BrokenClaw | June 17, 2008
Wi-Fi and WiMAX are two types of wireless broadband connections used primarily for networked devices such as your laptop computer. Wireless connections allow devices to communicate across the network without having to be plugged in with a traditional Ethernet cable. Although some “smart phones” can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, cellphones generally use completely [...]
BrokenClaw | June 15, 2008
Semantic web is a new buzzword on the Internet. It refers to an improvement in the way that webpages are coded, so that computers can better understand, and make judgments on, the information they contain. Some people have described it as adding “reading comprehension” to Internet computers. In other words, the goal is to have [...]
BrokenClaw | May 1, 2008
User-generated content is a relatively new concept on the Internet. Sites like YouTube and Flickr have been highlighted in mainstream media, so a lot of people have at least heard those names, even if they have never visited the websites. These sites in particular, and probably hundreds of others, exist only because users take time [...]
BrokenClaw | May 1, 2008
MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are three of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet today. Social network is a sociology term which has been applied to a feature of technology that allows users to interact with their own groups of friends and acquaintances through a variety of methods beyond email, including text messages, [...]
BrokenClaw | April 6, 2008
What should you do if you get an email like this: BIG VIRUS COMING! PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS! This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair [...]
BrokenClaw | April 4, 2008
Digital Rights Management, often abbreviated DRM, is a technology that publishers and producers of digital media use to limit the way you can play their media. In the non-digital world, it would be as if you had to sign an agreement whenever you purchased something for your home. For example, suppose you purchased a nice [...]
BrokenClaw | April 3, 2008
A web application is a computer program that you access over the Internet. Some of the first ones to gain widespread use were web mail services like Hotmail (now part of Windows Live) and Yahoo Mail. Other popular examples are shopping sites, blogs, forums, and instant messaging. You can also put active content on your [...]
BrokenClaw | April 2, 2008
BitTorrent is a specialized method of a larger process called peer-to-peer file sharing. Peer-to-peer (often abbreviated and pronounced P2P) is the term used to describe a method of file transfer that goes from one user (a peer) to another user (a peer), without using a computer server in the middle. A typical home network, where [...]