Open Source Search Solutions

Effective search is one of the most important applications on the Internet – just look at a company called Google to see what I mean. With the explosion of information available on the web alone, how do you quickly find what you are looking for? Then there is...

Expressing yourself creatively

Internet technology has provided musicians with fantastic tools to promote their music. For example, my son has just released a couple of his songs on the website reverbnation.com. He writes the songs himself and also sings them in the band, The Damned and the Dirty....

Education in Emerging Markets

Education is only just starting to boom in the emerging markets of the world and has a long, long way to go. Asia’s rapidly growing middle class knows that education is the route to a good job with higher living standards. What is more, they are willing to pay...

JC-J.COM Network Improvements

Happy New Year! Earlier this month, I changed the data centre that JC-J.IN operates from in Asia from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Singapore. The new data centre is operated by SingTel at their Comcentre Building, who say “SingTel EXPAN has one of the most...

On-line teaching revolution spreads to UK

The emerging market of on-line teaching has been dominated by the US, but now a partnership of UK universities is launching a new project.  The following UK based universities are taking part – the Open University, King’s College London, Bristol, Exeter,...