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It appears that the famous Gtalk which is run by Google is experiencing an outage across the world this morning. Reports are flooding in across social networking sites informing us that G Talk has been taken down in the last couple of hours. This must be a huge embarrassment for search engine giant…

We decided that as the Olympic Torch was coming through our home town – we would close up for a hour and go and see it in the flesh. The weather turned a bit sour, but as we ventured into the town centre the rain turned to sun and we…

One of the many services we offer is software and app development – and it seems that so far this year its all that people seem to be asking us for! So far this year we have developed; Bespoke Energy Billing Software Bespoke Adobe Air Video Player Bespoke CRM Software…

We’ve been using Opencart for a number of large online shop’s recently, its much more scalable and has much cleaner code than other shopping cart packages available. There are a number of things it does so much better than the rest, stuff like different pricing groups, one page checkout etc.…

Twitter have claimed that they now have over 100 million active users. The statistics – which confirm Twitter’s place as the “second” social network, behind Facebook – show that they actually have around 200 million registered users, however only half of those are active, but around half of that 100…

Registration has officially opened for the chance to secure your website one of the brand new .xxx domain suffixes which go live next year. The .xxx domain has been created with the intention of building a so called ‘red light district’ of the internet, where websites with adult content can…

Yahoo’s chief executive Carol Bartz has been fired from her position at the company after two and a half years in charge. Back in 2009 Ms Bartz took over from one of the companies founders Jerry Yang, in an attempt to turn around its falling fortunes as it continually lost ground in…

Search engine, and now many other things, giant Google has closed 10 of its services in what has been described as a ‘Spring Clean’. These discontinued services are to include social powered question and answer tool ‘Aardvark’, news content experiment ‘Fast Flip’ and note taking service ‘Notebook’. This is being…

Since its release at the end of June, Google+ has had a fantastic start to life, managing to gain 25million users in its first month – rather impressive when biggest rival Facebook took 10 months to reach 1million – however, new statistics from Experian Hitwise has shown that some of…

Social networking giant Facebook has paid out around $40,000 (£25,000) in the first 21 days of its ‘bug bounty program’. The aim of the program is to encourage users to help harden Facebook’s defences against attacks, by rewarding those who discover and report security bugs within the website. The program…