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Category: Technology

  • Bloggade 2013: the nuts and bolts of blogging and WordPress

    Have you ever wondered what goes on at a data centre, perhaps one that hosts your website or blog? If that’s a question you’ve asked before, then here’s your chance to get the answer. A tour of a state-of-the-art UK…

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  • The magic of Google

    I bought a belt yesterday from Marks and Spencer‘s online store. A pretty routine activity – online shopping is indeed pretty routine these days – where I chose the item, authorized the payment and will see my purchase sometime today.…

  • The Sun’s ‘walled content garden’ brings together print and digital

    Today, The Sun newspaper becomes the latest national mainstream medium in the UK to erect a barrier to its content on the web where access to that content is only available now if you pay £2 per week. Switchover to…

  • The mobile internet tipping point in China

    It seems pretty clear that smartphone growth and usage in China are in high-speed mode. Recent research like IDC’s 2013 Q1 China Mobile Phone Quarterly Tracker talks up the growth trend, suggesting that smartphone shipments in China will grow 6…

  • What’s in a name?

    A service I’ve used since the mid 00s is YouSendIt, the freemium file-sharing service you use to send large files to people. It’s been a perfect tool over the years, especially in the days  when ‘large files’ typically meant anything…