Category Archives: Technology in the News

Google To Favor “Mobile Friendly” Websites In Search Starting Tuesday

Is your website mobile friendly?  If your website is not by this Tuesday you could be dramatically losing traffic to your website from smartphone users!  This coming Tuesday Google plans on rolling out their new revised formula in calculating who gets … Continue reading

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Taylor Swift, Microsoft buy .porn and .adult domain names to protect brand

You probably know about .com, .org, and .net domain names.  But did you know that there are now over 547 new gTLDs, or generic top-level domains, on the Web, with new suffixes released every month?  And starting from June 1, new … Continue reading

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Microsoft is Phasing Out Internet Explorer, introducing Project Spartan

This week at the Microsoft Convergence conference, marketing chief Chris Capossela announced that Project Spartan will be replacing the 90’s go-to internet browser, Internet Explorer (IE).  Most welcome the upgrade, to have a more advanced/compliant and therefore compatible web browser … Continue reading

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Jimmy Kimmel hacks your passwords by just asking, lol

How strong are your internet passwords?  Are they easy to guess, contain information you have posted on social media sites?  In this hilarious video, Jimmy Kimmel shows viewers how easy it is to hack someone’s internet password.  It is actually … Continue reading

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Smartphone use on the rise…just ask this Japanese snow monkey!

Almost two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners use their phone to go online, according to a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.   This has doubled since 2009.   You can guess it is … Continue reading

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too

Microsoft has just released a security patch to fix the major security bug that was reported for Internet Explorer (IE) this previous weekend.  And they included Windows XP too, since the security flaw was found so close to its end … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer bug, Use Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox to avoid hacking

UPDATE: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too If you are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), the U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising you to switch to another web browser until Microsoft releases a fix for a … Continue reading

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Hackers target Apple devices: iPhone, iPod, iPad, Mac OS computers

Consumers with Apple products who thought they were immune to hackers and viruses on their macs and other apple products because they chose Apple over PC and android are in for a surprise.  A warning has been issued for anyone … Continue reading

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First it was Internet Explorer, Now it’s Google Chrome

What’s it about?  The most commonly used internet browser.  Looks like the move is being made by web surfers from Internet Explorer (IE) to Google Chrome.  Have a cross-browser and cross-platform compatible website and it won’t be a problem for … Continue reading

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LinkedIn, eHarmony social networking sites hacked, passwords leaked, poor security

LinkedIn, a popular professional social networking website, and eHarmony, a paid subscription social networking dating site, both confirmed Wednesday their sites have been hacked.  The breach in the database security was found when the hacker(s) posted the list of 8 million … Continue reading

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