Have you noticed those unusual black, square-shaped symbols popping up all over the place lately? They’re called QR codes, and they’re an extremely sophisticated version of the common grocery store barcode. Originally created in Japan to help keep track of car parts, the QR code is quickly becoming a universally recognized interactive advertising tool. What [...]

When I think of tablets — the iPad specifically — I think of watching videos, browsing the web, and enjoying games. Wasting time, in other words. But what if there’s a legitimate spot for tablet computers at the office? Infoworld recently ran a story about a New York law firm named Proskauer that equipped its [...]

A number of years ago, we all laughed at then-U.S. senator Ted Stevens when he described the Internet as “a series of tubes.” In the same speech, Stevens also seemed to confuse the Internet with email, recalling how one of his staffers “sent an Internet” on Friday that didn’t arrive in his inbox until the [...]

In the not too distant future, you might start to see websites that end in .food or .microsoft. After years of studying the implications, haggling over the details, and sifting through public comments, ICANN, the Internet’s governing body, has voted 13-1 to radically expand the quantity and character of domain endings. In a release, ICANN [...]