Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Conservatives are planning on running a competition for web developers to create a website that would allow large groups of people to help shape new policies- provided they win the next general election. The £1m taxpayer-funded prize would be rewarded to the...
Jan 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The FT expects the revenue from subscriptions to overtake the money it makes from print ads for the first time this year. FT Group chief executive, John Ridding attributed the growth to cover price rises, online charging and a rising number of corporate clients. FT...
Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has criticised Ryanair for introducing a new online fee on its customers, calling it “quite puerile,” according to a newspaper report. The low-cost airline last month started charging the five-pound (5.6 euro) fee per...
Jan 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
The BBC Trust has provisionally approved the BBC’s involvement in Project Canvas, a service that will allow UK viewers to watch free-to-air broadcasts and Internet content on television. The trust, an independent body that oversees the license-fee funded BBC,...
Jan 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
YouTube has launched a new URL shortening service, putting the video sharing platform in direct competiton with market leaders bit.ly and TinyURL. In a blog posting, Google engineering manager Vijay Karunamurthy announced youtu.be as a shortener for all YouTube video...
Dec 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
The French government is fining Google the equivalent of $14,300 until it stops displaying excerpts from copyrighted literary works on its Google books service. A Paris court also ordered the search giant to pay $430,000 in damages and interest to French publisher La...
Dec 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter will make around $25m from the search deals struck with Google and Microsoft in October, enough to push the site into profitability, according to a report.C iting ‘people familiar with the deal’, Bloomberg reports that the deal to make Twitter’s messages...
Dec 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
People in the UK watched more TV and sent more texts than people in many other countries, but had slower broadband, according to new research. The study, from telecoms watchdog Ofcom, found the UK remains the country with the highest proportion of households with...
Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Iran, Swine Flu, Michael Jackson, Susan Boyle and Harry Potter all featured in the top trending topics on Twitter during 2009. Twitter “helped us understand what was happening around the world, showing us that people everywhere can be united in concern,”...
Dec 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s first audition was the most watched video on YouTube during 2009. The talent show runner-up’s surprising rendition of ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ has been watched by more than 120 million viewers worldwide,...
Dec 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Only 13% of internet users would be prepared to pay for access to online media, although Brits show a higher than average willingness to fork over cash for Internet content, a survey has found.The research, carried out by GfK on behalf of the Wall Street Journal...
Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
The overall number of entertainment & media (E&M) insolvencies has now reached record levels from the early days of the credit crunch, according to new research. Autumn 2009 marked a milestone of 1000 insolvencies in the UK entertainment and media sector...
Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter is testing a new feature that lets businesses run shared accounts on the micro-blogging service. The “Contributors” feature enables companies to have accounts that workers can share when it comes to sending text messages to customers or others....
Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
90% of European internet users go online weekly to search for information, while more than 4 out of 10 consumers search for information on brands and products via comparison, expert and user review sites, according to new research. The new report, from Marketers...
Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has extended its remit to online-only publications. Until now, online versions of newspapers and magazines have come within the remit of the PCC but online-only publications have not. The Press Standards Board of Finance...
Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Scandinavian operator TeliaSonera has become the first mobile network operator to launch commercial LTE mobile broadband services, offering mobile download speeds 10 times faster than standard 3G services. The services went live in the centres of Oslo and Stockholm on...
Dec 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google is working on the development of its own mobile phone device, which is currently being tested by the company’s employees. The search giant has teamed up with handset maker HTC for the project. As yet, the company has not released an official name,...
Dec 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is facing a backlash from privacy advocates following comments made during a TV interview last week. When asked during an interview for CNBC’s recent “Inside the Mind of Google” special about whether users should be sharing...
Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
AOL and Time Warner have formally split after almost 10 years as one company. The companies merged back in 2001, in what was dubbed the “deal of the century” at the time. However, AOL soon started loosing market share as it was slow to react to the shift...
Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
The government’s controversial broadband tax has been given the go ahead by chancellor Alistair Darling in his pre-Budget report. The £6-a-year levy will be imposed on all households with a fixed line phone. The money made will be put into a fund to ensure rural...
