‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just ...

Sketchy ads, like those for miracle weight loss pills and suspicious-looking software, sometimes appear on legitimate, well-regarded websites. It turns out that most websites don’t actually decide who ...

It was only a couple of days ago that Google decided to stop allowing ads for Payday Loans. A move that was applauded by many, as reducing predatory lending options benefits many. In a similar move, ...

If your computer is being shown a window full of ads for an online store named Banggood.com, then you are infected with an adware program called Adwizz. When launched, the program will display a ...

It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane, especially the gold age in the advent of Personal Computing technologies. Some of the best ways to revisit this era are through print magazine ads that ...

The latest Windows update adds a feature that's sure to make people cringe: ads directly on your computer. Fortunately, there's a way to disable them. Windows may be the world's most widely used ...

Remember when you could surf the web without being barraged by one pop-up ad after another? Between ”Congratulations! You’ve won $1 million” and “Alert! Virus detected,” constant, unwanted pop-up ...

(From “Do You Compute: Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug” by Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller) “I think it was a big challenge for ad agencies, the people who were making the ads, to ...

When it comes to the iPad, Apple acts like one of those pushy parents who can never be satisfied no matter how much their kid achieves, or even overachieves. You and I might look at the iPad and see a ...

Try System Mechanic for 30 days free. After that, it's $4.99 per month. Remember when you could surf the web without being barraged by one pop-up ad after another? Between ”Congratulations! You’ve won ...

WASHINGTON -- Netpliance agreed to pay a $100,000 fine to the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive advertising and billing practices of its discontinued I-opener, a stripped-down computer that sold ...