Is Buzz good for business?

In the week since Google Buzz started hitting people’s Google Mail accounts much has happened, and there has been a veritable avalanche of opinion. It’s all very confusing to those who aren’t that interested in the finer technical details. But if you’re sitting there wondering whether Buzz is something you need to incorporate into your online marketing efforts, then...

IE6 RIP

If you know anything about web design, then you will know that one of the major bugbears of any web designer is coping with the multitude of browsers that proliferate on t’internet. There are 4 or 5 major players, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox (our favourite here at Four Lakes HQ), Safari (the de faco Mac option), Opera (with a small but oh so determined following)...

Mobile Broadband Devices

All the statistics and studies suggest that mobile broadband is experiencing a period of unrelenting growth. Across the UK and Europe the popularity of mobile broadband devices and the connectivity options they afford is booming and the market is expected to double by 2011, with 43 million people getting online via mobile broadband around Europe in the future. In the UK the cost of mobile...

Google Nexus One

On Jan 5th, Google announced it’s first piece of hardware, the Nexus One phone. This is a pretty momentous event, being Google’s first foray into producing something physical that you can hold in the palm of your hand. In essence, this positions Google as more of a direct competitor to the current top of the gadget pile, Apple. Mobile phones powered by Android, Google’s...

Google wants to know everything about you

Yesterday, Google announced a new service, somewhat out of the blue. I’m referring, of course, to Google Public DNS, which for the majority of the world’s computer users will undoubtedly be met with overwhelming indifference. And yet, this is a pretty significant development in planet Google. Before I explain why, though, let me give you an extremely simple explanation of DNS. Feel...