Personalize Me – Yahoo and Goog Getting to Know You

Imagine this scenario. Too tired to cook after arriving home from a long day at work you call your local pizza shop to order two large pizzas and a bunch of soft drinks. You dial the number as usual and, instead of the familiar voice of Tony, the owner/pizza champion,...

G-Hawg Day!

Welcome to G-Hawg day! This is the day that Google’s team of accountants make their highly anticipated Q4 Report. At 4:30 PM Eastern, or 1:30PM Pacific, a Google accountant will lift his head high above his low-fat latte. According to folk-legend, if the bright...

Who Wrote Linux? US Think tank says it wasn’t Linus…

In a report to be issued very soon, the Washington DC based think tank, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, claims that Linus Torvalds is not the original author of the open-source movement’s premier software. According to the president of the Institution,...

Being #1 at Google Can Hurt You if You’re Not Ready for It

As the Swinburne University’s astronomy department recently found out, having your site appear as a top search result is not necessarily a good thing! In fact, if you are not prepared to be number one, it can bring your server to a crashing halt when swamped by...

Sicilian Town Terrorized by Cyber-Appliances… No Really!

We couldn’t let this one go past without sharing it. Apparently, the Sicilian village of Canneto di Caronia has experienced three weeks that could have come from a Stephen King novel. Their cyber-appliances such as refrigerators, toasters and televisions have...