Wednesday, April 23, 2008Is National Small Business Week on your Radar?
As you may know, this week is the SBA’s 55th annual Small Business Week, an event designed to put America’s small businesses in the spotlight.
But, considering that the week consists of celebrations and awards held almost exclusively in Washington, D.C. and New York City — should you even care?
Fortune Small Business Magazine’s Brandi Stewart runs [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008Pay-per-click Advertising Continues to Evolve
Yesterday, the New York Times ran in interesting article detailing some of the changes the world of Internet advertising is undergoing thanks to the current economic slowdown.
Granted, Internet advertising is already a very dynamic force, something that evolves and adjusts on an almost daily basis. But, at the same time, as it becomes a larger [...]
Monday, April 21, 2008Aplus.Net Now Offering Microsoft adCenter
We at Aplus.Net have just announced that we’re now offering Microsoft adCenter search advertising service to our web hosting customers. We think you’ll agree that it’s the perfect addition to our award-winning line-up of website marketing tools.
“As the preferred web hosting provider for America’s small businesses, it’s important that we provide every possible advantage for [...]
Friday, April 18, 2008It’s Your Turn to Talk!
Hey readers! As you may have noticed, we here at Aplus.Net are in the process of making some big changes to our products and services. From rebranding our hosting services to reducing prices on our dedicated servers, it’s all an effort to make sure that Aplus.Net customers have the best possible advantage in the competitive [...]
Thursday, April 17, 2008Mac “Clone” Generates Controversy
[T]he interest of the Mac world this week swung from 3G iPhone rumor-mongering to South Florida, where a company called Psystar has put up a Web site selling a product called an Open Computer. The product is essentially a white-box Mac with Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, and a violation of Apple’s licensing agreement for [...]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008Computers as Authors? The Digital Revolution Continues
It seems that the 21st Century Digital Revolution, as it may someday be called, is getting bigger and bigger with each passing month. As is well known, financial losses faced by the movie industry and the music industry are increasing monthly as bootlegs made possible by digital versions proliferate. New digital models that could [...]
Monday, April 14, 2008Choosing the Right Web Host
When you first decided that you needed a website — and therefore, a web hosting provider — you probably did what most of us do: You went to your favorite search engine, typed in some variation on “web hosting” or “website host” and then sorted through the results that followed.
The problem is, how to make [...]
Friday, April 11, 2008Top 10 Worldwide Tech Trends
Although written for a European audience, we found a recent CNBC Business Report entitled “Top Ten Tech Trends” very much applicable to the United States as well, if not for the whole modern world.
And that’s not just because it’s based in large part on American technology giants like Microsoft, Intel and Google. It’s also because [...]
Thursday, April 10, 2008Father of the Internet Turns 50
DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the agency that eventually morphed into the Internet, is celebrating its 50th birthday tonight in Washington, D.C.
In Monday’s Washington Post, Stephen Barr writes that DARPA “pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet.” The organization also “sponsored the inventor of the computer mouse (the first [...]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008Report: U.S. Internet Situation Better than Expected
Contradicting earlier studies, conventional wisdom and politicians’ rhetoric, European researchers say that the Internet infrastructure of the United States is one of the world’s best and getting better.
So begins a story from today’s New York Times that offers some good news: The American Internet infrastructure is, apparently, just fine.
Not only just fine, actually, but among [...]