Archive for April, 2009
New Google Products
Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news. A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images. Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically. Alongside these features is a new version [...]
Keeping kids safe on the net
As part of my last job I was required to track down people who had been using their internet connections for bad things, and so I can tell you first hand there are bad people looking to do bad things through the internet. Some alarming statistics: – One in four children who use the Internet [...]
Site Update
I thought it was time for a site update, so here it is. Hope you all like it.
The importance of the internet today
Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic-enough banner “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.” But the first “key finding” from the study [...]