People have been criticizing Mozilla for the bountiful updates it’s been releasing for Firefox, but being a Firefox disciple; I have to say, “What’s the complaining about?” The world’s largest open source browser had its 10th update recently (yours truly is running it) but the update was considered a silent update by most watching the [...]
February 14th, 2012 by Anthony West
It seems if you have an online traffic problem the best solution is to integrate Facebook into your setup. This option has been paid off rather nicely for big companies across the web. Spotify did it with remarkable success and now it seems to paying off big-time for Yahoo. The struggling search giant has had [...]
December 30th, 2011 by Anthony West
It looks like all that traffic and activity on Tumblr is causing it to have ‘shorts’ in the circuitry. A new report from social blog monitoring site, Pingdom, shows that Tumblr had the most downtime in 2011 for social blog platforms in its class. Tumblr was down a total of 42.1 hours in 2011, and [...]
December 22nd, 2011 by Anthony West
There is pretty much nothing that Google doesn’t allow you to search using its vast storehouse of data. And now it seems, you can add math formulas to the mix. The actual tool is described as a ‘graphing calculator’ and is aimed at students or just about anyone who needs to tap some mathematical equation [...]
December 12th, 2011 by Anthony West
Google’s relentless march to the top of the ‘browser mountain’ isn’t slowing down one bit and its next target seems to be Firefox. According to the latest assessments, in 2011 Google Chrome grew +7.26% to an overall market share of 17.62%. This places Google chrome, just a 5% back on Firefox which currently has over [...]
December 6th, 2011 by Anthony West
The last few months have seen a few high profile cases of hackings into high security government and official databases and it seems we might have just witnessed another one. According to reports, a notorious hacker group called Team Poison has hacked into the United Nations and compromised thousands of email logins and passwords. Of [...]
December 6th, 2011 by Anthony West
Akamai, the popular dynamics web Apps company looks set to join the ranks of big companies that swallow up their competition with the tentative buy-out of one of its main rivals, Cotendo.com. An Israeli newspaper has set the rumours swirling that Akamai is set to make a bid of between $300 – $350 million for [...]
December 1st, 2011 by Anthony West
T o say Google is looking to streamline its operations could very well be construed as an understatement. In the last few months no fewer than ten of its major services have either been curtailed or discontinued entirely and the search giant looks set to give another seven the axe. The company in an official [...]
November 27th, 2011 by Anthony West
The internet world is a vast place that offers opportunities for businesses to thrive and expand their business. Many businesses have gone online and made websites for their companies in order to advertise more effectively and gain new clients and customers. Many such successful online businesses are email servers. From yahoo, Gmail, MSN and many [...]
November 25th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
For most things, 2 seconds is nothing in terms of waiting time, but when it comes to website load times 2 seconds is an eternity. This wasn’t always the case of course. In the days of dial-up, website users got used to the slow crawl of a website as it slowly unveiled its content. Then [...]
November 24th, 2011 by Anthony West
Box.net may not have the profile of a Dropbox, but this hasn’t stopped the company form quietly building its user base and expanding its reach. The company only recently launched a promotion in conjunction with Apple, and is now adding to that with the announcement of an Innovation Fund. The Fund, which seeks to reward [...]
November 22nd, 2011 by Anthony West
The photo uploads and sharing business seems to be gathering momentum and the fact that some of the web’s most powerful tech companies are getting in on the act is a testament to this. Twitter recently took back the handling of photo uploading and sharing from one its biggest API developer, Twitpic and now Facebook [...]
November 17th, 2011 by Anthony West
Photo sharing is such big business that Twitter decided to take away the handling of photo sharing on its platform from the third-party sites and developed its own proprietary infrastructure. That move seems to be paying off early, because in the few months since Twitter launched its own photo-sharing apps, activity on the Twitter domain [...]
November 16th, 2011 by Anthony West
It has long been established that the internet with its ubiquity of information, extensive choice pools and rapid speed has made the average web user very impatient. But the extent of that impatience has never been quantified as such—until now. According to a new study conducted by cloud-computing giant, Rackspace who surveyed 2000 UK adults [...]
November 14th, 2011 by Anthony West
One hates to be the prognosticator of doom but could Adobe be in trouble? That is certainly the question after reports that the company responsible for the ubiquitous ‘Flash’ technology is laying off 750 workers as take-up of its Mobile Flash development. This move of course is a response to the growing demand and acceptance [...]
November 13th, 2011 by Anthony West
Justin Beiber was only 12 the other day so it sort of makes sense that the kids who follow him intensely float around this age group. One of those kids, Thomas Suarez, has been making waves with the Justin Bieber App he created called ‘Bustin Jieber–a Justin Bieber whac-a-mole’. Costing just $1, the app was [...]
November 12th, 2011 by Anthony West
Google offers their users a variety of applications and features to make using the web the best experience for each individual and meet the many various needs people may have online. Google maps is a popular feature that allows people to find different locations around the country as well as the world, get directions, etc. [...]
November 11th, 2011 by Daniel Renfro
Google’s changes to its algorithm have become notorious for impacting the position of websites who rely on it6 heavily for traffic. In recent months the various incarnations of the Panda Update have caused several big-name websites to lose as much as 80% of their traffic. And now Google seems to be at it again, this [...]
November 8th, 2011 by Anthony West
