UK ‘Snooping law’: 5 facts we DO know
There was a fair bit of commotion earlier this month when the government announced controversial new plans for legislation to enable extensive communications surveillance of all UK web users …
read moreNew start-up Acquia Aims to Enhance Drupal Experience
Drupal, the open-source, PHP-based CMS is increasingly the tool of choice not only for smaller and medium-sized businesses. However, also the major corporate giants (like US telco Verizon) …
read moreUp-to-date social media demographics in lovely infographic form
Keeping up to date with changing social media demographics can sometimes be time consuming. It is however essential for people involved in any sort of social media marketing …
read moreBeing an ethical tech consumer just shouldn’t be this hard
As a result of modern communications and transport technologies - and their economic application - our lives are increasingly intertwined with those of people we will probably never …
read moreTop 10 web & tech blogs
As well as writing posts for this blog, I also spend a fair bit of my time seeking out other good blogs covering the web & tech world …
read moreGoogle’s semantic search and the future of SEO
We know that SEO is constantly changing and evolving, mostly in response to two key factors: developments in how search engines work and developments in how websites work. …
read moreHoliday Home Rentals Made Easy With Any Friend of Ours
Are you looking for a hassle-free way to rent out your holiday home? Or perhaps just a quick and easy way to find accommodation for a trip? If …
read moreHow to manage expectations: the ‘new’ iPad vs. ‘iPad 3’
Apple as a company is normally quite good at managing expectations. By that I mean that they know exactly how to harness the hype and hysteria that usually …
read moreCan paywalls be viable in the long run?
The LA Times has just become the latest high-profile newspaper to plump for the paywall strategy in the hope that this will make up for the collapse in …
read moreApple cleans up at 2011 Engadget awards
Sometimes looking at quarterly balance sheets and share prices isn't the most meaningful way to think about the tech industry. This can be especially true with the consumer …
read moreVideo Editing on a budget: Software round-up
Top of the range video-editing software can be very, very expensive. The most high-end package available, Avid Media Composer, will easily set you back over $2k - and …
read moreWhich Kindle? Comparative review (for UK models)
I've been a fan of Amazon's Kindle device for a little while now and have used most of the models available here in the UK over the past …
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