Just after the January update on 8th January, Windows 7 users began to experience activation errors, but Microsoft put the issues down to coincidence, despite admitting that it had reverted changes made to activation servers in the update in order to fix the problem. (more…)

Online community Reddit shut some users out of their accounts and forced password resets due to “unusual activity” which may have been a ‘credential stuffing’ attempt by hackers. (more…)

London-based, registered charity ‘Full Fact’ will now be working for Facebook, reviewing stories, images and videos, in an attempt to tackle misinformation that could “damage people’s health or safety or undermine democratic processes”. (more…)

SCL Elections, the parent company of the now defunct Cambridge Analytica which was famously involved in the Facebook profile harvesting scandal, has been fined £15,000 for failing to respond to a data access request from a US citizen, and for ignoring an enforcement notice by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). (more…)

As a marketing professional, you already understand the importance of cost-conversion analysis of digital marketing. Therefore, in 2019, you need to emphasise the importance of conversion optimization when executing your marketing strategies to make sure you find the right kind of digital marketing success. (more…)

You need to embrace the ‘stack’ in 2019 and understand that the days of using Facebook and Google ads as your only means of digital marketing activities are now dead in 2019. I’m not advocating you don’t use these two useful mediums but to look further afield in 2019 for digital paid advertisement pastures new. (more…)

Google has always been quite open about how to get good search result positions in terms of SEO activity and content strategy planning – just write good, original and purposeful content that people, not bots, want to read. Gone are the ‘black hat’ days of old, 2019 is all about quality content to help drive sales. (more…)

2019 Is the year you need to embrace the power of video in your marketing activities. A video is a king. Cisco argues that by 2022, nearly half of internet traffic will be video-based which means marketers really need to engage with video as a means of creating new customer engagement avenues. (more…)

Right, 2019 is all about making sure your website is ready for “Okay, Google”, “Alexa,…” or “Siri,…” voice search results. The voice search metrics are ground-breaking and will impact on marketers in the future. However, today, they are causing ripples. (more…)

The next big update of Windows 10 (in April) will mean that Microsoft will reserve 7GB of your device’s storage in order to accommodate its future ‘quality updates’ or new versions of the OS.  Measures you can take to check that you will have enough reserved storage space or to avoid storage space problems include: (more…)