Web Hosting Deals: Are They Really as Good as They Promise?
Today, it is easier than ever to create a website without the help of a professional designer. More and more people are taking advantage of this, including local mom-and-pop stores,…
How Will Parallels Plesk 12 Affect Web Servers?
One web hosting provider suggested that the best hosts choose a control panel that fits the needs of their business while others simply build a business around their control panel….
How Secure Is the Cloud? Will It Rain Personal Information Everywhere?
Businesses want to believe in Cloud computing. For those who decide to use the Cloud, the benefits are overwhelming. As modern businesses farm out such overhead activities as human resources…
How Secure Is Your WordPress Website?
Currently, WordPress powers approximately 17 percent of all websites. Its popularity makes it a prime target for malware because its scope provides the opportunity for substantial impact once a vulnerability…
How Did .uk Fare after its Launch?
When it comes to the World Wide Web, there is no shortage of extensions. Obviously, .com, .net and .org are the most common web domain name extensions. However, there are…
Why .uk and Other New Domain Extensions are so Important
Sometimes it’s the saving of three keystrokes and other times, a matter of national pride. The launching of the domain extension, “.uk,” officially available June 10th, joins some other new…
Are Secure Servers, Applications Really at Risk from GnuTLS “Hello” Vulnerability?
Security experts and researchers have found a risky vulnerability in GnuTLS, a secure communications library for SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and associated technologies, which has experts frantically urging users…
Geek Ethicist: Love’s Liars Online
“Dear Ethicist– What’s wrong with “sculpting” the truth on online dating sites? Women get breast implants, which is essentially false advertising (or “falsies advertising”) but men fall for that. So…
This will be the question of our decade. Swartz’s father claims the government killed him. Many journalists assert Swartz’s brain chemistry and circumstances killed him… Baloney. Certainly his depression, added…
131 years ago, Nietzsche stated: “God is dead.” But God is not dead. God–in any and all forms–is very much alive, especially online. Judging from online Presence alone, God might…
Icon Contests are Crowdsourcing
Back to crowdsourcing! The fact is crowdsourcing is more common and easier than we often think. In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is the idea of putting a task into the hands…
With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…