More Internet Opinion

  • 28 November 2012

  • Opinion: RingCentral's new SMS feature keeps your number private

    What do you do when you call a co-worker but they're not at their desk to answer the phone? You might send a text message to their mobile phone to try and reach them, but people using their own mobile devices may be reluctant to share their personal mobile number for business purposes. RingCentral may have a solution for that.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Road to nowhere

    Apple's map manager gets shown the door (accurately, we hope), Siri will soon do everything but drive your car (thankfully), and one user dreams of the Apple TV (that will never be). The remainders for Tuesday, November 27, 2012 know where they're going, but they don't know where they been.

  • 26 November 2012

  • Opinion: Keep the internet open: Net Neutrality explained

    You pay for a set amount of data, so what business is it of your ISP to decide where you use it? We explain Net Neutrality, and why it should matter to all web users.

  • 21 November 2012

  • Opinion: With shopping scams on the rise, watch for these threats

    Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means only one thing--the glorious chaos we call the Holiday Shopping Season will soon be upon us. Holiday shopping also means a spike in online scams, fraud, and malware, so you need to be aware of the risks and threats, and exercise some common sense to avoid a cyber-Grinch incident.

  • 20 November 2012

  • Opinion: Cloud Security Not Really Slowing IT Adoption

    Cloud security has been discussed ad nauseum for years, and it's often cited as the biggest barrier to enterprise cloud adoption. Such conversations are misguided, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says, and ignore the larger challenge of cloud adoption: accommodating developers.

  • 19 November 2012

  • Opinion: Your smartphone could be your best Black Friday shopping pal

    More and more tech consumers now turn to their trusty pal, their smartphone, to find the best deals on the most sought-after gadgets and tech deals. Here are some ways that using your phone can help you mobilize your Black Friday shopping campaigns—assuming you venture from your living room to do so.

  • 17 November 2012

  • Opinion: Flush with cash, Mozilla pushes its mobile plans

    Mozilla may have lost out on some 9 million Firefox downloads as a result of Microsoft's failure to show users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 a court-mandated browser choice screen, but that doesn't appear to have done the organization any lasting harm.

  • 16 November 2012

  • Opinion: 6 tips for getting more from your Apple TV

    The Apple TV has evolved from a slow, hard-drive-based extension of your computer to a fairly capable media streamer. Although it doesn’t offer as many content choices as Roku’s set-top boxes, say, it gives you access to Netflix, Hulu Plus, major sports subscriptions, and more. On top of that, it’s the only media player on the market that lets you access your iTunes library and previous purchases from Apple, as well as stream content directly from a Mac or iOS device using Apple’s AirPlay technology.

  • 15 November 2012

  • Opinion: What you need to know about accessing the Internet on a smartphone

    Robert Harris asked me to explain the technologies and concerns around smartphone Internet access.

  • Opinion: Send Web pages to your Kindle with new Firefox add-on

    This is an updated, Firefox-oriented version of a post I wrote several months ago.

  • 11 November 2012

  • Opinion: Alternatives to Internet Explorer

    As a modern, fast and efficient way of bringing the web to your screen IE is a decent application, but there are alternatives that you may like to try instead.

  • 09 November 2012

  • Opinion: Out of date, vulnerable browsers put users at risk

    Is your browser up to date? According to the results of a new survey from Kaspersky--a security software vendor--nearly a quarter of the browsers currently in use are out of date. Surfing the Web with a vulnerable browser is a recipe for disaster.

  • Opinion: Store documents in the cloud for free

    SkyDrive to easily share large files with anyone simply by sending them a link to the file or folder

  • 01 November 2012

  • Opinion: The Amazon Outage in Perspective: Failure Is Inevitable, So Manage Risk

    The most recent Amazon Web Services outage left customers (and rival cloud providers) blaming Amazon. Instead, CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden says, everyone needs to accept that cloud computing is not immune to failure. Fortunately, a key advantage of the cloud -- cheap, easy redundancy -- will help mitigate the risk of an outage.

  • 31 October 2012

  • Opinion: Having it all: Accessing files from the road

    Reader Aiden Andrews is planning to venture out but would like some of his most important files available to him. He writes:

  • 30 October 2012

  • Opinion: Can Skype really take the place of a face-to-face meeting?

    It's the ultimate business hack: Instead of traveling to meet with a client, a design team, or anyone else you need to see face-to-face, you stay put and set up a video call instead. The technology is there--Skype, WebEx, etc.--and it can save you considerable time and money.

  • 25 October 2012

  • Opinion: Mozilla unveils the Firefox Marketplace and Facebook integration

    The release of Firefox 16 may not have been as tidy as Mozilla would have liked it to be thanks to the security flaw that was discovered soon afterwards, but apparently that didn't have much of an effect on uptake of the new browser.

  • 23 October 2012

  • Opinion: As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing

    As PC sales decline and smartphone and tablet sales climb, the world of computing is poised for a dramatic shift. While mobile users do, in fact, 'compute' with their devices, application data and functionality actually reside in the cloud. To accommodate this, columnist Bernard Golden says, the cloud will have to grow in ways that few can currently comprehend.

  • 22 October 2012

  • Opinion: SMS embedded links weaponize smartphones

    I just got my first seriously nasty SMS: text-message with embedded links. As we know, never EVER click on embedded links in an email. I knew that SMSs can carry these malicious links, but until one came sailing into my phone last week, I hadn't stared at one on my smartphone screen.

  • 19 October 2012

  • Opinion: How to not be a jerk on the Internet

    I've been a technology blogger for more than six years--four of them right here at PC World. And in that time I've developed a pretty thick skin.

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