Google Knows How Old You Are Google recently began offering a new tool to advertisers; the ability to select a demographic segment to target web ads to. Publishers who sign up for the beta test can send demographic information to Google already; so information like gender and age can be [...]
A few years ago there were a lot of executives talking about network security. Now, most of them had no idea how to get it, but they were concerned because they were reading lots of stories of break ins and data loss. Unless my ears are letting me down, I [...]
Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB from TypePad [...]
For many of us that have grown up using MS Office, the thought of using an online office tool from a third party vendor is a bit scary. I have been using Word, Excel and PowerPoint for so many years that the only way I can remember not using them [...]
Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are using [...]
I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world - especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of list as in the past, but they did make two [...]
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed to watch [...]
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged in and [...]
As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and have also run into a friend of mine that ordered [...]
Cisco Grows Offerings in 2007 Last month Cisco acquired Navini Networks, a company that had made its name in the WiMax field with installs on 6 continents according to their old site. (I guess there is no commercial need for WiMax on Antarctica?) Cisco has been quietly buying and re-branding [...]