On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, typed the first-ever tweet, “just setting up my twttr.” On March 22, 2021, Dorsey sold that tweet at auction for 2.9 million dollars. In recent weeks, several Atención readers have written to ask me “WTH?” (What the heck?).
Telecommunications standardization efforts started in 1865 with the formation of the International Telegraph Union, which became a specialized agency of the United Nations in 1947.
A big challenge involved in writing a newspaper column is that what is written one day can be immediately overtaken by events before the next edition of Atención is printed. That is what just happened here, calling for a minor update to the advice dispensed only last week.
A strategy I highly recommend is setting up a new email account to be used for banking and for banking only.
My friend Sally received an urgent message from her free email provider, Google Gmail, saying she needed to immediately change her password.
Spring has sprung when we move our clocks forward to daylight saving time, and for many people, this is also time for some spring cleaning.
Originally created in 1995, Flash Player, better known as Micromedia Flash and later as Adobe Flash, was a significant innovation that brought graphics.
For quite some time I have been struggling to come up with the appropriate analogy to describe the problem and the threat to the internet presented by some of the “innovations” coming out of Google.
The good news is that the World Wide Web (www) has not gone away. The bad news, at least for the tech-savvy, is that “www” is being obscured and hidden away from the view of a very large number of internet users because Google now considers “www” to be “trivial.”
If you have ever been confused about why your smart phone seems to work sometimes but not others, or some features seem to work but not others; you are not alone.