Users prefer interactive sites
In research made by S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State, and Jamie Guillory, formerly an undergraduate student at Penn State has found that people looking at corporate website’s, tend to prefer an interactive site, rather than one that is static.
This is particularly true when it come’s job [...]
May 20, 2008Is Firefox 3 the fastest?
Well if we take notice of all the information coming out on the recent release of the finished product. It has been noted that there have been some significant improvements on previous browsers and to that end is said be really fast.
But don’t take our word for it; here is what TechWeb have to [...]
May 19, 2008Domain names running out
What would happen if the internet ran out of domain names?
If you think that this is never going to happen, then you could be wrong. Current estimates figure that by the year 2011 there will be no new domain names for sale, which means for some people and indeed businesses something of a dilemma.
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Social media can change the world
Using social networking to change the world for the better can quite easily be done by using the skills and experiences that have been gained through using these types of internet services.
Many companies and individuals are using this type of media for their own marketing ideas, so why can’t this method be used to [...]
May 12, 2008Web Power usage under fire
It is amazing to find that by doing a simple search on Google uses enough power to keep an 11 watt light bulb alight for hour. This is a mere search, so you can imagine the power requirements that are needed to download a music track, TV programme or film!
So in total it has [...]
April 15, 2008Microsoft under attack from Google and Salesforce
Probably two of Microsoft’s oldest enemies who joined forces a while ago, are due to announce that they will be increasing their efforts in the to attract more customers for their customer management and office software, which is mainly directed at business users.
The combined services will include Google’s suite of office programmes and applications, [...]
April 10, 2008BBC’s iPlayer to go on Wii
Ever since its introduction in December last year, the BBC’s iPlayer users have been growing faster than even the BBC could hope for. But despite all of the problems with the ISP’s over traffic, the iPlayer is set to become the latest addition to the Wii
Being available on a games consol like the Wii, [...]
March 31, 2008911 added by Bit Torrents
Of course this is not directly correct, but the principle is. In a warning from the US Attorney General Michael Mukasey he is claiming that the massive amount of cash being raised through piracy and counterfeiting is in some cases going towards the financing of terrorism.
It is believed that terrorism groups now are following [...]
March 26, 2008Businesses, families and blogging don’t mix
Being a manager within a large business has its perks, you get to know about all of the company operations such as takeovers and other major business decisions. But if you let you family know about the business deals and one of your children happens to like blogging, then you could be heading for serious [...]
March 19, 2008Vista SP1 released
It would appear that all of rumours were correct and Microsoft have finally posted the official standalone version of the Microsoft Vista SP1, it has been coming for some time but there rumour mill has also been working overtime too, some casting doubts on it and other applauding the company’s the approach to getting the [...]
March 4, 2008Nine years for spammer
There was a time when sending the odd speculative email to people was the done thing, but this soon got out of hand when the spammers began to take the email system over, but who would have thought that by doing this you would end up in jail!
Well that is what has happened to Jeremy [...]
Yahoo slims down design team
Despite being well over valued by Microsoft, it still appears that the company is finding it tough, so much so that they have apparently fired the whole of the design team. Its not as if they had nothing to do, they were supposed to be working on the next generation design ideas.
But as the company [...]
Top Pirate flees the authorities
Geremi Adam is the worlds top pirate for making copies of films, he would go under the name of Adam aka “maVen” has disappeared off the face of the earth he has been linked with pirating many films, from ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ through to ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ to [...]
February 12, 2008Facebook a life sentence
Joining a social networking site like Facebook would normally be a great experience and most people, who have signed up and filled in their profiles have been very pleased with the results, by meeting new and old friends, some even use it for business.
But changes in the way Facebook is run have made some members [...]
Using Google to the full
Google is so much more than just a search engine, granted it is probably the best search engine to use and everyone wants to be on the first page of their search terms, but it can do much more and here are a few examples which you may find very handy:
Different Types of Files at [...]
World economies at the mercy of the sea
There seems to be news about the damaged undersea cables coming out almost every day, the unofficial count is now set at five cables that have been cut or damaged, but it would also that it is only affecting one particular region, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United [...]
February 6, 2008Policing web advertising
Advertising on the internet is you would have thought a serious business, but with revenues for the year 2007, the figure was around $36 billion which is a lot of money, but still only around eight per cent of the annual advertising spend across the globe, so there is much scope for improvement or is [...]
February 4, 2008Complete working freedom
Anyone who works completely via a computer often dreams of just packing up and travelling off to some beach somewhere and working from there, where it warm, dry and just a little bit out of the rat race.
But it’s the practicalities of actually getting down to doing that often stops us from just grabbing [...]
Same server search
There is a handy little tool around which will allow you to check up on other websites to see if they are hosted on the same server, this can come in very handy sometimes.
You Get Signal have introduced the Reverse IP Domain Check, this will give you a quick and easy way of tracking domains [...]
Hit man sort on Craigslist
They say that you can get almost anything on Craigslist from flats, jobs and now it seems you can even hire a hit man to get rid of your cheating partner!
Well that was what a woman from Michigan; USA thought when she tried to hire a hit man to kill the woman that was having [...]