The boss will get the message
It had to happen sooner or later a site where employees can offer their employers a little bit of advice all in the name of fun or more serious some constructive criticism. The site is called the Anonymous Tip Giver and surprisingly it has been developed by the job site career builder.
A user gets to [...]
Teens a danger to themselves
For most parents the fact that their children on spending a lot of their spare time online is not a problem, but it turns out that for teenagers the greatest threat to them on the internet is actually themselves.
The chances of them being harmed in way by complete strangers is very rare, of course we [...]
White House Twitter account a fake
A lot has been made about how the new president of the USA is well at home with the latest technology and indeed it was this that some say helped him to the White House.
Even on day one he and his team set to work on utilising the White House facilities such as the [...]
Obama is on White House Twitter
The new president may have messed up the swearing in, but one thing that he has done right is the taking over of the White House Twitter account.
This had been used quite a lot during the Bush era, with around fifteen hundred updates being made during that time. These were mainly links to speeches made [...]
Does piracy matter?
This is a question, which will run for a very long time, simply because there are many angles to the situation. First are the genuine users of games, they have to input serial codes and are often restricted to having the game on one machine.
Then there are pirated copies which are sold at boot sales [...]
Moore’s law applied to the internet
For those who do not know Moore’s Law relates to how many transistors can be fitted onto an integrated circuit, this is said to double around every eighteen months which accounts for the growth in computing power which we see.
However, this principal can be applied to the internet, and it has been proved that the [...]
Does anyone care about the cost of search?
Recently there have been reports on the cost of a Google search on the environment; apparently, there are some sources that claim two search enquires use up as much energy as boiling a kettle of water.
However, these figures are relative, this does not mean that it is costing the computer user lot of cash, the [...]
Google search not so green
It has been estimated that a simple search on Google will produce around 7g of carbon dioxide, whereas boiling a kettle of water will produce around 15g of carbon dioxide.
These shocking figures have been produced by Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University, who says that the emissions are produced by the electricity used [...]
Facebook comes in eighth for population
If the social networking site Facebook were a country, it would be one of the largest countries in the world when it comes to population; with almost a 150 million active users, this makes Facebook larger than the UK, Japan, Russia and Nigeria.
However, it is not stopping there the social networking site is predicting that [...]
No more excuses
If a thirteen year old can set up a new internet start-up, then surly there is no excuses left for the rest of us to keep holding back on starting our own online businesses.
Scotblog is a site, which focuses on the people who live, work or has some sort of connection with Scotland. It is [...]
At last Google-Linux desktop
Is Google gradually taking on Microsoft through the back door, they have been doing this through various tactics but most could be considered to stealth, rather than directly advertising the fact that they are looking to become the world’s largest tech company.
Now with the introduction of Google Chrome, this finally showed to the world that [...]