Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

The benefits of Virtualizing Applications [Infographic]

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

EMC.com has released an interesting infographic about the benefits of virtualizing applications. Our clients’ interest to SaaS development services proves that the opportunities of virtualization exceed the impact of threats. The same conclusion can be made after reviewing the infographic, that was created based on the data of the survey by IDG Research Services, conducted among over 500 senior IT decision-makers  at enterprise companies in June, 2011. (more…)

Software outsourcing predictions for 2012

Friday, December 30th, 2011
softwareoutsourcing predictions for 2012

software outsourcing predictions for 2012

We have only one day left until the end of the year, and we all wonder: what changes will 2012 bring?

In this post we have gathered the most notable trends that might play an imporatnt role in 2012.

Are there opportunities that can compensate the threats that come from the overall economic situation? We tried to figure that out below. (more…)

Mozilla’s chairman Mitchell Baker on the rapid release process

Friday, August 26th, 2011

firefox6Web developer’s community is actively discussing the new approach of Mozilla, where it delivers a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks. The main issue is compatibility of the popular add-ons like FireBug, FireShot, PixelPerfect, SeoQuake and others with the newer versions, that may lead to certain troubles in website design and development. At present moment all these important plug-ins work rpoperly only with Fireforx 3.6. That’s why the news that version 3.6 of the world’s most popular browser won’t be supported after the next Firefox release does not add optimism. (more…)

Google updates sitelinks

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

In a recent blog post Google unveiled their ‘expanded and improved’ sitelinks. For those who don’t know what sitelinks are, that’s what they looked loke before:

sitelinks

Google’s blog post says: ‘Sitelinks help you quickly navigate to the most relevant part of the site, which is particularly handy for large and complex websites. Sitelinks can also give you a good overview of a website’s content, and let webmasters expose areas of the site that visitors may not know about’.

Understanding the value of sitelinks, Google’s specialists has always paid attention to improving them. At first sitelinks had been rearrenged into columns, then their number was doubled and sitelinks started showing for more results.

Now we’re dealing with further improvements. (more…)

Good news: Spam Decreased 82.22% Over The Past Year

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Today we receive much less junk mail than one year ago – check out the Graph of spam volume (global estimated spam sent, billions of messages per day) from 15th June 2010 to 14th June 2011.

spam activity

spam activity

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