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Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages
Posted on August 10, 2017 | By Stephen
Accelerated mobile pages, or AMPs, are a product of Google set up to rival Facebook Instant Articles. They are designed for mobile phone searches and will load up pages faster when they are accessed directly via a website or via a search engien results page. The speed of loading can be up to four times faster. AMPs are important in today’s mobile search-driven world. Big players in the field, like Google and Facebook, need to […]
5GIC Innovation Centre Collaborating With Digital Greenwich To Plan Future Cities
Posted on July 8, 2016 | By Stephen
Surrey University’s 5GIC Innovation Centre have partnered with Digital Greenwich; the Royal Borough of Greenwich smart city project. With a vision to plan and build cleaner and greener smart cities for the future. The project will be a collaboration between 5GIC and Digital Greenwich, where 5GIC will provide the technological foundations of the smart city project, and the Royal Borough of Greenwich will be the platform where the new innovative technologies will be applied and tested to commercial based […]
Well Known USB Connectors Set to Be Replaced By USB Type-C
Posted on April 25, 2016 | By Stephen
For years now the USB connection (Universal Serial Bus) has been part of computers, devices and peripherals. There has been an USB Type-B connector to connect “USB Type-A to USB Type-B” from a computer to a printer, which has slowly been been phased out over time in favour “USB Type-A to USB Type-A” male to male set of connections in either side of a USB cable. There have also been enhancements for micro USB connectors to connect a mobile device to […]
The Best Ways to Buy and Sell PC Parts
Posted on January 26, 2016 | By Stephen
Building your own computer has become an increasingly common occurrence amongst the wider population, in just the last couple of decades. As children have been raised with high specification computers, people’s expectations and demands of hardware have continued to increase, and one of the ways that this need has been satisfied is through a massive group of people who remain engaged in the world of computer hardware; who aim to make sure that their computer […]
What is the function of a CPU?
Posted on December 1, 2015 | By Stephen
A Central Processing Unit (CPU for short) is the often referred to as the brains of a computer system, and is built using the RISC architecture (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). The CPU carries out the instructions of a computer program such as, Microsoft Office, Word Powerpoint, Dreamweaver and Photoshop (amongst many other software programs that run on your computer); at the heart of the CPU is an Arithmetic Logic Unit (otherwise known as ALU for […]
Building your own PC can save time and money
Posted on October 28, 2015 | By Stephen
When it comes to finding out that you need to upgrade your PC, you seek alternatives to that of just buying a pre-build standard machine. Instead, buying individual parts and constructing the PC yourself can save you a considerable amount of time and more importantly money. This has led to many people who may not know how to build a PC to search for video guides online on YouTube and on the internet as it […]