Jul 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
The BBC has updated its news website, with a new layout, extra video features and tools that let readers link stories to Facebook and Twitter. The broadcaster said it had used ideas submitted from the public in order to research the redesign. The redesigned BBC News...
Jul 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has finally launched its much-anticipated ‘panic button’ on its site, as the social networking giant looks to increase protection of its young users. The ‘ClickCEOP’ button lets Facebook users (especially those aged between 13 and 17) report...
Jul 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of Google in a decision that could have wide-reaching implications for online advertising. Judges have confirmed that using other companies’ names as online advertising keywords is not an infringement of European...
Jul 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Chinese authorities have renewed Google’s license to operate a website in the country, averting a potential shutdown of its flagship search page in the world’s biggest Internet market. Google said last week that it would stop automatically rerouting users to...
Jul 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Downing Street and Facebook have launched a landmark initiative aimed at making public spending more effective.‘The Spending Challenge’ initiative marks the largest public engagement project ever launched by the British Government, and saw Prime Minister David Cameron...
Jul 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
YouTube has launched Leanback, a new service aimed at the living room offering full screen, HD videos optimised for big screen TV viewing. Still in public beta, Leanback automatically starts playing content feeds based on a user’s preferences, and accesses social...
Jul 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Twitter has launched an advertising feature for morning people, dubbed Earlybird, letting advertisers offer users exclusive deals on products and events. In a blog post, the company officially announced EarlyBird, which aims to inform users of special promotions that...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has added a new facial recognition feature, as the social network looks for new ways to streamline its photo tagging process. The facial recognition feature, added last week, will identifiy that a face is present in an uploaded photo, asking the user...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Times readers now have to pay a pound a day or two pounds a week to access content. The websites of News International newspapers, the Times and the Sunday Times, have started charging for their content from 2 July. Users who register for long-term use of the sites...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The BBC Trust has rejected the BBC’s plans to close the digital radio station 6 Music, but has backed proposals to shake up news provision on BBC local radio and cut 25 per cent of the funding for the BBC website. The Trust, which is the ruling body of the BBC,...
Jul 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The weekend saw the milestone of the five billionth global mobile phone connection, according to new data. Analyst group The Mobile World said that this landmark has been achieved through rapid expansion in the thriving Indian and Chinese markets, and the instances of...
Jul 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has tweaked its privacy policy to ensure third party app developers to specify to users what personal information they will access and use. The move forms part of the social networking giants efforts to appease critics of its privacy practices. The changes...
Jul 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Foursquare has raised $20 million in a second round of funding, ending speculation that the location-based firm would accept a bid approach from Yahoo. The company has chosen to take the additional venture capital money rather than pursue takeover talks with internet...
Jul 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Trade body Internet Advertising Sales Houses (IASH) has announced an investigation into the use of real-time “Content Safe” services, to help advertisers ensure their messages are not shown next to inappropriate content on the web. The use of these real-time...
Jul 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
The UK internet audience rose by 1.9 million over the last year, with people over the age of 50 accounting for more than half of new users. UK web surfers expanded by 5% to 38.8 million in May, compared with 36.9 million in the same month last year, according to UKOM,...
Jul 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
TV is set to rebound as the medium of choice for UK advertisers, reclaiming the top spot from the Web in terms of ad spend growth, according to new research. The latest AA/Warc Expenditure Report found that TV will be the main driver of UK advertising expenditure...
Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Reports that Google is working on a Facebook competitor called “Google Me” have been confirmed by Facebook’s former CTO, Adam D’Angelo in a blog post. D’Angelo’s confirmation that Google Me is a “real project” and...
Jun 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is to stop automatically redirecting users of its Google.cn site to its Hong Kong page, in a bid to secure renewal of the company’s China service license. The move comes after the Chinese government said the company would lose its mainland Internet...
Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Project Canvas, the online TV project involving BBC, ITV, BT, Five, Channel 4 and TalkTalk given approval from the BBC Trust, providing the project sticks to certain agreements. The news follows the go-ahead by the Office of Fair Trading last month. Concerning a...
Jun 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Times has seen its market share halve since introducing required registration for its online content, according to the latest Hitwise data. Robin Goad, Research Director, Hitwise UK takes a closer look at Rupert Murdoch’s latest web gamble… Following months of...
