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Google Building Experimental Broadband Network
18th February 2010
Google has recently announced that they are planning to build a new experimental high speed broadband network across a few locations in the U.S.A. More »
Google Docs Launches File Storage Facility
15th January 2010
Over the next few weeks, Google will start rolling out a new feature to enhance the online file storage capacity on Google Docs. More »
Google’s All For Making The Web Faster
8th December 2009
Google has just introduced 2 new services that will help make the web faster for their clients. One of them is a tool for webmasters to monitor their website’s speed and the other is a public DNS service. More »
Most Time Spent Online Is On Microsoft Sites
11th November 2009
A new report from comScore measuring spent by users on various Internet sites found that Microsoft is way ahead of the pack. More »
British Consumers Hooked To The Internet
8th October 2009
The image the world has about the stiff upper lip of the British is changing. They have now become very interactive and sociable. According to a report released by uSwitch.com, the average Britisher is now spending almost 30 hours a week online. More »
Google Wave
28th May 2009
Google is in the process of developing a new communication tool called Google Wave, which will help users to better collaborate and communicate with each other. More »
Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm
5th May 2009
The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. More »
UK Government Plans To Monitor All Internet Use
1st May 2009
U.K. police forces have asked all communications firms, including internet service providers and mobile phone companies, to keep records of all Internet contact between people. More »
Are Employees Responsible For Content On Their Websites?
5th February 2009
Four Google executives are facing criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy due to a video that was displayed on YouTube. More »
Young People Abandoning Email And TV
4th February 2009
Change, they say, is the only constant. This seems to apply to the findings of studies conducted on the modes of entertainment pursued by youngsters – teenagers in particular – today. More »
Google About To Push The Pedal On Gdrive
30th January 2009
Stories about the launch of Google’s online data storage solution, dubbed GDrive, have started appearing in the tech press once again. According to various sources the GDrive should finally be launched in 2009. More »
UK Housewives Spending More Leisure Time Online
5th January 2009
The results of a recent survey conducted by global market information group TNS reveals an interesting pattern, about free time spent online, by users across different countries. More »
Google Improves Internet Access In Developing Nations
18th September 2008
In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations. More »
AT&T Provides And Then Discontinues Free WiFi
13th May 2008
Last week, a few iPhone users in the U.S.A reported that they were able to access Wi-Fi through their iPhones via AT&T networks for free, at some of AT&T’s hotspots. A short while later the service was turned off abruptly. More »
New Ofcom Ad Rules May Drive Viewers To The Internet
25th March 2008
UK electronic media watch dog Ofcom has new proposals, which if sanctioned will result in commercial breaks on television getting longer and more frequent. This could turn out to be beneficial for broadcasters, or it could fuel viewer abandonment of television in favour of the Internet. More »
Forecasting The Growth Of Mobile Advertising
28th January 2008
Forecasts about the growth of the mobile advertising market vary wildly from month to month and from one analyst to another. In an attempt to add some clarity to this confusion, Advertiser Perceptions have carried out a survey of marketers and media buyers to generate insight into their advertising plans for the near future. More »
Most Popular Websites In UK and France
5th October 2007
Google leads the pack once again this month, as the most popular website in both France and the UK. ComScore’s latest report tracked the top Internet properties visited by Internet users in the UK and France during the month of August 2007. There are no surprises in the top 10 either side of the channel. Facebook, though, is rising in popularity very quickly in the UK and might become one of the top 10 visited sites very soon. More »
Online Video Consumption Patterns
12th September 2007
Advertising.com have released the results of research conducted during the first half of this year to gather information about online video usage and consumer response to video advertising. 36% of the 500 users surveyed said that their online video usage in 2007 increased since 2006 while 47% said it has remained the same. Over 62% reported viewing streaming video content at least once a week. More »
Growth Of Online Commerce Fuelled By Over-65’s
3rd September 2007
APACS (The UK Association Of Clearing Services) has revealed a five-year snapshot of online banking, telephone banking and Internet shopping in the UK. The surprising results of the study have shown that the growth in online banking has been fuelled by silver surfers. More »
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