Category Archives: Technology

Microsoft Teaches You How to be an Expert in Humor

Need assistance in increasing your humor quotient? Don’t worry, Microsoft has come to the rescue with training for you to become an “expert” in the ways of humor. Are you overdoing your humor? They can help you. Are you funnier … Continue reading

Microsoft Says Goodbye to IE6

If you’re a web developer, I hope you’re not all partied out from your New Year’s celebrations because there’s an even better reason to celebrate: Internet Explorer 6 usage in the United States has now officially dropped below 1%! It … Continue reading

Google introduces upcoming rate limits and overage fees for Maps API

After quietly announcing back in April that usage limits would be introduced to the Google Maps API, the company has officially announced their plans to charge for high usage Maps API sites. Sites using the API will be capped at 25,000 map … Continue reading

More Consumers Use Mobile Internet Daily than Fixed-Line Internet

The phenomenal growth of mobile Internet usage continues. Based on the recently released MEF Global Consumer Survey of over 8,000 consumers in nine countries (including the US), more people now access the mobile Internet on a daily basis than do … Continue reading

Steve Jobs. 1955 – 2011.

Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old. Our thoughts, along with those of the millions and millions of people who were impacted and changed by Apple … Continue reading

Amazon Announces New Kindles, New Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser

Some huge technology announcements from Amazon today as they introduced three new Kindle devices, a new $79 Kindle, the Kindle Touch, and the Android powered Kindle Fire tablet. As a web agency, the most interesting device is the new 7″ … Continue reading

No Flash Support in Internet Explorer 10 Metro

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 will not support any browser plug-ins when running in the new slick Metro mode. Most notably, that means no Flash support and a reliance on HTML5, JavaScript, and other standards-based technologies for video and other interactivity. … Continue reading

HP Kills Off TouchPad, webOS Phones

The complicated mobile development market got just a little simpler yesterday as HP discontinued operations related to the production of webOS mobile phones and tablets. Not sure anyone saw this news coming, despite rumors that sales of the TouchPad in … Continue reading

PhoneGap 1.0 Released

The PhoneGap open source mobile development platform released their 1.0 version on Friday at the first ever PhoneGap Day in Portland. The platform originally launched in 2009 and after some iPhone App Store hiccups, they have steadily improved by fixing … Continue reading

Why You Should Be Using Google Chrome and Why It Makes the Web More Awesome

If you flash back to 1994, when this crazy thing called the “World Wide Web” was starting to catch on, you’d have to admit it was a pretty static experience in comparison to today’s. A “web site” would consist of … Continue reading