Category Archives: Internet News

Warning! Every Drupal 7 Website was Compromised Unless Patched

A few weeks ago Drupal released an update to a critical SQL Injection vulnerability and urged all their users to update or patch their sites immediately. Initially the scope of the vulnerability wasn’t known however today the Drupal team released a public service announcement that really hit home how important that update was. You should […]

W3C Brings HTML5 to Recommendation Status

HTML5 has been around for a couple of years now – slowly growing as more and more websites transition from HTML4; and more and more browsers start to fully support all of HTML5’s features. As of right now almost all devices out there fully support HTML5. Computer browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Firefox support […]

Google Announces Partnership with PwC

Google has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to “bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.” “For our clients, acquiring the knowledge most important to their operations, securing that information and using it optimally are critical-now more than ever before,” stated PwC Vice Chairman Mike Burwell. “PwC is teaming with Google to offer […]

More Free Google Domains Invites!

Google was nice enough to hook me up with a handful more invite codes for their Google Domains beta – and as usual I’m giving them out for free here! If you want to see some screenshots about the clean awesome UI within Google Domains check out my review here. Otherwise ask for a free […]

Happy Birthday Namecheap!

One of my first domain names was registered with Namecheap – many, many years back. So it’s only appropriate that I give them a shout out today and wish them a happy birthday! Namecheap turns 14 years young today – and boy how far they’ve come. What I absolutely must commend them on is consistently sticking […]

Webmasters Read This Before Disabling SSLv3 for cPanel/WHM

Following the announcement of the SSL Poodle vulnerability most webmasters have been hard at work securing their servers. Alas while doing some of these updates myself I had discovered that while it is possible to disable SSLv3 for cPanel services on ports 2083, 2087, 2096 – this breaks connections to cPanel from all current versions […]

Rackspace Announces Managed Google Apps for Work

As a Rackspace partner, and customer, I have always praised their outstanding support and as such I’m excited to announce that Rackspace will now provide the same fanatical support for the Google Apps for Work suite through the launch of their new managed Google Apps services. “Rackspace strives each day to provide a world-class service […]

South Korea: I’m Jealous Of Your Internet Speeds

According to Akamai’s most recent State of the Internet Report, South Korea has the fastest average internet connection speed in the world. South Korea’s internet users reached average download speeds of 24.6 Mbps in the second quarter of 2014 according to Akamai’s measurements. The United States ranked 14th on the list with an average connection speed of only 11.4 […]

Google Looking To Connect Doctors to Patients Via Helpouts?

An interesting thread popped up on reddit a few days ago where a user ran a search for knee pain on Google via his mobile phone and was prompted with the option to consult with a doctor, live, and for free. So off I went and tried the same search on my laptop: Similar text […]

UK2 Launches SSD VPS Hosting

[frame align=”right”][/frame]UK2 has announced the launch of a new generation of VPS hosting for them – introducing SSD VPS servers earlier in the week. From what I can gather the servers do seem to be truly SSD, not merely SSD enhanced. For those of you unaware of the difference I suggest reading through this post. The […]

Yelp & TripAdvisor Attempts to Rework Google Local Search Results

There’s always been a lot of people arguing against the Google algorithm – however for the first time a group of them got together and created a brand new Google Chrome app called “Focus on the User” …

New York City, London Kicked Our Arse

I had mentioned the new .NYC gTLD on here before; and apart from that I have read articles in numerous newspapers and plenty of online sources advertising the new domain name extension for New York City. That being said I am pretty upset that during the landrush period for the .nyc domain which lasted an […]

Namecheap Just Found 365 Available .IO Domain Names

Finding a good available domain name isn’t as easy as you may think – and these days you’ll have to get pretty creative to find one. Luckily Namecheap did the grunt work here and found 365 available .IO domain names. Furthermore for a limited time, you can get $10 off the regular .io registration price […]

New TLDs for October 2014 – Hello .NYC!

The new month of October has some great new domain name extensions coming out. First off the .nyc extension is coming out on October 8th – which is the one I am most excited about. .deals is out today, and the end of the month will bring around a slew of military domain names such […]