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Webmasters Get Easier Google Content Removal
Updates to Google's Webmaster Central tools give webmasters more options for removing content from Google's index.
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UK Telecom Comes Down Against Traffic Shaping
It’s often considered lazy writing to start a piece with a quote, but I think that, in this case, it might be necessary. Wikipedia calls traffic shaping “an attempt to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth.” And now that you know that, know this: a major British telecom does not favor traffic shaping.
VoIP Gaining On Landlines
As broadband penetration continues to grow, so will other services such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and Internet protocol television (IPTV).
Writing For Online Readers Goes Against The Book
It pains me to suggest this, but we must ignore (one of) the teachings of Strunk and White. We must turn our backs on a number of other writing guides. And we must break our own habit of writing out numbers as words. Instead, we should represent numbers with numerals - a recent eye-tracking study suggests that they’re much more likely to capture online readers’…
Death Knell Chimes For Internet Radio
In March, the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board approved a proposal by SoundExchange, working on behalf of the RIAA, which would implement a significant increase in royalty rates for streaming audio providers. Realizing that these rates would put them under, online radio stations banded together in one last desperate appeal to the CRB to reconsider the decision. Unfortunately for Internet radio providers, and for music lovers…
Microsoft Fine-Tunes Branding
Microsoft is making several subtle and smart moves to improve its inconsistent and unimaginative branding schemes:
