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The BBC’s ‘Visual Graphic’ of the Top 100 Sites

Friday, den 12. March 2010

As part of their ‘Superpower’ season, the BBC have created an ‘Interactive Graphic’ showing the internet’s top 100 websites in terms of monthly traffic, as measured by Nielson.
The data has been segemented by industry, and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia.
To view this extremely useful and interesting graphic [...]

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Motorola replace Google with Bing for Chinese Android-based phones

Thursday, den 11. March 2010

TechCrunch have reported that Motorola are to replace Google with Bing on the new Android mobile phone in China, following Google’s recent developments in China.  TechCrunch says:
“If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based [...]

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Google Open App Marketplace

Wednesday, den 10. March 2010

Google has announced the release of a new online marketplace for apps.  The new marketplace consists of mainly business apps that work with existing Google apps, such as Google Docs and Gmail.  Both paid and free apps are available for users to download and add to their Google accounts. See below for a quote from [...]

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Google to Release Business Chrome OS in 2011

Tuesday, den 9. March 2010

Network World report that Google is to release two seperate versions of Chrome OS – a consumer version which is to be released later this year, and a business version to be released in 2011. See below for a quote:
“Google’s Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users [...]

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Does Google Make Us Stupid?

Wednesday, den 24. February 2010

Hmm….good question, and one posed as a magazine article by Nicholas Carr back in July 2008.  The gist of the article was the Internet’s effect on cognition,the ability to read and absorb content and not take on a staccato effect when looking at different material. And my favourite quote from it has to be…
Once I [...]

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Google Executives Prosecuted in Italy

Wednesday, den 24. February 2010

In a potentially groundbreaking case, an Italian court has today convicted 3 Google Executives in a trial over the publishing of an autistic teenager being bullied. Whilst all 3 were absolved from defamation, they were convicted of privacy violations: The BBC reported:
“The three employees, Peter Fleischer, David Drummond and George De Los Reyes, received suspended [...]

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Google shopper launches on Android phones

Friday, den 19. February 2010

Google shopper is a little like a cut down version of the previously released Google Goggles. This one however focuses purely on shopping. Just take a picture of a book/album cover etc and it will search the internet for that product and find you the lowest price. So far it works well on all the [...]

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Matt Cutts – State of Index 2009

Friday, den 22. January 2010

Matt Cutts has recreated his presentation from PubCon and posted it on YouTube. Definitely worth a watch!

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Youtube tries out flashless videos with HTML5

Thursday, den 21. January 2010

Thanks to the new HTML5 Standards you can play videos directly through html with no plugins required. Naturally Youtube has taken advantage of this and has been running a few beta tests on the idea with full html video pages.
You can now sign up to a beta testing area which will run all your videos [...]

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Google to be Replaced by Bing as Iphone’s Search Engine

Wednesday, den 20. January 2010

Business Week are today reporting that Apple are currently in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for Iphone users, replacing the current search engine giant Google.  These talks come amid the hot competition between Apple and Google.
“The discussions reflect  the accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, now the main provider of [...]

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