Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has bought social widget maker Slide, for a reported $180m, as the search giant looks to expand into the lucrative apps market. The deal gives Google a team of developers with extensive social networking experience. A person familiar with the situation said the...
Aug 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Property website Rightmove has introduced an innovative new search tool to its website. Draw-a-Search allows people to sketch out their own search shape on a Google Map and perform property searches on that specific area. The tool works by connecting a series of...
Aug 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Software giant Microsoft has said it is “evaluating its options” after Yahoo! Japan announced it is to move away from a deal with the firm and instead work with Google. As part of the new agreement, Yahoo! Japan will be able to utilise Google’s...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has simplified its privacy controls for users who access the social networking using the Apple iPhone and other mobile devices. The changes give mobile users the same privacy settings previously available to those accessing the site via desktop browsers. The...
Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google Inc. will end development of its Wave service, which lets users share images and documents, because customers were slow to adopt the technology. Google launched the real-time web collaboration tool at its annual I/O developer conference last year. The company...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Research In Motion has agreed to allow Indian security agencies to monitor its BlackBerry services after the government raised concerns over the smartphones’ messaging technology. The news follows the United Arab Emirates’ threats to cut off BlackBerry...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Games have overtaken e-mail as Americans’ number two online time killer for the first time, according to new research, with social networking coming top of the list. The study, from Nielsen Online, found that of the nearly 24 hours of time that Americans on...
Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Virgin Media has lodged a complaint with Ofcom, aimed at halting the BBC-backed video-on-demand service Project Canvas. The cable giant says the project, which is developing common standards for net TV in the UK, is anti-competitive. BT, Channel 4 and ITV are partners...
Aug 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Saudia Arabia and The United Arab Emirates are both banning some of BlackBerry internet-based functions over ‘security issues’. BlackBerry owners in two Gulf states will soon have their handsets’ functions restricted under a ban imposed by the...
Aug 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has introduced Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets users pose questions to the social network’s community. The new service introduced Wednesday appears as an “Ask Question” button at the top of users’ homepages. The feature is...
Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yahoo Japan has signed a deal to use Google for its search engine and search ad delivery system- sparking condemnation from its global search partner Microsoft. Yahoo Japan will continue to manage its own search page and search service. Yahoo Japan will also continue...
Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ask.com has launched a new site focused on Q&A-based queries, with results based on user generated answers to questions. The move comes as the fourth biggest search engine looks to gain lost ground on rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN’s Bing. Rather than relying...
Jul 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is in talks with makers of popular online games in an effort to develop a social-networking service to compete with Facebook, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been in discussions with top developers to offer their games on...
Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ofcom’s latest UK Broadband Speeds study has found that UK ISPs regularly overstate their broadband speeds and only rarely give consumers the speeds they advertise. Although the average fixed-line residential broadband speed has risen by over 25% during the last...
Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Welsh village of Crumlin in Caerphilly is the latest trial site for a new means of delivering broadband services. Virgin Media is working in conjunction with power company Surf Telecoms to provide fibre optic broadband services via electricity poles. 27/07/2010...
Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
UK sales of Android phones have more than tripled since the start of 2010, with one in 10 new contract handsets now running Google’s mobile OS. Figures from GfK show that Android’s share of the UK’s mobile contract market rose from 3% to 13.2% from...
Jul 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Online whistleblowing site Wikileaks has published over 75,000 documents containing classified information about the current war in Afghanistan. The documents cover the period from 2004-2009 and reveal a number of inconsistencies with official reports which have...
Jul 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
The latest annual Consumers & Convergence global survey from KPMG has found that UK internet users are the least keen to pay for online content. The study found that 81% of UK internet users would prefer to go elsewhere for content if a frequently used site began...
Jul 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
British viewers who watch TV programmes through their computers and who do not own television sets may be made to pay the licence fee as early as next year. Currently viewers do not have to pay the licence fee if they only watch TV programmes through a computer....
Jul 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
The latest financial results from Amazon show that second-quarter profit grew to $207m (£135m) from $142m (£92.3) last year – a 45% increase. While total revenues rose 41% to $6.6bn (£4.29bn), operating expenses also jumped 40%, leading to Amazon’s stock...
