ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been opening the playing field recently, allowing for more top-level domain names. The days of the simple .com, .net. info and the rest are becoming a thing of the past. Replacing, well complimenting, then is a whole new breed that opens the floodgates to your wildest imagination. At the forefront
I have a friend that hates the Internet. She cringes when the words "Facebook" or "Google" even come up. She's been on only a couple of times - but otherwise I'll get a call asking to print off some document she needs. Even though more homes are investing in broadband Internet, the New York Times reports roughly 20 percent of American
When I read the most recent news from Google I had to check my calendar -- sure enough it is not April 1st. However, what the search giant announced sounds fantastical. What more can you say about getting internet from a high altitude balloon? Well, that is the dream the company has announced. "But for 2 out of every 3 people
Back in November 2011 a group of Estonian and Russian hackers were arrested for creating and running a botnet called DNSChanger. DNSChanger was true to its name, it changed the DNS address of the computer it controlled and directed it to rogue DNS servers. These rogue DNS servers were shut down by the FBI and the Internet Systems Consortium, a
Tech writer Paul Miller (most recently writing for The Verge) - is leaving the Internet for a year starting tonight at midnight. One of his final indulgences is a Reddit IAmA session (the comments, as usual when you expose yourself to Redditors, are a mixture of hilarious and tauntingly offensive). Aside from the novelty of a tech writer giving up the Internet
Let's say that you have a website that is entirely your own. Maybe it is your blog where you write about your favorite video game. Or, it could be the website where people can stream or download episodes of your podcast, check out your show notes, and leave you comments. One way to make money from your work is to
Back in Hawaii for two shows, headed to the NAB Show this coming Friday will likely be a crazy schedule once the show starts. Lots of moving parts, but as always great tech coming your way from the best tech show on earth. ;) Download the Audio Show File Links to all the articles talked about in this Podcast are