Here’s my three-word summary concerning this: It’s about time. Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications, and BrightHouse Networks (and I happen to be a BrightHouse subscriber with Tampa being one of the covered areas) just opened up a whopping 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, and the way it was done actually makes complete sense. If you...

I had a phone call recently with a family member who is the manager of a small business in Massachusetts, and that business has somewhere in the neighborhood of a few hundred regular clients. The phone call was one of panic, because a message needed to be sent out to the client base quickly. Postal mail was too slow, so email needed to be used instead, and the...

Truth be told, I don’t really listen to the radio all that much anymore. It wakes me up in the morning, and I’ll hear it when I’m in the car…and that’s about it. That’s the entire breadth of my experience with it. Like a lot of older media, the radio’s kind of going by the wayside a bit with the advent of the glorious...

This happened to me this morning. I’m quite sure I’m not the first to see this, but unlike most people, I have the power of a fairly busy website to help get the word out. And keep people out of potential trouble. My wife and I were browsing home rentals in our area. One particular home in a desirable neighborhood in this area stood out to us...

There’s some poll results out right now that not-so surprisingly half – yes, half – of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad. The poll in question was conducted by Associated Press and CNBC. Now in case you weren’t aware, Facebook is going public as a company, as in a publicly-traded company, this week. Many are saying "too...

Time Warner Cable has decided to can the RoadRunner branding completely concerning its internet service offerings. This does not mean the internet service itself is going belly-up, but the name is going to change and for some subscribers the pricing schema will change as well. BrightHouse Networks in Florida for example does use the Time Warner Roadrunner...

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Google’s newest offering. Termed Google Drive, it’s laden with quite a few big expectations- not the least of which is the belief that it might well help Google breathe some new life into its currently ailing, somewhat lackluster Chromebooks. But just what is drive? And what can you use it for? To make a...

Recently on Reddit, an admitted botnet operator/malware coder opened up a "Ask Me Anything" so anyone could ask him why he does what he does. In the description of the Q&A, he actually gave some great advice on how to prevent yourself from being subject to what’s known as "driveby" malware infections: Protip against driveby...

So, I have a confession to make. Until fairly recently, I actually didn’t do all that much on Reddit. I had friends who were on it continually, and they’d talk about it all the time. They knew the latest trends, were keyed in to the latest memes, and any joke I showed them, they’d already seen or heard it. It was actually kind of bothersome-...

It is unfortunate in this day and age that as much as the internet has progressed, it is still exceedingly difficult to actually close, a.k.a. delete an account for almost any given web service. Why is it so difficult to close accounts? Because the way most user databases are designed simply don’t allow it. If you’re user #492862, your account...