Dr Brooke Magnanti, aka Belle du Jour

Blogging is good for you and your business

Dr Brooke Magnanti is a scientist who you might know better as “Belle du Jour“, the £300-an-hour prostitute who wrote such a famous blog it was converted into the TV series, “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” starring Billie Piper. Dr Magnanti was finally “uncovered” in 2009, some six years …

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The Internet - concept

What would Google do?

Google UK head of mobile advertising, Simon Morgan, considers the most significant developments in the field of m-commerce and crunches the mobile numbers Over the past year we’ve seen smartphones overtake PC sales for the first time. The number of people on the mobile web globally has doubled, reaching one …

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The mobile VOIP market set to grow by almost 18% says new report

Visiongain’s latest management report “Mobile VoIP: Opportunities and Challenges Report 2011” offers in-depth analysis of all the latest developments in the nascent VOIP market. This brand new report provides forecasts of growth, market sizing and analysis for the key regional markets from 2011-2016. The report gives an insight into the …

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Connecting with the digital brain

Five Psychological Tips for Websites

Getting people to engage with your website and to click on anything is an ever increasing problem. The number of available web pages is rising dramatically – 40 new websites are created every single minute of each day. And together with the existing websites (all 260 million of them) Google …

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BBC Radio Newcastle

Just been on BBC Radio Newcastle talking about “Internet trolls” – the people who say negative things on other people’s social networking sites.

Fasthosts Warns Small Firms Not to Spam Their Customers

Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider, has warned UK businesses not to spam their customers with unsolicited newsletters and marketing emails. Over the past year, the company has seen an 88 per cent rise in the number of spam reports it has received, most commonly where consumers have …

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1&1 Extends Hosting Portfolio

1&1 Internet Ltd., www.1and1.co.uk, a global leader amongst Web hosts, has launched an optimised product portfolio for the British market.  1&1’s new Business hosting package, provides unrestricted use of its professional hosting at an affordable price.  Furthermore, 1&1’s Dynamic Cloud Servers have been enhanced with additional features. With the new …

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eCommerce Awards for Excellence announce 2011 finalists

Over 40 of the UK’s most innovative and successful ecommerce companies have been announced today as finalists for the third annual eCommerce Awards for Excellence, the only awards of their kind in the UK. The number and quality of entries for this year’s awards have been exceptionally high, and after …

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