Piracy suspects to have to pay to appeal
People thought to be pirating online content will have to pay to appeal against the allegations, in plans revising the UK’s Digital Economy Act. Suspects will also have just 20 days in which to appeal...
View ArticleUK set for “fastest broadband “ in Europe
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has repeated his vision for the UK to have the speediest broadband across Europe, despite heavy criticism from other voices. Hunt reiterated his intention to bring...
View ArticleWomen more likely to suffer from internet addiction
Recent research conducted by scientists based at the University of Bonn has revealed that internet addicts are more likely to be female. Evidence has been discovered of a genetic variant which is...
View ArticleBerners-Lee web index rates Sweden first, UK third
A new global web index, created by father of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee, has ranked the state of the internet in more than sixty countries, with Sweden sitting at the top of the list. The top...
View ArticleGoogle moves to compare car insurance
A new service has been launched by Google to compare prices of car insurance, making a pledge to customers of improved privacy and transparency. When users type the phrase “car insurance” into Google’s...
View ArticleUK software company mocks ICO
A web software firm has publicly taunted the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), over what it calls its failure to enforce new tracking cookie laws. On its site, nocookielaw.com, Silktide,...
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Emoticons celebrate hitting thirty :-)
September 19th saw the thirtieth anniversary of the first ever use of ‘emoticons’, with many taking the opportunity to celebrate. Unsurprisingly, the first reported use of the the ubiquitous ‘smiley...
View ArticleWiki women to get Royal approval
The profiles of many of the greatest women in history are to be updated on Wikipedia, as the Royal Society hosts what it dubs an ‘edit-a-thon’. Part of the Royal Society’s annual celebrations of the...
View Article404 pages to help search for missing children
There are a number of schools of thought as regards to swhether 404 error pages are bad for SEO. Some in the field believe they should be avoided at all costs, with every page 301′d feeding back to a...
View ArticleWorking from home continues to rise in popularity
According to recent research, there is a growing drive for working from home. In a study of Londoners over the summer, where residents of the capital and the Home Counties were asked to take a more...
View ArticleOFT: Third of online retailers guilty of breaking consumer laws
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has called for urgent action to be taken after recent analysis suggested that over a third of online retailers could be breaching consumer laws. The checks carried out,...
View ArticleWorld governments object to new net names
Over 250 objections, by states across the world, have been raised against the new net names, planned for a roll out next year. The Government Advisory Committe (Gac), which represents many of the...
View ArticleNew growth for techco’s launching in 2013
The world’s second largest provider of cloud hosting services has announced that it is to launch a programme to support fledgling tech companies in the UK. Rackspace, which has launched similar...
View ArticleBitcoin workers will have to double their efforts
Those people that are earning bitcoins will soon be forced to work twice as hard for their payment, as automatic safeguards in the software are triggered to protect the currency from devaluation. Since...
View ArticleUN net natter kicks-off in Dubai
Nearly 200 governments from across the world are in Dubai presently, working to thrash out a United Nations sponsored ‘communications treaty’. Despite the UN saying that moves are not being taken to...
View ArticleUK net shoppers top global list
A recent survey in December 2012 has found that the UK is obsessed with internet shopping, far outstripping the activities of other major western countries. The figures, supplied by communications...
View ArticleUK leads the way as a digital nation
According to recent research carried out by Ofcom, the UK leads the way when it comes to watching TV programmes and shopping on the internet. The International Communications Market report is based on...
View ArticleMajority of UK kids have permanent internet connection
A recent study by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), has shown that just under 90 percent of kids in the UK have access to the internet. Though not clear in this study what their habits are when...
View ArticleNow that’s what I call outsourcing
There are a great many things that businesses choose to outsource today; from IT services to office cleaning. One area that many firms outsource is SEO, largely because of the greater exposure it can...
View ArticleNew .uk domain launch cancelled
A three-month consultation into the introduction of a new domain for UK web addresses has found that there is not enough support from the business community, leaving Nominet to shelve its plans. Under...
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