I am one of those strange people who think that Amazon Prime is perhaps the greatest thing since, well, Amazon.com itself. Pay a flat fee, and you can pretty much order anything you want from the big online merchant and get it delivered to your front door in 48 hours. In many ways, the convenience...
Self-reinforcing delusional and Family Radio babblespout Harold Camping has predicted the “rapture” for tomorrow. (He predicted it for June of ’94, but…never mind.) A – God help us – “radio evangelist” (I’m going to run out of quotation marks and parentheses before this is done, I can tell), he has junked up the American...
Just about everyone reading this will be familiar with WordPress: it’s the behemoth on the content management scene, employed by millions of blogs and web publications large and small alike. The Next Web runs on WordPress, as do most of our competitors, and these days you have to look a little harder to find...
The first Chief Technology Officer of one of the most important communication technology companies of our time has left his job today – and for a guy who made public disclosure easier than ever, we hardly knew the man. Greg Pass joined Twitter three years ago when his search company Summize was acquired. He...
RadiumOne is emerging as a leader in a new breed of advertising networks, with enhanced targeting based on social data. The company is positioning itself to lock in data sources before competitors even get rolling. “Behavioral targeting in advertising led to double digit increases in effectiveness,” RadiumOne’s CEO Gurbaksh Chahal tells me. And he...
Are you worried about what you’re going to eat when the world is in flames and you’re holed up in your basement, hiding from mutants, dinosaurs, zombies or whatever sort of unnatural horror awaits you? Well fear no longer because ThinkGeek has you covered with the Tactical Sammich. Weighing in at under 4oz and...
We can debate what qualifies as a true 4G phone, but there’s no arguing the $199 Samsung Infuse 4G for ATT’s network offers the largest display of any phone the carrier sells directly. The 4.5-inch Google Android handset uses Samsung’s latest screen technology, which certainly makes for a large device; perhaps too large for...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s...
Securing the Internet is no easy task but Google researchers think they have taken a step closer this week with a program called SSL False Start that decreases the load time of SSL connections up to 30%. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a certification that encrypts data between an end-users’ browser and the server....
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