Why Basic Web Sites Are a False Economy

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Do you want a web site that brings in customers or one that simply sits on the Internet wondering if they’ll ever show up?

Find out why a carefully planned site, designed for your particular business sector and customer’s needs, and built with search engine rankings firmly in mind is the best way to attract visitors and gain some return on your investment.
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Is social media helping to erode our right to privacy

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A teaching aide in Michigan, USA, has been suspended from her job because she refused to allow her employers to access her Facebook page. The school concerned asked for access to the Facebook page in order to investigate a complaint against the woman. She refused and the local education authority decided that she was guilty until proven innocent and duly suspended her from her duties.

DPS Pumps install Water Pumps for ESBI

Dab Pumps and KSB Pumps from dpspumps.com

Congratulations to our friends at dpsPumps.com who recently helped ESBI in Dublin install a new KSB Amacan water pumps into one of their  land drainage stations in Galway ( Portumna ).  As well as this, three of the stations were also fitted out with three new 110kw soft start control panels,  supplied by Drilling and [...]

Are you living in a ‘Filter Bubble?’

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Google, Facebook and many others now use a range of factors to assess the relevance of the results and commercial suggestions they present to you. Sometimes this may be beneficial, but ultimately, are we all being pidgeon holed, ‘filtered’ and ‘bubbled’? Eli Pariser explains the filter bubble concept and calls on the main providers to change how they do business…

UK access to web using smartphones increases

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Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, has reported that a third of UK adults are now regularly using smartphones to access the Internet and Social Media services. The most visited web site to be accessed by handheld devices was Facebook.  Some 43 million hours were spent on it, via smartphones in December 2010. “Addicted” The report [...]