Is Google making a mistake by entering the full blow operating systems area or is this a brilliant move to further diversify their products’ and services offering and attack a fairly stagnant market?
Stevens disabled “inactive” e-mail accounts
As of today I no longer have my Stevens e-mail account. Stevens Institute of Technology has disabled (and will probably soon delete) all “inactive” accounts. Inactive in a sense that if you are not currently employed or enrolled at Stevens your e-mail account is gone. To be honest, since I graduated (December of 2005) from Stevens I haven’t used it …
Good record keeping
We are in the process of moving all of our documentation, forms, and files online (or at least to digital format) and while working on that today we came across a couple of old installation forms from 1999. These forms are 10 years old! The people (if they are still here) have most likely received 2 new computers since then …
Behavioral ads
Behavioral ads are cool as they make the content more relevant to you and are more appealing to advertisers at the same time due to greater accuracy in targeting users. On the other hand, the concern arises from what happens with your browsing history and preferences after the ads have been served? Is it used for other purposes, will it …
Is MySpace dead?
Looking at my personal usage of social networking sites and considering the recent “exodus” of executives from MySpace (and their features lag), I think that they are pretty much done. Am I wrong?
Facebook knows they made a mistake
Facebook seems to have realized that they went overboard with their recent “Terms of Use” changes and has decided to revert back to their previous version. According to Mark Zuckerberg (their CEO & Founder) they have acknowledged and took ownership of this mistake. His exact words were (quoted from FB blog): A lot of the language in our terms is …
Facebook Terms of Use
Facebook has revised their Terms of Use recently and most notable changes basically state that they own all of your content from now until perpetuity. Under “Licenses” heading they state the following: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform …
Prevent identity theft
On this morning’s news I head that over the past year some 10,000,000 Americans were victims of identity theft. That’s little over 3% of the U.S. population. Someone might say, well it’s only 3% which is not bad, but when you look at the number it is staggering, frightening even. 10 million people! While there is no guarantee that it …
LogMeIn in production
It’s been in testing for a couple of months now, most of us on our team have used it years ago, but as of today, we are deploying LogMeIn to all of our college machines (with a big push beginning on Monday) in order to improve responsiveness and support levels to our clients. This application will be installed on all …
MacRumorsLive stream compromised
I have been following MacRumorsLive for a while now when it comes to Macworld and other Apple related events, but today they seems to be experiencing difficulties. Their AJAX way of updating readers with text and photos seems to have been compromised as you can see in the above photo. Few minutes later, things started to get worse. As I …