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Between August 30th, 2010 and September 20th, 2010 we will be adding a privacy policy page to every client on our network that uses our content management system.  This is due to a policy change by both Google and Bing in which documents from these companies are indicating that in October of 2010 they will start lowering page weight and ranking on websites that do not possess a descriptive privacy policy. The privacy policy we will be adding will be GNU licensed so it will be a free update for all clients across   [...]

We recently took on a client that was in desperate need of search engine ranking help.  As of now I will not mention their name due to privacy concerns but I want to share their situation, the mistake they made, how they could have avoided it, and the drastic measures we had to take in order to correct it. Two years ago, our client hired a SEO and internet marketing team from   [...]

Source: Goldsboro Networks Last week, Security Researcher Rafal Wojtczuk, of Invisible Things Lab detailed a security exploit that had been present in all Linux distributions since 2003 in this Large Memory Attacks (pdf) report. This is a exploit that Linux distributors had already known about for months prior to this report and though the main-stream Linux Kernel has been updated to address this vulnerability, many distributions have yet to address it.  [...]

On June 12th, 2010, Christopher Dawson reported on ZD-Net that Google had many law-suits piling up over a very serious privacy violation. What Google had done was about criminally equivalent as a “Peeping Tom”. Google uses their mobile street-cars to snap pictures around your area so you can use their “street view” on Google Maps. However what Google didn’t tell you is that they were taking a little bit longer if you had an unsecured wireless network because they hooked up to your network and started recording everything you did on it from your personal  [...]

Web 2.0 isn’t just a fad, it was a new method of sharing favorite information, and has grown to standards conformation, easy to use websites which has developed into a system that is now widely used across the net.  In fact, the larger companies IT staff would call one “Old-School” if they didn’t have their social networks linked into their website.  And they would be right.  We all have to remember that like a computer   [...]

The rave is in and not only have two cities in North Carolina been selected as candidates for Google’s new fiber optic network, but these two cities are in the top 100, making North Carolina the only state that has two cities in the list.  Coming in at number 7 on Google’s new “naughty and nice” list is Asheville, North Carolina.  However soaring through the ranks from the original number 28  [...]

Some may have noticed this week that the e-NC Authority has been taking very detailed surveys from North Carolina internet users.  Rumor has it that North Carolina legislature is being pushed by e-NC to greatly enhance broadband availability and quality in the state of North Carolina.  It is said that this survey is part of a plan to completely remap all of the broadband in North Carolina in a means that surpasses any other   [...]