In the 1970’s Russian led explorations into Northern Afghanistan discovered most of the oil and gas fields that are fought over today. Now in the 2000′s US geologists have discovered a new highly lucrative mineral. It is estimated that there is $1 trillion worth of lithium and copper deposits in Afghanistan making it the new [...]
Are you footie mad? Do you need constant up-to-date info on your team? Are you waiting to hear if Lionel Messi has picked up ‘that’ injury yet? Google have teamed up with FIFA to make following the World Cup 2010 on-line simpler and more intuitive with the introduction of new search tools. Footie fans all [...]
LinkedIn website has quickly risen to be recognised as one of the main Social Media sites for professional networking. This business orientated social net-working site allows people to connect to one another and has a number of useful benefits; job seekers can find hiring managers, read their profile and find out what his or her [...]
There are many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results but PageRank continues to be the foundation for all of Google’s web search tools. PageRank is an algorithm that analyses the links between websites by assigning a numerical weighting to each website with the aim of measuring its relative importance within the set. [...]
It is looking as if Google will face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks a report from Privacy International (PI) shows. It would seem as if Google has been collecting wi-fi data as part of its StreetView project. The StreetView software included a ‘rogue’ code which according to PI “shows that the system [...]
Early Years It is a little known fact that in 1990 Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J.Peter Deutsch created what is considered to be the first Internet search engine. They created a tool named Archie, which indexed FTP archives that allowed people to find specific files. The basic functions of this tool were contacting a [...]
The other day I Skype called my brother and during this call I got to meet my 6 month year old nephew. I realised then that this was an important moment, I started to use the Internet around the age of 15 but before my nephew could even speak he had already been apart of [...]
For those of you that are trying to stay ahead of the SEO game you might be interested to know that Google has introduced a new factor into their search algorithm. The new factor is site speed, “what is site speed?” I hear you ask. Quite simple really, it is how long it takes your [...]
The human ability to invent technology as labour-saving devices or ways to help us relax is probably the biggest defining factor between us and the rest of the animal world. From the first time one of our monkey ancestors picked up a club, to the CERN institute smashing large hadrons together, man has a subconscious [...]
What are Social Media? Not many people know that in 2004 a new Internet term was coined, ‘Web 2.0’. This tem refers to the way web users can now interact with each other as contributors to website content and not just passively view information on web pages. It is not so much as an update [...]
