Google My Business removes features due to Coronavirus

Andy Smart March 20, 2020 0 Comments

Google is temporarily removing some features from Google My Business as a result of limitations caused by the COVID-19 situation. “During the unprecedented COVID-19 situation, we are taking steps to protect the health of our team members and reduce the need for people to come into our offices. As a result, there may be some temporary limitations and delays in support as we prioritize critical...

Google My Business advises businesses affected by Coronavirus to update their listings

Andy Smart March 09, 2020 0 Comments

Google is asking businesses to update its Google My Business listings if the business is affected by COVID-19. Google posted a new help document describing that businesses can update their business hours, phone numbers, business descriptions and/or use Google Posts to share more information. Google’s help document. Google placed a notice at the top of the Google My Business support pages...

World Mental Health Day 2019 – Mental health: Chris’ Story

Chris Grant (he/him) October 10, 2019 0 Comments

My name is Chris and I'm the Senior Developer, and Creative Director, at O'Brien Media - most of our clients, past and present have come into contact with me at one point or another but many will be surprised to know that my life is complicated by, at times, poor mental health. I want to share my experience of living with mental health conditions to coincide with World Mental Health Day 2019 in...

Business Continuity Support for customers affected by adverse weather conditions (30/09/19 – 04/10/19)

Chris Grant (he/him) September 30, 2019 0 Comments

Friday 4th October 2019 Our Customer Business Continuity Support (CBCS) plan is no longer in effect, existing requests under the CBCS will continue to be actioned Due to Environment Agency public advice and Met Office warnings being in effect for most of the UK over the next 24 to 48 hours we have activated our Customer Business Continuity Support (CBCS) plan to provide assistance to customers...

WordPress buys Tumblr for “less than $3m”, down from $1.1b in 2013

Tom Furmanski August 16, 2019 0 Comments

Sarah Krouse reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is buying Tumblr from Verizon. WordPress is the software reportedly powering a third of the world's websites and was itself originally focused on blogging. Tumblr was (and still is for the most part) the blogging service of choice for millions of young people, but floundered after being sold to AOL Yahoo and subsequently...

We’ll be at stand 105 at the Southwest Business Expo on 4th July, see you there?

Chris Grant (he/him) June 29, 2019 0 Comments

We like last minute decisions and so with less than a week to go before the event we've decided that we'll be exhibiting at Southwest Business Expo, Swindon - stand 105, just before you reach the entrance - and would love to meet you there on the 4th July (this coming Thursday) between 10am and 3pm at Steam Museum (Steam Museum, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon, SN2 2TA) Date And Time Thu, 4 July 2019...

Former physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World-Wide Web

The world-wide-web turns 30, what’s next #ForTheWeb

Chris Grant (he/him) March 12, 2019 0 Comments

It all started rather innocently. In 1989, some scientists at CERN, the science research center in Switzerland, wanted to automatically share their information with fellow scientists working elsewhere in the world. Email already existed, but there was no easy way to transmit large amounts of data other than saving it on a disk and physically bringing it to another computer. So Berners-Lee, a...

The most dangerous phrase in the language…

Jenny Howell March 08, 2019 0 Comments

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy. Grace Hopper is also famous for a quote, that guides so many programmers and developers, including our team at O'Brien Media. The quote, "The...

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[Infographic] For smartphone users mobile data can come with a hefty price tag

Chris Grant (he/him) March 06, 2019 0 Comments

For smartphone users fond of streaming, mobile data can come with a hefty price tag. The cost varies heavily between different countries and a new analysis of mobile data prices by UK-based price comparison website cable.co.uk shows where a gigabyte of data is cheapest and most expensive. The analysis focused on 6,313 data plans in 230 countries with India being named the cheapest. The analysis...

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