FarmVille Developers Open Office in Dublin
The world’s largest social games developer, Zynga, best known for creating the FarmVille game for Facebook has opened an office in Dublin, Ireland.
With over 250 million monthly users, the company...
Google Adds Flight Schedules to Search Results
In time for the summer getaways, Google has added a new feature that pops up at the top of your results when doing relevant searches for flights.
For example, searching for London Flights brings up...
Google to Start Charging for Directions Location Extensions
Google has announced it will start charging for searchers clicking on the directions of the location extensions founds on some of their AdWords ads.
The Location Extensions feature adds an address...
UK Websites Given a Year for New Directive
Following the EU law change on web cookies, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has given UK websites a year to comply with the laws.
The new directives come into action on the 26th of may...
Apple users caught out by fake security
A program called MACDefender has been gaining victims as more and more Apple users download it.
The creators of MACDefender worked on getting the site high in search results for unrelated phrases....
Sony Offers PlayStation Network Package as an Apology
Sony has offered incentives to return to their network following the recent major attack on the PlayStation network that exposed details of 77 million users.
Their incentive package offers two free...
Bing Adds More Facebook 'Likes' to Search Results
Microsoft Bing has taken another step towards becoming a “social engine” as it has further emphasized social content through more integration of Facebook and ‘Likes’ data.
These additional changes to...
Personalise Your Google News with New Settings
Next time you go to the Google News Settings page you will see two new options for controlling the news you see and how often you see these on the homepage of Google News.
As well as the More news...
Sony Relaunches PlayStation Network
As of yesterday, Sony has begun restoring its online PlayStation video game network.
Sony has made this move more than three weeks after they discovered a huge security breach that resulted in the...
Lady Gaga First to Pass 10m Twitter Followers Mark
Pop singer and fashion icon, Lady Gaga has become the first user to go over 10 million followers on the social networking and microblogging service, Twitter. Yes, I follow her on Twitter myself.
She...
Facebook Paid PR Firm for Anti-Google Campaign
Facebook has been caught paying a top public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller to plan negative stories about Google in the mid over in the USA.
Burson-Marsteller are one of the world’s largest PR...
Websites Must Ensure Cookies Comply with UK Law
On May 26th, European privacy laws on the use of cookies come into force in the United Kingdom to allow people more control over what data websites gather about them.
Websites need to be sure their...
Twitpic Irritates Users Over Copyright Change
Microblogging picture posting service Twitpic has apologised to its users after seemingly claiming copyright on every images its users upload.
A row stemmed over photographs uploaded to Twitpic...
Google to Release Chrome Laptops in June
Google will release its new Chrome browser-driven laptops in June, Chromebook.
Co-found Sergey Brin has hailed these new laptops as a "new model of computing". Acer and Samsung will be the...
Google Street View to Launch in Poland before Euro 2012
In early June, the Polish streets of Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Krakow will be photographed by Google’s Street View cars.
Google Street View is to publish these at the start of next year, to...
Google to Quash StreetView in Switzerland?
Following a recent Swiss court decision that requires Google to guarantee 100% anonymity of faces and number plates in StreetView, the leading search engine says it may drop the service in...
Google Claims More Accurate Traffic Estimates in AdWords
Google have announced an update to their traffic estimates algorithm found within AdWords.
The result of this update according to Google, is that they will provide us with better statistics for...
PlayStation Network to Restart This Month
Sony plans to restart its PlayStation Network in full by the end of May.
The multinational company shut down its online video game network on April 20 after it discovered a major security breach. ...
Google Braces to Pay $500m in Ad Probe
Google’s advertising system is under investigation by the US Justice Department.
The leading search engine said that it had put aside $500m (£306m) to settle any potential charges.
The investigation...
Google Releases “High-Quality” Site Guidance
Following the “Panda update” that improved the rankings for a large number of high-quality websites, Google appear to be focussed on the quality of websites in their results these days.
Google has...
Microsoft in Talks to Buy Skype
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Microsoft is in talks to buy the internet phone service, Skype.
The deal could be worth up to $8bn (£4.9bn) according to the USA paper, which would make it...
TalkTalk to Offer Website Blocking
Internet service provider TalkTalk is to offer customers the opportunity of filtering malicious or offensive material out of their broadband service as they claim to be the first major provider to...
comScore Releases Top European Web Properties Rankings for March 2011
comScore, an internet marketing research company has released an overview of the Internet usage in Europe in March 2011.
363.7 million unique people went online during this period (age 15+), with...
Sony Hire Detectives Following Security Breach
Following a breach of security on the PlayStation network, Sony has brought investigators on board.
Cyber-security detectives from Guidance Software and Data Forte, as well as others have been...
News on Osama Bin Laden Raid Broke on Twitter
The raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was first revealed on Twitter.
IT Consultant Sohain Athar, living in Abbottabad, wrote that a helicopter was hovering overhead before the assault began. He...
