Feb 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monthly Internet use: key indicators for UK web users, Jan 10.
Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is to make changes to the privacy settings on its new ‘Buzz’ social network amid concerns over privacy, after it emerged the network creates a profile for new users by drawing on their Gmail contacts. Early users of Google Buzz had complained that they found...
Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Lloyds Banking Group has sold 70% of its stake in Esure, the online insurer, to the company’s founder Peter Wood. The stake has been bought by a management buyout vehicle to be called Esure Group Holdings Ltd, led by Esure chairman Peter Wood. The stake has been sold...
Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
More than 1.2 billion ‘tweets’ were posted on micro-blogging website Twitter in January. Figures from web-monitoring firm Pingdom showed that there were 16 times as many tweets in January 2010 than there were in January 2009. “Twitter is as of...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
In its continuing quest to speed up the Internet, Google has decided to build what it calls “ultra high-speed” broadband networks in some parts of the US, the company announced.The fibre networks will deliver a huge 1GB bps (bit per second) connections to...
Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
The IAB has received the backing of publisher and broadcaster members to enforce Video Advertising Standard Templates (VAST 2.0) in the UK, to bring greater consistency to online video planning and buying.The inititive has been developed by the Internet Advertising...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
UK advertising spend in 2010 will rise by 2.8% by the end of the thrid quarter of this year, with online’s share growing 4.2 percentage points during 2009, according to new research. The modest rise comes despite nine consecutive quarters of year-on-year...
Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Trinity Mirror has bought Guardian Media Group’s Regional Media for £44.8 million, as the local arm of the Guardian struggled to make profit last year amid falling ad sales and growing competion from the internet. Included in the sale are both GMG Regional...
Feb 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is set to launch a new smartphone translator tool that will be able to hear speech and translate it instantly. The Times reports that the software would take the information learned from the company’s text translation software, and Google’s existing voice...
Feb 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook is to ditch Microsoft’s banner ads in favour of its own, but is now using Bing to power its site search engine, as the two companies overhaul their 2007 search ad deal.The move comes as Facebook has made a number of changes to its social network to mark its...
Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Australian audience reach for top 10 parent companies, Jan 10
Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Time per person for top 10 parent companies, Australia Jan 10
Feb 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monthly Internt use: key indicators for Australian web users, Jan 10
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Office of Fair Trading has cast doubt on the planned merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange, warning it could threaten competition.”The OFT’s initial view, following consultation, is that the joint venture threatens significantly to affect competition in...
Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Mobile software maker Symbian has made its smartphone platform open source, letting developers use and modify the platform’s underlying source code for any purpose. Until now, the source code for the platform was only open to members of the Symbian organisation....
Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
More than one in seven legitimate marketing emails sent in Europe are not being delivered to consumer inboxes, according to a new study. The findings, from Return Path’s Email Deliverability Benchmark Report, found that in the second half of 2009, 15 per cent of...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
If elected, The Conservatives are promising to deliver super-fast 100mb broadband by 2017, challenging both BT and BBC in the process. The party said it is confident that the UK Kingdom can become the first major European country to have internet speeds of up to 100...
Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Amazon has begun re-listing Macmillan e-books, following a weekend row with the publishing giant over pricing. Macmillan has been pressuring Amazon to adopt a new model for selling e-books that would give publishers more flexibility in setting prices. The publisher...
Feb 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft’s has seen profits increase 60% in the final quarter of 2009, attributing the success largely to its high profile marketing campaign for its new Windows 7 operating system. In its quarterly results, Microsoft reported a net profit of $6.66bn (£4.13bn) for...
Feb 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook and The Nielsen Company has launched Nielsen BrandLift in the UK, a web analytics system that uses Facebook polls to measure the effectiveness of online brand advertising. The move follows the products US launch in 2009, and marks the first product available...
