Tag Archives: Internet

Website owners worldwide are always interested in who visits their website, what they look for and how long they spend there. New research shows however, that more than half the time we are catering content to bot visitors.

A small problem we’ve all faced online at some point is the 404 page. They appear when you type in a URL that doesn’t exist and you’re quite often directed to a cold, plain and ultimately disappointing page that doesn’t provide you with the information you need and makes you feel, well…quite stupid. Many firms are wising up to this, and any company worth its weight in gold will come up with a helpful, and often amusing page, to keep the potential customer engaged.

A quick look at the UN’s ICT Development Index, released earlier this year, will show that almost four out of 10 people are likely to have some kind of internet access. Although that could be hailed as progress, of the most developed countries in terms of internet access and ICT in general, the top 10 are all developed countries, eight of them in Europe.

Google Chrome is getting in on the voice activated search function market with their newest Chrome extension designed to trigger whenever the user says the phrase "Okay Google."

Thanks to Google, business owners will now be able to see all of their business reviews from customers in one place rather than hopping all over the web!

FreedomPop is offering a mobile hotspot with free high speed WiFi access for $39.99. The gadget features 6+ hours of battery life and 2GB of cheap data and is a palm sized gadget.

The enormity of the amount of data people share with complete strangers has once again been made glaringly obvious with ThePresent.co a service that mines public FaceBook data to offer shoppers gift suggestions for their friends and family.

YouTube has some pretty entertaining videos and toons for kids, but then it also has some very kid unfriendly videos too and as a parent it can be very difficult making sure that our kids don't end up watching those videos instead. Now TotLOL offers a more kid friendly environment for video watching.

Twitter made yet another appearance in the news today as they announced that they will now feature custom timelines that can be created based topics, hashtags and more from Tweetdeck.

An announcement today shared that Twitter will begin trading at $26 per share when it goes on sale. This number is lower than some expected but still higher than Twitter's original estimated range.