February 9, 2010
BT has announced that it now has a network of a million wi-fi hotspots across the UK and Ireland.
It reckons this is the most expansive wi-fi network in the country, and it has grown considerably in the last six months.
Just half a year ago, BT had 500,000 hotspots on its roster, so the company has managed to double that figure since.
These hotspots reportedly consist of 860,000 home hubs, ...
BT now has a million wi-fi hotspots
by Darren Allan
Google prepares real-time status updates
by Darren Allan
O2’s free broadband offer extended
by Darren Allan
CEOP and Microsoft produce child-friendly browser
by Darren Allan
February 8, 2010
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Some of Egypt’s Islamic leaders have issued a religious Fatwa against social networking site Facebook.
BBC Monitoring is quoting Arab-language newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi saying that some Egyptian religious clerics are calling for Facebook to be a prohibited site.
Shaykh Abd-al-Hamid al-Atrash, the former chairman of the Fatwa Commission in Al-Azhar University, issued a Fatwa on Feb 5 that has aroused “a loud clamour on the Egyptian ...
Egypt announces Facebook Fatwa
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Disney Channel internet radio launched in France
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BT has half the UK hooked up to 24Mbps
by Darren Allan
Want broadband? That’ll be £37,000, please
by Darren Allan
BT will open fibre network to rivals
by Darren Allan
February 5, 2010
The “VodafoneUK” Twitter account was the victim of a rogue staff member posting an offensive tweet this afternoon.
The post was disparaging to homosexuals, and stated the user's intention to go out chasing women. In slightly more concise terms than that.
At first, Vodafone followers assumed the account had been hacked, but Vodafone clarified the issue when it removed the tweet, and responded to many complaints by tweeting:
“We weren't hacked. ...
Vodafone employee tweets offensively on company account
by Darren Allan
Happy birthday to Facebook
by Darren Allan
Criminals on Facebook part two
by Darren Allan
Adobe hits back over Apple’s Flash comments
by Darren Allan
February 4, 2010
RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research) has published its latest round of radio related statistics.
And as far as digital radio is concerned, although listening figures are up year-on-year, that's not the case in comparison to the previous quarter.
Year-on-year, the amount of digital radio listeners increased by 14%, to a total share of 20.9% of all radio listeners.
However, in the previous quarter that figure had been 21.1%, so has slipped ...
Slight dip in digital radio listeners
by Darren Allan
New Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered
by Darren Allan
February 2, 2010
It seems that the funding of the BBC will be going under the microscope should the Conservatives win the general election.
All of the cash coming in through the TV Licence fee seems to be just too appealing and could be used to help fund other projects as well as going towards funding the BBC.
One of the main projects that appears to require funding is the rollout of fibre ...
A Tory government may use TV Licence for broadband
by David Allen
February 1, 2010
Amazon stood its ground when publisher Macmillan announced it wanted to charge its own price for its electronic format best-sellers on the Kindle store.
For a couple of days, anyway. Now the company has done a u-turn, and bowed to Macmillan's desire to set their own prices between $12.99 and $14.99 (rather than Amazon's $9.99 standard).
In a statement, Amazon said: “We want you to know that ultimately, however, we ...
Amazon caves in to publisher in e-book price row
by Darren Allan
Conservatives vow widespread 100Mbps broadband by 2017
by Darren Allan
Google gives IE6 the boot
by Darren Allan
January 29, 2010
The Guardian has announced that it has broken the record for the most web traffic on a UK newspaper site.
In December almost 37 million readers perused the Guardian's musings on events around the world.
In fact, the paper had broken the record in November, so this is the second month in a row of massive traffic for the site (with over a 3% increase in December).
The latest figure represents ...
Guardian sets newspaper site traffic record
by Darren Allan