If you have children or young teenagers living at home, you know who Hannah Montana is. Hannah Montana is actually a fictional character played by a young actress by the name of Miley Cyrus. Miley is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus who you may remember for his country song several years ago, Achy Breaky Heart. The character is part of a television show that is part of the Disney channel line up.
Google says they do not plan any massive changes to how the search engine works because of the coming of personalization. No doubt, this technology needs some time to be refined and for Google to understand what it can do. Google is so omnipresent on the internet that few of us will give up using it just because it seems that not only are you looking at Google, they are looking at you back. But just knowing that Google is getting to that point of profiling you based on your daily online thoughts can get a little spooky. I guess it is something we will have to get used to.
If we do our parts to keep the software and operating system of our computers up to date at home and at the office, we can partner with big companies like Adobe and Microsoft to fight hackers wherever they strike. These measures won’t stop hackers completely because computer criminals are notoriously determined bad guys. But we can fight back with every tool we have. And if we do that, most of the time, the good guys will win.
For any data processing professional, the protection of client data is a high priority. Not only is a huge amount of effort put into the integrity and usability of data, significant expense and work is done to make sure that data is not disclosed beyond the relationship between a customer and the institution. [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right? Well given that cardboard is so 1980′s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement. While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business [...]
We start with Moore’s Law, which states (roughly) that the number of transistors which can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. In other words, electronics component density will allow computers to double their efficiency to size ratio every two years. This means that devices can keep getting smaller, and that devices [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
The progress of technology development has taught us one thing: evolution is ruthless. Thousands of devices, software systems, consoles, and gadgets have come and gone, only a few of them see any kind of mass adoption. And sometimes when they see mass adoption, they go extinct anyway. Not necessarily because they went out of style, [...]
This image summed it up the best. The whole world was watching as the United States threw out their old regime and mandated Barack Obama into office as their 44th president. Never before have we seen so many countries interested in the outcome of one election, and so jubilant at that outcome. We just can’t [...]
