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Cuil, previously Cuill (before it went public), pronounced ‘cool’ launched (properly) on the 27th July. With millions in funding they’ve managed to create an incredible amount of hype for a search engine not worthy of such attention. Cuil is a new Google competitor that claims to have indexed 121,617,892,992 web pages that they say is [...]
Almost a month ago we reported Google’s reluctance to comply with Californian law (Google’s battle of beauty versus law). The California Online Privacy Protection Act states that a commercial website that collects data about it’s users must, “conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site”. We stated,
“So, it turns out that for five years [...]
It has been over a fortnight since the infamous Firefox Download Day, today we received an email from Mozilla stating that everything has been checked and the record for the most downloads in 24 hours has been officially broken/created. It seems however that the email was slightly delayed and actually it was official yesterday (02 [...]
Today we received an email from Google stating that ‘AdSense Referrals’ is ‘retiring’ from Google’s AdSense service. Something that actually wasn’t completely unexpected. Our experience with it showed us that it was really fairly weak (especially compared to the standard you expect from Google services). It was a sort of ClickBank clone except not just [...]
Maybe we are being a little simplistic here, but a look at the MySpace website shows very little in the way of a ‘redesign’ but instead a new header with a slight ‘web 2.0‘ gradient.
Haikurious summed up the redesign in 5-7-5 syllables (we’ve starred out the bad language, Haikurious seems to have a bit of [...]
Maybe this should have been spread out a little; it seems that it isn’t just us who can’t download the latest edition of Firefox. Even TechCrunch is unable to download Firefox and they are even receiving the old Firefox 2 download page. This reminds us of when Amazon went down, as we are now receiving [...]
Mozilla Firefox announced it would be aiming to break the world record for most software downloads in 24 hours back on May 28th.
In just one minute (better hurry up and finish the article, this is literally last minute) the day will commence and Firefox will hope to break the record set by… oh, no one [...]
Grisoft have recently released the latest version of their AVG virus scanner, version 8. Back in December 2007 Grisoft purchased LinkScanner, this tool scans websites before the user has visited them. For example, when the user surfs Google, the tool will scan all results on the page even if you only decide not to visit [...]
Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, will argue that there is a strong correlation between high IQ and lack of religious belief, reports The Times Higher Education.
Lynn picks up on certain issues such as IQ development when moving out of childhood. Most children believe in God, but as a child [...]
A survey of 1,000 office staff has found that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace, reports Vulnet. The study by Telindus showed that 39 percent of 18 to 24 year olds would be prone to leaving their job if Facebook was to be [...]