Jun 28th, 2009 - Generally speaking I would not recommend reading a newspaper in the hot tub. If that hot tub happens to be of the spa-jet variety then that only makes it worse. If the newspaper is a rare item from the 19th century then surely only a fool would consider it. Yet this weekend I have been doing just... (Read More)

Aug 7th, 2009 - Mike Maser, Chief Strategy Officer at Digg, has confirmed that Digg Ads will start rolling out in an early beta format during the next few days. So expect to start seeing sponsored Diggs mixed up with the real stuff, although the adverts will carry a 'sponsored by' title the screenshots suggest... (Read More)

Jun 2nd, 2009 - On Thursday 2nd June 2009 it will be the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre when an undisclosed number of student protesters were killed after tanks rolled into squash the protests. You might imagine, then, that in China services such as Twitter would be a-buzz with talk about the... (Read More)

May 20th, 2009 - Now there is a headline that is right up there with 'Vatican endorses new Dan Brown novel' in terms of something you would not expect ever to be reading, but according to reports it is true. The Pope is apparently keen to emulate President Obama in the way he has embraced the Internet to spread his... (Read More)

May 14th, 2009 - Now this is interesting: with the arrival of a demand for some $4.5 million in damages, one of the founders of Pirate Bay has come up with an innovate method of paying it. Gottfrid Svartholm has set up something called internet-avgift which encourages ordinary Internet users who are friendly to the... (Read More)

Dec 31st, 2008 - In the USA, according to the Digital World Digital Life study, housewives spend around 38 percent of their spare time on the Internet. Bored British housewives, however, spend a whopping great 47 percent of their leisure time online. That is more time online, by the way, than students (39... (Read More)

Nov 17th, 2008 - If you spend anytime online, posting in forums, discussing blog entries and getting involved in heated IM conversations then the chances are you have said it. Even Lisa and Bart Simpson have said it. Meh. We said meh! Now, meh is officially a word rather than just an online utterance. It... (Read More)

Oct 29th, 2008 - Historically, here in the UK at least, the electronic and gadget online marketplace has ruled the roost when it comes to consumer spending. However, according to one new survey, now it is milk and bread that are selling the most. Statistics from the largest discount voucher code website in the... (Read More)

Sep 11th, 2008 - CERN is a funny old place. It was where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and it is where many have predicted the beginning of the end of the world started today. Of course, that is a load of old codswallop. Not least because the Armageddon today hype has proven to be somewhat... (Read More)

May 19th, 2007 - Yesterday, in the UK, it was National Work From Home Day. So it was with perfect timing that Giritech and the conferencing services division of BT, published the results of “The Costs of Transport on the Environment – The Role of Teleworking in Reducing Carbon Emissions" report which was undertaken... (Read More)

Jul 5th, 2009 - You might wonder why a 10 year old web building business managed to become the number one trending topic on Twitter this last week, with the moonfruit hashtag being tweeted in excess of 10,000 times an hour at one point. The answer is not as straightforward as some would have you believe. OK,... (Read More)

Apr 27th, 2007 - That depends, to be honest, on which Internet you are talking about. For most of us mere mortals the answer will vary, depending upon how fat the pipe connecting us to the Internet is and how many people are downloading video streams over it at any given moment in time. For the uber-users at the... (Read More)

May 15th, 2009 - There is something of a media fuss going on over here in the UK thanks to the fact that Ivy Bean is using Twitter. No, she is not some soap star or a topless glamour model and does not have a famous footballer as a boyfriend. In fact her claim to fame is quite a simple one: she is the older person... (Read More)

Apr 19th, 2009 - This looks like it could get very interesting, very quickly. The online auction outfit, eBay, seems to be in the process of having something of a corporate clearance sale. There were stories circulating a couple of weeks back that Skype could be sold off, possibly back to the original owners, with... (Read More)

Jan 24th, 2009 - Remember when China officially declared war on Internet pornography and set a target of just six months to purge the Web of sexually explicit images, stories and AV clips? No, well read this to refresh your memory. While you are at it, make a note of the date: that story was posted back in April... (Read More)

Sep 26th, 2008 - Sometimes I really love living in the English countryside. The fresh air, the sheep and horses at the bottom of the garden, the lack of crime, the sense of community that still exists in a small village, the lack of seriously fast broadband. Ah, yes, that's not so good is it? In fact, most of... (Read More)

Apr 2nd, 2008 - Security provider Webroot has today published its State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email research report and estimates that every single business email account will receive some 42,000 spams during the course of 2008. Or 116 junk messages every single day if you prefer. That is an... (Read More)

Apr 4th, 2008 - There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Or something like that. However, there are also some really interesting figures emerging about online life right now which are worthy of repeating here. How about this report that the numbers of web sites on the Internet has risen from, can you believe... (Read More)

Dec 17th, 2007 - It has long since been argued that continued exposure to something over a length of time will reduce the shock value of whatever it happens to be, from violence in movies to swearing in public. Now according to a report researchers at the Brigham Young University have suggested that the... (Read More)

Aug 22nd, 2007 - IT is going through a period of great change, a transition which will see organisations shift focus dramatically from technology to business processes and relationships. That's what Gartner Research Vice-President John Mahoney has told DaniWeb. He warns that by no later than 2010 as many as 50... (Read More)

Jan 25th, 2007 - Two statistics entered my radar today and stopped me dead in my tracks, which doesn’t happen often. Both concerned the remarkable growth in the connectivity of the Chinese population. The first comes courtesy of the China Internet Network Information Center and reports that the total number of... (Read More)

Aug 18th, 2006 - The news that Boeing is to scrap its Connexion in-flight Internet access service will surprise many people. The fact that it had an in-flight Internet access service will surprise many more. Unless you were a business traveler, flying in Asia where the service was most prevalent, and then one who... (Read More)

May 21st, 2009 - I attended two seemingly unrelated events things this week: I saw the new Star Trek movie and I attended the MIT CIO Conference in Cambridge. At the conference, Tom Malone, who is the Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (think about how much they must have just on that campus)... (Read More)

Jan 7th, 2009 - Intel is killing the tech sector this morning, down six percent in trading – to $14.40 per share – after a particularly dismal earnings outlook. I’ll get into the details in a moment, but it’s worth noting that we can’t just point the icy finger of guilt at Intel. I’m afraid the predictions of... (Read More)

Sep 10th, 2007 - Corporate marketers are paid to think five years ahead of the curve. Like hockey great Wayne Gretzky, who once said that he didn't skate to to where the puck is, but "where it would be", today's marketers have to know where the consumer marketplace is going, not where it is right now. ... (Read More)

Dec 4th, 2006 - I've been investigating the possibility of adding in a VOIP package for my clients and one thing is certain...unless you roll your own with Open Source solutions such as Asterisk, you won't be rolling anything for less than 3 thousand dollars. This makes me think a bit...what kind of small... (Read More)