Google Promotes Mobile Friendly Websites & Portals

Is your website mobile friendly? Why it is so important that your website should be mobile friendly? What is the myth about Google’s mobile friendly algorithm? As an end user, startup, business owner SMEs or an enterprise, it is pretty important to understand the importance of the responsiveness of your website or portal in the digital world.

As on April 21, 2015, Google announced their mobile friendly algorithm. A significant new mobile-friendly ranking algorithm is designed to give a boost to mobile-friendly pages in Google’s mobile search results. In simple words, the new update prioritizes mobile-friendly websites and pushes mobile-unfriendly sites down the search rankings on mobile. According to Google, “Now searchers can more easily find high-quality and relevant results where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling”. The...

Windows Server 2003 – The End of Support

Microsoft recently announced that it is ending support for Windows Server 2003 operating system on July 14, 2015. Windows Server 2003 is heavily used by for the e-commerce businesses. Therefore, if any business is in e-commerce (i.e., has a website with a shopping cart), then there was a very high possibility of using the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Windows Server 2003 is heading towards its end of life (EOL) this coming July, yet a new study shows that just a small fraction of users have already migrated to a new solution. Microsoft says there are 11 million Windows Server 2003 servers are still running.

End of support means there will be no security updates, no compliances, and no safe haven - cautioned Vasily Malanin, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific data center product management lead for cloud and enterprise, during a media briefing in Singapore.

The opportunities to...