Tag Archives: interesting internet

Shellshock Exploit: What It Is, What It Means, & What To Do

Surely you’ve heard the term Shellshock exploit be mentioned everyone across the internet these last couple of days, however what is it exactly and what does it really mean for you? Well, Shellshock is the name for a brand new exploit which targets a vulnerability in Bash. Bash, an acronym for Bourne Again Shell, is […]

Web Listings, Inc – Scam Alert

I had wanted to write this post the first time I had gotten a Web Listings, Inc letter in the mail and somehow it slipped my mind then. Luckily I own a fair share of domain names and so, sure enough, I got another letter from Web Listings, Inc a few weeks back. So finally it pissed […]

Amazon Bought The .BUY Domain

In a bidding that ended last week ICANN awarded Amazon the .buy domain after the company successfully outbid three other competitors in an auction with a winning bid of $4.6 million. Google came in second place through its registry service, Charleston Road Registry. Amazon has yet to say what it will do with the .buy […]

IBM Brings Data Analysts To Small Businesses

Being able to truly analyze your businesses data was something that most small businesses simply never had the ability to do. Chances are you, the business owner, simply has no time left to sit there and draw out graphs and plot charts – and hiring a dedicated data analyst simply isn’t in the budget. This is […]

123-Reg & Minds + Machines Join Forces to Promote .LONDON

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]UK domain registrars 123-reg.co.uk and Minds + Machines announced a collaborative effort to increase awareness and adoption of the new .london TLD late last week. The collaboration will include a range of on and offline marketing initiatives. According to 123-reg.co-uk, registrations of .london surged on the first day of general availability for the extension, which was Sept. […]

Yelp Wins Court Ruling To Move Up Negative Reviews

There’s always been talk among business owners of the “grey-area” around Yelp purposely placing negative reviews on non-paying merchant profiles. Unfortunately this did actually happen, and some business owners did actually sue Yelp – and in the end the court ruled that Yelp is completely in the clear in doing this. The ruling supported a […]

Microsoft Aims To Revive MSN

MSN was one of the original all-in-one portals created by Microsoft over 2 decades ago. It’s your default Internet Explorer homepage, and as of late something you probably have almost forgotten about. In-fact with almost no real updates to the MSN portal Microsoft may have very well almost forgotten about it as-well. This is all […]

Yahoo Buys An Ad Company

With all the different things happening with Bing and Google it gets a bit hard to keep up with Yahoo as-well. However the gentle giant is far from sleeping. Yahoo seems to be putting some serious focus behind driving their advertising revenues up, as evident following a recent acquisition of Luminate – an advertising company […]

Facebook Adds A Counter To Facebook Videos

I’ve always said it. People like counters. The ability to see how many times somebody has viewed their website, photo, or video has always been interesting to everyone. That was the concept that fueled the creation of the free counter service here, and some part of what caused Facebook to introduce counters to shared videos. A […]

Bing Image Widget Goes Offline

I had JUST introduced everyone here to the Bing Image Widget which is now, unfortunately, temporarily offline. Following a lawsuit filed by Getty Images, Microsoft has taken the beta version of its Bing Image Widget offline. Getty had complained that Microsoft’s widget infringed on copyright by enabling people to embed protected images in websites without attribution or […]

Google Changes Site Search Placement In Search Results

Surely most of you by now have made use of the site search box that Google shows you when you run a search for a company name. Go ahead and try it, run a search for “Youtube” on Google and you’ll see a search box appear within the first search result from which you can […]

ROOT Becomes Canada’s First Datacenter To Accept Bitcoins

As I said earlier, Bitcoin is really making moves in the technology field – as it should considering the tech behind it. Doing my own developments with Bitcoin and the BitPay API I get pretty excited as more and more technology companies become accepting of Bitcoin – as evidence by my post regarding my joy […]

Google Apps for Business Becomes Google Apps for Work

Those of us who work closely with Google products have become familiar with referring to the Google Apps suite for businesses as just that: Google Apps for Business – however as of this week all that has changed. Google Apps for Business has now become Google Apps for Work – and if you listen to the reasoning […]

Apache Begins To Accept Bitcoin Donations

I haven’t really mentioned Bitcoin or any crypto currency on here yet however I am actively working on several developments featuring the BitPay API, and there are plans to write up a few tutorials regarding it aswell. With that said I myself am extremely interested in Bitcoin and the possibilities it has – so it’s […]