We’ve discussed this before and will likely discuss it again. Google. Google is again being scrutinized concerning their business practices. Anyone who has worked hard to generate significant search engine optimization for a client will know that Google keeps it a moving target. Their motto is “Don’t be evil.” However that hardly qualifies as verifiable […]
Corporate Pitfalls for IT Staff
We noticed this little zinger on Twitter’s help pages while trying to help out a client: QUOTE: Due to resource constraints, not every Tweet can be indexed in Twitter Search. Our engineers are always working to index more updates, but we can’t force individual, missing Tweets into search. In other words, what you see in Twitter […]
The Real Web 2.0
“nofollow” is the new internet. What does this mean? Well it means that instead of the internet being organic and free it becomes controlled and limited to a small group. The big get bigger and the small, well they disappear into obscurity. If you don’t understand what “nofollow” refers to you may have landed at […]
Firefox 4 vs. Internet Explorer 9 vs. Ch...
I hope you will welcome my contributions to the V-Tek blog, this is my first post. As a project manager here at VeraciTek I am always trying to polish my fluency with the latest technologies. The browser war being one of the most relevant to my job. Microsoft recognized very early that building the browser […]
Court Cases and IT
Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC v. Softlayer Technologies, Inc. et al (Source Article) Please someone intervene here! Old lawyers in long robes, requiring corporations that use Open Source software to prove themselves innocent of infringing on patents that should have never been allowed to be issued. As we’ve mentioned before, software programs are built on top […]