Email could be wiped out by social networking sites and instant messaging within the next ten years, according to a leading professor. Professor David Zeitlyn from the University of Kent came to the conclusion because of the rise in…
Email could be wiped out by social networking sites and instant messaging within the next ten years, according to a leading professor. Professor David Zeitlyn from the University of Kent came to the conclusion because of the rise in…
Skype’s future has been secured after owners eBay finally sold a large proportion of the company by settling a legal row over rights to the web phone call technology. The online auction giant reached a deal that valued Skype at…
This time next year, disk drives will be a thing of the past; instead, computer users will be pulling in emails, documents, music and photos from the web, and computers will need just a few gigabytes of storage.
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, has created a dual-class share structure to give its owners full control over the company. A number of privately-owned firms, including Google, have introduced a similar structure before becoming publicly listed companies.
Search engine optimization is not a new concept to the world of the internet. In fact, it has been around for as long as the internet has. However, it is a new concept to all new website owners who have…
Firefox 3.6, the latest version of the web browser, which marks its fifth birthday today,should be available by early December.
Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has agreed a deal to buy the mobile advertising firm AdMob. It is paying $750m (£449m) in stock for the firm in a bid to take advantage of opportunities in the booming market…
Google is to launch an application store for Google Wave, its real-time, browser-based collaboration tool. The move will enable developers to write additional software, programs and plug-ins for the online, real-time collaboration tool, which is in beta and has 600,000…
The internet is 40 years old today. Its exact date of birth is not quite certain but the general consensus is that October 29, 1969 was when it really started. On that day, engineer and computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock and…