Windows browser ballot revealed, rolls out in March
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 19. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The browser ballot screen for European users of XP, Vista and Windows 7 has finally been revealed by Microsoft, and will be rolled out to users across the EU via Windows Update from 1st March.
This comes about because of an anti-trust case instigated by Opera about the ‘unfair’ bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Late [...]
Is a revolution needed in Internet music sales?
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 04. Oct, 2009 | 1 Comment
Every single one of us has been a consumer of music and we’ve all had it in the same format, whether it was on vinyl, CD or as a download. It’s come as sound.
There have been some subtle differences in quality and different artists and companies package it differently, but technology is now available that [...]
How to choose a good domain name
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 08. Jan, 2009 | 0 Comments
A few years ago one of the funniest stories on the internet was of Powergen’s Italian subsidiary that had registered the highly amusing domain name www.powergenitalia.com for their company. I was reminded of this when, last weekend, I made an even more embarrassing discovery.
In this case the South Wales IT supplier ‘Gryphon IT Solutions Ltd’ [...]
Website age ratings ‘an option’ apparently
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 04. Jan, 2009 | 2 Comments
A few days ago the UK culture secretary Andy Burnham announced that the government was looking into new internet safeguards to protect children, apparently, and that movie-style age ratings were being considered as an option. I say apparently because he also said that “some content, such as clips of beheadings, was unacceptable and new standards [...]
Is web anonymity possible..? No!
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 09. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
Last week I posted a video of myself on Facebook showing me doing my 15 minute micro-teach, an important assessed part of my teaching qualification. The video showed myself and my friend John, who was delivering the session with me, teaching vowels to the rest of the people in my class.
I’d deliberately told my classmates [...]
