Industry News

It appears that there will soon be a major shakeup in the way news is presented online. The Financial Times (FT.com) has announced that they are planning to start charging internet users for their specialist financial reports and news. They have stated that the current model is not sustainable, and as more people have...
Read more »

Firefox, the open source Internet browser, has now been downloaded a billion times. It is estimated that 1 in 3 people now use Firefox instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox is now 5 years old, and has been a hot with the IT crowd since its launch. Firefox’s strength lies in it advanced rendering...
Read more »

Last week one SEO reported that the BBC showed some improvements in its search engine rankings, with pages appearing more often for generic search terms (much like with Wikipedia). This is good news for the BBC, as for years it has been producing high quality journalistic content on a wide range of subjects. It...
Read more »

The world’s largest mobile phone company has declared that it is interested in taking over the German cell phone company, T-Mobile. T-Mobile has been losing market share recently, and even though it won the contract to supply the handsets for Google’s first Android based mobile, the G1, this has not been enough to give...
Read more »

OK, this is an over the top, sensationalist title. But today a cash machine at HSBC failed to give me my money. So I headed over to Barclays to withdraw some cash, and that too was down. I popped inside to ask what the heck was going on, and all cash points and instore...
Read more »

Google continues to promote and encourage open source technologies by agreeing to sponsor Drupal modules in the net “summer of code”. “The summer is off to a great start again. Google just announced that they will sponsor 18 Drupal developer stipends in this year’s Summer of Code program (SoC). Google provides a stipend of...
Read more »

Yahoo have announced that they are planning to close down Geocities, which offers Yahoo members to create free websites. Yahoo is offering its Geocities customers to purchase Yahoo web hosting, however many will start to look elsewhere to host their sites. After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We’ll...
Read more »

Just received an update to the terms of service for advertising Amazon products on a website. From 1st May Amazon Associates members will now no longer be able to drive traffic direct to Amazon pages using PPC (such as Google Adwords). Amazon expect people to generate interest via search engine optimisation and newsletters to...
Read more »

Tomorrow is the G20 meeting in London, but anti-capitalist protesters got off to a good start today in the City (of London) with an attack on an RBS building. During my lunch hour I strolled from Moorgate to the Bank of England. Princes Street was blocked, so I went around Lothbury to Bartholomew Lane,...
Read more »

Local portals set to grow online due to failure of traditional local press. The continuing economic downturn has caused many local newspapers to consider merger opportunities with their rivals, to help cut operating costs and improve economies of scale. This can only lead to dilution of the local brands, which paves the way for...
Read more »