In RetroTech: NetLingo Blog

Don't think a cold war can't happen again, we are already on our way. For those of us who don't remember the cold war in 1945,...

I never thought I’d say it, but the Internet needs government regulation. The notion of cyberspace as a level playing fi...

So, Google can get hacked just like the rest of them – but they don’t want you to know it. That’s what we found out this week when they shut...

It’s called Responsive Website Design, or in webmaster lingo simply RWD, and it’s the new breed of website you’ve likely been seeing that “r...

As a small online business owner, I hate to admit it but Internet taxes are inevitable. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill called th...

Does Google rig search results?  You bet it does! The Trump administration wants to regulate Google because Trump claims Google rigs searc...

Dear Friends of NetLingo, Due to the recent events of this crazy world and the random characters in it, I am re-activating the NetLingo blo...

Word of the year: #metoo - the movement began and exposed a cultural ugly truth, also revealing the power of  hashtag activism  and a  #wo...

President Trump's victory in American politics brought on a slew of memes and acronyms  from MAGA to ITMFA .  Film at 11.

Watching the opening scene of the movie Sahara, where the Confederate army is making a run for it and stealing coins of gold, helped me real...

Dear Friends of NetLingo, As part of ongoing improvements, I am sunsetting the NetLingo blog because I've decided to add these insightf...

Microsoft could be about to turn the promise of virtual reality into, well, a reality, said Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times . The comp...

“Google Glass is finally dead,” said Will Oremus in Slate.com. This week, Google suspended sales of the “semifunctional and socially contr...

A guest post from my favorite magazine The Week . Like most Americans, I’m a sucker for the conveniences of modern digital life. I bank on m...

A guest post from my favorite editor William Falk of The Week. In these grim times, there is some hope for our species: Google Glass may no...

Google is spreading its wings, said Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic . The tech giant unveiled a drone delivery project called Project Wi...

In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA collecting massive amounts of user meta-data, many people went in search of safer,...

Facebook is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark...

Smartphones sold in California will soon be required to have a kill switch that lets users remotely lock them and wipe them of data in the ...

Call it the Gchat effect. MSN Messenger, the ubiquitous instant messaging platform of the early aughties, is no more. After 15 years of fac...