May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has deepened its ties with Facebook to make Bing’s search engine more social, as the two firms look to challenge Google’s dominance of the search sector. The deal, an expansion of a previous search tie-up sealed last year, will see Microsoft add...
May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
As part of a new Government-backed report, Professor Ian Hargreaves has made 10 major recommendations to free-up restrictive intellectual property and copyright laws that “obstruct innovation and economic growth in the UK”. The 123-page report found that...
May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nearly all (99.7%) of Google’s Android phones are vulnerable to hackers, according to new research. The researchers from German University ULM found that the authentication tokens, which are sent when a Google user accesses their contacts, photos or calendar...
May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Almost a half (48.3 per cent) of people who have never used the Internet are disabled, according to data published for the first time by ONS. Over a third (35.9 per cent) of disabled people have never been online. This compares to only 11.9 per cent for people with no...
May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Guardian has been named most user-friendly news provider, surpassing other popular UK news providers including The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, according to a new study. The 2011 Newspaper Usability Report, from user experience consultancy Webcredible,...
May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The number of Internet users in China reached 477 million at the end of March 2011, according to government sources. The figure comes from the Telecommunications Administration Bureau, which falls under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The country...
May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Online retailer The Hut Group is expected to be valued at £200m to £250m when it floats on the stock market, according to a news report. The Manchester Evening News reports that The Hut is expected to float in the autumn or early next year. The paper also reports that...
May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Click-through rates from search results displayed on a mobile phone in the UK are 2.7 times higher than from computers, according to new research. The study from performance marketing company, Efficient Frontier, shows a stark contrast to the US, where click-through...
May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Online access rights are tightening again in China – at least that’s the experience of many people online behind the ‘Great Firewall of China’. Key tools such as VPN, alongside global media properties such as MSN seem to be targeted as part of a broad change in access...
May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yahoo and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement on Sunday, as the two companies look to resolve a dispute over a Chinese online payment service. Last week it was revealed that Alibaba Group had transferred ownership of its popular online payment service Alipay to a...
May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
The latest major Chinese web property to float on the US stock market is the dating site Jiayuan. Along with US twin Friendfinder, it failed to capture investor confidence with shares losing ground in early trading on Nasdaq last week. New York still seems to be the...
May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Singapore’s general election proves to be the most democratic in 40 years as the PAP ruling party’s share of vote tumbles to 60%, with opposition members joining to parliament in the big regional wards for the first time. In Singapore, Danny Meadows-Klue finds out how...
May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google has launched its Chromebook laptop, built “for the web only”, as the internet giant looks to take on Microsoft and Apple in the operating system market.vThrough the new machines, Google is hoping to convince people to switch to storing data online instead of on...
May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Photo-sharing tool Twitpic now has the right to sell images posted by their users, prompting outrage from some of its members. The US-based website, which is used by millions, was forced to apologise and clarify its position after moving to claim the right to sell...
May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Stock market analysts marked down Yahoo this week on news that the strategy for China was unclear. Shares fell 7% in a day when the portal stated it was “engaged in ongoing discussions” about the future of its stake in Alibaba. This came after the Chinese...
May 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Crossed the tipping point and from Singapore to South London, the niche business network is firmly embedded in the mainstream, growing at a rate similar to Facebook a few years back. What does it mean for you? LinkedIn now has over 100 million professionals using its...
May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook may have accidentally exposed personal user data to advertisers and other third parties for several years, according to new research. Two security researchers at Symantec Corp posted in a blog on Tuesday that a Facebook programming error (since fixed) could...
May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox has launched the next phase of the Government-backed ‘Race Online Camapign’ with low price recycled PC products launched nationally today with prices starting from £92. Lane Fox, named ‘The UK’s Digital Champion’ in her role...
May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
YouTube’s founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are making plans again. Last week’s purchase of pioneering social bookmark tool Delicious has been followed by a social intelligence tool, Tap11.com. It’s all through their holding company Avos, but given the track record,...
May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
How often do you wade through the regulatory filings of dotcoms? Not the most exciting of digital papers, but a tenacious researcher would have spotted one interesting item in Google’s recent footnotes – a $500m fund to settle the probe from US Department of...
