Category Archives: Technology in the News

Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Posted on October 8, 2015 by admin

Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other new ventures such as driverless cars. … Continue reading →

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Google’s new Parent Company, Alphabet, opts for new tld: abc.xyz

Posted on August 14, 2015 by admin

This week Google announced that it will now be operating under a newly created parent company, named Alphabet.  Alphabet will be run by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Page as CEO and Brin as president.  And Google’s … Continue reading →

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Easy way to get more views on your Facebook video

Posted on August 4, 2015 by admin

One easy difference in how you post videos on Facebook makes such a big difference in the number of views you get how fast.  It’s so easy.  Just upload your video directly to Facebook vs uploading it just to YouTube … Continue reading →

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Google To Favor “Mobile Friendly” Websites In Search Starting Tuesday

Posted on April 19, 2015 by admin

Is your website mobile friendly?  If your website is not by this Tuesday you could be dramatically losing traffic to your website from smartphone users!  This coming Tuesday Google plans on rolling out their new revised formula in calculating who gets … Continue reading →

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Taylor Swift, Microsoft buy .porn and .adult domain names to protect brand

Posted on March 24, 2015 by admin

You probably know about .com, .org, and .net domain names.  But did you know that there are now over 547 new gTLDs, or generic top-level domains, on the Web, with new suffixes released every month?  And starting from June 1, new … Continue reading →

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Microsoft is Phasing Out Internet Explorer, introducing Project Spartan

Posted on March 19, 2015 by admin

This week at the Microsoft Convergence conference, marketing chief Chris Capossela announced that Project Spartan will be replacing the 90’s go-to internet browser, Internet Explorer (IE).  Most welcome the upgrade, to have a more advanced/compliant and therefore compatible web browser … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Kimmel hacks your passwords by just asking, lol

Posted on January 17, 2015 by admin

How strong are your internet passwords?  Are they easy to guess, contain information you have posted on social media sites?  In this hilarious video, Jimmy Kimmel shows viewers how easy it is to hack someone’s internet password.  It is actually … Continue reading →

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Smartphone use on the rise…just ask this Japanese snow monkey!

Posted on July 7, 2014 by admin

Almost two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners use their phone to go online, according to a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.   This has doubled since 2009.   You can guess it is … Continue reading →

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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer security patch, for Windows XP too

Posted on May 1, 2014 by admin

Microsoft has just released a security patch to fix the major security bug that was reported for Internet Explorer (IE) this previous weekend.  And they included Windows XP too, since the security flaw was found so close to its end … Continue reading →

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