More Broadband Opinion

  • 25 December 2009

  • Opinion: What's your favourite cultural website?

    We're looking for recommendations of culture-related websites. Which site do you visit to get your fill of art, dance, music, theatre and other highbrow stuff?

  • 23 December 2009

  • Opinion: 2009: The year in Google Doodles

    On Monday Google unveiled its latest Google Doodle, a festive tropical Christmas postcard that overlays the company's logo on its main search page. The company is rolling out a series of additional Christmas Doodles, and is archiving them at this web page.

  • 14 December 2009

  • Opinion: 5 web-centric alternatives to Google Chrome OS

    Despite Google's move into the operating system space with Chrome OS, the idea of a primarily cloud-centric OS is nothing revolutionary; the earliest examples date back to 1999. There have been numerous other attempts at developing web-centric OSes. But so far none have truly broken into the mainstream.

  • 11 December 2009

  • Opinion: Facebook's privacy settings still aren't right

    Facebook's new privacy controls remain a work in progress a full 24 hours after release and months after they were announced. Responding to criticism over making its users' Friends Lists public, Facebook is rolling out a new option that allows users to protect their Friends List from viewing or searching.

  • 10 December 2009

  • Opinion: Google: killing the internet?

    To many people Google is the web: the only search engine worth using that they've ever known. And in line with the 'Don't Be Evil' motto, this has tended been a good thing. (You at the back: note the past tense.) 

  • 03 December 2009

  • Opinion: Bing's cool new search tools: a visual tour

    Microsoft continues to tweak its fledgling Bing search engine, which was launched in June. Today it announced a series of enhancements, many involving Bing Maps, designed to provide a better search experience and hopefully lure people away from Google.

  • Opinion: What's your favourite political website?

    We're looking for your recommendations of politics-related websites - and a selected contributor will win a great prize.

  • 02 December 2009

  • Opinion: What do the top searches of 2009 say about us?

    There's often a chasm between what people say they want and what they really want; TV viewers tell researchers they want more educational programming, then tune into lightweight reality shows. That's what's so fascinating about Top 10 lists from major search engines: the lists don't lie.

  • 24 November 2009

  • Opinion: Man arrested for refusing to use Twitter

    Further proof, if proof were needed, of the fundamental stupidity of social networking, the music industry and the world: a record label executive has been arrested for not using Twitter. Yes, you read that right.

  • 16 November 2009

  • Opinion: Good, clean fun: but what is Twitter for?

    Ask even the most avid Twitter fan to explain the benefits of their obsession, and it will take them considerably more than 140 characters to come to no good answer.

  • 10 November 2009

  • Opinion: Murdoch takes on Google

    Will the internet kill newspapers, and is Google holding the pistol? Rupert Murdoch certainly seems to think so. He's mad as hell, and he's not going to take it any more.

  • 02 November 2009

  • Opinion: Google Chrome: fast browser, slow on the uptake

    The launch of the Google Chrome browser a little over a year ago brought with it a mountain of hype and expectations, with some suggesting it could be as instantly disruptive and beneficial as Gmail was to the webmail market.

  • 29 October 2009

  • Opinion: Happy 40th birthday, the internet

    Why do we today celebrate today - October 29 - as the internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the internet was used for the very first time - and crashed.

  • 26 October 2009

  • Opinion: Web 3.0: the shopping centre web

    If Web 2.0 was the two-way, user generated, cool internet, Web 3.0 will be the era of post-search rationalisation. The shopping centre web. The big brands are taking over.

  • 23 October 2009

  • Opinion: Website aims to stop office tea-round chaos

    When it comes to office life, there's one activity guaranteed to put even the most confident of employees on edge. No, I'm talking about your appraisal, or even the day the big boss comes to visit - I mean the tea-round.

  • 17 October 2009

  • Opinion: YouTube in review: the history, hits and misses

    YouTube has celebrated the third anniversary of its acquisition by Google with the announcement that it's now streaming a full billion video views a day.

  • 16 October 2009

  • Opinion: What's your favourite social introduction website?

    We're looking for recommendations of romantic, dating and social introduction websites. Help us out and you could win a great prize.

  • Opinion: Is Google too big for the internet's good?

    Google is popular. There's probably not an internet user who hasn't accessed its services for search and mapping, and Google has even achieved the distinction of turning its name into a verb. But enormous popularity and global reach place an unexpected burden on the search giant: when it goes down, the entire web is shaken.

  • 13 October 2009

  • Opinion: Slash and Berners-Lee

    The inventor of the worldwide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has revealed in an interview that he wishes he had slashed the double-slash, used in all URLs, in the first place.

  • Opinion: Facebook and its Google-esque social dominance

    New figures reveal that Facebook gets almost 59 percent of US-based web traffic among the top social networks. And Facebook's dominance of social networking is so complete that those figures aren't even shocking.

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