Do pirates buy more music?
There have been many studies into the piracy issues that plague the internet, where consumers are able to get their hands on music, film and even games for free. The studies seem to say that although there may be a huge market in pirated material the people that use it are also big money spending [...]
December 11, 2008Alcohol always sells, Google updates AdWords
There is one thing that always sells when the world is experiencing a global credit crunch and that is alcohol, this is good for the producers of beers, wines and spirits as they know that their profits are not going to be affected that much.
It also seems to be good for Google, as they have [...]
Virgin have a deal with Yahoo
A deal has been struck between Virgin Mobil and Yahoo; this will see the Yahoo search engine pre-installed for all Virgin Mobiles four million customers throughout the UK.
This is a plan that could see Yahoo attempting to get ahead of Google in this very different but important mobile search sector. Especially as Google have dominated [...]
Firefox reaches record figures
Mozilla have been keeping quiet about their recent success in the browser market, their Firefox browser has secured around twenty per cent of the market last month proving that they are a true competitor for Microsoft’s internet explorer.
Internet explorer has a commanding lead over the browser market with a holding of around seventy two per [...]
MTV award for Rickrolling
When the MTV Europe Music Awards open up in Liverpool there is going to be a surprise challenger for the title of best music act. Rick Astley was best known for topping the charts both here and in the US during the eighties, but all of sudden decided that he had enough and gave it [...]
September 1, 2008Internet failing in the USA
At one time if we in the UK wanted to look at a website based in another country the access was almost certainly routed through the USA, after they claim to have invented the internet in the 1970’s so it is only natural that they had control of the traffic.
But over the last few years [...]
Bank details found on eBay
Anyone looking on eBay will know that there are hundreds of computers for sale and that when buying second-hand computer you never really know what you are going to get.
In this case a laptop sold for a mere £35 actually contained the personal details of over a million bank customers, this is included name, address, [...]
Olympics is the most viewed event in the USA
The Olympic Games is always a big draw in the US, this probably has something to do with the amount of medals they always win, and they walked away with a hundred and ten this time, more than anyone else did.
However, surprisingly the Beijing Olympics has been drawing an extra ordinary amount of viewers. [...]
The cloud changing business
Cloud computing is term that is becoming ever more popular these days, mainly because of the introduction of mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. This has helped employees of companies to work either from home or in the field.
The Cloud are applications which are server based, this means that remote staff are able to login wherever they [...]
Japan ignores Facebook and MySpace
Although Japan has an online advertising market of some £3 billion per year, but it seems their different way of life and idea of what is good is affected some of the west’s more popular money making machines, but why would that be?
It is not that social networking is not a happening over there, they [...]
It is all about skills
When we are in a credit crunch type of scenario like we are now, it is necessary to try and get all the help that you can to get an advantage over the competition who could be fellow employees or people from other companies, whatever the situation now is the time to become the best [...]
July 22, 2008Bloggers facing lawsuits
Blogging started around 2004, but then it was mainly a way of ordinary non technically minded people who wanted a piece of the web for themselves to express what they were feeling at that time.
But now blogging has taken on many different forms, these range from pro-bloggers to people who like to just leave the [...]
Google in trouble over parked domains
If you have ever found a parked domain, have you noticed the Google Adwords on the page?
This has become the basis of an accusation from a law firm in California; they have been paying the site to be promoted through the search engines scheme. Only to find that instead of the adverts appearing on [...]
Adsense referrals RIP
For users of Adsense who have not updated their accounts recently, may wish to pay the account pages a visit, especially before the end of August as this will be the time when Adsense referrals will be closed for good.
Google said that this part of their continuing work to improve the services that they provide [...]
What online newspapers need to know?
Newspapers work on paper, but when they put their newspapers online all of the skills and know how seem to all fly out of the window. This leaves their online presence looking a bit of a disaster and for what ever that is, this actually costs the newspapers visitors and in time money.
Their main problems [...]
The right PR at the right time
PR has been around for many years, it encompasses almost everything in our daily lives, and yet when we start a business it is one of the last things that we ever think of. Yet with good PR your business can very quickly begin to make up ground on the competition.
The problem with PR is [...]
Forget the Apprentice, entry level jobs are harder
If you think that the Apprentice is hard enough then you may wish to view the top ten of the worst entry level jobs that there are. These jobs are the ones which the new graduates will be trying to get in order to get a foot on the corporate ladder.
But sometimes these jobs may [...]
How to be successful at networking
Networking in business it totally different to social networking, but at the same time the success of your business could depend on how effective you are making the right connections. This could be a trial and error situation, but when you are in business time is money and so there is a need to get [...]
April 25, 200880% of bandwidth used by 10% of users
For long time we were told and believed that the majority of the bandwidth was being sucked up by people who selfishly engaged in peer to peer usage, but recent evidence proves that this may not be case.
As with many resources the internet has changed over the years and has now evolved into an entertainment [...]
Google is top of the brands
It seems that it is not only search that Google is dominating these days, as far as a brand names go it seems that apart from all of those famous brands out there like Coke Cola, McDonalds, Marlboro and so on, it would seem that Google takes the number one spot.
But being on the top [...]