A while a go I posted about Symantec and it\’s subscription system (Have Symantec lost faith in their own products?) Well it has now been reported that due to overwhelming feedback on a Stuff poll (over 97% were against) Symantec has backed down. Good news I say, as while Symantec have said that it was […]
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Video is getting more and more prevalent on the web, Youtube is the largest video platform and amazingly provides the second most searches of all search engines, behind Google. This is a great opportunity to base marketing and SEO for your site / products / services Here is a great video with the product manager
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Search Engine Conferences are a great place to find out information about the world of search. In this video, the discussion is about the future of search, including Twitter, Social Search, Mobile and even possible acquisitions in the search world. One interesting aspect is the change from mass media to social media focus. More WebProNews
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As a football fan, it\’s great to see the footballers making fun of themselves. For those of you who follow football, this was a recent sketch from Comic Relief. Interestingly, Peter Crouch (one in the front row) did the \”rope\” as part of his celebration after scoring a goal in tonight\’s 2-1 win over Ukraine.
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The Government has announced $1.5Bn worth of investment to provide fibre optic cables (dark fibre) as the basis for the new broadband infrastructure. Unfortunately, Kerikeri is not in the 25 largest centres that the money is being spent on. Hopefully the rich and famous who live or holiday locally will generate some reason to increase
Faster Broadband, but not here…Boo Hoo… Read More »
With April 1 hard coded into the Conficker virus, expect some headaches shortly. We will either hear the gnashing of teeth and wails of \”Not Me!\” or a whimper as the virus is reactivated. Here in NZ, there were some high profile casualties, Ministry of Health, Polytechnics, Newspapers sites Whether lessons have been learnt, we
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An upgrade to the algorithm used by Google to rank website relevance to a users query is being rolled out today Google is today rolling out a key upgrade to the algorithm powering its search engine which is based on \”Australian-made\” technology originally developed by a PhD student at the University of New South Wales.
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Owen Thor Walker, a 19 year old, who was wanted by the FBI for his part in leading the group the A-Team has been employed by Telstraclear for nearly a year to provide information for seminars. Telstraclear made an interesting comment when they said: He said it was not the equivalent of hiring a bank
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Bugger I missed it, yesterday was Talk Like William Shatner Day Here is a great video of an impersonator giving lessons. Very Funny. So….I\’ll have to….remember………it next…..year. I\’m Declaring 3/22 \”International Talk Like William Shatner Day\”!
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While these are not software problems (mainly because my attempts to downloaded were thwarted) these show a serious lack of foresight on the behalf of the behemoth. Problem 1 – If you run Firefox, you can download it I went to the download site, chose my country and operating system and waited for the download
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