Social Network Sites More Popular Than Adult Sites
Thursday, den 29. January 2009One of the unspoken but generally accepted facts about the internet and the video sharing capability of the medium is that people use it to view adult videos. This seedy underbelly of online activity is one of the most lucrative enterprises on the World Wide Web however recent trends in use have surprised E-stat analysts.
Although the demographic data was unsurprising in that most visits to adult sites were by males the time at which those visits were performed have raised a few eyebrows. The Hitwise Analyst Weblog provided data to show that the majority of visits to adult sites from UK internet users were performed on a Sunday morning. Whether this new trend of behaviour on the day of rest will change now that every mother and wife is aware of this has yet to be decided.
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High Speed Digital Report Arriving…Some Time Soon!
Monday, den 26. January 2009
An expected report on the state of the UK’s digital economy looks as though it may be delivered late after a spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said it would be available ‘before the end of the month’.
The Digital Britain report was set up to examine the UK’s internet habits and concerns. Particular attention is being given to privacy, security and quality of content. It will also take into account new developments in digital media such as public service broadcasting and digital radio.
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Google Drops Print Ads in the Latest Cut Backs
Friday, den 23. January 2009
Launched in November 2006, Google Print Ads was a media venture from Google Inc and 50 partner newspapers in an attempt to bring increased advertising revenue to the US publishing industry. Google Print Ads rapidly spread to over 800 publications and offered clients an opportunity to search publications using various criteria such as demographic, distribution and cost. Google announced this week that due to the product not creating the impact that Google and its business partners wanted, Google Print ads will be no more after February 28th.
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It's A Phone Jim, But Not As We Know It.
Wednesday, den 21. January 2009
Technology moves at a fast pace and we often find that what was once the most popular product or application slowly goes into decline, finally ending up in a Room 101 for gadgets, gizmo’s and software with too many glitches. Beta Max and the Sinclair C5 are fine examples, but would you ever expect the mobile phone to be joining them? New designs are on the horizon that may well change the face of the mobile phone forever in the battle of functionality over form.
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Taking A Bite Of The Apple
Tuesday, den 13. January 2009
It seems that the battle for the hearts and minds of digital entertainment users is set to continue and even escalate in the coming months. DECE, a US entertainment, retail and IT consortium have revealed their plans to transform the way we access, purchase and play to digital entertainment content.
It will not be the news that the leading digital entertainment supplier Apple wants to hear as they are already having to fight on several other fronts including the emergence of Amazon as a digital music retailer and other peripheral issues like the ongoing iTunes – EMI – Beatles issue concerning the sale of the bands back catalogue through the iTunes site.
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Google Maps Mobile Apps Up To Speed
Monday, den 12. January 2009Many avid mobile wireless internet surfers were perturbed by the Google Maps application’s functionality when searching for business addresses. Although it generally only affected the diehard mobile applications enthusiast, it was an area where Google really dropped the ball.
Google Maps delivers directions and contact details to destinations however in the previous version of Google Maps, whenever a user inserted a name of a business, the software would only recognise it as part of the address. This seems like a rather elementary oversight and has now been corrected.
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Is Google Paying The Price Of Success
Friday, den 9. January 2009
Google has risen at an unprecedented rate over its ten year history and its innovations have changed the way that cyber surfers search the internet. Some industry commentators are claiming that companies are beginning to get intimidated by Google’s rapid growth and ambitions to move into other areas beyond its core business, search and advertising.
The evidence for this speculation has been seen recently as Microsoft was awarded an estimated 500 million USD contract with telecommunications giant Verizon. It is believed that this was the latest in a trend of hostility toward Google in response to the events that preceded the Federal Communication Commission’s wireless spectrum auction in March 2008.
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The New Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
Friday, den 9. January 2009
Over the next few weeks, mobile giant Nokia will be excitedly getting ready to launch the brand new, eagerly awaited 5800 Xpress Music mobile phone.
It’s perhaps fair to say that we, as consumers are becoming a little complacent when it comes to our expectations from technology today.
It’s perfectly understandable however, when our expectations are continually being exceeded. You wouldn’t even think of buying a mobile phone these days if it didn’t provide instant access to the web. The truth is we are so spoilt for choice today and with advancements in technology, comes advancing expectations. So how have Nokia risen to this challenge? By providing us with the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music.
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Colne Community School Sixth form centre gets facelift thanks to Colchester web firm
Thursday, den 8. January 2009A rapidly expanding web company, which has taken new premises at the prestigious Octagon building in Colchester, has donated some much needed furniture to the Colne Community School to assist with the refurbishment of its sixth form centre.
High Position, which specialises in web design and search engine optimisation, recently moved into the former headquarters of insurance giant Royal London and found the building came with more than just a lick of paint.
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Colchester web company backs fight against knife crime
Thursday, den 8. January 2009A website started by a Colchester anti-knife crime campaigner with the help of a local website company looks set to become one of the country’s top resources for people affected by violent crime in the UK.
Ann Oakes-Odger started her campaign after her son Westley was tragically stabbed to death three years ago in Colchester. Since then, she has worked tirelessly to bring public attention to the causes of knife crime.
Her website now gets thousands of hits a week and is widely accepted as a major resource for people affected by violent crime in the UK. It is currently at the top of Google when searching ‘knife crime’, even beating articles on the Guardian’s website.
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