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Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category

Choosing an SEO Expert: Musing on an Attempt to Trademark “SEO”

Jun 21st

The SEO industry really does have its share of cheats and con artists. We’ve all heard stories of small business owners getting hoodwinked by SEO scams. Shouldn’t we, as responsible professionals, do something to remove the black-hatters from our field?

Drench Water – How Refreshing!

May 16th

Normally, I’m not one to go in for commercials; least of all for some new spring water. (Hey, if it’s been flitered by limestone and volcanos for the last 20,000 years, why does it have a best before in 6-months?).
Anywho, that all changed recently when an advert caught my eye on the gogglebox:

Am I the [...]

Unpacking Internet Explorer 8’s Multiple Rendering Modes

Feb 10th

Internet Explorer 8 is going to be the most standards-compliant IE yet, but it’s going about it in a way that has some people scratching their heads. With Internet Explorer 8, you have a choice in standards compliance modes. Sound oxymoronic? Shouldn’t there be one standards mode by default? Heck, shouldn’t the only mode be [...]

Death of a Web Icon

Dec 29th

I don’t think there’s a single web designer out there that is truly surprised to hear of the anticipated demise of the Netscape Navigator browser.
The current owners, AOL (who bought Netscape back in 1998), have announced that they will not be providing support for the browser from 1st February 2008, due to, what appears to [...]

Cycle-Sex Man Gets Probation!

Nov 16th

If we needed anymore proof that both a) drink makes you do stupid things and b) the Scots like a drink or three we could look at the news in Glasgow earlier today.
A 51-year old man has admitted to simulating sex in his hostel bedroom with his pushbike. He was caught riding (no punn intended) [...]

Cyber Theft Arrests!

Nov 14th

According to the news sources, a Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from other users “rooms” in a 3D social networking website, HabboHotel. 
The site is a virtual world of floating rooms, each inhabited by a user(s) and is a “world where you can meet and make friends”.
In this world of comic [...]

Four Terabytes of Storage?

Oct 15th

Reading through the tech news, you can’t help but come across this story from the BBC website:
A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to [...]

US ask UK to Help Investigate Corruption Claims at BAE

Sep 22nd

There are two ways to bury news.
One is to release news on days when there is something that will be deemed as more important. For example, when Bill Clinton ordered the single biggest bombing campaign in Kosovo it was announced on the same day as the Colombine school shootings.
The second is to release the story [...]

Staff Sacked over eBay Addiction

Sep 22nd

On first glance, you may think that this is a joke – but you’d be wrong.
Three staff at Neath Port Talbot Council have lost their jobs after spending too long on the internet auction site. It seems that “too long” was actually in excess of 2 hours per day.
What is there to shop for for [...]

Facebook to Pay for Applications

Sep 22nd

A lesser read story from this week came from a statement from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has offered incentives to firms and individuals who create “innovative and disruptive programs” These “incentives” could mean payments of up to $250,000 for the right application.
The purpose of this investment, according to Zuckerberg, is to “support the [...]