Amazon mint their own coins

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Amazon customers can now use Amazon Coins to purchase apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore and on Kindle Fire. Existing and new Kindle Fire customers in the U.S. have had 500 free Coins—a $5 value—deposited into their Amazon accounts today. For customers, Amazon Coins is an easy way to purchase apps and [...]


Domain Names – 300 new types to choose from

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This year one of the largest changes to the domain name system is about to happen. Up until now there has only been about 20 Generic Top Level Domain’s (gTLD’s). A gTLD is the set of characters at the end of a website Address, after the dot, most commonly .com, .net and .org. There are [...]


10 security tips for WordPress users

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We know our clients love WordPress. It’s a great tool for creating a professional looking website in a quickly and easily. It’s because of the convenience it offers that it is the tool powering over 65 million sites! This success not only demonstrates the appeal of WordPress to site owners but also makes it a [...]


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How dangerous is Twitter?

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There isn’t a corner of public discourse left that Twitter does not touch upon these days. Anything goes, it seems. But just how dangerous can the social networking site be, both to you and your business? Not Everything Is Legal Contrary to popular belief, not everything you do on Twitter is outside the remit of [...]


Crowd Funding – Raising Money Through Social Media

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You may have read news reports about sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo helping people raise money for their businesses, projects and charities. There have certainly been some successful campaigns, from funding medical bills to launching a new games console, but some people find the concept of crowd funding slightly confusing. How does it work, [...]


Pinterest – the new wave in social media

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Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. Since then, the site has grown rapidly to become the 3rd largest social network in the US in March 2012, surpassing Linkedin. Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use [...]


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How to get free dropbox space

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Dropbox is a great web-based file hosting service that uses cloud storage to enable users to store and share files between devices. In addition to the free 2GB of storage that comes with a free account, there are a number of things you can do to obtain further free storage. Here is some options: Take [...]


Top 5 Android Malware Families

Top 5 Android Malware On November 15, the analyst firm Gartner issued a report that cited Google’s Android mobile operating system had reached a global 52.5% smart phone market share, while iOS trailed in third, behind Symbian, with an 18% market share. FortiGuard Labs found interesting the disparity between the amount of malware found on [...]


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Kids know more about the Internet than their parents

Half of parents (48 per cent) with children aged 5-15 who use the internet at home think they know less about the internet than their children do, new Ofcom research published today reveals.  This rises to 70 per cent of parents of 12-15 year olds. At the same time, there has been increased online activity [...]


Google Panda – improving search results

Content farms are one of the biggest problems with the current paradigm of search. A content farm is a site that generates low grade content on commonly searched for content (“how to tune a guitar”, “french past tense”, “how to be more confident”, “interview tips”). They make money from ads, usually horrible ones about weight [...]


Those handy Google hidden features

In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it. • Cached Links View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed it. [...]


Kogan take a web experience to your TV

The Kogan Agora Internet TV Portal: Powered by Android (starting at only £99), Kogan Agora 7” Tablet PC: Powered by Android (starting at £89), and Kogan Agora 12” Laptop (Starting at £219/Standard and £229/Pro) go on sale today, direct from the manufacturer at Kogan.co.uk. All products in the new Agora range are currently for sale [...]


Channel Social Marketing launched

A revolutionary new Social Media solution has been launched – especially for the IT industry. Channel Social Marketing (CSM) is a solution designed to help IT Vendors talk to its Partners and Resellers, promote new products and services, and ultimately boost sales. Marketing agency Connection2 has developed a new CSM solution – a first for [...]


Choosing the Right Web Host and The Right Plan

Everything that you see or watch on the Internet is the result of the content management or the web management done by dedicated web hosts. There are just two options for any one who wants to have their websites live – either self host the website or select a web host. There are pros and [...]