5 Reasons You Should Have Registered A Personal Domain By Now. A personal domain name is one way of registering your own small slice of the Internet.
For a nominal yearly fee (or one, larger outright sum) you can loan or own a .com or similar for use with a website and email address, among other online activities. These days I think it’s important for everyone to at least register (if not use) a domain that is personal to them. Not only are domain names under current top-level domains running out, but it’s often near-impossible to reclaim a domain once it has been taken. This means you should act fast and grab your domain now.
Read on to find out just why that is. Because Someone Else Will You don’t want someone else getting their hands on your domain name, do you? If you’re lucky enough to have an unusual name consider it a blessing as there will be far less competition for your domain name. The Best Email Address If ever there was a good reason to purchase your surname as a domain it’s so you can have firstname@lastname.com. Personal Branding.
HTG Explains: What is Net Neutrality? Whether net neutrality should be mandated by law is one of the biggest policy debates around the Internet, but net neutrality isn’t just a matter of law.
Net neutrality is a principle that’s given us the Internet we have today. In short, “net neutrality” refers to the principle that all packets on the Internet should be treated equally, without discrimination. Internet service providers should transmit data without prioritizing the data from certain companies. The Way the Internet Works. FreshDesk State of Customer Support Report. FreshDesk, one of the best known startup success stories to emerge from India, has published a State of Customer Support report based on the data gleaned from the 250,000 users of its customer support software.
The key takeaways are not very surprising. Customers hate being put on hold, and are the happiest when their queries are resolved within a reasonable amount of time following which satisfaction ratings plummet. In most cases, customers expect their queries to be resolved within a day. However, resolution time isn’t the sole parameter that determines customer satisfaction. Transparent and effective communication is also of paramount importance. While email continues to be the biggest source of support queries, its prominence decreased by 7% in 2012-13 compared to 2011-12. The Internet Is a Universal Human Right. Just Ask the Homeless. Darrell Pugh teaches a web publishing class at the Tenderloin Tech Lab in San Francisco.
Photo: Alex Washburn/WIRED Darrell Pugh uses cheese to teach computer skills. He thinks it puts his students at ease. When Pugh teaches his students how to browse the internet, click on hyperlinks, copy and paste text, and even open and close browser windows, he takes them to Cheese.com, an online database of cheeses. 14 Ridiculously Retro Novelty Phones. Tech Time Warp of the Week: Rad Ads for Ginormous '80s Cellphones. The cellphone turned 40 this week.
And it's a remarkable achievement. Really. It is. Even its inventor, Martin Cooper, thought that it would never beat out the landline. It may be hard to remember this in 2013, but when the cellphone was first introduced, it was a little bit like Google Glass -- a cutting-edge device that let you do amazing things but also immediately branded you as a goofball to the vast throngs of the uninitiated. That's why it's so fun to take a trip back to the early '80s, when the world's marketers started advertising the early cellphones. As you can see in the videos above, they happily cranked out ads showing people happily carting these monstrosities anywhere and everywhere. Still, we have to salute them. The Radio Shack video above is the best of the bunch because everyone plays things completely straight, no matter how impossibly goofy they look.
The first cellphone was invented 40 years ago. Can anyone take a guess as to when cellphones were invented?
Well it is hard to say exactly because of ongoing research and development that took place in companies and the military. However, we do know the first ever cellphone call was made on the first ever cellphone on April 3, 1973. Yeah, 40 years ago. The first cellphone was Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage phone (or DynaTac) made by Motorola. Windows 8's usage share increases while XP's and Vista's declines - The question why we are looking at usage statistics of operating systems and other software or devices comes up a lot and there are several answers to that.
Developers for one should be interested in usage shares as it may provide them with information about markets they may want to target or avoid. If you are interested in technology, you may also gain valuable information from usage or market share information. It may provide you with the means to pick the right operating system or device for example, or provide others with the means to make that decision as well. Last but not least it paints a global picture of the PC industry as a whole and where everything is headed towards. What makes this particularly difficult though is that the two companies that could release statistics that would be preciser than anything else, Microsoft and Google, choose to not release them.
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