Internet

Schmidt Admits Fault for Failing Google’s Social Potential

by Mike Mansell June 2, 2011

When it comes to the Internet, it seems that there isn’t an avenue that Google has yet to conquer or doesn’t have its sights on already. With grass-roots originating in the search and information field, Google’s technological accomplishments and growing reputation for consumer and business focused cloud services has allowed the company to become one [...]

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VMWare Is Building A Cloud-Computing Powerhouse

by Mike Mansell June 1, 2011

While not exactly a household name, virtualization development company VMWare has made great progress in terms of both consumer-based and commercial server and desktop virtualization; the technology that allows for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously in a shared “host” and “guest” infrastructure. For many day-to-day users, this type of application allows one to run [...]

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IRCCloud Review

by Mike Mansell May 26, 2011

If there’s one thing I hate, it hands-down has to be missing out on things. Really, it’s a common thing for me to rewind the security camera tapes at work to see what happens when I’m not there. Some people call this “creepy”; and to an extent I’d probably have to agree myself. And needless [...]

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Digital Investigators Uncover Crook Using Google Cookies

by Guest Author May 4, 2011

Last March, digital forensics service CCL assisted British law enforcement in apprehending a suspect through an intricate and unprecedented procedure that netted them access to a smartphone’s tracking cookies buried by Google Analytics. These cookies had Google “value” put on them by the search engine, which included vital information about the time sites were accessed [...]

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Amazon Releases Cloud Drive

by Mike Mansell March 30, 2011

Just a week ago today, I wrote an article about Amazon – one of the biggest players in the online sales arena – and how they could hit major pay dirty if they were to use their existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to create a consumer-focused service similar to Apple’s MobileMe product. In this [...]

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What Is OAuth and How Can it Make the Internet Safer?

by Keaton Taylor March 24, 2011

Over the last few months I’ve been working on discovering the functionality of the OAuth standard. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically a username and password. So [...]

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Amazon, I Want to See a MobileMe Competitor

by Mike Mansell March 22, 2011

Previously, BestTechie contributor Adam Landreneau wrote an overview on Apple’s synchronization and data-management service, MobileMe. While Adam recommended MobileMe for Macintosh and iOS users because of it’s ability to store, synchronize, and share data there were still a number of things that continue to hold MobileMe back to this day. To start with, the service [...]

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Google Needs to Think Out of the Box With ‘Google Circles’

by Mike Mansell March 14, 2011

In the vast world that we call the Internet, it seems like there is no field where Google – a company that started out as a simple web indexer – has yet to reach out and grasp upon, usually with great success. Over the last several years, Google has blossomed to become one of the [...]

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5 Things to Consider Before Buying Web Hosting

by Mike Mansell February 17, 2011

When establishing an online presence for yourself or your business/organization, there are a number of important components that help your content stand a better chance at being found and becoming successful on the vast sea of information that is the Internet. Personally, I have always been a stickler for creating high-quality content, as I believe [...]

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