Why are botnets so hard to find
The rise of the botnet has been help by the rise of social networking and other user friendly applications that are appearing on the internet these days.
A user hears of something good or is sent a link to a site that offers a new and exciting way of making friends; they often have to download [...]
Could Google be the next Pirate Bay?
It is debatable whether or not the Pirate Bay will be remain online; it depends on how the next few weeks or months pan out.
So if the site is forced to close, what now for the many users who elect to seek out music, films and games downloads?
It has been suggested that even if the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Filesharing ok in Germany
Germany is set to become one of the world’s havens for filesharing activities. This comes as the German State Prosecution Service announces that they will no longer be following up most of the legal cases being brought up by copyright holder with regards to file sharing.
This means that individuals will be able to get away [...]
The Pirate Olympics
It is not always possible to watch sports events like the Olympics, simply because of the time zones from China, this means that the most popular heats and finals will be held during work times, so unless the boss allows a TV in where you work, then you are going to be missing out, or [...]
August 6, 2008YouTube cleans up
The video sharing site YouTube are preparing to make some sweeping changes in the wake of the high profile court case taken out by media giant Viacom.
It was through the court case that YouTube had to provide the court with a list of all YouTube members and their online activities. Although there was no possibility [...]
Mother uses internet for child’s illness
When Danielle Fisher aged, 13 fell ill, the first port of call would naturally be the local GP but when that fail to work then it was onto the local hospital. However, after six months the girls symptoms of fatigue and headaches remained undiagnosed.
However, when all else fails there is only one place to [...]
April 1, 2008Virgin Media cracks down on down loaders
It looks as if the first UK internet company to crack down on illegal down loaders of music and films will be Virgin Media. What the record companies are looking for is a warning system to be put in place, this is expected to take the form of a three strikes and you are out [...]
March 13, 2008File sharing sites blocked
Israel’s biggest ISP has been ordered by a court to block access to certain file sharing and torrent sites, which has done very little to stop people from visiting these sites. In fact there is a lot to be said about keeping quiet about things as the publicity generated by this case has caused even [...]
February 6, 2008Policing web advertising
Advertising on the internet is you would have thought a serious business, but with revenues for the year 2007, the figure was around $36 billion which is a lot of money, but still only around eight per cent of the annual advertising spend across the globe, so there is much scope for improvement or is [...]
January 29, 2008Same server search
There is a handy little tool around which will allow you to check up on other websites to see if they are hosted on the same server, this can come in very handy sometimes.
You Get Signal have introduced the Reverse IP Domain Check, this will give you a quick and easy way of tracking domains [...]
Torrents under attack
There is a little known war going on between the torrent sites and an organisation named Scene, their sole purpose is to totally eradicate all torrents, with tags like “Destroying the P2P’s, one step at a time”.
We already saw when Super torrents had their donations hacked and donated to charity; this is the sort of [...]
Digg users hit back a Facebook dumper
Dumping your boyfriend via Face Book is not normally a great idea, and yet as will know that is exactly what Sandra Soroka did, and some may say that she had actually got away with, after all she did accumulate over 1,600 votes on Digg.
But like with many a seal of approval could also mean [...]
Generating website traffic
It’s a simple fact that no traffic to your website means no visitors and therefore it stands to reason that no money will be made. After all what is the point of creating a wonderful website if nobody is going to see it?
Paying for traffic can be expensive it all depends on your business, for [...]
Googles games means advertising heaven
Webmasters of games and other related sites may find that Google will have some great advertising opportunities soon with the purchase of the ad firm Adspace who place in game adverts; this is a serious advertising opportunity as the ads can be placed to appeal to certain groups of people depending on what the game [...]
November 7, 2007Free webmaster tool
Having a counter on the website is a very useful tool, it lets the other users know how busy the site is, and there is no pulling of punches when the exact number of visitors is there for all to see.
But these tools do tend to cost money, but not always, this is a tool [...]
Google puts price on results
The French based blog, Zorgloob has discovered what the Google guys see when they do a search. The results returned are as normal except for the slight difference of a dollar value placed at the end of the listing.
The figures are said to be related to Adsense, but these figures also turn up in the [...]
Earnings from affiliate schemes
Having built a website and you have seen the traffic increase to what could be considered a reasonable amount, so is that it? Where do you go from there? The obvious route would be to see if you can turn this successful website into something that makes some money for you.
The two main ways both [...]
Great Bookmarking Tool
Bookmarking your sites can take a lot of time, this costs money as you could be getting on with something else that is more practical and worthwhile. But here is a nice way to manage all of your bookmarks in an easy manner with Only Wire and it is free!!
Not only does it do [...]