NebuAd, Inc is pioneering a new way to study what you do on the Internet so that ads can be targeted to your interests. The question of whether the way they do it is invading your privacy is valid. In the past, most services use the practice of story "cookies" [...]
This is a picture of the new PayPal Storefront Widget. I have been tracking and marveling at the growth of the widget/gadget industry over the last six months. This is an elegant example of what I like about widgets. In this case, PayPal is using this small Web-based application as [...]
Google's new mobile service allows your cell phone to be triangulated by cell towers so that they can know where you are, and it provides a host of services based on the fact that they know where you are at the moment – or at least where your phone is… [...]
Business Software Alliance increasingly targets small companies in software piracy suits – that means you! You probably have not heard of Business Software Alliance, so it might be good to understand that their clients are companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec. The service they provide is to be a [...]
Holiday shopping online gets a year older… Just a handful of years ago, there was not an option for purchasing Christmas goodies online. If you wanted to avoid the holiday rush at the local mall, you had to either outsource the shopping to a relative, or use a catalog. With [...]
Dell has just announced they will start selling Google's enterprise search appliance offerings. The Google Mini, aimed at small to mid-range companies or web sites and the Google Search Appliance aimed at the upper echelon on corporate IT and high document web sites. Google has been selling the appliances for [...]
Is Microsoft Office in danger of losing its monopoly on the business tools category? Yet another company, Live Documents, has come out and announced an impending challenge to Office. For more than a decade, business users have become accustomed to Word, Excel and PowerPoint being the staple tools of choice. [...]
Open Platforms are driving an age of innovation like nothing we have ever seen. They are quietly going to change the way we do business so you better pay attention... In the last few months we have had a tsunami of software platforms opened up for use, or announced. Facebook [...]
An announcement that came somewhat out of the blue this week was Amazon debuting a new book reader called Kindle. I have to admit here that I bought one of the very first ebook readers 5 years ago and loaded 3 books, never used it, and now have added it [...]
Two articles in a week is a sign… the subject in both was the fact that the new generation of Millennials coming up have a very different sense of privacy than their elders. Where many of us were taught that there was safety in anonymity, our kids are finding it [...]