Apple’s Fight for Your Privacy
Recently, Apple announced they were publicly fighting a court order to help the FBI to decrypt a phone in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. From my understanding, the court is ordering Apple to re-write...
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Helping Businesses Succeed Online
For the past three years, our MIS students have been working with local businesses and organizations succeed with their online presence. In a web development class I teach, students learn how to develop their...
Year in Review – The Best is Yet to Come
2015 has shaped up to be a stressful, yet fulfilling year. 2016 looks to be even more so. Sometimes it seems like life is standing still when viewed in the moment, but when taking...
The Origins of the Internet
How did the Internet start? Who invented such a thing? Why did it almost fail? I recently finished a fascinating book called Where the Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hefner and Matthew Lyon....
Technology Innovation – Are We Lagging?
Are we technological laggards? Lawrence Solomon suggests we are. In his recent Financial Post column, Mr. Solomon laments that technological innovation of the past 70 years has not been of the same order of magnitude as the end of the 19th...
4 Lessons From My First Published e-Book
In my latest e-commerce experiment, I published my first e-book on Amazon. As with my AdSense experiment, this one may make me a few bucks, but that was not my primary goal. My primary goal was...
3 Lessons from Using AdSense for a Month
After my initial excitement with 2 days of earnings from Google AdSense, the month of June results for Reason for Success are much more modest. Yeah, I know. ‘Twas to be expected. However, this...
Privacy paradox
Over the past few years, researchers have observed a strange phenomena. People claim they value privacy and claim to act based on that value, but when observing actual behavior, most people freely divulge private...
Online Advertising Income
2 days ago, I started another experiment on my personal development site – Reason for Success. I added online advertising with Google AdSense throughout. Every day, I get around 150-170 page views, mostly going to...