How The Local Radio Station Stole My Christmas…

On November 25, 2011, in Articles, Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Yes, it wasn’t the grinch who stole my Christmas. It was the local radio station, WHAI. And guess what, now that we’re (at least business-wise) close to Christmas, I will create my own Christmas radio station on Pandora.

The Internet Scam: “Partner With Paul” And Lose Your Money

On November 8, 2011, in Home Business, Making Money from Home, Marketing, Scammers, by Editor

The structure of the website indicates scam immediately, but the video was extremely cleverly made. These guys – I didn’t believe the Paul identity for a second – pick up where others left by providing “video evidence” that they, in fact, create a million dollar annual income.

Pandora Kills The Radio Star… And I Like It!

On November 8, 2011, in Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Our local station WHAI calls their program “the best variety in the valley,” referring to the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. The matter of the fact is, they play the same songs EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Worm: The First Digital World War – The Story Of The Conficker Computer Worm by Mark Bowden

On September 28, 2011, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

This is the gripping tale of the group of hackers, researches, millionaire Internet entrepreneurs, and computer security experts who united to defend the Internet from the Conficker worm: the story of the first digital world war.

Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

On September 4, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Veteran journalists Kovach and Rosenstiel (The Elements of Journalism) begin their intelligent and well-written guidebook by assuring readers this is not unfamiliar territory. The printing press, the telegraph, radio, and television were once just as unsettling and disruptive as today’s Internet, blogs, and Twitter posts.

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick

On August 13, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape, and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information.

Mac OS-X Lion: Goodbye Mail, Hello Thunderbird – Goodbye Safari, Hello Firefox

On July 26, 2011, in Articles, Computers, Technology, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

I find it astonishing that an extremely competent company like Apple, whose business strategy is focused on cloud technologies, is not able to keep up with their competition when it comes to email programs and browsers. Adding features, that are already offered by MS Outlook and Thunderbird for years, doesn’t seem to be a major task.

Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future–and Locked Us In by Brian X. Chen

On July 15, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

Even Steve Jobs didn’t know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere “three revolutionary products”–an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions–now more than 350,000 and counting.

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman

On June 29, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred controversy within industry and media circles around the country.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser

On June 11, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Technology, by Editor

The Filter Bubble does one of the most important things a book CAN do — it sounds a warning about a major problem that has, til now, been mostly invisible. But Pariser doesn’t just tell us how giants like Google and Facebook are limiting the information we see. He also explains, in clear, energetic prose, how the personalization of the Internet is affecting our relationships, our identities, our creativity and our democracy.