Category Archives: Internet

UK Online retail market is worth £100 billion per year

A new study has highlighted the importance of embracing e-commerce for UK firms, and alluded to the benefits of reliable web hosting. Research commissioned by search engine provider Google indicates that online business is worth £100 billion per year to … Continue reading

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Beta of Microsoft’s Free Website Development Tool WebMatrix Launched

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) has released WebMatrix beta 2, the latest version of the free tool for creating new sites, by either writing the code themselves, or by using existing, free, open-source software applications. WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web … Continue reading

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WordPress 3 – The Best CMS

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems in the world, if not the most popular, with tens of thousands of devout users and hundreds of new people joining the community each month. If you have been looking … Continue reading

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Microsoft Releases Latest Evolution of Communications Server

Microsoft has announced the release candidate of Microsoft Lync, the latest version of its unified communications software, providing advances in video and audio conferencing, application and desktop sharing, instant messaging, and telephony. According to Microsoft’s announcement, the Lync family of products … Continue reading

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Slow Broadband in India, courtesy FUP

What is Fair Use Policy? You may have noticed that, though your Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offers “unlimited” downloads, usage is subject to a “fair usage policy” and wondered what was going on. Essentially, fair usage policies limit the usage … Continue reading

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Google Instant – Speeding up the search with instant results

Google Inc’s search engine now displays results before users finish typing. The new technology dubbed Google Instant can shave two seconds to five seconds off every Internet search Google said on Wednesday and could entice users to search more on … Continue reading

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Use Google DNS to Speed Up Your Internet!

In Dec 2009, Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google’s infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down browsing. Google Public … Continue reading

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