YouTube Went 'Live' Over the Weekend
On Friday, Google rolled out their live streaming beta platform on YouTube, simply named “YouTube Live”.
These live events, including sporting events, music concerts and interviews are primarily...
Microsoft Release Bing for iPad Application
Microsoft is attempting to lure iPad users to use its search engine Bing with a new application specifically built for the Apple tablet.
Simply named “Bing for iPad”, this application has been custom...
The Commodore 64 Set to Return
Fans of retro games consoles will soon be able to buy a revitalised version of the Commodore 64.
Commodore is making a Windows PC that fits inside a beige shell, with the exact same look as its...
Google to Invest €3.5m in German Solar Power Plant
Google has announced today its very first clean energy project investment in Europe.
The search engine giant is pumping €3.5 million (£3.06m) in a solar photovoltaic power plant in Brandenburg an der...
Beverly Hills... That's Where Google Want to Be
According to HollywoodReporter.com, Google are set to open an office in Beverly Hills, California.
Google is set to open a 13,465 square foot office to be used by their entertainment division, which...
Google Shutting Down AdWords Position Preference
Google has announced it will be shutting down its AdWords Position Preference option in early May.
On Monday, Google’s chief economist Hal Varian posted an average position analysis concluding that...
AdWords Now Offers Phone Support in USA & Canada
Google have announced they are introducing free phone support for their USA and Canada-based AdWords customers.
Their new specialist call centre is open Monday-Friday 9am-8pm Eastern Time, and only...
Bing Now a Default Firefox Search Option
Following the release of Mozilla Firefox 4 search browser, there is now the option to setup Bing as your default search option.
This puts Bing alongside the other default options; Google, Yahoo,...
Twitter to offer brands Facebook-style pages
To increase advertising, Twitter is considering creating Facebook-style branded pages.
Currently all brands can get are free accounts, or Promoted Accounts which allow the sponsoring of hashtags...
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All the Web to Shut Down in Less Than 4 Days
Having been purchased by Yahoo over 7 years ago, AllTheWeb.com is living its last few days, before officially being shutdown and redirect to Yahoo! Search on April 4th.
The internet search engine...
Microsoft Taking Google Complaint to the European Commission
Microsoft is set to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission.
The multinational corporation claims that Google used its dominant position in the search market to...
Government Considers UK Net Controls
The government is speaking to Internet Service Proviers (ISPs) about potentially blocking access to websites deemed to aid people infringe copyright.
With help of ISPs and content markets, the...
Improved Contextual Targeting Ads on the Google Display Network
Using the Google Display Network, you can now specific topics to contextually target your ads to pages. With this new option, you can reach from over 1,750 topics and sub-topics to target your ads....
Google AdWords Language Targeting Update
There are five languages in Google AdWords that you can uniquely target by their characters; Greek, Hebrew, portions of Japanese, Korean and Thai.
From April, if you’re targeting any of the above...
Ofcom Moves to Cut Home Phone and Broadband Prices
Telecoms regulator Ofcom has made a move to bring down the cost of home telephone and broadband services.
Ofcom have revised the rates that Openreach, which managers BT’s network, can charge other...
Google to be Audited on Privacy After Buzz Complaints
Following a violation of “its own privacy promises”, Google will be subjected to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that the search engine...
Google Talk Guru: Instant Messaging Search Engine
Google Talk Guru is the giant search engine’s latest experiment to bring search results into instant messaging. Added to Google Labs today, it appears to be work in progress at the moment.
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Spotify: Another Victim of Malware Attack
Music streaming service Spotify has been made to apologise to users after one of their advertisements was displayed containing a virus to some of its users.
The advertisement appeared within Spotify’...
Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Rejoins Twitter
Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey, who was pushed out of the company when chief executive back in 2008, is set to return full time to lead product development.
He replaces fellow co-founder Evan...
Apple iPhones Hit by BST Alarm Glitch
Some iPhone owners may have gained back their hours sleep in expense for being late on Monday morning after a glitch caused their alarms to malfunction.
iPhone users found their wake-up alert coming...
Research Help Improve Phone Storage
Researchers have helped create a device to improve memory storage for technology including MP3s, smartphones and cameras.
The device uses a tiny mechanical arm that translates data into electrical...
Rustock Run by Small Team
The infamous Rustock botnet which sent up to 30 billion spam messages a day, may have been run by just two or three people.
Early analysis following raids to knock out the spam network suggests that...
Cyber Security Summit Signs UK-US University Deal
A university deal to train a new generation of experts in fighting off criminal and terrorist IT attacks has been agreed at a conference on cyber security in Cardiff.
The summit came to the...
Microsoft Spend $7.5m on Nortel Web Addresses
Microsoft has offered to pay $7.5m (£4.7m) for bankrupt telecoms firm Nortel for its web addresses.
The 666,624 IP version 4 web addresses were put up for auction as part of the selloff of Nortel’s...
