The yearly Worldwide Broadband Speed League has been released by Cable, and it’s another disappointing showing from the UK, which finds itself in the bottom third of EU nations.

The mean download speed in the UK has increased over the last year from 18.57 to 22.37 megabits per second (Mbps), but this only moves it up to (more…)

Protecting your online accounts with a password that can be easily guessed is like having a front door that can be unlocked with a lollipop stick. You’re basically just hoping that nobody will be rude or nosy enough to open it, but even the laziest of intruders will be happy to accept the invitation.

Still, it seems (more…)

There’s a school of thought that spelling and grammar are not overly important as long as the meaning of what’s being said is clear. The problem is that seemingly small errors can completely change the meaning of a sentence, and result in serious repercussions in terms of both finance and credibility.

Just within the last month, three (more…)

Tim Berners-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, has penned an open letter and given an exclusive interview with the BBC, sharing both positive and negative thoughts about where the internet stands 30 years on from its inception.

Credited with proposing the idea of the internet in 1989, Berners-Lee says in his letter that the web has done (more…)

The web has replaced many objects and processes that were commonplace a couple of decades ago, or at least provided a popular alternative to them. Interestingly though, we continue to pay homage to them in modern-day digital discourse.

For example, it’s still common to hear websites described as ‘webpages’. A site has no physical ‘pages’ to flick through in (more…)