As reported in Webpronews, Google look to be set to change their algorithm to combat a new wave of spammers using black hat seo techniques to elevate their pages to the top of the rankings. One of the major differences seems to be the more dangerous destinations these spammy links are pointing to. Rather than […]
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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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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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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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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
Why can\’t Microsoft get it right? IE8 is out and already I have found problems Read More »
In an interesting use of the internet, a NZ court has allowed the serving of court papers via a Facebook profile. It follows a similar Australian ruling You can read more about it here But this shows how the internet can be used as a great communication medium. So be careful when you accept that
You have a new Friend on Facebook – The Courts Read More »
When Google bought DoubleClick last year, there were plenty of concerns from privacy advocates about what this would mean. Well this new initiative seems to be the logical conclusion. Google is now using DoubleClick cookies to track users browsing habits and serve up ads relating to that browsing history. From a web developers point of
Google hit the target with DoubleClick\’s DART Read More »
For a while now, I have been talking about the need for New Zealand to improve its internet infrastructure (Read broadband speeds) to allow for a more distributed possibility to working. In my last corporate job, the talk was of about Telecommuting, or allowing staff to work from home using the internet as a way
Cloud Computing…What the? Read More »
I have just been reading Aardvark, a great local IT commentary site and the thoughts of it\’s author Bruce Simpson about the Section 92a protest to stop the introduction of \”guilt by accusation\” legislation. Bruce was quite condemning of the action so far by the NZ blogging community (plus a notable mention to Stephen Fry
Well done everyone! Controversial bill averted for now Read More »
