Internet News
August 30, 2010
The e-book market is a growing one, and with the emergence of the iPad – a recent survey said 41% of tablet owners preferred reading on their Apple gadget to the printed medium – alongside a cheaper Amazon Kindle, that growth is being spurred on.
It also seems that even classic reference works such as the Oxford English Dictionary ...
Online dictionaries to finish off the printed Oxford English?
by Darren Allan
August 28, 2010
The Office for National Statistics produced a report on Internet access yesterday, which showed that 9.2 million people in the UK have never been online. That figure represents 18% of the population, almost one in five.
At least that number was down from the figure the ONS reported in 2009, which was 10.2 million people, indicating that in the ...
ONS says 9.2 million Brits have never been online
by Darren Allan
August 20, 2010
According to Ofcom's recent Communications Market Report 2010, online gaming has now become marginally more popular than downloading music or films.
Very marginally, mind you. The statistics from the organisation's research showed that 39% of those surveyed played games online, which was up from 38% last year. 38% professed to downloading songs and films, which was down from 39% ...
Gaming now edges music and movies in online popularity, says Ofcom
by Darren Allan
July 27, 2010
In a not-really-all-that-surprising set of survey results, Birmingham Midshire Savings has discovered that 51% of Brits never leave home without their mobile. And the BM Savings research also indicated that 44% of folks said they couldn't live without their mobile phone, they were that addicted to it. The survey, which was highlighted by The Mail Online, also revealed that 75% of respondents ...
Half of Brits are mobile phone addicts
by Darren AllanIn a not-really-all-that-surprising set of survey results, Birmingham Midshire Savings has discovered that 51% of Brits never leave home without their mobile. And the BM Savings research also indicated that 44% of folks said they couldn't live without their mobile phone, they were that addicted to it. The survey, which was highlighted by The Mail Online, also revealed that 75% of respondents ...
July 26, 2010
A recent survey by financial services provider KPMG has discovered one clear fact: British people don't want to fork out money for online content.
Or at least, UK citizens are much less likely to want to pay for the privilege of visiting a site than people of other nationalities.
The Independent reports that 81% of Brits surveyed said they would ...
UK surfers don’t want to pay for online content
by Darren Allan
July 20, 2010
When News International announced that it would be charging its online readership to access the Times online, industry experts forecast that the readership would fall away by around ninety per cent.
In fact, it seems that the experts underestimated the loyalties of the Time readership as figures released show that the Times Online has lost sixty six per cent ...
Times Online loses 66% of readers
by David Allen
July 8, 2010
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has now launched a new set of guidelines designed to protect the personal information that all internet users and organisations store online.
The Personal Information Online Code of Practice informs organisations that store data online, how they are able to use this data and that there is a need for transparency in the way ...
Online privacy rules introduced
by David Allen
July 1, 2010
It seems that there's been a surge of older people getting online – the so-called silver surfers, those over 50 who are on the net.
According to UKOM, the The UK Online Measurement Company (an arm of research experts Nielsen), 1.9 million new surfers got connected to the web in the past year up until May 2010.
Of those folks, ...
Silver surfers thrive as over 50s take to net
by Darren Allan
June 25, 2010
Fairsharemusic is a new music sharing service with charitable ambitions.
It works much like any MP3 downloading store, with the notable exception that half of the site's profits are given to various charities.
These include the British Heart Foundation, Great Ormond Street, Oxfam, Sue Ryder, the WWF, NSPCC and Amnesty amongst others.
You can choose which charity you wish to donate ...
Fairsharemusic new charity music downloading service
by Darren Allan
June 22, 2010
It seems that in May online shopping reached £4.5 billion or the equivalent of £73 person for every person in the UK.
According to the retail sales experts IMRG Capgemini, online shopping is 22 per cent higher than the same period last year and up 3 per cent on the previous month, April.
It seems that although the World Cup ...
Online shopping boosted by World Cup
by David Allen
June 21, 2010
Tomorrow is a very important day for the UK, with the first emergency budget that the country has seen for a long while, which will affect just about everyone in the UK at varying levels.
