March 29, 2013 4:42 pm
140 characters for your thoughts: welcome to twitter. Twitter began as a system of mobile phone text messages linking up to a larger internet network. On early mobile phones, 140 characters was the maximum limit allowed for a single text; hence, twitter’s character limit was set at this figure. So surely [...]
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March 15, 2013 9:00 pm
Oh yes, it was time for the Lord to buy me a Porsche, well, not the Lord, but myself. Not because all my friends drive Porsche I hasten to add, but simply because I think I deserve a Porsche. A bright red 911 – everyman’s wet dream (including mine) – [...]
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December 6, 2012 6:00 pm
The 2012 Formula One season gave us eight different Grand Prix winners driving for six different teams, and a season long duel for the title crown between Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel. How will the season be remembered? In this feature, we pick the best, most memorable and worst moments [...]
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September 22, 2012 5:40 pm
Everyone with a website these days knows the importance of SEO – Search Engine Optimisation. However, often people forget about SEO content, focusing instead on all the link building and meta-tags, and every other service the companies sell you. This is all well and good; to create a successful website, [...]
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July 28, 2012 5:00 pm
Facebook and YouTube. Both of them currently dominate their areas of purpose. While Facebook appears to dominate the arena of social networking sites with 901 million users since April 2012, and YouTube, which is currently the most common site for people to share their videos, averaging at 1,200,000,000 views per [...]
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July 26, 2012 6:00 pm
Awww! Those poor boys who sexually assaulted an unconscious girl at a party and then posted images of the assault on the internet have had their names publicly released? What a shame? How unfair! They made her life a misery living in shame and humiliation, but our hearts go out [...]
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July 24, 2012 9:30 am
Search engine Google has offered to settle an ongoing antitrust investigation by the European Commission in an attempt to end possible proceedings against the web giant. Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, has sent a letter to European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, expressing his hope that a deal could prevent a fully-fledged and [...]
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July 21, 2012 11:27 am
The Netherlands passed a law in 2011 which prevents internet service providers from charging more for certain types of content, effectively making ‘network neutrality’ the norm. The Netherlands is the first country in Europe to enact such legislation and follows the lead of Chile, who enshrined the principle into law [...]
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