The injection of social networking services into their own products seems to be a common theme amongst the internet’s big players. The integration of these kinds of services has become more and more common this year as ‘the big three’ (Yahoo, Microsoft and Google) all look to reach out to the burgeoning social networking community. (more…)

With the launch of the iPad imminent it is no surprise that Apple shares have risen. This has been helped along by the prediction that Apple could sell up to 10 million units of the tablet computer before the end of the year. (more…)

The good people at Facebook never seem to learn from their mistakes, their constant updating of the privacy settings on the site never seem to go down well with users and have often caused other problems yet the social networking site has announced yet another raft of changes. (more…)

As part of a broad initiative toward cloud computing, Dell have announced launched three cloud-oriented servers. They are naming it the “PowerEdge” series, the cloud dedicated servers will be aimed at organisations that haven an interest in running cloud applications. (more…)

Apple rivals Yahoo have this week released two brand new Apps for the iPhone. No prizes for guessing that they are both search related applications that will of course compete with similar offerings from Google and Microsoft. (more…)

Opera Software, the company behind the lesser known Opera web browser have confirmed that their iPhone browser “Opera mini” is now complete and has been sent to the sceptics at Apple for approval. (more…)

Online rumours have been rife for months regarding Microsoft’s imminent announcement of their iPad rival. The dual screen tablet named ‘Courier’ has not actually been spoken of directly by anyone at Microsoft until this week. (more…)

Savvy internet users have taken the opportunity to snap up iPad related domain names way ahead of time and they are now reselling them for millions. It seems a fairly simple idea, one that many of us are probably thinking we could have and perhaps should have thought of, but domain name speculation is not an easy business. (more…)

The global economic crisis has affected many of us in the last couple of years, it has even sunk its economy killing claws into the internet. The online advertising industry was hit hard in 2009, research from IDC (Interactive Data Corp) reports that after having three dismal quarters in 2009 the online ad sector ended the year strongly. (more…)

As we reported on the Top Click Media blog in recent weeks, the implementation of the browser ballot box by Microsoft has gone live, and it would seem that the chief protagonists of the new system, Opera, have benefited the most. (more…)

After all the recent drama regarding internet safety and the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser hacking debacle it is refreshing to hear news that the internet security in the UK is rated as one of the best in Europe. (more…)

The unstoppable rise of social networking shows no signs of slowing down as yet another major corporation has seen the benefit of incorporating the ever-growing medium of communication into its service. (more…)

It would appear that Microsoft’s relentless marketing of its Bing search engine is beginning to pay off at the expense of Yahoo. The last couple of months have seen Microsoft release a number of advertisements in the UK as well as a lucrative sponsorship deal with The Simpsons on Channel 4 in the hope of increasing the number of users flocking to Bing. (more…)

Fans of the increasingly popular social news website Digg were treated too a glimpse at the all new website this week at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas. Chief executive of Digg, Jay Adelson, addressed the fans at the aptly named “Bigg Digg Shindigg” at the SXSW interactive conference. (more…)