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Google domination of the UK browser market at a 5 year low
Jan 22, 2013 By ClareBut as Google still manages to attract nearly 90% of web search traffic in the UK, their position of no. 1 is not threatened. The Google search engine still dominates the market and James Murray, digital insight manager at analytical Experian Marketing Services says “There are seven times...
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Windows 8 devices offered to UK schools at discount
Nov 8, 2012 By ClareThe IT company Microsoft had announced that they will be offering discount Windows 8 PCs and tablets to schoolchildren and teachers for personal use. They are offering 30% off to government- funded schools for Intel based laptops and tables from Asus, Acer and RM Education. This is part of...
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Google maps to add coral reefs to Street View
Sep 26, 2012 By ClareGoogle, the IT company responsible for the popular web browser has stated that it is going to add images from, the coral reef to its street maps. The cameras were attached to a submersible and Google’s engineers provided the technical IT support for the project. The camera itself was...
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Security conscious business workers forget crucial aspects of internal policy
Aug 16, 2012 By ClareA large number of security conscious workers have been fooled into thinking that a good on-line IT security policy is enough to ensure their confidential work is kept private. In a recent study, it has been revealed that more than 70% of the surveyed employees admitted to reading private...
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Broadband speeds in the UK have more than doubled over the past four years
Aug 15, 2012 By ClareOfcom has said that the increase in speed has been the result of overall improvements to networks to enable such connections were benefitting those on less extravagant contracts as well as people taking advantage of the superfast broadband speeds now available or the ISPs. This has meant that...
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The IPv4 replacement to respond to IP address exhaustion
May 16, 2012 By ClareIPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is new the version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It was designed as a replacement for the current version, IPv4 that has been in use since 1982 and is in the final stages of exhausting its unallocated address space. The IP address space is managed by the...
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WordPress Ends Support for Internet Explorer 6
May 23, 2011 By ManuelaThe popular IT service WordPress has decided to end IT Support for Internet Explorer 6 because the browser is too old and full of IT security vulnerabilities. Head of user experience Jane Wells on the WordPress said that "It has required increasingly complex code trickery to make the...
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Chrome and Firefox Users Should Turn Off WebGL
May 12, 2011 By ManuelaIT connectivity users that surf the Internet through IT services Firefox and Chrome should turn off a 3D rendering tool in their browsers because of the fact that there is an IT security problem that needs to be solved. When it comes to IT security, businesses should go with IT managed...
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Security of File Hosting Website Really Weak
May 9, 2011 By ManuelaAccording to IT engineers , it seems that online storage IT services don't have the IT security they say they have. Researchers from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and France's Institute Eurecom got some interesting conclusions after looking closely at 100 file hosting...
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Bin Laden Death Brings Scams
May 4, 2011 By ManuelaIt seems that the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has caused a lot of IT security problems to IT connectivity users. Hackers have found a way of affecting Internet surfers by infecting their computers with images of Osama bin Laden's body, according to the Department of Homeland...
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