Facebook has released a new version of Facebook aimed specifically at mobile phones in what can only be an effort to save bandwidth for mobile networks. The new version is being dubbed “Facebook Zero” and can be found at zero.facebook.com. …

It’s been interesting to see the rise of Unicode (now version 5.2). Its’ usage is a boon to programming types, but also to the everyday public as Google have just announced their support for the latest standard, adding somewhere near …

Google announced this week on its blog that you will now be able to upload up to 250mb files onto 1gb of storage on it’s cloud system. Many news outlets have noted that Microsoft’s Sky Drive – which Google is …

Google have released a URL shortner at http://goo.gl/ – following in the foot-steps of sites like http://bit.ly/ and http://pig.ly/. However, Google’s URL Shortner is only for use within Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. More news in the press release here : …

The subject of HTML emails usually ends up in a 2 hour long discussion about all the hacks and work arounds that need to be put into place to get it working in the series of test mail clients and …

I mentioned yesterday that Google Chrome Extensions are in the here and now as opposed to a distant figure on the horizon. You’ll need to go grab the beta of Chrome from http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/ as it’s not in the release version …

I recently uttered the words “If Chrome supported the web developer tool bar, I’d switch from Firefox”. Suppose it’s only a matter of time :) https://chrome.google.com/extensions Tweet This Post

It won’t have escaped note that Google are updating their PageRank algorithm soon to take into account the speed of the web server that supplies the information. This throws up many questions like whos going to define how quick “quick” …

Noticed an article over at Smarterware – http://smarterware.org/3898/namebench-benchmarks-dns-services – which introduces “NameBench” – a service for determining whether your DNS is services are quicker or slower than alternatives. Great thing is, this is from YOUR machine and location – not …

The words Google and DNS in the same sentence fill me with both excitement and apprehension. For those that don’t know, we all rely on DNS (Domain Name Servers) to translate domain names (like www.google.com) into an IP address (66.102.9.99) …