Digital Book World 2011 predicted that by 2014, ebooks will outsell books in print by 2014. This is only two full years away. The growth of the ereader and availability of digital books has exploded and changed the future, already.
As reading moves to digital plus print buying online, the physical shop can’t survive. […]

A reminder to UK charities with an online presence that we still undertake the research for personalised charity benchmark reports.
The reports compare your site to five competitors from our benchmark against the established tried and tested set of criteria. The criteria get’s updated as the industry adapts to more tools, for instance […]

Last December the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ruled Bell Canada and Telus need not allow small competitors access to their broadband Ethernet infrastructure. The furor is enormous as companies realise that they may be squeezed and priced out of the market as the Telecoms giants are not stopped from domination. Read the […]

Martha Lane Fox managed to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ with Lastminute.com’s success in 2003 but since then, there is hardly an instantly recallable female Internet household name that comes to mind. Sarah Jane Robertson, brought this post to my attention from www.incomediary.com. It lists the top 30 female internet entrepreneurs. He […]

Allow us to point you in the direction of the results of Australian research released towards the end of 2008:

News release from University of Melbourne on study, 25 November 2008
University of Melbourne Green Internet Symposium
Dr Rod Tucker’s ‘excellent and detailed technical analysis’
Briefly highligts of the findings are:
Major contributors to Internet power consumption will be […]

At first we had KB (1000 to the power of 1). So a KB is 1000 bytes.
then MB (1000 to the power of 2; e.g: 1000 x 1000) which is 1,000,000 bytes.
and now GB (1000 to the power of 3) is 1 billion bytes.. but even then it depends if you are talking information […]

Hitwise statistics from their January newsletter reveal today that the BBC’s iPlayer has jumped a massive 1034 spots up to be the 80th most visited site in the UK.
BBC’s iPlayer website, lets browsers look at BBC TV programmes for up to seven days after they have been broadcast.
On Monday the BBC reported that the iPlayer […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, France, and Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”.
This year’s physics Nobel Prize is awarded for the technology independently discovered in 1988 that is […]

Interview with Maz Nadjm from Rareface about Social Networking.

Ever since the advent of the internet, sending software on CD’s has seemed like a dying art. According to the blogosphere, the 95% profit margins on the software sent on these CD’s have been dead for some time already.
If you like grim predictions for the future of software companies who still stick […]