So, bloggers failing to declare that they are taking money or freebies for writing reviews / posts, could soon be fined up to $11,000. Whilst this may stop a few smaller blogs writing undisclosed posts for PR firms, it’s hardly going to stop the big blogs – which are rewarded very highly for the coverage they give certain favoured brands. Here’s why!
Cisco’s report into global broadband speed has been published and the findings confirm what many users know; that typical broadband speeds in their country are crap.
The top 10 countries for broadband quality are:
The tech news blog has just upgraded it’s hosting, due to issues with our previous hosting provider.
This investment, plus a number of essential upgrades and changes will help us to get the blog to you faster and more reliably than ever before.
When Matt Mullengweg announced that Wordpress.com was installing RSS Cloud on it’s 7.5 million blogs, something amazing happened!
All of a sudden, blogs on the Wordpress.com platform became almost real-time. In other words, posts will be broadcast almost immediately; allowing bloggers to both deliver real-time content to their RSS subscribers AND potentially share real-time comments with their readers. Here’s why I think this is such a big deal!
The UK’s biggest mobile phone provider is about to be formed, with Orange and T-Mobile UK due to announce their plans to merge. This comes after T-Mobile UK have been locked in talks since July, with the UK’s three biggest mobile phone carriers; O2, Vodafone and Orange.
The new company will have around 38% of the UK phone market’s overall revenues and annual sales of around £8.2bn ($13.5bn.)
Blogging is experiencing (yet another) resurgence it seems. However, this time, it looks like the very sites that were accused of killing blogs, are now responsible for making them more popular than ever.
That’s right: Twitter, Facebook and co are actually making blogs more popular than ever before. Read on to find out why!
Wordpress users, who have not already upgraded to the latest version (2.8.4) are vulnerable to a serious, active security threat. Respected Wordpress blogger Lorelle, explains that there are two clues you should look for, to see if your Wordpress blog has already been attacked.
Last night on Twitter, I managed to connect with someone I have been a huge fan of for a very long time. I’m talking about the respected tech journalist, broadcaster and science advocate Maggie Philbin.
Maggie was the first person on UK television to demonstrate the word’s first truly mobile phone, car navigation system and countless other gadgets we take for granted today.
So, the tech news blog has been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. In that time, quite a bit has happened. Clearly, the BIGGEST story in tech news during that time, was that I got to name the title of last week’s Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte; “bing is my back end”. Yeah, I’m a fan of the show (thanks Leo.)
Here’s the news I missed…
The marketplace has been asking for a single version of Windows for a long time. After all, this approach works fine for other operating systems.
However, even though people have been demanding a single OS since the first beta of Windows 7, it’s not going to happen. That’s right, instead of using the launch of Windows 7 as a chance to give their users what they want, Microsoft decided to create 6 different editions of the same OS, all differently priced too.
Users are investing a lot of time and effort building social networks and getting their content onto various third-party sites – never really knowing if all that hard work will be undone after an acquisition or a provider going broke.
Understandably, the question a lot of people are now asking is; “who or what can I trust?”
Here’s the answer!
So, FaceBook has acquired FriendFeed – But why? It wasn’t for the platform and with a quarter of a billion users, FaceBook didn’t need to buy the relatively small FriendFeed user-base either.
However, by acquiring FriendFeed, FaceBook have bought something, which is of massively greater value to them as a company!
We are in the process of developing a whole new mojo, here at The Tech News Blog. Reader research has shown that people preferred our previous, ‘more in-depth’ approach to tech news, rather than the shorter posts we have focused on more recently.
UK hacker Gary McKinnon, has lost his latest bid to avoid extradition to the United States. McKinnon faces trial for what has been called “the biggest military computer hack ever” by US authorities.
McKinnon, who suffers with Asperger’s Syndrome, claims he was simply looking for proof of UFO’s and what he calls clean fuel.
Firefox passes the billion download milestone. Since its release in 2004, over 1 billion people have now downloaded a version of the Firefox browser. Well, kind of.
That ‘billion’ figure also includes people who manually update to each news version rather than auto-update – but it’s still a very impressive figure.