Where did our tech come from?
We all use computers, everyday we take for granted the amazing capabilities of our desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones but where did it all begin? Did you know, for example the first programmer was a woman? Or the first ever computer game was programmed in England?
Here is a very condensed history of the computer with some very interesting video footage thrown in. Continue reading
Christmas is possibly the most important time for small businesses, it’s when the majority of the year’s hard work is done and when a large chunk of the year’s income is earned.
Planning now can make the difference between plain sailing and stormy seas so let’s have a quick look at the important things to do.
The date to start with is the last order date. Continue reading
Update your website with latest trends.
This year has seen many new trends in website design, the updates in CSS3, JavaScript and Jquery along with some innovative designers and coders have seen sites get more engaging for the user. The sites that make use of social media to encourage their users to spread the word about their fantastic new websites will no doubt have benefited from increased awareness and sales as a result. Continue reading
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
SEO tips from HighersitesGroup.Com
“INTEGRATE FACEBOOK ‘LIKE’ AND GOOGLE ‘+1’ BUTTONS INTO YOUR SITE”
Google +1 is here, and it’s huge, but that fact has nothing to do with evaluating Google+ as a social network. Google has a billion people per month who search on their site. All of those results, paid and organic, are now able to be combined by Google with what we call “social endorsements”, otherwise known as those little pictures of your “friends” and an endorsement that they have‘liked’ or ‘+1’d’ some piece of content.
This months humour is still one of the funniest sketches relating to technology on the internet.
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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