When the budget is shown live on the TV, it is not always possible to find the points that affect the individual, as each ...
DirectGov to explain budget on Freeview
by David Allen
June 18, 2010
During the past year, over 3.7 billion phishing emails were sent to UK based recipients.
These emails are designed to fool people into revealing their personal or financial details.
According to CPP, a life assistance firm, in the UK alone someone is a victim of this type of crime every seven seconds, with the average financial loss being around ...
Every 7 seconds a web con takes place
by David Allen
June 10, 2010
The BBC has announced that it will be live streaming the entire coverage of the Glastonbury 2010 event.
All of the content across all three stages will be available to stay-at-home festival fans on the BBC website at this location - bc.co.uk/glastonbury.
Content will also be available through the red button service, as well as the usual coverage on BBC2, ...
BBC will show Glastonbury online live
by David Allen
June 8, 2010
During the second world war Bletchley Park, located just outside of Milton Keynes, was one of the country’s best kept secrets, but today the archives collected over the war years are about to be published online.
The work will be carried out by the staff at the Bletchley Park Trust with the help of HP, which will be providing ...
Bletchley Park archives to go online
by David AllenBig Brother 11 will be streamed online
by David Allen
June 5, 2010
ITV have been searching for a commercial and online expert, the company seem to have the answer to their requirements in the former GCap Media boss, Fru Hazlitt.
Fru Hazlitt will now become the managing director of ITV’s commercial and online division when she joins the company on the 2nd August.
This is a new role within the ITV organisation, ...
New online and advertising boss at ITV
by David Allen
May 27, 2010
With the FIFA World Cup in South Africa starting in less than two weeks, for businesses not associated with the football are having to think up alternative methods of attracting customers or risk losing out for three weeks or so.
The DVD rental service LoveFilm, think that they may have the solution to this problem as they launch the ...
Free films from LoveFilm
by David Allen
May 21, 2010
The video on demand (VoD) provider, SeeSaw, which is based on the old Project Kangaroo technology, is moving into the territory of pay TV by offering its users up to a thousand hours of content.
It will cost just 99p to £1.19p for an episode or from £3.99 to £17.99 for an entire series, depending on the amount of ...
SeeSaw offers pay to view service
by David AllenNewspaper archives to go online
by David Allen
May 20, 2010
With the future of the online TV service known as Project Canvas still hanging in the balance with the BBC Trust, it seems that the service is looking for another partner to sign up as a member.
Currently Project Canvas has the BBC, ITV, Channel Four, Five, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva on board, but in order to move the ...
Project Canvas seeks another partner
by David Allen
May 6, 2010
The BBC’s online presence has won two of the so called “Peoples Voice” awards at the Webby awards.
These are awarded in recognition of excellence on the internet.
Winning awards through votes from the public is always better than winning those judged by a panel of industry experts and both awards won by the BBC were in fact voted on ...
Webby win for BBC Online
by David Allen
May 5, 2010
With the general election about to take place tomorrow, the turnout is normally key to how the parties do.
The more people that vote the higher the chances of a different style of government, but a low turnout means most seats will remain in safe hands.
According to a recent survey, in order to get more people voting the ...
Demand for eBallot increases
by David Allen
April 29, 2010
The Cyber Security Challenge UK has been put together by a group of businesses, police and government organisations, in an effort to boost the UK's level of cyber-defence.
The competition began this week, seeking to find those with a real talent for thwarting the “bad guys” on the Internet.
A series of challenges will determine who has the relevant skills ...
UK competition aims to find future cyber-security experts
by Darren Allan
March 17, 2010
The House of Lords has allowed the government’s digital economy bill to slip through its hands by approving it and letting it pass back to the House of Commons for final adjustments and approval.
Yet has enough been said about this bill and do consumers even realise its implications?
It seems that while this bill has been working its way ...
