Monday, July 26, 2010 (50 reads) As much as many massive media companies despise file sharing technology some of the biggest Internet brands have declared their love for BitTorrent in recent months. Both Facebook and Twitter are using BitTorrent to update their networks and not without success. In Twitter's new setup the BitTorrent-powered system has made their server deployment 75 times faster than before. |
Monday, July 26, 2010 (53 reads) Ebooks are now the mainstream, and for the first time are consistently outselling their paper siblings according to Amazon.com. Amazon sells E-Books at a rate of 143:100. Kindle sales have tripled, however readers don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books, however. |
Monday, July 26, 2010 (48 reads) Westfield has bitten the bullet and is planning an online attack on Ebay. The shopping-centre giant's cyber-mall plan comes 10 years after it turned its back on the internet. Apparently this little Ebay-internet thing that probably would never take off is worth a few billion more than Westfield |
Thursday, May 20, 2010 (102 reads) Twitter announced last month that it will start showing sponsored tweets on some search results. Twitter must be testing the water with a cautious toe dip into how advertising can be implemented into the 4 year old startups business model. |
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 (91 reads) IE8 claims to have the latest state of the art security features such as smart screen filters, in private mode and cross site scripting all needed to help counter potential online threats. Which version of IE are you using?
View IE8’s latest campaign, showing you why you should upgrade. If you need any help the Digicon team are happy to help. |
Friday, April 09, 2010 (10 reads) Quite a few of our clients have or have been running email campaigns with landing pages. Landing pages can make or break a campaign and if done incorrectly will have wasted both time and money.
In a recent article about landing pages an organisation called Silverpop examined 14 elements of how landing pages can kill email campaigns. |
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 (128 reads) If you are worried who uses personal information you add to Facebook, you should get ready to change your privacy settings... again! |
Friday, March 26, 2010 (132 reads) Two in five BlackBerry owners plan to swap their current device for an iPhone when it's time to upgrade, suggesting that RIM isn't keeping up with consumer demand compared to competitors such as iPhone and Android. |
Thursday, March 25, 2010 (128 reads) American spooks set out to destroy Wikileaks by intimidating its sources. They cite as justification for this the fact that Wikileaks has outed American embarrassments and crimes. |
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (117 reads) Facebook was the most visited site in the U.S. last week, knocking Google out of the #1 spot for the first time. |
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (120 reads) This week Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9 and it provides a good glimpse into what we can expect from IE9: a complete reboot. |
Monday, March 22, 2010 (34 reads) Google has effectively shut down its Chinese search engine and is directing users to an uncensored version |
Monday, March 15, 2010 (61 reads) THE internet is celebrating a special landmark this month - the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom name was registered. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Computer Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with the address "Symbolics.com". |
Monday, February 01, 2010 (107 reads) If you haven't heard CommSec copped a $55,000 fine for breaching the Spam Act. There have been reports of much larger penalities thrown at shonky operators lately however this is the first time this year a business we all know has been fined.
In the simplest terms under the Spam Act every person has the right to unsubscribe from receiving commercial electronic messages and to have that request acted on effectively and quickly. |