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Whilst we are all surfing the web and watching streaming films online, does anyone really realise and stop to think about the impact on the environment or how green the IT industry really is? Well some new figures recently published may surprise and shock some of you that may come across this article. A recent article said that watching one film at home, streaming from a provider like Netflix costs the roughly the same as running 2-3 incandescent light bulbs. This power usage is in additional to the power consumed...

So where are we at with Brexit after 3 years? It is now becoming apparent, that our government has proved itself to be completely incompetent, keeping us all on tender hooks and uncertainty as the Brexit debate deepens. Uncertainty for businesses has certainly taken its toll in terms of keeping companies sitting on the fence and not spending budgets ass they would normally. Everyone seems to be waiting for an outcome to settle the debate one way or another, causing our order books to slow down. The percentage of proposals...

The new European payments law introduced back in January 2018 and which will come into affect in September 2019, is known as the second Payment Services Directive or PSD2, which has introduced some major changes since PSD1 was introduced that significantly impact multi-sided platforms, or online marketplace businesses, in Europe. In a normal marketplace setup, where a platform acts as an intermediary for their buyers as well as the sellers without itself actually selling the product or service, the system will no longer be allowed to receive payments that are...

How and why should you keep adding content to your website Keeping your website up to date with fresh and informative content is extremely beneficial for attracting more visits via the search engines as well as keeping your audience interested and coming back for more. There are various ways to disguise keyword rich content without it being un-natural sounding or too spammy making it obvious that it was written for a search engine and not a human reader. From the obvious like writing regular blog posts and articles to the not...

In this day of super fast internet speeds even on mobile data roaming who would have thought that the speed of your website would have any baring on your website ranking. Well the fact of the matter is that Google as well as the other search engines will take the loading speed of your site as a factor when ranking your website on their search engines. Optimising your website for speed weather it be by reducing image file sizes or by minifying your javascript, will all play a small part...

Cybersecurity and the concerns In a world with fast-growing advancements in technology (at an exponential rate) we find ourselves delving deep into the cavern of the cyber world. But are you truly safe there? Just as we have to tackle crime in the real world, there is crime to tackle in the cyber world. Hence the need for Cybersecurity. From Cyber attacks and Phishing Websites to Malware, your online presence could be in jeopardy and you may not feel safe. Without extra precautions you are vulnerable. Just last week a...