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Just how big is the Internet?

There are over 1.9 billion people Internet users around the World which equates to 5 million terabytes of data on the Internet (one terabyte is roughly 333,333 songs) and even though Google has indexed 200TB of that data it still only equates to 0.004% of the total size.

Should Facebook be the only ones worried by Google+?

Google yesterday announced the launch of the annoyingly named Google+ which has been widely dubbed as a competitor to Facebook. It is a service that allows users to add people (friends) to circles (groups) to which you then share updates, images and videos. I’m not going to go into the ins and outs here but [...]

WiMAX in the wind

The story of how Save9, NYnet, Woodend and the Crown Spa Hotel played a part in bringing Elton John to Scarborough

World IPv6 Day – are you ready for it?

World IPv6 Day is on the 8th June 2011 and many web companies and network providers, including Save9, will be serving web content and testing network traffic using IPv6 standards during a 24-hour test drive.

2010 web predictions- how accurate were we?

At the beginning of 2010 you may remember that I made some web predictions. As the year has come and gone I thought I would be brave and revisit what I predicted to see if any of it came true:

iPad Interference

Princeton and George Washington University (USA) have had to block Apple iPads from accessing their computer networks as the iPad causes interference with other devices using the wireless network.

SEP releases code to the open source community

SEP AG the technology leader for backup and data recovery continues its mission to provide important and useful source code to the open source community. However, the sales and license model from SEP will not change with this release of the SMS and STPD technologies.

An important decade for the Web

As web usage has sky rocketed and the ability for people to create and post different kinds of content quickly and easily, this decade has arguably been one of the most important

2010 web predictions

It has come to that time of year when we start looking forward to the year ahead and excitingly a new decade. There are various commentators out there thinking about what the emerging trends are going to be in 2010, here are my ideas below

Charging for online news – how it can work

It’s finally here. A company has taken the plunge and started charging for online news, it was only a matter of time but will it work? Here’s my two penneth’s (or should that be £5’s) worth.