Do you Google your name?
There are not many things that are free these days, but one thing you can rely on is your own reputation, it follows all of the good work that you have done and any achievements that you may be able to use to your advantage, this is one that you are in total control of, [...]
July 1, 2008iGoogle turns social
Many users of Google and in particular the personalised pages of iGoogle would have noticed that the page has changed somewhat over the past few years of so. In fact with Google looking to add features which can only be described as social tools, then, is this the direction that Google is heading for?
To add [...]
Google is sued over tools
It used to be Microsoft who was normally associated as being “Borg-like” but they have now passed on the baton to Google. Are they really roaming around the internet assimilating all that gets in their collective paths?
Some people think so and to back this up there is evidence emerging from Google’s partners that clearly show [...]
Some Google secrets
When most people think of the internet at some stage Google will drop into the equation they have become that big that they are synonymous with word internet in a similar manner as Hoover is with vacuum cleaner.
But despite being used by the average internet user a good few times a day, there are some [...]
Everything is for sale
Today using the computer to search out many things has become a matter course, but sometimes there are things that are not available for sale, which is pretty annoying for some people especially as this normally happens right at the time when you are ready to buy that particular item.
But at the same time there [...]
The cost of computing
It is not the cost in money but the more like the cost to the environment, data centres are using up huge amounts of power, and companies which are building these massive buildings are the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.
Data centres are appearing almost everywhere in fact the growth of the server is expected [...]
The US lags behind in broadband subscribers
The US may be one of the top markets for IT and everything that surrounds it, they have Microsoft, Dell, Google and so on, but there is one segment of the market where the States falls behind, in fact they are falling well behind on the uptake of broadband.
The table looks like this:
South Korea
Japan
Finland
Netherlands
France
Sweden
Denmark
Iceland
Norway
Switzerland
Canada
Australia
UK
Luxembourg
USA
But as [...]
Gmail the number one spam resource
The problem with email is spam, well actually its spammers. But with all of security features that have been installed on our computers and what the email hosting companies have put into their systems, why does spam keep getting through?
It is a question of where it comes from. Gmail as it comes from Google is [...]
Google works for CIA
As if Google did not control enough things, it seems that they have been recruited to help out the CIA and other security services to help them better understand how to process and share the information that these services appear to accumulate.
In order to get one step ahead of the people that they are [...]
Rogue servers on the rise
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google have been working on a paper that looks into the rise of the rogue server; these are servers that reroute internet users whose computer has been infected to websites whose sole intention is that of fraud.
These servers which are known as servers that lie, are or [...]