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Online Advertising: Annoying or Useful?

by Mike Mansell August 18, 2011

In society it has almost become commonplace to see ads everywhere. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re at, or what you’re doing; there is always going to be someone out there looking to buy your eyes in order to push their goods or services.

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The Cloud Has Failed Me

by Mike Mansell August 10, 2011

If you’ve been keeping even a moderate eye on the technology industry during the last couple of years I’m sure you have heard of “the cloud.” While more of a concept than a specific product or service “the cloud”, a term short for “cloud computing” which in turn simply means computing and storage that is handled via network instead of on a user’s desktop computer has taken off.

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10 ISP’s Found to be Using Search Redirects to Make Easy Money

by Mike Mansell August 5, 2011

As someone who spends the majority of my day on the Internet (probably a tad more than I should), I like to think that I have a sacred bond with my Internet Service Provider (ISP). After all, if my ISP didn’t do their job and provide me with my uplink to the world, I would [...]

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1 Year Later: Was .CO A Huge Bust?

by Jeff Weisbein July 18, 2011

In two days, the .CO domain registry will celebrate the first anniversary of its public launch and don’t forget the fact it recently hit the 1 million registered domain mark after ten months of existence. That’s not too shabby, however, there is no question the launch of .CO was surrounded by a lot of hype which contributed to the rapid adoption.

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Dropbox Needs to Step Up Its Game to Compete With iCloud

by Mike Mansell July 11, 2011

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iCloud storage and synchronization platform at WWDC this year, many immediately developed the view that it was a knockoff of the already popular Dropbox synchronization service that allows users to seamlessly synchronize vital files and folders between all of their computers. To an extent, I would say that Apple did indeed implement ideas into iCloud that were first seen in Dropbox.

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Could a Microsoft/Baidu Partnership Compete with Google?

by Mike Mansell July 6, 2011

Serving China, a country with four-hundred and fifty million users online, Baidu is, as it stands, a popular search engine primarily focused on the Chinese market. The search engine in itself has been around for quite some time now, but with Google’s move to pull out of China in March of last year the search engine has become what many see as the go-to search engine in China.

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Spam Down More Than 80% From This Time Last Year

by Mike Mansell July 4, 2011

With the developments of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, I for one have done a lot less social communication by way of email. No longer does it make sense for users to email pictures or share tidbits from their lives via one-to-one email communication. Social networks allow for people to share with groups of people at once, and the implementation of comments leaves “reply to all” conversations in the dust.

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How To: Automatically Keep Backups of Your Email

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011

Being a huge computer and Internet users, it should come to no surprise that I work diligently to keep my email inbox in tip-top shape every single day. I’ll take the time out of my day to unsubscribe myself from spam and annoying mailing lists, and I will frequently purge any non-essential email from my inbox.

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Comcast + Skype = Genius

by Mike Mansell June 15, 2011

Video conferencing is by no means a new or unorthodox concept. If you look ten or even fifteen years back, large companies were taking advantage of video communications system to hold virtual and entirely visually interactive discussions and meetings with colleagues around the world.

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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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