Is a rebrand for Live coming?
There has been a lot of talk or rather whispers about the Microsoft search engine Live; this has come about through the use of Twitter the micro blogging site that has recently been getting a surge in traffic and publicity.
It turns out that a Microsoft executive has been testing the new search facility and according [...]
Surprise, Google tracks surfing habits
At the end of every year it has been regular feature that the search giant Google publishes its yearly list of popular searches, nothing strange about that. However, this has prompted fears that in order to produce a list like this, they must be gathering search data.
This always brings up the subject about what happens [...]
Do Google know too much?
Whenever there is a huge and successful business, there are always going to be those that attempt to make these organisations look like they are doing something wrong.
With Google it would look as if their competitors and people who do not like them for whatever reason, they try to bring to the forefront all the [...]
Webcam from Mars
Webcams have been around for as long as the first basic internet took to the air; can anyone remember the coffee pot cam? However, webcams have become so tiny and yet so powerful that they are popping in some very unusual places and some places that you would expect too, like city centres.
Nevertheless, if you [...]
Students taught how to hack
It is probably one of the least expected subjects to be taught to students at university but in a computer lab in California, which could be mistaken for a secret underground bunker, the students are being taught how to spam, create viruses and hacking.
However, before anyone starts to panic, this work is being done [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bloggers get free access to Britannica
Before the internet the Encyclopaedia Britannica may have been one of the resources which researchers would turn too should there be an issue that needed clarifying. But like the music industry as the internet began to take off, sales of the £700 set of books have fallen away.
But even the online resource has suffered at [...]