Category Archives: Technology

Has Google got it wrong?

Google’s results have recently sent SEO-ers a little bit crazy, with many online businesses seeing their rankings go either down or up the ranking results with no apparent reason.
This has finally been explained by google who have informed us that they have released a new search algorithm that affects about 90% of searches.

This new update named hummingbird has apparently been in place for about a month and appears to be leaving the smaller online companies fighting to retain their position as the larger companies seem to be getting preferential treatment. Continue reading →

Happy birthday!! Mobile Phone calls hits 40 years old

Believe it or not the first ever mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973.

A senior engineer named Marty Cooper at Motorola called a colleague at a rival telecommunications firm and announced he was calling from a “real cellular telephone”

The DynaTAC 8000x was slightly bigger than today’s tech; it weighed 2.5 pounds, measured 10 inches long, and was soon nicknamed “the brick”, the battery lasted a mere 20 minutes and took 10 hours to charge. His Inspiration was star trek captain kirks flip up communicator.

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US Military to install Laser Turrets on Bombers and Fighters

What has previously been a thing of science fiction, the US military are going to install solid-state lasers into combat aeroplanes. The lasers are designed to protect the aircraft by shooting incoming threats such as surface-to-air missiles.

http://gizmodo.com/5978740/us-military-to-install-laser-turrets-in-combat-airplanes

2013 – The year of responsive web design

With tablet sales expected to exceed 100 million this year, media companies are seeing a huge move towards mobile traffic. Responsive web design is the most popular way to accommodate this change allowing users to access the one website on various devices.

http://mashable.com/2012/12/11/responsive-web-design/