Yesterday, we examined Britain’s standings in the national connection speed tables. Needless to say, it didn’t make for promising reading. The saving grace for British net users is that our internet connections tend to be reasonably priced. Unless of course you live in Camarthenshire. BBC News are reporting that a pensioner was quoted over £150,000 [...]

If you’re consistently frustrated by the time it takes you to do anything using your broadband connection, you might want to consider emigrating. In fact, if you’re serious about broadband speed, we’d suggest heading to South Korea, Japan or Latvia. Internet speed testers Ookla have caried out 1.5 billion global speedtests in order to come [...]

BBC News are running with a story today that wouldn’t be out of place in a sci-fi film. They’re reporting that Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading has become the first man on Earth to be infected by a computer virus. But there’s no need to start eyeing up your computer nervously, as [...]

At around 7am yesterday morning (GMT), fans of the drama/mystery/time-travel/sci-fi show Lost were treated to the series’ finale. Millions of viewers on both sides of the pond tuned in to see all their questions answered. And it looks like most of them didn’t find the answers they wanted – if Google trends is to be [...]

… there’s a new Internet snoop on the scene. According to research by the London School of Economics and Nottingham Trent University, the biggest threat to online privacy isn’t spyware or Mark Zuckerberg – it’s inquisitive wives. The survey was conducted on around a thousand couples with an average age of 49, and the results [...]

Head over to Google.com and enjoy some PacMan. We’re not sure how long it’ll last, so make the most of it!

It’s Friday, May 21st and it’s time for another weekly roundup of what’s been going on in the Blogosphere. We’ve thrown the floor open this week and asked people on our Twitter list, so thanks to @PUnitt and @alexatkeplar for their suggestions. The inimitable Chris Spooner has produced a handy guide about SEO tactics that [...]

We’re always checking and rechecking our analytics here at the FirstFound Blog, so we like to think that we’ve got a decent idea of what keeps you coming back time and time again. What we’ve found is that our social media advice for businesses is really popular amongst our readers, so we’ve decided to make [...]

History buffs and newspaper fans alike, it’s time to rejoice! The British Library has announced that they’ll be adding 40 million newspapers from the past 300 years to a digital archive. Currently, the British Library has a collection of over 750 million newspaper pages available either as originals or microfilm, so the first pages are [...]