UK Digital Book Sales Soar
Figures from the Publishers Association show sales of digital books in the UK are soaring.
The sale of ebooks and audio book downloads shot up from £4m to £16m in 2010.
Academic and professional...
Senior Police Officer Urges Cyber-Stalking Laws Review
A senior police officer has called on the government to review the laws on cyber-stalking in the UK. He believes they are not fit for purpose.
Gary Shewan, Greater Manchester Assistant Chief...
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious from Yahoo
The founders of video-sharing website YouTube have purchased the bookmarking service Delicious, from Yahoo.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen sold YouTube to Google Inc. for $1.65bn (£883m) in November 2006...
Microsoft Profit Jumps 31% Thanks to Office Sales
Microsoft has reported a sharp jump in quarterly profits, thanks to large sales of its Office applications. These profits come despite a drop in sales of its Windows operating system.
Net income for...
Good Job I Chose Xbox (PlayStation Data Stolen)
Sony has sent out a warning to its PlayStation Network users that their personal information, including credit card details, could have been stolen.
The multinational corporation has said that the...
Say Goodbye to the Typewriter
Joining another recently-discarded technology, floppy disks (although still on display as the Save Icon in Microsoft Word), as of today the typewriter will no longer be produced anywhere in the world...
Sony to Release Android Tablets
Sony has announced plans to launch two table computers that will use the Google Android operating system.
The devices, simply known as S1 and S2 are set to go on sale towards the end of the year....
Yahoo! Purchases TV Sharing App
Yahoo! has announced a deal to purchase TV-sharing start-up company IntoNow.
This comes as part of Yahoo!’s plans to increase its social media presence after revenue and profits have fallen.
The...
Facebook Launches 'Social Deals'
In an attempt to challenge Groupon and LivingSocial, Facebook is releasing its second deals program.
Named 'Social Deals', the new effort closely resembles Groupons daily deals.
These new Social...
Yahoo! to Pull the Plug on Buzz Tomorrow
With a lack of attention, profit, and success, Yahoo! Buzz is set to be put to bed tomorrow (Thursday).
The official statement reads:
“Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of...
Netherlands want Google Street View Changes
According to Dow Jones, Google may face fines of up to €1 million (£886k) from authorities in the Netherlands should it fail to comply with a new set of data protection demands attached to Street...
Google Invests $100m in another Clean Energy Source
Following a recent investment in a German solar power plant, Google has now invested approximately $100 million (£61.14m) in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm near Arlington, Oregon, USA.
Anticipated to...
Google Instant Amongst Google Toolbar 7 Features
As one of Google’s new features on Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer 8 and 9.
To activate Google Instant, you can do so via the Toolbar Options menu. Once on, Instant works in the same way as it does...
Microsoft Release Panoramic Photo App
Microsoft have released a panoramic photo app named Photosynth that allows users to capture panoramas of our favourite places and share them with friends, and even across the globe with Bing Maps....
Google Q1 Revenues: $8.58bn
Google has seen a sharp rise in its first-quarter earnings as the search engine giant has reported $6.54bn in net revenue in the first quarter. This is up 29% from $5.06bn during the same time...
Google Ad Innovations Released in 6 More Countries
Google have released Ad Innovations in 6 more countries; the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Brazil.
At the Ad Innovations site you can explore new Google AdWords marketing...
Microsoft Expanding Streetside to Europe
Microsoft has begun work on its own version of Google’s Street View, named Streetside – across Europe.
Their cars, fitted with cameras have started taking pictures around London and will start...
Sweden is Most ICT Benefiting Country
A study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed that Sweden and Singapore are the most competitive countries when it comes to the digital economy.
Nordic and Asian economies in general are the...
Child Protection Website 'could have put children at risk'
An investigation is under way by the Information Commissioner’s Office after a website setup to protect children on the internet was found to be insecure.
A member of the public found the form to...
Facebook Shares Its Green Data Centre Technology
Facebook has announced that it will share with its rival companies the secrets behind its new energy-efficient data centre.
The most popular social network’s facility located in Prineville, Oregon is...
Bing Breaks 30% Market Share in USA
Bing-powered sites broke the 30% United States search market share in March 2011 as it rose from 28.48% in February, to 30.01% last month.
In the process, Google lost some of the market share;...
Google Hotpot Going Places
Google has announced that their Hotpot platform is now being merged into Places.
Having introduced Hotpot last November, Google is now going to add their rate and review feature into their Places...
Google Street View Cars to No Longer Visit Germany
Google has stopped Street View photography in Germany and says it has “no plans to launch new imagery on Street View in Germany”.
This announcement has come despite a recent German court ruling that...
Bing Streetside Under Early Objections in Germany
Within days of Microsoft announcing their plans to operate its Streetside map service in Germany, the multinational corporation is having to deal with its first government objection.
Head of the...
New Technique Tracks Net Location within 690 Metres
A computer scientist at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and colleagues at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois have devised a new way of working out where...
