A collation of tips and tricks to help you on your Internet start up venture!   After blogging about  the dot.com bubble a few months ago on Cashzilla , I thought that it would be good to follow up on Nerd Insider with a guide or so to speak on what it takes to carry [...]

People have been banging on about 4G and VoIP for ages, they were both meant to be the next big thing… ages ago. Ok, so VoIP is kind of popular; people do make pure voice calls with applications like Skype. However, the uptake really hasn’t been that impressive. But 4G? Where on earth is it? [...]

by Luisa Mateus Could you go for a whole week without using ANY Google services? Nerd Insider challenged Google-addict Luisa to do just that…over Christmas and New Year. First, a little backstory… When I first met Google, I was about eighteen. I’d been using Lycos for ages – mainly because I liked the idea of [...]

In the last few days we’ve read some pretty impacting news related to Twitter and censorship.  The social media site has announced in its blog that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets based on the country of origin of the user. The other news is that two UK tourists were turned back [...]

Networks are something we make use of every day but very few people know exactly how they work or how they can be used for personal or business use. Today I’m peeling back the layers and helping you get to grips with networks… Networks Watch this video below to help you understand networks and how [...]

This month, Google will be introducing a number of different products and services attached to their social network, Google+.  According to Google themselves, the network which was launched in June last year already has over 80 million worldwide users, with 60 percent using the network on a daily basis. Obviously this isn’t a speck of [...]

Yesterday saw the file sharing site Megaupload being taken down by FBI. With the founder and several company officials facing charges facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content. Megaupload is also being accused of costing copyright holders $500 million in lost revenue. Despite Megaupload being based in Hong Kong they were leasing [...]

Although your bank has an obligation to safeguard all your personal financial details, there are constant security threats that can affect your bank account.  Online banking is convenient and can save a lot of time in your transactions, on the other hand, illegal access to bank accounts is one of the fastest growing crimes nowadays. [...]

It’s quite amazing to think that this September will mark the 30th anniversary of the first use of the smiley face emoticon on the internet. In September 1982 Scott Fahlman, of Carnegie Mallon University proposed that the symbol :-) be used to signify a joke in online message boards and the symbol :-( be used [...]

So I comes into work this morning, and I find a strange thing has happened to the internet. Some of my favourite sites, like Reddit and Wikipedia, have gone down. But this isn’t a technical glitch – this is a form of protest that we have never seen before online. It turns out that the [...]