If you liked the idea of being able to use your new kindle to listen to the books you buy, I have some bad news for you. Although YOU PAID for that feature, Amazon have caved in to the Authors Guild and authors will now have the right to block the audio feature being used on their books…
I read a post this morning from SEO blogger Gregor Spowart, which I want to share with you. In his post, he asks if The Guardian’s website is ‘keyword stuffing.’
When you see the URL they are using for one of their news items, you might find yourself asking the same question…
Yesterday, on Twitter, Loic Le Meur decided to unfollow everyone he was following. Interestingly, he kept all his followers though. Then today, Jason Calacanis has done the same thing – kept all his followers, but unfollowed them all!
As Twitter’s user numbers grow, is unfollowing people set to become a new trend on Twitter? Let’s see…
GaryMcKinnon, the UK hacker who managed to hack his way into US government, US navy and NASA computers, has lost his latest attempt to avoid extradition to the United States for trial. This comes as the UK Crown Prosecution Service refused to bring charges against him in the UK.
McKinnon, 42 from north London, faces a [...]
There have already been dozens of fixes and improvements made to the Windows 7 beta ; according to Microsoft’s Engineering Windows blog. They list 36 improvements, which will be in the RC (release candidate.) This disproves the often mentioned rumour that the Windows 7 feature-set is ‘frozen.’
Windows 7 fixes & improvements
The changes have been made [...]
The recession is certainly taking its toll on IT recruitment, according to a recent survey by Langley James – a UK based IT recruitment company.
They have just surveyed over 200 people, who they initially spoke with at the beginning of January. Only 5% have so far found a new position, with over 30% of those [...]
Much like an older brother beating up their younger brother, Google has just given a PageRank penalty to Google Japan!
This bizarre state of affairs came about after it was revealed that Google Japan was paying bloggers via CyberBuzz, to write about a new feature on the Google Japan website. This was in [...]
Veronica Belmont has just been asked by Robert Scoble, in public via FriendFeed, to prove she has not paid Twitter to be listed in their highly valuable ‘Suggested User’ list!
In the past couple of weeks, Veronica’s follower numbers have almost doubled. As Veronica fronts a number of tech shows, including Tekzilla and Qore (for Sony’s PS3 Network), these followers are potential viewers. As such, they are of high value for advertisers / sponsors of her shows. Here’s a selection of the very heated, very public row between Veronica and Robert on FriendFeed…
Our third ever ‘Highly Recommended’ award goes to Pete Cashmore’s excellent mashable.com.
Why mashable?
Firstly, mashable has some VERY good writers. My personal faves include; Jennifer Van Grove, Adam Ostrow, Stan Schroeder and Pete Cashmore of course. These guys know how to make tech news interesting, without being sensationalist. The quality of the writing is excellent and [...]
Windows 7 beta testers will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the operating system, by testing the Windows 7 update feature (from 24th February.) This only applies to people running the build 7000 beta and the update will not be automatic; you will need to manually install it – even if you [...]
So, every tech news blog and website on the planet was shocked and amazed that Facebook decided to change it’s terms and conditions, so it had the right to use / keep / eat all it’s users information. I am genuinely stunned that so many tech ‘insiders’ and social media experts are so freaking stunned [...]
Microsoft has announced that it’s offering a reward of $250,000, to help find the creator of the Downadup/Conficker virus. The virus, a worm that’s been infecting systems since last October, has infected as many as 12 million systems; according to Arbor Networks.
George Stathakopulos, of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group told BBC news;
“People who write this malware [...]
Last year, the talk was all about how eBay would dump Skype, without losing too much money in the process. However, at the launch of Skype 4.0 in Singapore this week, Skype announced that it now has 405 million users and that it is growing at an amazing rate of 380,000 users a day.
Last year, [...]
If you are running Internet Explorer 7, you should download the latest Microsoft update immediately.
Yesterday’s Internet Explorer vulnerabilities were give an Exploitability Index value of 1, which translates to “Consistent exploit code likely.”
More details can be found in the Microsoft Security Bulletin. However, the key thing is to get your Windows update applied.
Thanks to PC [...]
For months now, there’s been a growing debate, about what kind of business model Twitter will use. Today, things have become a little clearer!
Twitter to charge business users
It seems that charging companies to use an enhanced set of features, is part of their monetization plan! Who says so? Twitter co-founder Biz Stone; speaking today to [...]
