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How fewer keywords might soon be the key You’ll doubtless have seen e-commerce web site design that hammers the same key words and phrases repeatedly in an attempt to attract the attention of search engines – known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in the business. While machines may find this enticing, it doesn’t make great reading for we humans. But ...

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The World-Wide Web Consortium unveiled a new logo for HTML 5 a few days ago now.

The topic of HTML5 has been one of great debate and no small amount of confusion over the past year or so. With the ardent support of companies such as Google and a great deal of enthusiasm from developers in all areas of work, HTML5 has taken its place in popular conversation as the magic-bullet antidote for everything that’s wrong with web development.

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  Most of you will be aware of the “Ecommerce development” we produced for one of our longstanding customers Mymemory to produce a class leading photo product website. The site’s been live for just over 2 months and it was now time for some of the team to go over and check that all systems were running fine. The project ...

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Victorinox Secure SSD—the world’s smallest 265GB solid-state drive, the Secure SSD includes a Swiss Army Knife and offers secure data encryption, in addition to delivering superior read and write speed when compared with other high memory USB drives. Additional features include: BistableLCD/e-Paper, Graphic display, 96 x 48 Pixel Monochrome; option to personalize text on the display, dynamic power management, 32 ...

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Sure those two ultra-slim MacBook Airs are sexy, but the most important part of Apple CEO Steve Job’s “Back to the Mac” presentation came minutes before, when the Apple CEO unveiled the Mac App Store the first-ever App Store for desktop and laptop computers. I could almost hear the collective groan from software vendors and a certain company in Redmond. ...

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GAIN Fitness, a web based personal fitness service built by a team that includes two former Googlers, has launched in early Alpha mode to the public today. The service aims to help users make the most of the limited time to exercise, by recommending personalized workouts built from a list of 400 exercises and based on a user’s goals and ...

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In a shocking report from Hitwise, it is now clear that Facebook was the most visited site on the internet in the US for 2010, beating Google out of its crown. In 2010, Facebook accumulated some 8.93% of site visits online, while Google secured just 7.19%. However, YouTube took in 3.52%, and so if you combine Google properties they are in aggregate ...

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Apple’s Mac Store software download shop will go live on 6 January – the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), no less.  Apple has a habit of overshadowing the world’s largest consumer electronics show with events of its own. It’s not so long since the Las Vegas-hosted event was abuzz with talk of the iPhone, then just announced ...

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The continued growth in cloud adoption may radically change netbook adoption rates. “As more organizations explore a virtualized desktop and cloud-based productivity options, the netbook could be an interesting conduit to a world featuring ‘Everything as a Service’ — providing traditional I/O to enable productivity tasks, but at a lower-cost, more portable profile,” explained Deloitte analyst William Briggs. Trends have ...

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Apple has launched its 12 days of Christmas promotion in the UK, an iTunes offer where Apple gives away a different free download each day. The download can be a song, music video, app, book, TV episode or even a complete film. The promotion starts on December 26th and runs for 12 days. Each free gift will only be available ...

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Whilst shopping online this summer, Clarabelle Rodriguez came across a website called “DecorMyEyes.com”, where she found her dream pair of sunglasses and proceeded to place an order. The site came across to be high end, and was listed at the top of her google search. Ms. Rodriguez placed an order for both the Lafonts and a set of doctor-prescribed Ciba Vision contact ...

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Damon Albarn has hinted that a new Gorillaz record was on the horizon — but now there are definitive details of the release, which the band wrote and recorded entirely on an iPad. Albarn and his cartoon gang will drop a new record on Christmas morning and in the true gift-giving spirit of the holiday, they’re offering it up Radiohead-style: for ...

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