As if it wasn’t enough to know exactly what people are doing at any point during the day, Twitter is now going to ensure that we know exactly where they are doing it as well, but I have absolutely no idea why. The Twitter as we know it simply asks you the question “what are you doing?” to which you type your answer, It will now also ask the question “where are you doing it?” but here’s the thing, you do not even have to type the answer as Twitter will already know. Read the rest of this entry »

The idea of ‘scareware’ sounds a lot more intimidating than it actually is. It refers to fake programs, normally imitation anti-virus software that has been plastered all around the web in the hope of conning the less internet savvy users. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone enjoys a good top 10 list, there is just something about them that inspires interest. Yahoo, habitual list makers have released an interesting list of the top 10 news searches made online in the last 15 years. Read the rest of this entry »

The theory that sex sells has never been disproved, many of the most visited sites on the internet that do not have any affiliation to searching or social networking have something to do with sex. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that the domain name ‘Sex.com’ is the most expensive in internet history. Well, get your chequebooks out because it is going up for auction. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s latest attempt at world domination has been announced this week – they have revealed their new on-demand video service.

Much like the already popular 4od and iPlayer from Channel 4 and the BBC respectively, the MSN video player will offer viewers more than 1000 hours of popular shows both old and new. Read the rest of this entry »

2010 has been a year of major competition between the internets ‘big 3’ of Microsoft, Yahoo and Google as each of them form partnerships and make new deals in the hope of overhauling the other two. So it comes as no surprise that Microsoft has revealed their new MSN homepage to its 100 million users in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

It is quite rare these days to find an internet user that frequents both the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program and the often forgotten spawn of social networking that is MySpace. The former is often used by people with a lot of e-mail accounts usually for work and the later by teenagers hoping to get their attempt at a chart topper heard. Read the rest of this entry »

You have to admire the sheer tenacity of Microsoft. It is well noted that Google completely dominate the search engine market with a massive 86% of the global market, whilst Microsoft’s Bing has a meagre 3.4% share. Despite this, Microsoft have embarked on an aggressive advertising campaign in the UK in the hope of at least stealing second place from Yahoo. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple sure do know how to create a heavenly aura around their products don’t they? More than a month after revealing the iPad none of us have been able to get our hands on one yet nor have we had the comfort of knowing exactly when this may happen. Read the rest of this entry »

As the year progresses and we get ever closer to summer it would seem that competition in the online world is really hotting up. Perennial innovators Google are leading the pack with the announcement that they are set to purchase their third company this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the global economic downturn causing mass panic as we plunge into recession the ever reliable internet has been quietly going about its business and making some very good progress at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

The ever increasing popularity of social networking site Facebook is showing dividends for the company as this week it was revealed that their finances are even healthier than expected. The site is reported to be well on its way to hitting $1billion in revenue by the end of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

To many this news will come as a shock, but it would seem that the Google Empire is not perfect after all. Just this week a detailed 49 page report has been published by Google that takes an in-depth look and rates its SEO on its various properties which includes the homepage. Read the rest of this entry »

It never comes as a surprise to hear that Google are putting their fingers into yet another pie as they gather pace in their quest to take over the online world. Back in 2005 it was reported that Google had bought up a huge stock pile of fibre optics, this sparked mass rumours that they were planning to release some sort of ‘GoogleNet’ service that was sure to be better then any other Internet Service Provider, five years later and there would appear to be rumblings of this actually coming to fruition. Read the rest of this entry »