Where do we stand when it comes to SOPA? “When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people.” -Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Most of you will now be aware that on 26th October 2011, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, … Read more
SEO Mistakes It’s all well and good creating great content and optimizing your website to gain traffic and sales. The problem is, nowadays people put so much emphasis on optimization they tend to overlook common mistakes which can make their S.E.O efforts futile. SEO Mistakes #1: Not Optimized For The Reader May 2011 marked a notable change in the … Read more
Virtual Machine seller VMWare’s annual VMWorld conference kicked off today in Las Vegas, Nevada, and now there is significant buzz coming from the event. Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com last month has led expanding the availability of CloudStack, Cloud.com’s IaaS platform which is now assisting users with virtualized data center management. This clever business move allows their new … Read more
Recently hackers breached Australian hosting company Distribute.IT and have left 4,800 sites likely unrecoverable, the company stated on Tuesday. During the security exploit the hackers were able to access the hosting company’s four main servers. In a statement on the company’s website, Distribute.IT stated: “While every effort will be made to continue to gain access … Read more
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently approved a measure that will allow entities to apply for custom site domain suffixes or gTLD’s. Domain suffixes refer to .com, .org, .net, etc. With the approval, entities will now be allowed to apply for almost any name to use as a domain suffix … Read more
We posted recently about the finalists for the Observer Ethical Awards 2011, the paper’s sixth annual awards aimed at recognising and rewarding businesses who are “putting the environment first” across a number of different categories including Local Retailer, Online Retailer, Big Idea, and Ethical Blog. So, who won? In the Local Retailer category, The People’s … Read more
Well known research company, Pew Research Center recently found some interesting results when looking into habits of social networks website users. To get their results, Pew surveyed over 2,000 adult participants. Overall, Pew found that 32% of social site users are between the ages of 23 and 35, 16% are between 18 and 22, 26% … Read more
According to a new survey by technology firm Ovum (part of research group Datamonitor), an increasing number of Chief Information Officers are now deploying green technologies – such as green hosting – within their organisations. The survey revealed that almost three quarters of CIOs interviewed had already deployed some sort of green IT within their … Read more
Most small businesses know that properly executed SEO can make a big difference to their website traffic, even if they do not have the advertising spend to support it with paid PPC. However, budgets for web design changes are often small, so it is important to get the principles right. A new SEO report from … Read more
Pivotal Are Web Designers in Norwich Having been working with our clients for over the last decade from all over the world. Pivotal Hosting (formerly Dilate Design) have decided to make a push for local business. With great client feedback for web design Norwich, Pivotal are here to serve you. Just have a look at … Read more