Interview with Aidan Walsh
by Brian TurnerIf you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Aidan Walsh is the owner of Seed Design, a professional graphic and web design firm based in the UK, specialising in delivering quality design to small to medium businesses and startup companies. That sounds like a hundred and […]
Interview with Brian Turner
by Brian TurnerBrian Turner is the director of both Britecorp Marketing, and Platinax Internet.
Key to his approach to business is a focus on strong customer care and providing real value for money.
Brian is an internationally known business consultant and SEO.
You’ve established an internet presence, and often promote the internet as a business medium. […]
Interview with Tony Ryan
by Brian TurnerTony Ryan is the director of TWD Hosting, which was setup in 2004 to service the business sector of the hosting / development industry, because we specialise in B2B web solutions we use only the very best technology and servers – Business users demand the very best in both support and uptime, they want solutions […]
Interview with Dave Ashton
by Brian TurnerDave Ashton is the director of Bizal and Contact Foundry.
Contact Foundry is one of the UK’s leading specialist sales support and lead generation companies.
We deliver highly qualified, exclusive prospect profiles and sales leads to our diverse client base across the UK. We can assist companies in many areas of OUTBOUND telesales work including:
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Interview with Roy Troxel
by Brian TurnerRoy Troxel is the editor of the Web Server Times, an online publication for the IT industry.
Roy has been in the IT business for twelve years and started his own company, Cyber-Routes, in 2002. He has a BA from Cornell University and is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW).
The Web Server Times features articles on […]
August 29, 2006
Wikipedia policy change non-event
by Brian Turner
EDIT: This item has been edited & corrected after contact by Wikipedia staff Jimmy Wales and David Gerard.
Original concerns were raised by Bill Thompson of the BBC, that among new proposals for the Wikipedia, included the ability to prevent people making changes to pages that can be immediately seen by visitors, without editorial approval.
That lead […]
Media stupidity - Inscisive to kill SEW
by Brian Turner
As an example of corporate stupidity, Incisive Media are not renewing their contract with Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.
SearchEngineWatch, founded by Danny Sullivan, has been the definitive guide to search engines - latest news, information, and guides - for the past 10 years.
It also developed a huge conference - Search Engine Strategies - which […]
August 28, 2006
eBay cheats on Yahoo! with Google
by Brian Turner
In a remarkable twist, eBay - who had recently partnered with Yahoo! for advertising - has now opened it’s doors to allow an additional advertising partnership with Google.
Previously eBay had signed up to allow Yahoo! to provide exclusive advertising for US markets - the new deal gives Google exclusive advertising right outside of the USA.
Also […]
August 23, 2006
Google Checkout unwelcomed by retailers
by Brian Turner
Google Checkout has seen major retailers drop the product, while others refuse to use it.
Launched at the end of June, Google Checkout marketed itself as a solution that big stores and little stores alike could use.
Retailers such as Levi Strauss, who originally signed up, have since dropped the checkout gateway for unspecified reasons.
However, merchants have […]
AOL sacks staff of data leak
by Brian Turner
AOL has sacked its chief technology officer and two other employees responsible for publishing user data online.
CTO Maureen Govern, whose department oversaw the data release, will leave the company immediately. The researcher and the manager overseeing the research have also apparently been dismissed.
While AOL claimed that no personally identifiable information was made available, researchers have […]
Newspaper media moving online
by Brian Turner
A number of US newspapers have begun dropping staff, as online editions prove more popular than printed copies.
Companies involved include the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times.
The movement is part of a general trend that has already impacted some niche markets, and could see UK newspaper publishers following suit.
A key problem for many publishers […]
August 8, 2006
AOL’s huge data blunder
by Brian Turner
SPECIAL REPORT
AOL have released a big chunk of user data to the internet in a huge blunder.
The data was a record of 20 million searches on the AOL search engine, carried out by 650,000 AOL users over March to May of this year.
The data was provided in the form of a 400+ MB zipped file, […]
August 7, 2006
Google warns on spyware sites
by Brian Turner
Google has joined an initiative, that will warn users if they are about to clickthrough to a website that may attempt to load spyware on their PC.
It means that if Google lists a website known to contain malware that attempts to infect visiting computers, Google will first display a warning page.
It comes as part of […]
August 6, 2006
Anti-virus hits vicars
by Brian Turner
Symantec has been criticised, after a key piece of software used by churches all over the UK was targeted by Norton anti-virus and crippled.
The problem arose as Symantec - the anti-virus firm behind the Norton brand name - had found a file named “vlutils.dll” associted with a keylogging trojan, known as SniperSpy.
Unfortunately for many churches […]
August 4, 2006
Interest rates rise on a weakening economy
by Brian Turner
The Bank of England increased interest rates yesterday by a quarter percent, attempting to put the brakes on an economy overheating with inflation.
The move surprised many analysts, as it was expected that the Bank of England may leave any rate rise decisions until November.
The rise comes at a time when the UK economy continues to […]
August 2, 2006
Google blocks competition - by accident
by Brian Turner
The new Google Toolbar has reportedly been blocking results from other search engines.
The default feature - suggested as perhaps a “bug” - would be a very unwelcome attempt to force users from other search products.
While Microsoft was increasingly perceived as “enemy number 1″ in the 1990’s for oppresive tactics, Google’s own corporate behaviour has been […]
Yahoo! - a week of technical problems
by Brian Turner
Yahoo! have had a week of serious technical problems.
Firstly, Yahoo! updated their search algorithm and introduced a new method of crawling the web for information.
Like Google’s bad data push before them, it seems that the result has been to cripple the Yahoo! Search results and reduce the user experience.
With irrelevant results at the fore, […]
August 1, 2006
NHS IT system online after crash
by Brian Turner
The NHS IT service, which cost billions of pounds, is finally coming back online after a major crash over the weekend.
The computer crash left around 80 NHS Trusts unable to access patients records, including appointments, until today, and around 60 are still to be re-connected later on.
The problem affected trusts in Birmingham and the Black […]