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Sep 25, 2008
An Olympic Convention – Full of Smarts - Part 2 of 3
It feels like the Olympics were so long ago, almost forgotten except for the occasional Michael Phelps advertisements about learning Chinese and to tell the truth I cannot remember many of the other Olympians names, yet I was glued to the TV the entire tw
Aug 24, 2008
An Olympic Convention – Full of Smarts - Part 1 of 3
I just got back from the Search Engine Strategies (SES) convention in San Jose, a perfect location for this global affair. I heard more languages conversing in a somewhat small, tight nit arena then I could have imagined being at the Men’s Badminton fina
Jun 04, 2008
Web Design and the Mona Lisa Smile
I was recently asked by a national magazine for web based business what my biggest obstacle in my work was to overcome. Well, I was honored that they wanted to interview me and thought and thought about this for a while. The Internet business is a dyna
Jul 11, 2007
The Re-Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis releases the Birth of the Cool album in 1949. With the brilliance of sounds like “Venus De Milo” and “Boplicity”, Davis punctuated an era that brought forth from the grave an excellence and Cool like no Jazz or music genre has ever done. Pos
Aug 25, 2006
Death to the Corporate Techie
I want to simply point out a few facts about network services, technical support and what you get when dealing with a certain large enterprise operation and a medium size service provider, which I don’t feel the need to mention ...
Aug 12, 2006
Local Internet Marketing and the DIY Method
We live in an advertiser's world. Logos, slogans, shock treatment and bug spray tell the stories of our youth and our future. We get bigger, older, uglier and more powerful every day if we can only force out the message that we have something to offer. W
Jun 29, 2006
Search Engine Woes and the Dramatic Dance - Part II
Issue No. 1 - The proliferation of junk sites is getting out of hand.
Jun 15, 2006
Search Engine Woes and the Dramatic Dance - Part I
You ever wonder how to get at the top of the search engines for a particular key word or phrase?
Mar 07, 2006
E-Commerce - The Wave of the Future – Simple… LOL
Selling online can be a really profitable business. We have all heard the stories. The online market is growing at a level that far surpasses the retail market.
Feb 27, 2006
The Peer-to-Peer Fiasco – A Tax Time Warning!
It has been almost 2 years since I last visited this topic, and to my amazement, this problem has grown to enormous proportions. Napster, Morpheus, Bearshare, Kazaa… Sound familiar? Well the originals are still available, but the new kids on the block ...
Jan 05, 2006
The Attack of the Advertiser
The menacing campaigns that drive the corporate spyware and adware market is developing way out of hand. Who are these companies and how do they get away with it? They are costing computer users millions with their sneakware system of promotional crap!
Sep 10, 2005
A Modern Lite in the Third World
Americans pride themselves on being the best, that’s a fact. From McDonalds, to Coke, to Microsoft, to Hollywood, we have the best of everything. Don’t we? Especially in computer technology, Dell, HP/Compaq, Macintosh, we stand tall. Is that right?
Jun 16, 2005
Art Tells the Technological Future
Jean Cocteau once said, “we only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.” Tell that one to Dorian Grey. It parallels the old “Chicken or the Egg” deal. Which came first? Like the preconceived elements of the computer and tech world ...
May 04, 2005
The Census and the E-Commerce Wave
The tidal wave of the E-Commerce platform is just starting to build up speed. The US Census Bureau explains that E-Commerce sales are “sales of goods and services where an order is placed by the buyer or price and terms of sale are negotiated ...
Mar 08, 2005
Beware of Imitations! Security, Internet Scams and the African Real Estate Agenda
Fishing on the Internet has come a long way. However, we TechWeb junkies like to call it Phishing.
Jan 04, 2005
Voice over IP – Saving Money
I called my friend in England just the other day. We talked for about half an hour and it didn't cost either of us a nickel. Free and clear as crystal, I used my computer. Nothing fancy, just a simple sound card, speakers and microphone is all I needed.
Oct 30, 2004
The Internet Underground - A Hacker's Culture- Part II
Warez, pronounced “Wāres,” in the super tech encyclopedia, is a term used by software "pirates" to describe software that has been stripped of its copy-protection and made available on the Internet for downloading.
Oct 12, 2004
The Internet Underground - A Hacker's Culture- Part I
The Social Organization of the Computer Underground has come a long way. It used to be understood that the computer underground consisted of actors in three roles - computer hackers, phone phreaks, and software pirates.
Jul 21, 2004
Content Management – The New Standard in Web Design
The evolution of web development parallels the model of technology spending by companies today. The style and method has transformed along with the business spending trend. Content management has taken over as the latest fashion in design...
May 20, 2004
MP3s and the Peer-to-Peer Fiasco
Napster, Morpheus, Bearshare, Kazaa… Sound familiar? How many of you out there have installed peer-to-peer file sharing applications on your home or office computers? Do you really know what you are doing when you install these “Free” programs?
Apr 21, 2004
Tech Buzz Today!
Today’s pop-culture spouts hip-hop, camera phones, 50” Plasma HDTVs, high speed Internet access, web cams and integrated global espionage right there in your living room, office PC or PDA.
Mar 22, 2004
Someone Stole My Cookies!
It is the third Friday of the month and that means paychecks are due. I get online with my home computer just before going to the office. I read my news online. WOW! There is a scare. Hackers are stealing cookies.
Feb 20, 2004
SPYWARE - Who's Watching Who?
Based on where you go while browsing the World Wide Web, companies collect information and direct advertisements to your computer in accordance with the material that you peruse. That kind of programming is called Spyware. And it scares me!
Jan 21, 2004
Saving Money with a Web Based CRM
Customer Relationship Management is not a new concept. Yet efficiently utilizing collected resources passes to the wayside more often than not. If you struggle to find the use for customer profiling, or you fall short of managing data, read on.
Dec 21, 2003
Staff Training and Efficient Company Operations - Part III
I received several calls the past couple weeks from business owners and managers regarding my last article on E-Mail abuse in the December 2003 issue of Business Street.
Nov 25, 2003
Staff Training and Efficient Company Operations - Part II
E-mail Use and Abuse. Viruses are infecting my computers!
Oct 21, 2003
Staff Training for Efficient Company Operations - Part I
Initiation to the use of an Intranet
Sep 09, 2003
Cleanliness is Godliness
Imagine an office setting where employees randomly file their papers into unlabeled cabinet drawers. The utility of this information would be terribly diminished. Obviously, an office manager would never allow this to happen...
Aug 19, 2003
Virus Prevention 101
Blaster, Welchia, Sobig, W32, Backdoor, Trojan, Melissa, Klez, Worm, Loveletter, Nimda… Do these names sound Familiar?
Jul 22, 2003
A Day in the Life of Joe Hacker
His name is Hacker. He breaks into computer networks. He trades information for profit and popularity. Like a graffiti artist, his fame comes from his targets.
Jun 19, 2003
Easy steps toward network success
Are you protected against hackers and virus threats? Is there redundancy in the environment? Does your backup and restore system work? How stable are your servers? The answers to these questions will help you obtain optimum performance ...
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