04Oct2010
Facebook set to ‘like’ Skype?
The majority of people reading this will use Facebook. Well good, congratulations, not all of you though will know quite exactly what Skype is though. Well it is essentially like MSN but you can actually make phone calls off it to other people on their mobile phones. Anyway, back to the original point, there are rumours surfacing that Facebook and Skype are set for a major partnership.
Read More23Sep2010
Mark Zuckerberg richer than Apple CEO Jobs
Now for those of you that don’t know who any of these people are I have two things to say, one where have you been for the last 5 years? And two Mark Zuckerberg is the one you have to thank for never doing your homework because you’re always on something called Facebook. Yes he’s the owner and founder and whatever of Facebook and as of March 2010 the youngest billionaire in the
Read More13Jul2010
The World’s Fastest Broadband Connections
East Asian broadband connections are the world’s fastest, recent statistics from Akamai Technologies show. Leading the world’s top 10 broadband connections is South Korea, where the average nationwide connection speed hovers above 11 megabits per second. However, many South Koreans claim that recent years have seen a decrease in home broadband speeds. If you compare broadband speeds
Read More16Jun2010
Broadband Comparison: Where is Europe's Best Broadband Location?
The 2010 Broadband Customer Satisfaction Report highlighted some interesting thoughts about the UK's internet access options. The study, which surveyed over seven-thousand broadband users from across the UK, found that broadband bills had reduced by just over four percent from last year, while average connection speeds had increased by approximately 33 percent. It also looked at the UK's
Read More07Jun2010
Can Mobile Broadband Ever Become the At-Home Standard?
Broadband was once a luxury, a connection that only the seriously geeky could justify purchasing. Today, it's set to become just the opposite. With home broadband connections ubiquitous and broadband deals priced competitively, what was once the height of technology has become the standard. After growing to a 95% broadband penetration rate throughout the late 2000s, the UK's Office for
Read More05Jun2010
Internet Security 101: 3 Essential Tech Security Tips
Hackers certainly seem to be everywhere. In February, the news media reported that Google – one of the world's largest and most influential companies – had fallen victim to a hacker attack, their security systems breached and private files accessed by Chinese cracking groups based out of a Shanghai university. The online giant is certainly taking the attacks seriously, ramping up security
Read More04Jun2010
Windows 7 Falling Out of Favour at Google HQ
Google's Chrome browser has been praised since its 2008 release, being branded an 'attractive, fast, and impressive browser' by The Daily Telegraph, and sparking a new round of discussion from technology bloggers and internet advocacy groups. The browser has also attracted strong growth, becoming the second most popular non-IE browser over the last two years and a worthwhile option for users
Read More26May2010
Google fleetingly addresses the Android battery life problem
Google believes strongly now that you cannot blame them solely if your Android phone’s battery is not even lasting you a day, which many users are now complaining about. The company has issues a statement saying that there has got to be something wrong that you are doing with your phone as well to make it not even last a day because supposedly it is not meant to function this way. The company
Read More25May2010
Social networking website guidance
This is something that has recently been launched in the USA but will surely hit off in other places of the world as well, this is a recent launch of a social networking website called Togetherville and is actually quite different from the usual Social networking sites that we are used to, this one is meant strictly for young growing children. The age group to which this website is supposed to
Read More24May2010
Hotmail on a cleaning campaign
One of the first thing that any kind of email service company should realize is that if their service gets most of their uses to spend most of their time on the service deleting their junk mail or spam or any of the others then it is about time that the service actually made some changes and addresses the problems that might be existing with the system, because that certainly might drive most of
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