Jan 25, 2013 | Regulation
Scientists in Japan have developed a pair of glasses that block facial recognition software found in CCTV camaras. The device, called a ‘Privacy Visor’, lets the user remain anonymous by thwarting cameras that use facial recognition technology The headset...
Jan 23, 2013 | Regulation, Social media
UK-based social media app TweetDeck has been sent a letter from the UK companies registrar, warning that the company will be struck off in three months and forcibly dissolved unless it files accounts. However, The Guardian reports that popular social media management...
Jan 22, 2013 | Online advertising, Regulation, Search engine marketing
Google is considering developing a ring that consumers can use to identify themselves securely online, as an alternative to passwords. In a research paper, two of its engineers write that current strategies to prevent the hijacking of online accounts, including the...
Jan 22, 2013 | Regulation, Social media
In a landmark copyright judgment, a US judge has ruled that two major news outlets infringed on the copyrights of a twitter user for publishing their photos without permission. Daniel Morel, the photographer whose horrific images of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were...
Jan 21, 2013 | Regulation
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has launched a new cloud storage service called Mega, offering users a massive 50GB of file storage online for free. View a BBC report on Kim Dotcom’s new venture here: Dotcom is currently on bail and fighting extradition to the US...
Jan 21, 2013 | Content marketing, CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, India, Latin America, Online advertising, Online video, Regulation, Search engine marketing, Social media, Twitter marketing
During 2012, there were 2.4 billion web users and 1.3bn smartphones, recording 2.7bn Facebook likes and 175m tweets per day, according to new data. The findings, from website monitoring firm Pingdom, come as part of a new report looking back at internet usage 2012....
Jan 17, 2013 | Regulation
Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults say that at one time or another they have gone online specifically to try to figure out what medical condition they or someone else might have. These findings come from a national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet &...
Jan 16, 2013 | China, Regulation
The number of people using the internet in China rose by 10% last year to 564m last year, with 75% of those having access via mobile devices, according to new figures. The data, from the China Internet Network Information Centre, found that the number of Chinese web...
Jan 16, 2013 | Regulation
The death of Reddit co-creator and online rights activist Aaron Swartz has sparked a rise in politically-motivated hack attacks, often dubbed ‘Hacktivism’. Swartz took his own life just weeks before the start of his federal trial related to charges in 2011 that he...
Jan 14, 2013 | Regulation, Search engine marketing
Google could be forced to alter its search results in Europe, after accusations that it is favouring its own services over rivals, according to a new report. Writing in the Financial Times Alex Barker and Richard Waters report that The European Union’s competition...
Jan 14, 2013 | Regulation, Social media, Twitter marketing
TweetDeck, the social media management tool owned by Twitter, risks being ‘dissolved or struck-off the register’ after failing to file its accounts for the second time, according to reports. Sky News reports that the UK company missed the deadline in September and...
Jan 10, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
Online music and computer game seller Play.com is to close down its direct retail business and shift to an online marketplace from spring 2013. The move will make more than 200 staff redundant, including 67 workers from its Cambridge and Bristol bases and 147 in...
Jan 10, 2013 | Regulation
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has urged North Korea to allow more open Internet access and mobiles to benefit its citizens. Schmidt was part of a US delegation visiting the secretive nation, which has some of the world’s tightest controls on information. Schmidt has...
Jan 8, 2013 | Regulation
In a stark warning to fact-checkers everywhere, a Wikipedia article detailing a 17th century war between Portugal and India has been deleted after being debunked as an elaborate hoax. For the last five years, the article has existed on Wikipedia, detailing a brief war...
Jan 7, 2013 | China, Regulation, Search engine marketing
Google has axed a censorship notice on its Chinese search engine, as the firm looks to build on its paltry 5% market share in the rapidly growing market. Launched 6 months ago, the censorship warning notified Chinese users that their searches are filtered by the...
Jan 7, 2013 | Regulation
The UK Government has unveiled a list public services it intends to make online by 2015, as part of a cost-cutting drive. The government announced its intention to save more money through online services last month. The Cabinet Office said this week the move would...
Dec 21, 2012 | Content marketing, CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, Marketing through gaming, Mobile, Online advertising, Online video, Regulation, Search engine marketing, Social media, Viral and buyrals
To round off 2012, we bring you our collection of top stories that shaped the digital landscape. It was an amazing year, with the continued speed of change towards a more digitally centric society: the rise and rise of social, the migration to mobile, the rising value...
Dec 21, 2012 | Facebook marketing, Regulation
Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Apple could soon be allowed to advertise to children, as new US laws look set to come into force. The Federal Trade Commission has updated the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to restrict...
Dec 19, 2012 | Facebook marketing, Regulation, Social media
Facebook owned photo app Instagram has asserted its right to sell its users’ photos to advertisers, sparking a wave of criticism from users and privacy campaigners alike. The move was announced in an update to its terms of service, where Instagram claimed the...
Dec 14, 2012 | Regulation
As digital grows at a rapid pace, law-makers struggle to keep up. In the UK, Lord Levinson would have us believe in his final media ethics report, digital media is an ‘ethical vacuum’ beyond regulation. Despite this rather despondent outlook, there were...
