“If you shut down our power, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks” (source – unnamed military official). This quote was printed in the Wall Street Journal and has been a hot topic of debate after the Pentagon published their first formal cyber strategy document. In this document the U.S. military Continue Reading »

Once again a hacker group has stolen over one million passwords, email addresses and other information from the Sony network. This time the hacker group Lulz Security is behind the attack and seems to be motivated by exposing the security flaws in the Sony network.The story can be followed over on twitter Continue Reading »

Apple has nearly finalised a deal with four major record labels which will bring iCloud to the world. iCloud will be a cloud service used for streaming music from a huge new Apple data centre in North Carolina. The data centre is set to be the most powerful data centre second only to government servers, it will be able to handle millions of streams per minute Continue Reading »

Here at Web and Rank we have emphasised the importance of protecting your online privacy over and over again. Software developers have created some pretty dandy applications that can help to protect your private data, but nothing is quite as good as good ol’ common sense.Below are some nifty tricks to add an extra layer Continue Reading »

Twitter is a force to be reckoned with it’s a force that can be tamed and channeled to make an effective social media campaign. In fact a social media campaign that does not include Twitter is a non-starter. What has made Twitter a winner in the tough competition of social networks? It is the ability to give news in real time Continue Reading »

Residents of the UK will finally have access to mobile phone wallets as long as they have Orange and Barclaycard accounts.The Japanese as usual were the first to have them operational, then the Americans followed suit and now the UK is getting on board. The industry has been slow to get the pay by mobile phone technology Continue Reading »

Weekly we post significant cartoon news developments focus and affecting the Internet and World Wide Web like web rank industry and international social media business.This is a good news but bad for you. A“Yea nice one I’m definitely going to tweet this”, B “You should like, start a BLOG or something”Tweeting is the future Continue Reading »

How has social media changed the world of journalism? This already is and will continue to be the title of many essays written by students studying media related courses. The question is an obvious but very important one; the question goes beyond the subject of ‘media studies’ and into the realm of sociology and politics. Continue Reading »

In an Internet Cafe tucked away in a sweaty corner of Lagos a young Nigerian man thinks up ways to scam ‘the white man’ out of thousands of dollars. The word Nigeria in the world of tech has become synonymous with ‘scam’, the question is why? Jobs and the lack of is the number one driving factor for Nigeria’s problem Continue Reading »

Google have been making sweeping changes to its search algorithms in an attempt to down grade low-quality sites. The sweeping updates have been done under the alias “Panda”, and have mostly had detrimental results for content farms.Google have been trying to help us genuine Website owners by giving advice Continue Reading »