28 Apr 2014

Internet Explorer bug used by hackers to attack U.S. firms – Business – CBC News

As a web developer and designer, I always hated IE. I tried many times to inform customers over the years about the pit-falls associated with the many incarnations of Internet Explorer… here we go again. Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari are better solutions to the nightmares attributed to Microsoft’s offerings. Internet Explorer bug used by […]

13 Jan 2014

Accenture wins Obamacare contract after CGI snafus

In an October post on Obamacares website problems with crashing, this latest article below reveals the fallout from the debacle. The Dublin-based IT company Accenture have taken over from CGI to bring proven experience in building large-scale public-facing websites. Accenture wins Obamacare contract after CGI snafus.

30 Dec 2013

Will Self-driving Cars Become Ubiquitous?

Ray Kurzweil, Futurist, and Google’s director of engineering, has predicted many things over the years. He was the inventor of the first CCD Flatbed Scanner, and the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. Here’s a great article in The Times on how he thinks the world is going to change — read and learn! […]

17 Nov 2013

SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM | More Intelligent Life

Algorithms play a huge role in helping us find what we are looking for when using search engines like Google. They are also working hard behind the scenes on a multitude of software applications that we use on a daily basis. I found this great article by Tom Whipple that I wanted to share, select […]

23 Oct 2013

Who Cares? Obamacares Website Is Crashing…

Obamacares Website Is Crashing Because It Doesnt Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are – Forbes. I for one do not believe that they want to hide the cost of the medical plans and force users to create accounts and enter detailed personal information before they can start shopping, I think they just […]

14 Oct 2013

NEWS

What Is Your User Experience? We are surrounded by machines. Our most minor requirements to the most complex tasks are negotiated in a technological language. In some circumstances our knowledge of this mechanistic contribution is negligible, but more and more we are drifting into an environment shaped by a new reality, engaging in a daily […]