I received this email from my ISP, Brighthouse Networks: (click to see full size) There are some points of this sales pitch that are just outright laughable. For example, "open multiple sites and support multiple users simultaneously" – as if we all haven’t been doing that for years ever since we first started using...

Some people believe the iPhone was the game-changer concerning what you could do on a mobile device. I say no, because the Danger Hiptop (a.k.a. the T-Mobile Sidekick) predated the iPhone by four years all the way back in 2003. I state this because the ability to do things ordinarily reserved for PCs and laptops only have been on mobile devices for well over 5...

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About a decade ago I read news stories (on the internet of course) that yes, eventually the internet will simply run out of IP addresses. This is because the internet primarily assigns IPv4 addresses. You know them as four numbers separated by periods, such as 192.168.1.100. The solution to the problem is the assignment of IPv6 addresses. More on that in a...