Digital Britain report not met with rapturous applause
Communications minister and ex Ofcom boss Stephen Carter really had his work cut out for him compiling the interim Digital Britain report, released at the end of January. The report, which was...
Marketing through a recession, part two
So now the country’s officially in a recession – which has been so long coming that it’s almost a relief to be able to say it. And yet, businesses are still running, and money is still being made...
New operating system in the pipeline
With the paint barely dry on Windows Vista, Microsoft has already released the beta version of its brand new operating system, Windows 7. Those of us still playing the “where have they hidden...
Flash… it’s not all that bad
Everyone hates Flash, right? It takes too long to load, it makes the site difficult to navigate, it can’t be indexed by search engines, and it causes usability issues. And it’s annoying. Web...
Rumours of Google causing planetary meltdown much exaggerated
Anyone who saw this article Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches in The Times recently might have been living in fear of the environmental impact of using Google, after the...
Censorship and the Internet – Govt suggests content controls
In a new Government proposal for this year we could be seeing controls imposed on internet content. In an interview late last year with The Daily Telegraph, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham...
Twitter, facebook etc…. does anyone care?
There’s been a big buzz for a while now about social media being “the next big thing”, and you’d have had to be hiding in a cave for the last couple of years to be unaware of Twitter, Facebook,...
Customise your Google Search
If you use Google search whilst logged in to your Google account, you’ll probably have noticed something new by now. There’s some little control buttons appearing next to your search results. So...