Google is many things… an advertising company, an ISP, email provider, a cloud pioneer and even a mobile phone maker (almost), but one thing it is not is an energy waster.  To prove that, they recently unveiled Google Green – The Big Picture, a website that highlights the many ways that Google uses its brain [...]

Google has released its latest Transparency Report

Some may remember my post in February of 2010, “Better DNS Servers for faster browsing” in which I briefly described what DNS is and how it may impact your surfing speed.  While I still recommend OpenDNS (See my posts:  OpenDNS: Better, Faster, Safer? and OpenDNS Protects Surfers from DNS Flaw) for many of my customers who are looking [...]

The SANS Technology Institute is reporting that many unsuspecting Olympic searchers are finding malware rather than Olympic news through Google search results poisoning. According to SANS: “…the killed Georgian luge athlete is used to redirect unsuspecting users to fake anti virus and other malicious content. The redirect is browser dependent. Firefox is usually redirected to [...]

I regularly have customers tell me that “their internet is slow” despite having such and such speed tier with their ISP. While there can be many causes for slow page loads including, viruses, spyware, network congestion and ISP network issues to just name a few, often the culprit can be narrowed down to just three [...]