9/6/2010 1:51:28 PM | 1 Comments "Google bombing" is when links are put in several sites on the internet by a number of people so it leads a particular keyword search combination to a specific site and the site is deluged/swamped (it may crash the site) with hits. They are usually done for mischief or humorous reasons such as to try to disrupt a targeted politician's site.
Victims of this craze include form ...»
9/4/2010 7:47:38 AM | 0 Comments Twitter co-founder Evan Williams announced yesterday that the microblogging service had reached over 145 million users.
Williams made the announcement on , naturally enough, a Twitter post.
He also said that the service now had over 300,000 apps available to access and enhance the Twitter experience.
He did not add if there was one to prevent sports stars from posti ...»
9/2/2010 2:02:39 PM | 4 Comments Leading theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has argued that the idea of God creating the universe is false.
In a new book hitting shelves next week, Hawking argues that there is a new series of theories has convinced him that the idea of a sentient deliberate creator of the universe was redundant. He says in the book :” Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe ...»
9/9/2010 3:22:12 PM | 0 Comments A fungus is threatening to destroy for good an archive of valuable film records in the United Kingdom.
The fungus takes advantage of moist conditions to grow and feast on the film thus rendering them useless. The fungus feeds on a layer of gelatin on the surface of cinematographic film. What the fungus does is form a layer of mould on the film and then produces enzymes which ...»
9/8/2010 2:36:57 PM | 0 Comments By Siyabonga Ntshingila ;
Mark Hurd will be a very well compensated man at his new post at Oracle.
The former Hewlett Packard boss will earn an annual basic wage of $950,000 and is in line for a potential $10 million bonus in the company’s current financial year. Hurd’s recruitment has seen a lawsuit filed by his former employers at Hewlett-Packard who allege he may not b ...»
9/8/2010 11:12:27 AM | 0 Comments By Siyabonga Ntshingila ;
US legal experts say tech giant Hewlett-Packard is unlikely to succeed in its lawsuit to try and prevent former chief executive Mark Hurd from working for rivals Oracle Corp.
HP says in its lawsuit that it would be "impossible” for Hurd to avoid using or disclosing HP’s trade secrets while serving as president at Oracle.
The suit was filed i ...»
9/7/2010 10:58:48 AM | 0 Comments By Siyabonga Ntshingila ;
An online poll in Australia has found that over three quarters of the nation believe that its broadband infrastructure is slowing the country’s growth.
The poll, on broadband comparison website Compare Broadband, asked respondents :” Is Australia's broadband infrastructure holding back the nation's economy?".
While the overwhelming majority r ...»