Lords pass the digital economy bill
by David Allen
March 9, 2010
So we're all well aware of the issues surrounding online passwords – and why you should use a difficult to guess series of letters and numbers.
Preferably with some cases thrown in for extra security. And, of course, never use the same passwords for different accounts.
But research from the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh has criticised one largely overlooked ...
Security questions called into question
by Darren AllanWatchdog urges government to refocus broadband strategy
by Darren Allan
March 3, 2010
The UK government has set another target for getting a greater percentage of the UK online.
It's thought that some 12.5 million British citizens, about a fifth of the country, don't have the means to access the Internet.
The government wants to rectify this situation for 60% of those unfortunates (7.5 million people) by the year 2014.
The focus will be ...
Government draws up another plan to get millions online
by Darren Allan
February 24, 2010
ITV is launching a new online shop where fans will be able to buy merchandise related to some of the broadcaster’s top shows, such as Coronation Street, Dancing on Ice and Emmerdale.
The store is being created by ITV Studios Digital Productions and will offer all sorts of products to download.
These will include ringtones, screen savers and wallpapers, ...
ITV selling mobile products
by David Allen
January 26, 2010
It seems such an obvious thing for the BBC to do and yet it has taken so long for the corporation to create an online soap opera based on the hit show Eastenders.
For the BBC everything that it does has to be right, otherwise any mistake or bad call will inevitably come back to haunt them at some ...
E20 gets nearly 2 million views
by David Allen
January 5, 2010
There is no doubt that providing healthcare for the elderly is expensive and yet this is the time when people need to be looked after more than any other time of their lives.
One firm is currently testing a system in the UK that could not only revolutionise the care that patients are getting, but all of this can ...
Philips testing TV doctor
by David Allen
January 4, 2010
It seems that the studios are looking to online digital TV to make a profit rather than releasing content on DVD first.
It used to be the other way around, with the DVD release coming before the shows or films were shown on the television, but in a switch to the current trend, the Showtime cable TV service in ...
Studios looking for digital releases rather than DVD
by David Allen
December 29, 2009
According to recent research it would appear that Video on Demand (VoD) through the television is likely to outperform the traditional method of receiving VoD through a computer.
The research, carried out by WPP's Kantar Media, studied responses from a survey called FutureProof, which asked around 2,500 people aged over 12 about their viewing habits.
The responses included 453 Virgin ...
TV VoD will beat broadband VoD
by David Allen
November 12, 2009
The release of what is expected to be the biggest selling computer game of all time, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare, had some the UK’s broadband providers worrying about the strain on the networks.
What made this even more worrying for the ISPs and the players too, is that if the network failed then there would be no online ...
Broadband takes the Call Of Duty strain
by David Allen
October 30, 2009
The search giant Google is getting into the online music business with the launch of its OneBox service.
The music search business helps users find and buy music online and in order to provide this service Google has partnered with some of the industry's finest such as Lala, iLike, Pandora, Imeem and Rhapsody, to provide a free steaming service.
Users ...
Google launches OneBox service
by David Allen
October 26, 2009
It is claimed that broadband services could be boosted because of the postal strikes, according to the tech site IT Pro.
The technology is there to assist businesses, but there appears to be problem when it comes to understanding exactly what is out there to help.
The problem for businesses is two fold; firstly there is the potential of ...
Post Strikes could mean consumers turning to the web
by David Allen
October 23, 2009
As if there is not enough coverage for the top BBC show Eastenders, a spinoff is being planned for a twenty part series following the lives of four new teenage characters.
However, before viewers reach for the remote, this spin off series is for the web and will be written by thirteen new writers aged between seventeen and twenty ...
Online presence for Eastenders
by David Allen
October 16, 2009
The Office of Fair Trading is looking into some of the pricing practices that some online stores and comparison sites regularly use.
The study is going to look into all aspects of online shopping.
One of the practices complained about is “Drip Pricing”.
This is commonly used by airlines, when the online price is shown but, in order to ...
