Year: 2009
Microsoft to discontinue Encarta
News came last week that Microsoft is discontinuing Encarta, they cited changes in the way people seek information and in the traditional encyclopedia and reference material …
Stallman on the Javascript Trap
This week Richard Stallman has added to his earlier comments about web-based (so-called cloud) applications, which are mostly written in JavaScript, but sometimes in Flash. Stallman wants …
Wikileaks taken offline
The Guardian reports that whistleblowing website Wikileaks has gone offline just hours after publishing what appeared to be a complete list of the websites banned by …
iPhone…idon’t think so
Japanese retailer SoftBank are giving away the 8GB iPhone in a bid to increase take up after terrible sales. According to a report today in the Guardian the …
Have I Got Your Attention?
Social Networking Sites are posing a threat to the psychological development of children, a report in the Guardian suggests today. Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln …
The Twitter Blackout
If you use Twitter you may have noticed that recently some people have started to replace their avatars with simple black squares. This gesture is in support of a …
Open Source Social Networking Sites
We are all familiar with Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, well now you can create your own lookalike site for free. Joomunity describes itself as ‘a …
Torvalds on Open-Source Identity
Linux founder Linus Torvalds this week talked to Computerworld about the development of Linux over the past two decades. He was of course asked about his views …
Small Business SEO – Why You Can’t Live Without It
One of the reasons small business can’t live without SEO is that fact that it is one of the only marketing channels available where the smaller …