The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Bee deaths threaten food supplies
This is not the first time that the subject of the declining population of the UK’S bee’s has once again become news, this time because of the results from a survey that has been conducted by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) which show that the nations bee population has fallen again.
This may seem like a [...]
The cloud changing business
Cloud computing is term that is becoming ever more popular these days, mainly because of the introduction of mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. This has helped employees of companies to work either from home or in the field.
The Cloud are applications which are server based, this means that remote staff are able to login wherever they [...]
Japan ignores Facebook and MySpace
Although Japan has an online advertising market of some £3 billion per year, but it seems their different way of life and idea of what is good is affected some of the west’s more popular money making machines, but why would that be?
It is not that social networking is not a happening over there, they [...]
It is all about skills
When we are in a credit crunch type of scenario like we are now, it is necessary to try and get all the help that you can to get an advantage over the competition who could be fellow employees or people from other companies, whatever the situation now is the time to become the best [...]
July 29, 2008Food supplements contain banned substances
Making and selling food supplements is a huge business not just here in the UK but worldwide, there are many large companies who have based their business on this market, which are being marketed as being healthy and natural.
Yet recent research has shown that this business may not be as healthy or natural as [...]
Marty McFly’s hover board for sale
There cannot be many people around who have seen Back to the Future, where hero Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) found that skateboards had evolved into hover boards in the second movie. The hover board also appeared in the third and final movie, but after being retired for some time the hover board is now [...]
July 18, 2008Google in trouble over parked domains
If you have ever found a parked domain, have you noticed the Google Adwords on the page?
This has become the basis of an accusation from a law firm in California; they have been paying the site to be promoted through the search engines scheme. Only to find that instead of the adverts appearing on [...]
You can buy anything on eBay
If you are looking for a bargain, then a visit to eBay may be on your agenda but apart from the normal items that would expect to find on the auction site, there are also some very weird items which some people are trying to sell and there are some very attempts at spelling by [...]
July 14, 2008The perils of eating out
It is interesting to hear the other side of the story when it comes to eating out. Many of us occasionally have a meal in restaurant but sometimes this does not work out so fine and yet you simply cannot understand why.
Well a waiter spills the beans on what makes the restaurant world tick and [...]
Apple gets a huge slice of phone market
There is no doubt that Apple has carved out a nice piece of the phone market for touch screen mobile phones and in fact they are expected to become the market leader in the US for this product by the end of the year.
The iPhone will have around thirty five per cent of the touch [...]
A Milestone for McDonalds
Out of all the products that McDonalds sell, the Big Mac has to be the most famous and possibly even the most popular burger that they sell. Yet the Big Mac was never on the original menu, because as with many burger bars during the late fifties they just sold burgers.
But one franchise owner James [...]
Google increases day care costs
You can always tell when company means business, when they start looking to the costs of the benefits that they providing their staff with. Google of course no different to any business now and they too have been looking into the costs of the perks which their staff love so much.
But instead of looking at [...]
Segway sales up
The famous Segway personal transport system, have been around since 2001 when the inventor Dean Kamen launched it onto the unsuspecting world to the same sort of public response as the personal transport that Sir Clive Sinclair invented, the Sinclair C5!
But it seems that the tide is changing and the Segway is making a big [...]
Adsense referrals RIP
For users of Adsense who have not updated their accounts recently, may wish to pay the account pages a visit, especially before the end of August as this will be the time when Adsense referrals will be closed for good.
Google said that this part of their continuing work to improve the services that they provide [...]
Smoking ban a year on
It’s been a year since the smoking ban was introduced in the UK, and so far there has been a mixed response as to whether or not this has helped in any way at all.
Clearly there are the health benefits, nobody wants to be stuck in a room full of smoke, and not even smokers [...]
Solar power to take off in Japan
Japan is one of the countries which has to import a lot of their resources such as raw materials and in particular fossil fuels, which puts a massive strain on the country as they are forever scratching around for the best deals, but at the time are at the mercy of someone else.
This could account [...]
Coloured labels
Google are forever moving forward to get more features out on their products and services, this time we are talking about gmail, now this is a service that people either love or hate, fortunately for Google there is a lot of love out there.
In return Google will be looking at beefing up the features and [...]
US drivers running out of gas
It seems that despite the problems with getting enough fuels to supply the fuel hungry Americans, they are not taking this very seriously on a personal level. For they are still driving everywhere that they can, but unfortunately because of the cost of fuel, they are trying to stretch out every last drop from the [...]
June 3, 2008What online newspapers need to know?
Newspapers work on paper, but when they put their newspapers online all of the skills and know how seem to all fly out of the window. This leaves their online presence looking a bit of a disaster and for what ever that is, this actually costs the newspapers visitors and in time money.
Their main problems [...]