After reviewing Global IT Trends For 2009, it became quite evident that despite the global economic down turn, the future of the IT industry still remains extremely bright. As a matter of fact, forecasts from industry leaders project that IT specialist would be pivotal to the success of businesses this Year. According to the Baseline [...]

Global PC processor manufacturing giant Intel, yesterday- 15th Jan 2009, reported a whopping 90% drop in fourth-quarter profits for 2008, as revenue fell by 23%. The company becomes the latest “hard-hit” casualty of the global recession, which has affected the sales of PCs and consumer electronics worldwide. For 2008, Intel posted revenue of $37.6 billion, [...]

This just in, Sony Ericsson’s has just released the new W715- the mobile device which is “all — and only — about Vodafone”. The new and “exclusive to Vodafone” slider boasts a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, DLNA certified, 120MB memory, quad-band GSM, 900 / 2100 HSDPA, ……… News of its release has been [...]

2008 saw a number of significant changes in IT trends globally, the most distinctive being the rise of social media in 2008. Chris Crum of Web Pro News takes a look at the Year in Social Media. It is quite obvious that there was a lot of activity in the world of social media. There [...]

Okay! It’s official- Ranking as we know it is “DEAD“. The official release of Google’s all new Search Wiki marks the end of Page Ranking as we know it. Basically, Search wiki allows users personalize their search results, meaning- users now have a way to; “customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search [...]

A post on  Wired seems to suggest that blogging is “old-school” and that blogs are not what they used to be a couple of years ago. Paul Boutin’s controversial article begins with some words of advice for intending bloggers; “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got [...]

In a completely bizarre incident- not to mention a huge blow to social networking- a man in the UK has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife over her “status change” on social networking platform Face Book. Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma on 18 february 2008. The couple had [...]

From regular webmasters to SEO professionals, If you do any form of online marketing, then you must have thought about this at some point- Text Ads or Banners? Many schools of thought believe the latter is more effective, seemingly because “colours and moving images are more appealing to the eye than regular text”. I must [...]

There has been long-standing debate over the positives and negatives of the Internet, and its usage. Persistent amongst these debates has been the issue of the effects of the Internet on the human mind. It was confirmed today that- Internet Use Improves Brainpower. This confirmation is from the results of a test conducted by a [...]

In an earlier post, I commented on “Cloud Computing” and its expected changes to the way we …. errr ….. compute? As I began to try to imagine what the future of computing would be like, especially in Africa- specifically West Africa- one troubling issue that comes to mind is the low rate of Internet [...]