OFT to look into online pricing
by David Allen
October 13, 2009
A new report from the Digital Inclusion team says that over ten million adults in the UK have never been online – almost half of that number due to their economic circumstances.
The government funded organisation, whose aim is to help disadvantaged Britons get connected to the Internet, said that because of this situation some of the country's poorest ...
Ten million Brits have never been online
by Darren Allan
October 9, 2009
The Scottish based broadcaster, STV, is lifting the restrictions placed on its online catch up TV service, allowing it to be viewed by audiences around the world for the first time.
Removing the UK-only restriction opens up regional programmes that are rarely seem outside of Scotland to ex-pats and other interested viewers, through the STV Player.
STV has been spending ...
STV goes global
by David Allen
October 8, 2009
Much has been made of plans for the World Cup Qualifying match between the Ukraine and England being shown exclusively on the internet.
The main reason for this is that it should have been shown live on pay-TV broadcaster Setanta, which went into administration in June, and since no other broadcaster wishes to pay to show the match, ...
Online football fans urged to check speeds first
by David Allen
October 1, 2009
For the first time the online advertising spend has overtaken the advertising spend on TV, with the search engine Google making the most of this revenue stream.
The online advertising spend increased by 4.6 per cent during the first six month of the year, taking it up to £1.7 billion, whereas advertisers spent £1.6 billion on television advertising, down ...
Online advertising overtakes TV advertising
by David AllenHooked Brits spend 30 hours a week online
by Darren Allan
September 8, 2009
There is a growing demand from the younger users of the internet for help and advice on how to keep their personal details safe online.
According to the regulator Ofcom, in a survey of youngsters aged between eleven and sixteen it was found that fifty four per cent needed some sort help or advice on keeping personal data that ...
Young broadband users want info on privacy
by David AllenAreas of high online credit fraud exposed
by David Allen
September 4, 2009
The BBC should start charging for its online services such as the iPlayer and BBC News, according to the boss of Five, Dawn Airey.
The BBC is fast becoming a victim of its online success, with iPlayer a great example for all to see, and this online expansion just keeps growing.
The issue for other online content providers is that ...
BBC should charge for online services
by David Allen
September 3, 2009
Over 1.7 million Brits risk being caught out by cyber-criminals because they use the same password for all their online accounts. New research found that nearly half (46%) of UK adults use the same password to log in to banking, shopping, and social networking sites. A further 54% confessed to using variations of the same password across all sites. Nearly one in seven ...
Password promiscuity puts Brits at risk of cyber-fraud
by David MastersOver 1.7 million Brits risk being caught out by cyber-criminals because they use the same password for all their online accounts. New research found that nearly half (46%) of UK adults use the same password to log in to banking, shopping, and social networking sites. A further 54% confessed to using variations of the same password across all sites. Nearly one in seven ...
July 21, 2009
With the school summer holidays underway there are fears that kids will be spending more time online, and therefore parents and carers should be aware of the dangers, according to the regulator Ofcom.
With access to the internet greatly improved, around sixty six per cent of children aged between five and seven will be using the internet at home. ...
Ofcom launches kids online safety video
by David Allen
July 8, 2009
The amount of video being watched online by UK consumers has increased by a massive forty seven per cent over the past year, according to comScore.
It is a bit of a mixed bag as to what sort of content is being viewed, but it is YouTube that still remains on top with a massive fifty eight per cent ...
Online video viewing grows by 47%
by David Allen
June 25, 2009
Every now and then an issue arises that sparks parents' interest in what their children are getting up to online.
This can be a news story or something they may have heard from other parents, but the good thing is that they take more control over children’s online activities.
However this may not last, probably due to work and other ...
Parents not monitoring kids’ online activities
by David Allen
June 12, 2009
The internet service provider BT is looking to help new businesses set up their own websites.
Customers already with BT, on the Business Total Broadband Option3, will be able to sign up for the Online Start Kit for just £5 per month.
However, for new customers, the pack is going to cost £199.
Business customers will be getting access ...
BT launches online business kit
by David Allen
