Google on Monday gave traditional Google plug-ins a stay of execution and instead outlined a three-step plan that will finalize their demise in 10 months. The delay was the latest move in a year-long plan by Google to ban plug-ins built to a decades-old standard, a decision it has pitched as a security enhancement. NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface) is the plug-in standard that harks back to Netscape, the 1990s browser that Microsoft buried in its antitrust-triggering battle over the browser market. NPAPI has long been the most popular plug-in standard, and is still supported by Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and Opera Software’s Opera. (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) has always relied on its own proprietary ActiveX architecture.)
In its latest desperation move, Blackberry says it will pay up to $550 to anyone who trades an iPhone for a The deal When the trade-in program begins next month, Blackberry will offer anywhere from $90 to $400 for the iPhone depending on the model, along with a flat $150 for all models, paid as a Visa gift card. The normal price of a Blackberry Passport is $700 off-contract, so it’ll cost another $150 at least to make the switch.
Antivirus firm Bitdefender unveiled a hardware security appliance for home networks Tuesday that aims to protect devices by scanning network traffic to detect and block potential security threats. The new Bitdefender BOX is a mix between a router, network firewall and intrusion prevention system. It can sit behind an existing router, connected to one of its ethernet ports, it can be placed in front of a router, so that it also protects the router from Internet-based attacks, or can act itself as a router. The device has a single-core 400 MHz MIPS microprocessor, 16 MB Flash memory, 64 MB DDR2 RAM, two 10/100 ethernet ports and a wireless chipset that supports the 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi standards and is capable of speeds up to 150Mbps.
If you exceed your data plan's limit on T-Mobile, you aren’t cut off entirely from the Internet. Instead, T-Mobile throttles your speed, downgrading it to somewhere between 64Kbps and 128Kbps. But if you use a speed testing app after hitting the limit—like The FCC forced some concessions from T-Mobile that will make it easier to find out exactly what speeds you're receiving on a throttled connection. The self-branded “uncarrier” will now send out a text message with a link to a test that accurately measures your throttled data rate.
Nvidia is promising to beef up its GRID streaming PC game service with at least one new game every Tuesday. GRID launched out of beta last week for owners of Nvidia's Nvidia now plans to add at least one new game every Tuesday at 9 a.m. Eastern time. The first new arrivals are the cult classic 3D platformer
Luxury watch makers such as Omega and Mondaine are playing a game of watch face whac-a-mole as they try to banish lookalike smartwatch skins from the Internet. According to
Sure, you can do a lot on a smartphone, phablet, or slate, but there are times when only a laptop will do. Unfortunately, situations like this always seem to pop-up while I'm on the road with no obvious Internet access. But have no fear, weary traveler. This is no time to cave and start paying for Wi-Fi. Instead, put this three-step plan for finding free(ish) Wi-Fi into action before you even think about paying for that Boingo or Gogo day pass. When you're on the hunt for free Wi-Fi the first thing to do is ask yourself if you've got default access to free hotspots already. If you're a
Whether it's managing a holiday dinner or just getting creative in the kitchen, Android has a lot of tools to help you do the job.
HP's $200 Stream 11 has something to prove: that you can enjoy a small, cheap Windows laptop as much as users have enjoyed small, cheap Chromebooks for the past couple of years. The rise of Chromebooks for Web browsing and basic productivity has threatened the borders of Microsoft's Windows empire. The
The Oculus Rift's official consumer release is still months away, but that hasn't stopped developers from getting excited about the virtual reality headset and forging deeply innovative software that takes full advantage of VR's breathtaking potential. And it's not just gaming developers whipping up mind-blowing projects, either. Although it was
The company will give Firefox users the flexibility to choose their own search engines and sites.
The year may not be over yet, but Ask.com is pulling out all the stops and has already released its top searches of 2014, as well as its predictions for 2015.
Before you leave the office to celebrate, take a few minutes to make sure your PPC campaigns are ready for the top three spending days of the year: Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.
In this post we take a look at holiday marketing trends year-over-year and what to watch going into 2015, so you can put ideas on your holiday marketing list for next year, right now.
Google is running an ad-free Internet experiment that could challenge its own ad-funded business model.
Google could face drastic measures being taken against it in Europe in order for competition online to be "restored".
Black Friday is less than a week away and shoppers are now more prepared than ever, as evidenced by a Google study released today.
Don’t look at this as a time to take a rest from your website visibility efforts. Use this slower time of year to get an advantage on your competitors.
Structured snippets are going to change the way people find information on the Web, and you’ll need to adjust your optimization strategies as a result.
To keep up with the growing number of mobile Web users, Bing ranks pages optimized for mobile higher in its search results.
There is no denying the rising importance of user experience in search marketing, and the crossover goes beyond mobile search.
Yahoo has inked a deal to replace Google as the U.S. default search option in Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
The platform introduced a number of new additions to help users manage their ad campaigns.
There comes a time when all search marketers need to justify investment in their channel, something that can be a point of dread as well as a time of great opportunity.
For those of you who didn’t do their Christmas link-building this summer, here are a couple of link bait ideas to help you catch up with the competition.
Twitter's new search engine means that you can now search for any tweet ever sent. And there are half a trillion of them now available to view.
The results of a recent BIA/Kelsey study show that for 2015, search marketing and PPC will be a top priority for many small and medium-sized businesses.
This time, the humble keyword may actually be going by the wayside. And because of that, search marketing practitioners are going to need to develop a new set of skills to adapt.
Links are one of the biggest sources of complicated baggage for a website. They may be what helped you get the rankings you have, and they may also be your downfall.
Many agencies and Internet marketers deliver a summary of performance for PPC and SEO on a weekly or monthly basis, but who decides what data goes into these reports, what metrics to include, and which graph to use to visualize the data?