26 February 2009
Experts have pointed out that the government faces a “massive challenge” in its promise to bring UK broadband up to a minimum of 2Mbps (megabits per second) nationwide.
The think tank Point Topic has produced it’s ...
25 February 2009
Google have announced that it is to join Mozilla (who make Firefox) in offering assistance to the European Commission (EC) investigation into alleged anti-competitive behaviour by its rival Microsoft.
The investigation began when a ...
24 February 2009
The Google Mail email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, but the some users as far afield as Australia and India were also affected.
It ...
20 February 2009
Facebook have launched its first social widget for Facebook Connect.
The new "Comments Box" widget lets Facebook users post their opinions about Web sites and blogs to their Facebook profiles and share them with their ...
19 February 2009
Microsoft has unveiled plans to open a chain of branded retail stores around the US, as part of its effort to raise awareness of its products. If the stores prove to be successful in the US it will only be matter of time before we ...
17 February 2009
A new phone based on Google's operating system Android has been unveiled by Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The touchscreen HTC Magic will feature a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS, but no slide-out ...
16 February 2009
Mozilla's Web browsers now command 8.69 percent of the global browser market, according to a recent survey by Dutch analytics company OneStat.com.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the market, with a hefty 86.63 ...
12 February 2009
The Royal Family’s new official website was launched today.
Their first website launched in 1997 and now updated and upgraded it features some very forward thinking features although it's design is simple. It includes a ...
11 February 2009
Today is officially Safer Internet Day 2009 (SID 09) – a day introduced to encourage us all to consider ways of minimizing the dangers associated with children and teenagers using the internet.
It’s good timing as it ...
09 February 2009
The most common problems that users experience on Windows could soon be solved by clicking a “Fix It” button.
Microsoft has started putting the button on its web-based support pages that detail the most common problems hitting ...
06 February 2009
Google have announced its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth. The software includes large areas of the ocean floor and abyssal plains
Users of Google Earth will be able to plunge beneath the ...
05 February 2009
Yahoo has developed an online notepad for its search engine where people will be able to save links, type notes, copy and paste content from Web sites, and then share that information with others via e-mail.
The tool, called Search Pad, ...
04 February 2009
Google Mobile Maps is rolling out a new feature tonight called Google Latitude. It allows you to broadcast your physical location to selected friends, family, and colleagues based on the coordinates of your mobile phone (via GPS or ...
03 February 2009
This could be the biggest innovation in the domain name world since the dot com release; starting from this afternoon at 1500, dot tel domain name will be sold live by Telnic Limited, the registry operator of the new top level domain ...
02 February 2009
The Government has promised that every home in Britain will be guaranteed access to broadband Internet. The plans which were unveiled last week put technology on a par with telephones as an essential service.
Culture Secretary, Andy ...