Web Technology

The Cloud And Your Business: Where is Your Umbrella?

Posted by on May 4, 2011 at 1:06 pm

That there is a lot of hype in the technology industry about “the cloud” is pretty obvious these days. You will be hard pressed to  read an article about technology (this one included) without some reference to the beauty, ease and affordability of cloud services. The argument is that IT infrastructures have become too complex [...]

Beware The Ides of April: Web Indexing and Tax Data

Posted by on April 13, 2011 at 9:17 am

Tax season is in high gear and with it comes the need to be extra vigilant on how tax records are handled. After all, your tax records “has everything” that can be considered as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). PII refers to information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person [...]

WeR1 v Cyberlynk: Ethics and Danger in the Cloud

Posted by on April 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm

A recent lawsuit involving WeR1 World Network and CyberLynk Network brings up the issue of ethics, responsibility and danger in the much hyped “Cloud” storage utility that has been agressively pushed by most of the major vendors in recent times. The gist of the case is that a disgruntled employee of Cyberlynk managed to log [...]

The Comodo Hack: How Serious Is It?

Posted by on March 30, 2011 at 9:17 pm

The recent Comodo hack seems to be a lot more serious than initially thought with the latest information that the hacker was actually able to wipe a hard drive on the Comodo server. To quote the gloating hacker: Some stupids in internet still cannot understand I’m behind the attack on SSL, talks about their small [...]

The AT&T, T-Mobile Merger: Small Business Implications

Posted by on March 26, 2011 at 9:37 am

AT&T Inc.  and German telephone company Deutsche Telekom AG recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The lofty goals of this acquisition according to the AT&T Press Release are as follows: Blog [...]