Latest articles by Marcus Austin
How to cheat your way to the top of Digg.com
In-depth Digg.com is a social media news aggregator and the doorway to hundreds of thousands of influential users and hence instant web popularity. But how do you get your content to the top of its rankings?
A 404 error is a sales opportunity
In-depth Web error pages are losing companies millions in lost revenue, are yours up to scratch?
Major search engines dominate UK web traffic as ecommerce
News Google heads up UK traffic figures while retailers including Woolies and Play rack up big gains.
Users leak vital data when using hotspots
News Nearly 80 per cent of mobile Wi-Fi users send personal and work information without encryption, and 37 per cent confess to using unknown open connections to send their data.
US legislation may force companies to save all voicemail
News New legal amendment requires companies to have the capability to retain and recover voicemail for legal disclosure.
Google grabs 78 per cent of UK search market
News New figures from Hitwise show Google and Yahoo making big advances in the search market, but organic results rather than paid results are still the best way to drive traffic.
Spam at epic levels
News Huge surge in amount of spam in October and it looks like it's going to get worse.
Australian spammer fined millions for 280 million emails
News An Australian court has fined a spammer A$5.5 million (£2.23 million) for sending over 280 million spam emails.
Actinic Business Version 8.0
Reviews For more than ten years Actinic has been one of the UK's most popular e-commerce packages. It has survived where many have failed, and the reason it's succeeded for so long is that it Actinic understands what a business needs out of an e-commerce package, rather than what a bunch of techies think a business needs out of an e-commerce package.
EMC hit by security lapse
News EMC fails the 'practice what you preach' test despite buying top security firm
New features for salesforce.com
News Salesforcde.com has made extensive changes to its on-demand CRM application and added new additional applications to its range of products.
Google marketing via Salesforce.com
News New features for salesforce.com will enable businesses to calculate where their online marketing budget is most effective.
.EU registrar admits to tens of thousands of scams over .eu
News Eurid accuses 400 companies of illegally profiting from .eu registrations in domain name land grab and suspends 74,000 accounts
How to avoid search engine blacklisting
In-depth IT Pro Guide: Get SEO right and you can guarantee your website a steady stream of search engine-generated traffic. Get it wrong and you could irrevocably damage your business. Marcus Austin explains how to avoid the dreaded search engine
