I just received an email from a reader of the column who asked: Ever since the term “Weblog” or “Blog” got coined I have been trying to understand why all the buzz exists. From what I can tell it is simply a web page, made up of one or more authors, discussing a topic in … Read more
WiFi is all very well, but I’d argue it’s still too tricky for us ordinary mortals to figure out. I’ve just spent the best part of a day trying to get a LinkSys WRT54G Broadband Router installed in my home network, and it took my resident genius Akbar to figure out that the cable provider … Read more
Is there any truth to the buzz that Mozilla Firefox is gaining ground on Internet Explorer? EWeek seems to think so, earlier this month quoting WebSideStory and OneStat.com as saying they have seen about a 1% drop in IE usage. The Ziff Davis logs appear to confirm this. But whichever figures you like of those, … Read more
It’s been a busy six months for the virus-writing folk. McAfee says the first half of this year has seen more serious viruses than in the whole of last year (sorry, no URL available yet). A large part of this has been the war between the Bagle and Netsky authors, a war that has seen … Read more
I’m late figuring this out, but WSJ.com is now offering RSS feeds (I found out about it from reading Nick Bradbury’s blog). Of course, this is tremendous news. The feeds number only 13 so far, and will only have headlines for non-subscribers. The good news: Walt Mossberg is available in XML. The bad news: the weekly … Read more