Google Encouraging TV Show Owners to Tag Videos
Google is pushing TV show owners/providers to start tagging their online videos with new fields that are available for both video sitemaps and mRSS feeds.
Specific data for identifying the show/...
England Design and Technology Classes “Out of Date”
Education inspectors Ofsted have stated too many design and technology teachers at schools in England are failing to keep pace with global technological advances.
The report on the teaching of design...
Search Direct Launched by Yahoo to Rival Google Instant
Significant buzz surrounded Yahoo's PR offices yesterday as Yahoo's CTO Blake Irving introduced "Search Direct" to the world as a challenger to Google Instant.
Whilst hot off the press,...
Google Books Agreement Blocked by US Court
An agreement between Google and publishers over the publication of books online has been blocked by a US court.
The web’s leading search engine has made millions of books available online via its...
14 Million+ Download Firefox 4
Over fourteen million people have downloaded the latest version of Mozilla Firefox so far since its release on Tuesday.
Mozilla, which makes this second most-popular web browser has been keeping a...
New Features in New Mozilla Firefox 4
Mozilla have launched Firefox 4 – with the aim to deliver a fast, sleek and customisable browser to its more than 400 million worldwide users.
Mozilla Firefox 4 is now available to download for...
Google AdSense to Load Quicker
Google has announced that their AdSense Ads now load faster for publishers worldwide.
After running tests, Google noticed AdSense were adding, on average, 12% to the time it took to load various...
Google Street View is Legal in Germany
German International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle has reported that Google Street View is in fact legal in Germany.
Last Tuesday, the Berlin State Supreme Court (“Kammergericht” as it’s known locally...
Pornography Domain .xxx Given Final Approval
Internet overseer Icann have given the final approval for the creation of an internet domain dedicated to pornography.
Icann had initially approved the application last year, but carried out further...
Costs Rising to Deal with Security Breaches
Security breaches are costing more to deal with, suggests security software provider Symantec.
The report found that on average, data breaches cost UK firms around £1.9m annually.
These expenses are...
New Google Analytics platform
Yesterday at the Google Analytics User Conference in San Francisco a new version of Google Analytics was anounced, which has been given to a small group or users to trial.
The new version comes as a...
Social media becomes largest online activity
Social networking has overtaken entertainment as the most popular online activity in the UK.
According to figures from Experian Hitwise, social networks received 2.4bn visits during January 2011,...
Twitter activity levels are 'soaring'
With the 5 year anniversary of the first Tweet approaching, Twitter says user activity is soaring, and here’s the numbers...
3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the...
Google starts wordcount experiment
Google tests a new feature that shows the approximate number of words next to certain search results. The word count is usually displayed for articles, but only for a small number of results. You’ll...
Google admits to 'whitelist'
On Friday Google admitted that it uses whitelists to manually override its search algorithms, more than a year after its European corporate counsel denied the existence of whitelists when defending...
Xbox 360 Kinect into Guinness World Records
The Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 sensor system has gone into the Guinness World Records as the fasting-selling consumer electronics device on record. More than 10 million copies of the product have...
Home Wi-Fi “30% Slower” Than Fixed Broadband
Research suggests people who rely on home wi-fi get significantly slower speeds than from fixed broadband connections.
The study carried out ran one million tests over 14,000 wi-fi connections across...
Websites face restrictions on cookies
European laws coming into action on the 26th of May state that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files called "cookies".
Businesses...
Microsoft AdCenter to Add Quality Score Rating
From spring, Microsoft AdCenter will have its own Quality Score to aid users in optimising their campaigns, Microsoft has announced.
Main features:
Quality Score will be on a 1-10 scale, and be...
Google Purchases BeatThatQuote.com for £38m
Google has made the purchase of UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m.
BeatThatQuote.com is a price comparison website for credit card rates, loans, insurance services and mortgage...
RAE Warns the UK "Over-Reliant" on GPS Signals
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) has warned that the UK may have become dangerously over-reliant on satellite-navigation signals.
The Amademy’s main fear is that too many applications have...
Postman First UK Cyber Security Champ
Dan Summers, a postman from Wakefield has been crowned Britain’s first cyber security champion in a government-backed competition that aimed at amateur experts in the field.
The scheme was setup to...
New: Advertising on Skype
Starting this week, Skype have launched advertising on Skype, which will appear in the Home tab.
The following details have been released by Skype:
We’re [Skype] working with some great advertisers...
Leading South Korean Websites Hit by DDoS Attacks
Some of the leading website’s in South Korea have been hit by a series of cyber attacks.
Those websites hit include Government ministries, the National Assembly, major banks, military headquarters...
Google Hit by 50+ Virus-Infected Apps
Google has withdrawn more than 50 applications from the official Android Marketplace after they had been found to contain a virus.
Studies suggested these malicious applications were carbon copies of...
