WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The growing online usage of ads designed to blend in with the rest of a website’s content, a practice known as “native advertising,” may be illegal in some instances, the Federal Trade Commission warned on Wednesday. The growing online usage of ads designed to blend in with the rest of a website’s content, a practice… Read More »
Tylenol doesn’t work for me, so I’ve gone back to good old aspirin and sometimes, Ibuprofen. I was always suspicious of Tylenol after reading the warning label – I bet there are a couple thousand snakes that wish mice came with warning labels. Because we found this article interesting — and illuminating — we are sharing it with… Read More »
It’s one thing when a product works like it’s supposed to and a majority of users prefer it; it’s quite another thing when products turn off their users because they don’t work right (IE 11) or aren’t want users want (Windows 8.1). While Microsoft tries to goad Google into a childish fight with it’s ridiculous “Scoogled” anti-Google campaign,… Read More »
Microsoft must be suffering a great deal of angst these days. Forecasts say that Windows will only garner 5% of the tablet market – and the tablet market is where the growth is going to be. While Microsoft wastes time with their childish name-calling campaign “Scroogled”, Google plays the adult and lets the child whimper. I never thought… Read More »
Starting this weekend, users can help raise money for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines by simply surfing the Web. Tab for a Cause, the organization behind a Web browser extension that donates money to charity every time users open a new tab on their browsers, said it will donate an extra $0.10 for every user who… Read More »
I don’t eat a lot of meat but I’m not a vegan, or vegetarian. I’m still an omnivore as nature intended — I think. But I’ve often wondered why we call chicken, “chicken”, turkey, “turkey”, but pig is pork and cow is beef. And it’s bad enough to learn that cows nearly die when they are force fed… Read More »