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Google + after an Invite

I must admit I wasn’t sure whether Google + was worth the hype when I first read about the social network, but now I have had an invite I have to say I am still not sure where it really fits into my arsenal of social network.  This could be because I am really happy [...]

Google Facebook the Competition showing the World the Way

As we see the Global Economy struggling we see more and more companies swallowing each other up to keep businesses going.  However that causes one problem, it means that it reduces competition in the market place which than in turn limits the choices for us as the consumers. Now Google and Facebook have shown in [...]

Google + and the hype is it worth it?

Whenever someone as big as Google comes out with a new product there seems to be always a huge hype about it.  Now the main reason for that is they are either doing something quite different or trying to tread on someone else’s toes, or maybe even both.  Which some times the cause of the [...]

Google Panda Update Good or Bad?

This week has seen Google Update Panda.  For you that don’t know what Panda is, it is the software that Google uses in order to workout the ranking of your site The update is to make it a fairer system, basing the search results on more than just popularity.  The new changes will base its ranking [...]

Computer Speed or Internet Speed what is the most important?

This was a question that I had been asking myself ever since my Chromebook thoughts, and a question that Chris Pirillo also asked on YouTube.  Now it has been for years that computer speed was the most important thing to people, but as computing has evolved we find our lives increasingly on the internet and [...]

Chromebooks Will They Suite You?

While doing some maintenance to the blog and seeing my ads coming up quite a few times I notice there was a huge number of Chromebook ads, no surprise there as the ads are served by Google.  It made me think about my recent rethink to what computer I want next due to the fact [...]

Safari for Windows

Now after posting an article on Google Chrome and it’s privacy issues that you can find here I decided to give the other major Webkit Browser ago and that is in the form of Safari.  Now I know Safari can be a lot like Microsoft’s offering of Internet Explorer in the fact that it is [...]

Online Services and Who’s Responsible for its Security?

In the news over the last 48 hours we have seen two different types of security breaches on online services and that lead me to wonder where does the responsibility lie for these breaches? The first one was Google Mail where certain people were subject to a phishing attack the other was the Sony Network.  [...]

Google Chrome Thoughts on Privacy and Much More

If I’m honest I used Google Chrome when it was in beta before it came out about all the information that it could be leaking back to Google and then I promptly removed it from my system, the trouble with me is I haven’t got anything to hide but I don’t really like people looking [...]

Privacy Twitter and the Courts

The truth is no matter what service you use on the internet they have terms and conditions and in those terms and conditions it will state that they reserve the right to pass on information to the law enforcement agencies when they are requested if the situation warrants it. Now with the latest privacy and [...]