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Google Branch Into VOIP Phones
Global Internet brand, Google, look set to continue their world domination by entering the VOIP phones market. The search giant has acquired VOIP phones experts Gizmo5 and look set to take Google Voice services to another level. These are exciting times for Google who are currently beta testing Google Wave whilst continuing to evolve their existing... »
Sell It With SEO
The word ‘SEO’ is almost as important in the online world as broadband speed and this ties in well with the focus of this blog post (apologies for the tenuous link). There are many SEO companies out there that claim to have the answer to your website’s listings woes but some SEO co’s are simply... »
Facebook Puts Google And Twitter On Notice
In what many industry pundits are considering a direct attack against search giant Google, social networking site Facebook have purchased the ‘real-time’ search engine FriendFeed. While many were expecting Google or even micro-blogging site Twitter to purchase the content sharing site, which has become popular with the increasingly social nature of the web, Facebook’s acquisition... »
Browser Battles Part III
Welcome to my final instalment of Browser Battles, where I will be discussing the best of the rest of the alternative browsers on the market. Are they not as popular as Firefox or Chrome because they’re not as good, or is it just poor marketing? Let’s find out. Opera Opera has been around for a long... »
Browser Battles Part II
I hope you enjoyed my last instalment of Browser Battles where I discussed the advantages and failings of Mozilla’s Firefox browser; the leading alternative internet browser. Today I’ll be discussing the newest kid on the block to challenge Internet Explorer’s bloated dominance – Google Chrome. Chrome is the search giant’s first foray into the browser... »
Browser Battles Part I
We all use the internet a lot more these days; be it for work or fun, we’re all spending increasing amounts of time online and that means a large chunk of our day is spent with an open browser window. With an ever-increasing number of browsers on the market, it can be difficult to... »
The Great Firewall Of China
China’s censors are at it again: this time surrounding an individual rather than just deciding which websites and news portals that its citizens can and cannot read. This time they have banned all search engines from indexing the name of the son of the Chinese President. Hu Haifeng, son of President Hu Jintao is now... »
High Court Google Defamatory Ruling A Positive Move
A precedent has been set for UK defamation law after a High Court Judge today ruled that Google is not liable for defamatory comment appearing in its search results. Metropolitan International Schools (MIS) took the US company to court over comments made on a website forum that appearing in Google’s search results. MIS felt that Google... »