February, 2009 archive

Logo design for dance group

Divas is a hip hop dance group performing in nightclubs and private venues to Beyonce, Britney and the Pussycat Dolls.

They required a logo that reflected the pop culture and positioning of this hot and sassy all-girl group, for flyers on online promotion.

The group is managed and promoted by UDC.

Internet statistics

The latest figures from W3C Schools show a continued decline of market share for Microsoft’s notoriously bug ridden and flaky Internet Explorer series, to Firefox - and the new kid on the block: Google’s Chrome.

Microsoft neglected their browser for almost 5 years, before bringing out IE7, which made a few fundamental and long overdue improvements.

However, half a decade is an eternity on the web - and it was too little, too late, to stem the flow of people to Firefox and other browsers.

[Annotations: IE Internet Explorer / Fx Firefox / S Safari / O Opera]

2009	IE7	IE6	IE8	Fx	Chrome	S	O
January	25.7%	18.5%	0.6%	45.5%	3.9%	3.0%	2.3%
2008	IE7	IE6	IE5	Fx	Chrome	S	O
December	26.1%	19.6%		44.4%	3.6%	2.7%	2.4%
November	26.6%	20.0%		44.2%	3.1%	2.7%	2.3%
October	26.9%	20.2%		44.0%	3.0%	2.8%	2.2%
September	26.3%	22.3%		42.6%	3.1%	2.7%	2.0%
August	26.0%	24.5%		43.7%		2.6%	2.1%
July	26.4%	25.3%		42.6%		2.5%	1.9%
June	27.0%	26.5%	0.5%	41.0%		2.6%	1.7%
May	26.5%	27.3%	0.7%	39.8%		2.4%	1.5%
April	24.9%	28.9%	1.0%	39.1%		2.2%	1.4%
March	23.3%	29.5%	1.1%	37.0%		2.1%	1.4%
February	22.7%	30.7%	1.3%	36.5%		2.0%	1.4%
January	21.2%	32.0%	1.5%	36.4%		1.9%	1.4%

Statistics courtesy of W3C Schools

Further reading:

• Which browser is best
• Screen resolutions

Conficker virus - Microsoft offers $250,000 reward

Microsoft has offered a $250,000 reward to find the villain behind the notorious Conficker virus that has infected over 12 million PCs wordwide.

“People who write this malware have to be held accountable” said George Stathakopulos from Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group.

“Our message is very clear - whoever wrote this caused significant pain to our customers and we are sending a message that we will do everything we can to help with your arrest.”

It’s good to see someone standing up to these people and taking action.

As usual, governments and international agencies seem to have no strategy to tackle this problem - which must be costing every business £1,000s in lost productivity and ant-virus software.

Weather effects on Small Business

The disruption caused by 8 inches of snow in the UK today has shut-down train services, motorways, airports and even the underground (?).

And it is estimated by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), that 20% of the UK’s working population (6.4 million people), would not make it to work.

The cost to small businesses? About £1bn.

However, there was no disruption to the internet. Sales continued as normal.

In fact, buried amongst the government’s own doom and gloom reports about the downturn in the economy: internet sales during the ‘Credit Crunch’ have increased 20% over the past year.

Sales on the internet generate income, 24 hours a day, whatever the weather.

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