Apple getting ready to launch Snow Leopard
Apple has announced that it will be releasing the latest operating system that has been initially named Snow Leopard in September.
The cost of this upgrade will be just $29 per licence or for households that have more than one machine there is the Family Pack this allows for up to five machines to be upgraded [...]
Wi-Fi at airports essential
It is funny how things change over time, it was not that long ago when business travellers were more interested in luxury than anything else, but those days have long gone.
Sure the business traveller demands luxury and business class travel reflects that, but instead of glamorous food and surroundings, the business traveller today requires Wi-Fi [...]
Do not disconnect pirate’s plea from artists
There was a well publicised meeting of senior suit types from the government and entertainment industries last week, where the topic of internet piracy was high up on the agenda. The idea is still to force the internet service providers to disconnect the pirates.
The entertainment industry want to follow the French way of three strikes [...]
Data recovery tools for free
From time to time virtually, every computer user finds that some data no matter how small has been lost. This is because computers are not totally infallible and therefore sometimes something goes wrong.
The best thing that any computer user can do is to be prepared. If the user has everything in place to ensure that [...]
Steve Jobs would you to have his house
There can be a situation where someone has just too much money and Steve Jobs is just an example of this, there is no doubt that he has done a fantastic job and had a great career, he has earned the respect of most of us for what he has stood for.
Yet when it comes [...]
Webmaster offering links is jailed
A webmaster whose website offered links to copyrighted material has been fined and jailed in Spain after it was found that the operation was illegal.
Some people may find it strange that the webmaster has found himself in such a predicament. However, there is a distinct difference between running a site that offers just links to [...]
Convert those visitors
It is the dream of website owner to get something from everything visitor to their site, whether this is advertising revenue or the selling of a product or service, the end result is the same, revenue.
All private and commercial websites need revenues if only to just pay for the up keep of the site, but [...]
Firefox overtakes IE6 and is catching IE7
It may not be much of a record but it is still a mile stone none the less, finally Firefox 3 has overtaken Internet Explorer, but before anyone starts desk thumping it is only IE6 so far but they are catching up at a steady rate.
With IE7 as the next target is will not be [...]
Yahoo to be streamlined
It is always the same when a new boss starts, things change and people get worried. This is no different at firms like Yahoo with the new chief executive Carol Bartz being recruited last month changes are on the way.
The word is streamlining which is not a word used when a company is thinking of [...]
Computers missing from nuclear weapons lab
Over eighty computers belonging to the US nuclear weapons lab at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the state of New Mexico have mysteriously gone missing, according to the watchdog the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
The concerns are serious enough to worry people, but what is more concerning is the way that these computers have [...]
In flight internet flying into trouble
The introduction of in flight internet, is good for business as this opens up a new revenue stream for the airlines, who could really use a lift in these troubled times.
However, the staff of the airlines and in particular the flight crews are foreseeing that there could be trouble ahead as in flight internet becomes [...]
IE slips down even more
The world browser market Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has slipped back a little bit more against the other choices available. IE has a 67.55 per cent market share, which is a drop of around seven per cent.
Firefox by Mozilla has 21.53 per cent where three months ago they stood at 20.78 per cent, Apples Safari was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter looking to create revenues
For a long time there has been talk of why the social networking site Twitter has not gone for the big money route, they have enough users to justify it and it is free to use. However, this means to start generating a revenue stream now is going to be a lot harder.
There is a [...]