Google held an event this morning called Inside Search to make a number of announcements regarding innovations being made to their core Search product. To cut to the chase, rolling out today include: query building in mobile searches, local icons on the refreshed mobile Google home page, a new user interface for local search, Russian translation in Google Goggles, voice search … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
Watch This CNBC Special Tonight: Code Wars – America’s Cyber Threat
CNBC is airing a special tonight called Code Wars - America's Cyber Threat. It is focusing on subjects like the hacker economy, critical operations, cyber espionage, Estonia's cyber assault, and Stuxnet. In the United States, we are Internet dependent. Our financial systems, power grids, telecommunications, water supplies, flight controls and military communications are all … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Main Website Offline For About 4 Hours, Now Back Up
GoDaddy.com suffered a few hours of downtime this evening but appears to have just come back up. Acknowledged by the @GoDaddy Twitter account, the main www.GoDaddy.com page first redirected to a standard Microsoft IIS error page and then later redirected to an error 503 page. Neither of these were comforting sites for customers of "the web's largest hosting and domain provider" … [Read more...]
NewEgg Responds to Best Buy’s Cease and Desist Letter
Last week Best Buy sent NewEgg a Cease and Desist letter for shared similarities between NewEgg's Geek On advertising campaign and Best Buy's Geek Squad along with a NewEgg commercial that seemed to depict and insult the "good-will" that Best Buy has established. NewEgg has responded to Best Buy and also shared their response on the NewEgg Facebook page. … [Read more...]
Book Review: 62 Projects To Make With A Dead Computer (and other discarded electronics)
I passed by this book on display at my local library a few times before I actually picked up 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer and I initially picked it up as a skeptic. From the first time I saw the cover of the book, I kept thinking "what about the heavy metals or capacitors and electricity?". When it comes to computer repair, you'll often here the stories about how … [Read more...]