Incredible news story outlining the incredible growth of Internet use on mobile telephones and smartphones. Incredible phones like the iPhone and the Blackberry Bold make the Internet and its limitless information truly accessible while on the go. From January 2008 to January 2009, the number of handheld users accessing the Internet daily, doubled. Read the whole article below. NewsFactor Network… Read More »The Internet is truly becoming mobile
This might be one of the largest government agencies making a whole sale change to Ubuntu and leaving Microsoft behind. Ubuntu Linux is a free open source operating system that can very capably replace a Microsoft Windows operating system. This article describes how France’s national police force will change all 90,000 of their computers to Ubuntu by 2015, and they… Read More »French police force save millions by using Ubuntu
ZDNet Blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tested one of the latest beta versions of Wndows 7 on two different machines. One machine had 4 GB of RAM and fast processor, the other machine had 1 GB of RAM and a 2-3 year old processor. On ALL tests, Windows 7 outperformed XP and Vista by almost a 2 to 1 margin and in… Read More »Windows 7 faster than XP and Vista
Headlines garner attention, but do people then read the article. This week an article is making the rounds about a Google Docs security problem. Turns out that the problem only affects an extremely minor number of users who already shared document and then happened to perform a very particular set of steps. In other words, the chances of a problem… Read More »Google Docs privacy leak
This report shows that social network sites, Facebook leading them all, are gaining popularity and quickly becoming more popular than even email! Social networking and blogs now more popular than email, says Nielsen | Technology | guardian.co.uk.