t like is first having to find the website with my desired data, then hunt through a myriad of befuddling fly-out menus and web forms, all the while closing those annoying [...]