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If you are retailer and want to build your brand, social networks are where you need to be, says IDC in a new report. According to it, Web 2.0 is creating opportunities for competitive advantage with the top 10 social networks having over 1.3 billion members. Yes, there's plenty of people who live on more than one network but that's
The UK's Performing Rights Society (PRS) announced their financial results for 2009 today and for the first time, the growth in royalties from on-line music exceeded the fall in revenue from the sales of CDs and DVDs. The PRS reports that on-line revenues in 2009 grew to a little over £30m, which was an increase of just under £13m, but
If the electronics industry has anything to do with it 2010 will be the year that the e-book finally gets off the ground. They've been kicking around for years - I remember reading stuff from Peanut Press on my Palm III back in the '90s. Anyway, this isn't going to be about e-books and their rise, but rather about a study
Over the years of GNC, I've heard Todd rail on about broadband bandwidth caps and while I've enjoyed his rants, it's been low priority topic for me. Why? Because I think I'm a power user with a good selection of podcasts, a fair bit of online TV viewing, some (legal) music downloads. However, in a single month, I have never got anywhere
Late last week Palm pushed out an upgrade to its WebOS operating system for the Palm Pre and Pixi phones, taking them to version 1.4. In the past few weeks, Palm has taken a fair amount of flak, primarily from analysts but also from users. Its performance in Europe hasn't exactly been stellar though it seems to have done well
At TED 2010, Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures Laboratory showed off its Photonic Fence proof of concept. Basically, this is a very capable mosquito killer, which uses lasers to shoot the wee monsters out of the sky at up to 100 times a second. The concept is targetted (sorry) for malarial regions, potentially hospitals or schools, and the technology is able to tell the
The Mitre Corp has produced the 2010 CWE / SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors which identifies the most commonly encountered coding errors that can potentially lead to web sites being hacked or PCs being compromised. Some of the errors are well-publicised in the technical press, e.g. "cross-site scripting"; some are downright stupid, e.g. "use of hard-coded credentials" and others