Many people, young and old, complain about how technology is doing this or that to their lives. Writers bemoan the loss of real connections, or whatever they think people did before phones/the Internet/computers ruined everything. Last weekend, for example, the New York Times ran three separate articles on getting away from the plague of always-on … Continue reading »
This morning, I received what looks like a robo-response email from Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in response to a letter I sent two days ago urging her to vote NO on SOPA and NO on PIPA. I appreciate the prompt reply from her staff (and the robot responder in her office), but unfortunately it appears … Continue reading »
This is a solution I came up with for WordPress bloggers who are looking to improve their page rank in Google search results, integrate their Google Plus profiles with their WordPress blogs and improve visitor traffic from their blog to their Google+ posts and from Google+ back to their their WordPress blogs. This solution does … Continue reading »
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Google and rooftop solar power company SolarCity announced a $280 million investment deal Tuesday, the largest such deal for home-based solar power systems in the United States. The investment will give San Mateo, Calif-based SolarCity the funding to build and lease solar power systems to a 7,000 to 9,000 homeowners in … Continue reading »
For all the improvements the Android Market has made recently, it’s still been a pain to find new and interesting apps—increasingly so, now that Google’s app storefront has grown to 200,000 programs strong. Not anymore. As part of the second day of Google’s I/O conference, the company introduced some much-needed discovery tools to Android Market: … Continue reading »
