More Broadband Opinion

  • 12 August 2009

  • Opinion: Back from the dead: tr.im lives again. Eh?

    Popular URL-shortening service tr.im announced yesterday that it has restored its service and has reopened its website. After two days. What the..?

  • Opinion: Twitter CEO's wife Tweets birth of child. Ouch

    Sara Morishige Williams, wife of Twitter CEO Evan Williams, yesterday kept her followers updated on the birth of her son.

  • 11 August 2009

  • Opinion: Facebook and FriendFeed: forget about Google

    Speculation that Facebook is on its way to becoming a full-fledged search engine is, well, odd. Merely buying four former top Google engineers when acquiring FriendFeed does not a new search engine make. And it's a bad idea, besides.

  • Opinion: Why Google Caffeine will stop website owners sleeping

    Google is rolling out new "under-the-hood" search technology, codenamed "Caffeine", that could change how your company ranks in its search results.

  • 04 August 2009

  • Opinion: Lies, damn lies and browser market share

    Following Mozilla's announcement that its Firefox web browser has reached one billion downloads, some analysts are claiming Firefox controls 32 percent of the browser market. Well, perhaps. But the methods used to calculate market share for web browsers are dubious, and their results frequently biased.

  • 03 August 2009

  • Opinion: Does technology make us lonely? Anybody? Hello..?

    Full disclosure: I am one of the 300,000 or so members of the PC Advisor forum (we're bigger than Slough), so I'm an unlikely opponent of online social networks. Even so, I know this: in suggesting that social-networking websites undermine communities, Archbishop Vincent Nichols is talking out of his cassock.

  • Opinion: Firefox hits 1 billion downloads - what now?

    Mozilla's Firefox web browser has just hit a new milestone, reaching its 1 billionth user download, according to the company's official download counter. Where next for Firefox - and for the internet browser market?

  • 30 July 2009

  • Opinion: RIP Yahoo Search

    Goodbye Yahoo Search, and thanks for the memories. The partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo, announced on Tuesday, will mark the end of Yahoo Search.

  • 29 July 2009

  • Opinion: Microsoft/Yahoo: No threat to Google

    As the tech world awaits an announcement from Yahoo and Microsoft on their web search and advertising partnership, I'm wondering how such a partnership can achieve its ultimate goal - loosening Google's stranglehold on the highly lucrative internet search market.

  • 28 July 2009

  • Opinion: Broadband speed bores again

    Every few weeks the media awakes to the fact that broadband speeds don't always (ok, never) match up to the claims made by the telecoms suppliers.

  • 22 July 2009

  • Opinion: Google 'mythbusters' tackle YouTube criticism

    Google is doing a little image control this week, trying to deflect criticisms of YouTube, its wildly popular video site. Google is fighting back against questions about the site's finances and the quality of videos available on the site.

  • 17 July 2009

  • Opinion: Internet addiction: from hoax to epidemic

    How often do you tell your kids they don't know how lucky they are? Do you say things like: "When I was young we didn't have no dang fool intertubes and online games?" and then force them to go outside and do something? Could it be that your kids have Internet Addiction Disorder?

  • 16 July 2009

  • Opinion: Google Chrome tips: show home page at startup

    Google's Chrome browser? Not a fan. Though it does seem faster than my beloved Firefox, there are several things I don't like about the interface. Here's how to fix one of the most common complaints.

  • 15 July 2009

  • Opinion: US airline learns power of viral anti-marketing

    US airline United Air Lines has learned the hard way that you shouldn't annoy web-savvy rock musicians. Besides being genuinely funny, the YouTube video 'United Breaks Guitars' is a great example of viral revenge - the flip side of viral marketing.

  • 10 July 2009

  • Opinion: What's your favourite job website?

    We're looking for recommendations of job websites. Job search sites, CV directories, professional social networks - what's the best one out there?

  • 09 July 2009

  • Opinion: Phorm's just desserts and the future of the web

    Phorm's Webwise online advert-targeting service, something for which the term 'controversy-dogged' could have been invented, experienced two major setbacks this week, finding itself dropped by the ISPs BT and TalkTalk.

  • 07 July 2009

  • Opinion: Twitter hit by gorilla attack and PR onslaught

    This weekend saw two big news stories in which Twitter proved vulnerable to exploitation by unsavoury characters. And I'm not sure which was more disturbing.

  • 04 July 2009

  • Opinion: Firefox 3.5 can learn from its rivals

    Mozilla is shaking up the web-browser world with Firefox 3.5 and its support for new web standards. But it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability by learning from its rivals.

  • 03 July 2009

  • Opinion: Facebook causes cancer, and other myths

    There's nothing like a good, eye-catching headline. Such as 'Facebook causes cancer'. If that were true it would be pretty alarming. Fortunately, it's not.

  • 01 July 2009

  • Opinion: Firefox 3.6: a sneak preview

    While most of the tech world is busy getting to know Firefox 3.5, which incorporates significant speed increases and a host of added features, Mozilla's engineers are already deep into their next big project: the tentatively numbered Firefox 3.6, codename Namoroka.

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