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65% of UK households had access to the Internet in 2009

March 16, 2010

According to UK government statistics, 16 million UK households (about 65%) had Internet access in 2008 which is an increase of 7 per cent since 2007. As for the broadband, only 56% of all UK households had a broadband connection in 2008 which is an increase of 5% since 2007.

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Social Networking

March 3, 2010

The most popular social network is of course MySpace. Though the social giant enjoys over 20 million unique visitors every month, few businesses or website owners have thought to penetrate this incredible resource. Versions of social networking include blogging social networks – primarily Technorati.com. Technorati indexes blogs based on the amount of incoming links those […]

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Opera Browser 9.6 is Out!

February 17, 2010

Here is definitely a battle taking place online, the “browser wars” have recently seen the entry of Google’s Chrome browser, which has had mixed reviews so far, and now Opera have piped up with their latest browser addition.

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Is Google Reader Any Good?

February 16, 2010

Web feeds can save you so much time and energy. With web feeds the latest news, stories and updates from your favourite sites come to you instead of you going to them, it is very convenient. I use Sage as my default web feed at the moment but when I am away from my pc […]

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NEW Web Hosting Features

January 28, 2010

We take your feedback very seriously at Umbrella Host and we are pleased to announce a range of added features and upgrades as a result of that feedback. If you are a Umbrella Host customer you can send us your ideas, suggestions or comments whenever you like by visiting your customer control panel.

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Joomla added to our Web Hosting Platform

January 28, 2010

Umbrella Host home of the UK’s fastest growing web host is today adding Joomla! to the expanding list of applications it’s customers can install. Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet.

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