Practical Technology

At first I thought I’d write a little nothing of a story about the five most popular networking stories of 2011. Then, I looked at the list: Five Reasons not to “Upgrade” to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9 Chrome 10: Close to a perfect Web Browser 10 Chrome 10 vs. Internet Explorer 9 Reconsidered Internet BitTorrent [...]

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It’s one thing for congresscritters who wouldn’t known an Internet Protocol (IP) address from a domain name to support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), it’s another thing entirely for a top Internet domain registry company like Go Daddy to support SOPA. I mean Internet companies may not know anything about the First Amendment—something like [...]

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Everyone likes personal cloud services, like Apple’s iCloud, Google Music, and Dropbox. But, many of aren’t crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else’s servers without our control. That’s where ownCloud comes in. OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. You use it to set up your own cloud [...]

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People have privacy delusions about the Internet. They seem to think that just because they don’t sign their real name to a site that no one can see what they’ve been doing on it. Oh dear. So dumb, so wrong. The latest example of what you do on the Internet is no where near as [...]

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I wonder if Apple is beginning to regret its world-wide war on Android and Samsung? After all, Apple’s just been hit in the chops by a German court injunction that blocks the sale of all iPhones and iPads in the European Union. In yet another chapter in the mobile patent wars, this time around Android-power [...]

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