http://www.inteloquent.com iThinQware. Common Goals, Uncommon Thinking. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:14:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/07/how-to-use-google-analytics-to-drive-more-traffic-to-your-website/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/07/how-to-use-google-analytics-to-drive-more-traffic-to-your-website/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:00:40 +0000 Ryan Taft http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/?p=61517 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/07/how-to-use-google-analytics-to-drive-more-traffic-to-your-website/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/06/why-arent-chromebooks-saving-password-changes/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/06/why-arent-chromebooks-saving-password-changes/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:21:52 +0000 Sarah Perez http://tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com/?p=478188 There's something weird going on with Chromebooks - the Google-branded laptop computers powered by the company's web-based operating system Chrome OS. They're not saving the password changes you make to your Google account. Basically, if you change your password, shut down your machine, then reboot, the Chromebook will ask you for your old password instead of the new one. The problem has to do with Google's sessions being persistent (that is, they don't log you out), and leads to a relatively minor security threat. Meaning, if someone was to take advantage of this threat, they would need physical access to your Chromebook. In the grand scheme of things, that puts this threat on the low-end of the risk spectrum. However, because Chromebooks are pitched as low-cost, secure, easy-to-use alternatives to traditional laptops for businesses and educational institutions, it's important to highlight issues such as this to make the community aware. Also, I just think it's annoying.]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/06/why-arent-chromebooks-saving-password-changes/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/05/25-best-infographics-of-2011-that-are-still-relevant-today/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/05/25-best-infographics-of-2011-that-are-still-relevant-today/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:00:41 +0000 Christian Vasile http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/?p=61290 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/05/25-best-infographics-of-2011-that-are-still-relevant-today/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/03/google-may-have-violated-its-own-paid-link-policy-with-chrome-promo-campaign/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/03/google-may-have-violated-its-own-paid-link-policy-with-chrome-promo-campaign/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:31:49 +0000 Josh Constine http://techcrunch.com/?p=476739 Google appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it's doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a month and a year. Don't bet on that happening, though. The campaign is another example of how Google's diverse business can lead it to trip over itself.]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/03/google-may-have-violated-its-own-paid-link-policy-with-chrome-promo-campaign/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/02/let-the-race-begin-google-launches-elections-hub/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/02/let-the-race-begin-google-launches-elections-hub/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:33:00 +0000 Jordan Crook http://techcrunch.com/?p=476622 A new year is always exciting. A Clean slate. But once every four years, something very important comes into play: a presidential election. This year, all of your election information won't be any more readily available than it is right here, on the interwebs, and Google is set to be your go-to place to keep up with them. Today via the Official Google Blog, the search giant has launched Google.com/elections — "an election hub where citizens can study, watch, discuss, learn about, participate in and perhaps even make an impact on the digital campaign trail as it blazes forward to Tuesday, November 6, 2012."]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2012/01/02/let-the-race-begin-google-launches-elections-hub/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/freight-train-kept-a-rollin/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/freight-train-kept-a-rollin/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:11:25 +0000 Jon Evans http://techcrunch.com/?p=475863 2011 was the year of Android. A little over a year ago Andy Rubin tweeted that 300,000 Android devices were being activated each day. In January we reported that Android had surpassed iOS in terms of US smartphone market share. In June Android's activations-per-day reached 500,000; this month they hit 700,000. That's more than double the rate at which it was spreading when it overtook iOS. By comparison, UBS estimated in December that Apple would sell 30 million iPhones in 4Q 2011. Sounds like a lot, until you realize that Android devices -- almost all of which are phones, as Rubin's numbers don't include Kindle Fires or Nooks -- are being activated at a rate of five million a week, or 65 million in a quarter. In other words, Android phone sales were probably close to double Apple's during the quarter in which Apple's flagship iPhone 4S was released. I expect Apple outsold Android at Christmas, given that they boasted this year's three most wanted gifts, but Android will make up that difference in a few short weeks. How did this happen? Certainly not because Android is better. Almost no one disputes that Apple's user experience is superior. Thanks to Android's horrific fragmentation problems, the Android version that developers write apps for - 2.2, which was released in May 2010 - is distinctly inferior to iOS 5. The iPhone 4S is a fantastic high-end phone, the 4 a terrific mid-level one, and the 3GS still a respectable player in the free-with-contract market. So why has everyone gone Android?]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/freight-train-kept-a-rollin/feed/ 0 http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/damn-it-google-where-are-my-magic-android-lightbulbs/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/damn-it-google-where-are-my-magic-android-lightbulbs/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:29:55 +0000 Jason Kincaid http://tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com/?p=475997 Back at Google I/O in May, members of Google's Android team unveiled a new initiative that's going to extend the mobile OS beyond smartphones and tablets — and take us one step closer to Back to the Future II. Dubbed Android@Home, the project aims to bake special hardware and software into a variety of gadgets, which will allow users to control these devices from their Android phones. Think alarm clocks that fade in with your favorite music, lighting systems that blink based on events in the game you're playing, and more. Eventually the @Home project will include everything from home stereos to dishwashers, but the first planned device was something a bit more modest: the lightbulb. At the event, Google said that it had partnered with LightingScience to launch Android@Home LED lightbulbs by the end of 2011. I've been waiting patiently since then, scowling each time I had to get up out of bed to flick off one of my 'dumb' lightbulbs when I should have been able to simply tap a button on my phone. I may have even boasted to my iPhone-toting friends about my impending luminescence superiority.]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/31/damn-it-google-where-are-my-magic-android-lightbulbs/feed/ 1 http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/30/google-testing-new-email-subscription-ad-format/ http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/30/google-testing-new-email-subscription-ad-format/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:18:02 +0000 Alexia Tsotsis http://techcrunch.com/?p=475642 Google is experimenting with its Google Adwords offerings, attempting to go beyond regular text ads with Google Email Subscription Ads, allowing companies to buy ads that automatically fill in a "Subscribe to newsletter (or whatever, I'm assuming)" slot with a given searcher's Google email address during a search.]]> http://www.inteloquent.com/2011/12/30/google-testing-new-email-subscription-ad-format/feed/ 0