Category Archives: Technology

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

Android OS Leading the US Smartphone Market

A Nielsen Company report regarding smartphone market share released on Thursday named Android as the leading operating system manufacturer since November of last year.

WordPress 3.1 Released

The newest version of WordPress, version 3.1 codenamed “Reinhardt”, has been released and is available to download or via an autoupdate from the dashboard. In addition to over 800 bug fixes, this update includes a new admin bar, a cleaner … Continue reading

Will Apple’s New App Store Subscriptions Force Mobile Development Towards HTML5?

We knew it would be coming when News Corp’s The Daily debuted with it’s in-app subscription model, but this week Apple officially detailed their new subscription service for all iOS app publishers. The new policies allow users to sign up … Continue reading

The Internet Is Running Out of IP Addresses, IPv6 to the Rescue

The Internet is almost full. No, really, the Internet is almost full. With the last of the IPv4 addresses being distributed across the world, they will run out completely, perhaps as soon as 2012.

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Now Available

Internet Explorer 9 is another step closer to full public release as Microsoft made available the first release candidate (RC) of the browser for download. Release candidates are past alpha or beta versions of software and indicate that this should … Continue reading

MarketNet Creates iPhone App for New LifeStyles

The New LifeStyles iPhone app, developed by MarketNet, offers a free, quick and easy way to find nearby retirement communities, senior living communities, nursing care and Alzheimer’s care.   The matching locations are color-coded so that you can filter your … Continue reading

Companies React Proactively to Gawker Security Breach to Protect Customer Accounts

I’ve had to change a lot of passwords in the last two weeks. I had a Macbook stolen one weekend and then this weekend my login data was among the 1.3 million usernames and passwords compromised when hackers broke into … Continue reading