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Reseller Web Hosting Options

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts, News Bytes

There have been a few developments recently in reseller hosting that focus the spotlight on some of the differences between different resellers and their approaches. Here are three resellers that have quite different approaches, but all offer solid products and services if you line up with the right one for your needs.
First on our list [...]



Google Launches Chrome Browser

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

In yet another salvo across the bow of Microsoft, Google has launched its own web browser. The new product is open source and was actually released somewhat prematurely due to the release of an online comic book which Google created to explain the reasoning and features behind the new browser.
The Google browser is named ‘Chrome’ [...]



What is the world coming to?

May 28th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, News Bytes, Off Topic

I find that just when I think I have heard it all, I am proven wrong. The Albany County Supreme Court found Dell “deprived customers of technical support that they bought or were eligible for under warranty in several ways, including by requiring people to wait for very long times on the phone, repeatedly transferring [...]



Social Media and Market Branding

Apr 24th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Editors' Choice Awards, Features, In the News, Marketing, News Bytes, Social Media

At the recent Ad-Tech Conference in San Francisco, panelists discussed the impact of social media in aiding companies and their market brand. It has been three years since a poll found that 55% of all companies polled had setup blogging initiatives. Since that time one thing has been proven correct, social media has redefined the [...]



Spam Continues to Grow Across the World

Apr 22nd, 2008 | By Dave | Category: In the News, News Bytes

SophosLabs have put together their quarterly spam report for the first quarter of 2008 and the results have been shocking. After analyzing email from across their global network, Sophos has determined that 23,300 new spam-related sites are created each day. This amounts to a new spam site every three seconds.



So much to do, so little time

Apr 21st, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Future Trends, In the News, Industry Experts, News Bytes

It has been awhile since our last conversation. I had taken a few weeks off to study for my finals, then took a small break visiting California and attending a few conferences and now here I am.
So much has happened, so lets get to it.



Searches, Online Ads, and Web Browsing Becoming More Risky

Feb 20th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: General Information, In the News, News Bytes

A report published by Google shows increasing trends in searches that pointed to malicious content. The report also found that Internet advertising is leading to malware distribution.
Niels Provos, a security engineer at Google, said that since Google began tracking malicious Web pages, more than 3 million unique URLs have attempted to install malware. Google began [...]



Remotely Exploitable Attacks on the Rise

Feb 19th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: General Information, In the News, News Bytes

IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) has released its latest trends report, X-Force 2007 Trend Statistics. The report highlights the many security problems of 2007.
In 2007 only 9% of all Internet content was classified as unwanted content. This is down from 12.5% in 2006. 2007 was also the first year were there was a decrease in [...]



Social Networking is Due for Mergers

Feb 18th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Features, General Information, In the News, News Bytes, Social Media

According to a Forrester Research analyst, the sheer number of ?white label? social networking platforms flooding the market has created a bubble which is due to explode.
The influx of white label social networking platforms is in part due to the social networking marketing hype that exists on the Internet and the ease of deploying these [...]



GYM, Google Yahoo and Microsoft

Feb 14th, 2008 | By Dave | Category: Commentary, Editors' Choice Awards, Features, Future Trends, General Information, Industry Experts, Marketing, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

Three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft account for more than 85% of all searches (based on the Nielson/NetRatings surveys in April and September of 2007). That translates roughly to 6.3 billion searches… a month.
Using search engines is the 2nd highest activity on the Internet, which is why search engine optimization is so essential.