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Archive for December, 2008Logitech ships billionth Mouse, just ahead of its 40th BirthdayAccording to mouse manufacturer Logitech, they have this week shipped their billionth mouse, just before the forty year anniversary of the device’s existence at the end of December. Read the rest of this entry » Costly redundancies at AMDComputer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has made 600 people redundant. The move had been widely predicted after a final quarter of 2008 that saw sales fall by 25 per cent from the previous quarter. To put that in perspective, that’s a difference of about $396 million dollars. Read the rest of this entry » iPhones go on sale in Walmart, though not quite as predictedIt’s been the worst kept secret in America for almost a month now, but finally, on Sunday, to absolutely nobody’s surprise, Walmart began selling iPhones. Americans can now walk into any of Walmart’s thousands of outlets and pick up an 8 gig iPhone 3G, priced at $197 dollars or its 16 gig counterpart for $297 dollars. Of course, both these models require signing up to the obligatory two year AT&T contract. Read the rest of this entry » Yahoo cuts Data Retention periodYahoo said yesterday that it will restrict the time it holds personal search information that identifies the user. The move comes amongst increased anger from politicians and civil liberties groups about the practice of retaining personal search data. Will Apple’s Macworld decision hurt the Little GuyEarlier in the week we reported that Apple were pulling out of Macworld after this year. In doing so, the company have all but said that they do not need the trade show circuit to sell their product, so strong is their marketing team and relationship with the consumer. This may well be true – Apple do enjoy a marketing platform unlike any other, if there’s a major new development or product, you’re likely to hear about it, whether you like it or not. France suspends Orange-iPhone agreementApple’s exclusivity deal with France Telecom has been suspended by a French competition Watchdog which claims that the accord is a “serious” threat to competition between mobile phone networks. SEOCO ReviewThe SEO Company or SEOCO is a search engine optimisation company on the internet. They work with website optimisation, link baiting, social media marketing, and link building. SEO Company has been in business since 2006. Since we are about to roll into 2009 that is only 3 years in which they have had a business. However, you do learn that the company personnel has 5 years experience overall. Five years is not a long time either, until you consider how long the internet has really been around. Internet was not popularised until the mid 1990’s, which means five years is pretty decent for knowing about the business. Read the rest of this entry » Recovering from being hackedOccasionally unfortunate individuals come to us and say that they have either received word from Google that there may be ‘badware’ being distributed from their site, or they have actually received a badware warning when browsing their own site. This is not a nice thing to happen, not least because it immediately presents you with two equally thorny problems; firstly, getting rid of the badware and secondly convincing Google that you have gotten rid of the badware. Jobs pulls out of Macworld KeynoteInteresting developments over at Apple; the company has announced that Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote speech at the Macworld show this year, as had been planned. Furthermore, this will be the last Macworld show that the company will be attending at all. Jobs will be replace d this year by Phil Schiller, Apple marketing chief. Read the rest of this entry » Public hugely reliant on Internet, says SurveyIt’ll come as no great revelation to anyone that the public are more dependent on Internet access than ever before. However, did you know that 61% of American women would rather go without TV for two weeks than Internet for one? Or, that 65% of adults in the US actually say that they ‘could not live without’ Internet access? How to succeed with SEO marketingYou have a business that’s new, or you have been around for years and you decide you want to get more proactive on the web. What do you do now? The answer is to use a powerful tool called search engine optimisation. If you are not sure what that means it is simply put the hottest way to increase your business online. The key is, get traffic to your website and achieve a high ranking so that you appear at the top of the search pile. Sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN all have rankings and if you are top ranked you will be at the top of a page when people are looking for a product or service. Read the rest of this entry » Windows XP, stubbornly clinging onIt’s a tale as old as the personal computer. Windows come up with a new operating system, they release it with a huge fanfare, then develop the next one. When that one comes out they quietly phase out the old one. Simple. Well, not that simple, not this time anyway. It appears that XP, the OS before Vista, is refusing to die a quiet death. Nova to be unveiled at CES?Palm has had a difficult 2008. It’s been a year in which their market share has continued to struggle and they have been forced to make substantial lay-offs. However, the rumour is that they are aiming to put all that behind them with their upcoming trip to Las Vegas for the CES (Consumer Electronics Show). Read the rest of this entry » Opposition to free US BroadbandIt is widely anticipated that a prominent Democratic lawmaker is to request that the FFC (Federal Communications Commission) postpone the vote on a planned radio spectrum auction. The proposal, as it stands, is that eventual buyer would be required to devote a portion (about 25%) of the AWS-3 segment of airwaves to providing free broadband services across the United States. The vote is currently scheduled for next Thursday. Read the rest of this entry » |
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