Oh no. It looks like Microsoft have made an offer to buy Yahoo!

Microsoft have apparently offered $44.6bn or £22.4bn, in cash and shares.

It sounds like a good deal for shareholders who'll get 62% over the closing value of the share on Thursday (31st Jan) night when the shares are down 46% on their high of last year.

But will this be a good thing for search & the Internet or not?

Labels: microsoft, news, search, yahoo

At last, after nearly 2 and a half years, the rebel alliance that broke away from Mambo CMS and became Joomla, has finally given birth to a new CMS...

Labels: CMS, joomla, news, open source, software

We're currently working with a client by the name of Oceanwide Properties who sell property in Turkey.

As well as consulting for their web design & web development projects we're project managing their SEO strategy and slowly but surely raising their profile in the search engines.

The site will be undergoing a redevelopment & redesign to help their SERPs and we'll be adding features to make the site more useable.

Watch this space.

Labels: consultancy, development, news, search, seo

I've recently been using my local Farnborough photographic services at 2020 Prolab and I have to say I'm very impressed.

Not only are their photographic services very swift and of excellent quality but they're also very amicable and always happy to offer good advice. On top of that their prices are always very competitive.

So, if you're in the Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire borders area be sure to take a look at the 2020 Prolab website or give them a call on 01252 375708

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Joomla! CMS rolled in its 100,000th verified forum user yesterday. That's 100,000 users in just over 18 months and officially "Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet."

Stats-wise the Joomla! forum has:

• An average of 172 new user sign-up each day
• 765,000 posts
• More than 1200 posts daily

There's even a funky Free Joomla! A3 poster to commemorate the ocassion.

Now if the next landmark can be just to get Joomla! 1.5 out of the door, that would be awesome.

Labels: CMS, news, open source, software, tools

New Life in IT is a premier web design company specialising in the provision of Open Source Software solutions.

With a firm footing in the Joomla! CMS arena, New Life in IT provide a depth of experience from Business Analysis & Consulting through Professional Training to some pretty funky enterprise level web development solutions... we know because we've had the pleaseure to work with them.

Andrew Eddie, Director of New Life in IT, is well known as one of the original developers of Mambo CMS and the recent Joomla! CMS so they're headed not only by a sharp programmer & consumate professional but all-round nice bloke too.

Be sure to check out New Life in IT.

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