Documents show Google has written to the California state government to request permission to test motorbikes and trucks on public roads The technology giant has caused controversy over driverless vehicle testing as critics complain of our ever-increasing reliance on technology The company’s driverless car technology remains in the prototype stage, but their autonomous fleet has...Read More
Hundreds of thousands of websites running a popular WordPress plugin are at risk of hacks that give attackers full administrative control, a security firm warned Thursday. The vulnerability affects Custom Contacts Form, a plugin with more than 621,000 downloads, according to a blog post by researchers from Sucuri. It allows attackers to take unauthorized control of...Read More
Enhancing your local business through SEO can be extremely confusing and equally daunting. A lot of efforts should be implemented if a successful local SEO campaign must be undertaken. To some point, profound knowledge and experience will be required in the process of creating the campaign for utmost benefits in the tail end. It should...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO –  Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google failed to persuade a U.S. judge to sign off on a $324.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other’s employees. In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in...Read More
Software often evolves to serve purposes beyond what its makers intended. WordPress stands as a classic example. What started as a simple blogging engine has become one of the most widely used pieces of software for maintaining both public-facing and internal websites. Today the WordPress blogging engine not only powers blogs but also works as...Read More
Earlier today I posted an article on WordCamp Birmingham, an annual event that aims to help beginners and experts alike improve their use of the popular and powerful website platform WordPress. While writing that article, it occurred to me that I may have used words that some people don’t understand. Here’s your second tech vocabulary lesson: ...Read More
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If your website runs on a self-hosted WordPress installation or on Drupal, update your software now. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher from Salesforce.com’s product security team, has discovered an XML vulnerability that impacts the popular website platforms WordPress and Drupal. The vulnerability uses a well-known XML Quadratic Blowup Attack — and when executed, it can...Read More
No, I am not about to write about buying links…well, at least not directly. But I am going to suggest that today’s SEO is truly about the bringing together of cross-channel initiatives toward common goals. For as long as I can recall, I have (to varying degrees) related the practice of SEO to PR. It’s...Read More
Google removed a controversial game from its Play store on Monday that called for users to drop missiles from Israeli aircraft onto cartoonish Hamas militants following outcry that the app was insensitive. The game, “Bomb Gaza,” which was uploaded to the store last week and had been installed more than 1,000 times, tasks would-be users...Read More
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