The very important Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which rules on the way internet and email addresses are assigned, has chosen a new CEO. Fadi Chehade has been chosen for what looks to be a difficult job of coordinating the agency’s upcoming chore of overseeing the largest expansion of the Internet address system. They also assign numeric addresses to devices that are used to identify devices linked to the internet. This system has become important to businesses that want to incorporate easy to remember .com names which are…

A story by Cameron Scott at PC World quoted Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang as saying the Twitter outage on June 21 was caused by company efforts to increase infrastructure. Twitter is no stranger to outages and has made many strides to improve service for the ever growing number of users of the popular social media network. A group of hackers, UGNazi, is claiming that they were behind the temporary outage but regardless the source of the outage Twitter was back online serving the public at right around 3 PM…

Earlier this month Microsoft sent out an email to the media promising a major announcement. They didn’t disappoint when, on June 18, they announced their new foray into the computer hardware business. The Surface will be the company’s new tablet that will use Windows 8 – the new operating system that has been promised to be released by this coming fall. The software giant has not been very successful in the past with hardware products. The X-box is more an exception to the rule as they have taken both their…

There are some tools that a business venturing into e-commerce can get for free that can help them tap into the internet to expand their business. The adage “It takes money to make money” isn’t always 100% true. A new business that wants to develop its own web page can use free software packages available like PHP and MySQL. PHP was at one time used primarily for personal websites but now it is used by millions of websites, many of which are small businesses. MySQL is a database that allows…

One of the biggest obstacles faced by new entrepreneurs is creating a name and getting it out into the public to attract customers. That used to involve researching a company name, listing it with authorities to make sure one no one else was using it and getting it into the phone book or print advertising for people to see. Today’s entrepreneur has to take a completely different approach – getting his name on the internet with a domain registration. In order to build a successful online business you need a…

The World Wide Web Consortium that oversees standards for all web activity has released a sixth version of the “Standards for Web Applications for Mobile”. The fact that it is the sixth version shows just how much has happened in the mobile community in the two years since the first standards were released. A brand new version is also scheduled to be released in August of this year so web developers probably shouldn’t work too hard memorizing this one. The organization recognizes the role of the web in this new…

The small business owner has many choices to make – some in areas that they have little or no expertise. This tends to be especially true when it comes to IT solutions. The demand for computer storage space is one problem with many solutions. Throwing money away on a large computer system may not be the best answer for upstarts or small companies. The new business owner may be best served by a web hosting service that supplies free domain registration and other amenities that will require only a small…

Anyone just breaking into business has many important decisions to make – one of the most important involves accepting payments from customers. One of the most popular online payment service options is Paypal but is Paypal the right choice for your small business? PayPal’s main attraction is that it keeps private information, namely bank account numbers, away from the merchant accepting it. In some instances the security of Paypal alone is enough to generate additional sales because online shoppers feel more comfortable using it. The major downside to Paypal revolves…

The Invulnerability of the Mac operating system has been challenged before but the latest attempt by hackers to prove Macs can be infested has hit approximately 600,000 computers. Half of the users infected are believed to be in the United States. There is an estimate that about 12% are in the UK and maybe 19% in Canada. The virus named Backdoor.Flashback.39 and it is put on the computers when users go to a bogus site that uses Java script to upload a Java applet which then infects the computer. Since…

The most anticipated IPO in recent memory has come and gone and so far the results are mixed at best. The IPO had some high expectations to meet and the fact that there are over 900 million users may have been some of the reason that these higher price expectations were not met. On the first day the stock began trading a half hour later than expected due to what NASDAQ explained as a “technical error”. This error caused quite a bit of confusion among traders and has even led…