More Internet Opinion

  • 18 September 2009

  • Opinion: Microsoft Bing can beat Google. Here's how

    Microsoft Bing is making progress in its bid to dislodge the reigning search leader, Google. But Bing faces a long, steep road ahead if it's ever going to beat Google. Here's how it can do it.

  • Opinion: What's your favourite price-comparison site?

    We'd like to hear your recommendations of price-comparison websites. Which ones do you use, how effective do you find them and what's the most you reckon you've saved by doing so?

  • 17 September 2009

  • Opinion: Can Google Chrome 3.0 conquer the browser market?

    Google is hoping its newly released Chrome 3.0 browser can shake up the evolving browser market. The browser, unveiled on Tuesday, promises improved performance and a host of new features - but is it all enough to actually win over new users?

  • 16 September 2009

  • Opinion: Search visually, with Bing Visual Search

    If you know what something looks like, but not what it's called - a dog breed, for example - Microsoft's new Bing Visual Search beta is ready and able to help. A picture really can be worth a thousand words.

  • 14 September 2009

  • Opinion: Facebook Lite: Why you'll love it

    The newly launched Facebook Lite looks like being a hit. Reportedly developed for people in countries with slow web connections, the streamlined site proved such a hit with beta testers it was given a general roll-out.

  • 11 September 2009

  • Opinion: Facebook launches Twitter-style @ tags

    Facebook is taking another step toward Twitterfication with the introduction of a new '@'-based tagging system for status updates. The feature, which bears an undeniable resemblance to Twitter's system for referring and linking to other users, was announced in a company blog posting yesterday afternoon.

  • 10 September 2009

  • Opinion: Technology helps us cheat smarter, not harder

    Today's reports that almost two thirds of students copy work from the web fits nicely into the book of: 'Well, yeah'. It was ever thus - only the means of cheating changes.

  • Opinion: Broad-banned

    The promises made by ISPs at the turn of the century that broadband would soon be regarded as no more cutting-edge than running water weren't far off the mark.

  • 02 September 2009

  • Opinion: What went wrong between Skype and eBay?

    The future looked bright in September 2005, when eBay announced it was buying Skype Technologies for $2.6bn. But after four years of unfulfilled expectations, the marriage ended on Tuesday, when eBay said it was unloading Skype for $1.9bn. But what went wrong?

  • 01 September 2009

  • Opinion: Liskula Cohen, and why web anonymity matters

    Over the last few weeks I've spent probably too much time thinking and writing about the Liskula Cohen libel case. It concerns one of my favourite topics: Internet Anonymity vs Privacy vs Personal Responsibility. And how often does an IT blogger get to write about catty supermodels?

  • 26 August 2009

  • Opinion: Yahoo is delusional

    Remember Yahoo? Apparently the company neglected to read my post about how its star has faded, and it isn't yet ready to shut the doors and call it a day. Yahoo still feels it has a trick or two up its sleeve and deserves a seat at the adults' table with Microsoft and Google.

  • 18 August 2009

  • Opinion: Jordan is worst celebrity Tweeter

    Glamour model Jordon has been voted the most annoying celebrity Twitter user, says OnePoll.

  • 12 August 2009

  • Opinion: Aussie techies text-message ALF

    Decades after Roswell allegedly gave house room to an alien and Indiana greeted the arrival of extraterrestrials in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, those curious about what other life forms may exist on other planets are being given the chance to try and make electronic contact.

  • 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?

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