The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir to prove it could...
When you die, should your loved ones have access to your Facebook, Yahoo and other online accounts? To become law in a state, the legislation would have to be adopted by the state’s legislature. If it all becomes law in...
We can lead a browser around by the nose all day long – We can script and code and script again until the cows come home – We can also drive as much traffic away from client sites as we...
As we all might already know, and as history has proven time and again, there are always going to be those on the net that have the propensity to freak out every time Google or Microsoft or Apple comes up...
Lubuntu Lubuntu is based on Ubuntu — it’s an Ubuntu derivative, which means it’s based on the same software as Ubuntu but it includes a different graphical desktop environment and included software. Lubuntu is the most lightweight derivative of Ubuntu,...
For years, I’ve managed to keep all of my registered software on local machines, and in those years, I’ve been able to keep, or distribute freely, everything I’ve created, from web apps to customized databases, to web pages and...
Everybody had a plan, an idea, a goal … and everybody had the next best thing. Competition on the internet was fast and furious. You had to move or get left in the dust. It’s not 1996 any more unfortunately....
Responsive Web design is intended to ensure that a site’s layout and content scale fluidly to the available screen real estate. This is a great approach for focusing your investments on improving site content and user functionality while ensuring that...
A talk by Laura Kalbag (@laurakalbag). It’s all too easy to get caught up in fancy new web development techniques and forget that the responsive approach also requires a different mindset during the design process. Focusing on design principles for...
Jeff Rothschild’s machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space here with racks of computer servers that were needed to store...