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May 12, 2008

Google connects friends across the Web

by Janet Harris
Google has released a preview version of 'Friend Connect', a service which makes it easy to add social networking features to a website. With Friend Connect, a Web publisher can add a small piece of code to their site, to immediately provide social networking features, without having to carry out any complicated programming. With 99% of sites not currently socially enabled, Friend Connect has a big potential market. ...



Lax control lets teenagers buy inappropriate material online

by Lin Freestone
A nationwide survey among 1,000 male and female teenagers aged 13-17 years found that young people are consistently trying to buy inappropriate material online. In thousands of cases across the country they are successfully buying alcohol and adult DVDs as a result of poor levels of age verification. Recent advances in online technology mean websites can now immediately verify anyone who tries to buy or access material which could ...



BT looking to sell its data centres

by David Allen
It looks as if BT is looking to off load their data centres, and they are already in talks with the US based computer maker Hewlett Packard. The price that BT is looking for, for this part of their global organisation is around £1.5 billion. The two companies are already partners in the international market for providing large organisations and companies with IT and Telecoms solutions, having signed an ...



Virgin Media to offer Netgear routers

by David Allen
Following a successful partnership agreement, Netgear are going to provide Virgin Media with their wireless G Routers, which will be named the Virgin Media Wireless Router. This equipment will be offered to all new Virgin Media subscribers for a low price or in some cases will be free. The routers are said to enhance the service being provided through the fibre optic broadband packages. Both companies believe that the ...



Carphone Warehouse to offer £550 million for Tiscali

by David Allen
With the ink still wet on the billion pound cheque from Best Buy, there are plans already being made to spend it. The founder of the Carphone Warehouse Charles Dunstone has confirmed that the company have put in an offer for the UK division of Tiscali. However the offer for Tiscali UK only requires half of the money from Best Buy, the offer being £550 million, leaving a nice ...



May 9, 2008

Virgin stays with Big Brother

by David Allen
Having taken the sponsorship over from the Carphone Warehouse, Virgin Media have once again decided to continue with their Mobile division sponsoring the Big Brother reality programme for series nine. Carphone Warehouse pulled out of the deal with Big Brother when, in the celebrity show in early 2007, the Indian actress Shilpa Shetty suffered abuse at the hands of Jade Goody and some of the other contestants. Sponsoring this type ...



May 8, 2008

Broadband users get usage calculator

by David Allen
With the talk of usage and penalties for when a user goes over their allotted limit, sometimes users may be getting too close for comfort. For many users, not knowing how much time they spend surfing, it is hard to know how close they are getting to their limit. Luckily the internet service provider PlusNet has created a broadband calculator. This is where a user can put in their ...



Carphone Warehouse expands into electrical retail

by David Allen
Always looking to expand into new territories, the Carphone Warehouse has signed a £1.1 billion deal with the US electrical retail giant Best Buy. The deal will see the existing Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK and across Europe stocking up with cheap electrical goods, such as computers and TVs. In this agreement it will see Best Buy take a fifty per cent ownership in the retail division. It ...



Broadband goes down the drain

by David Allen
For some time this method of providing super fast broadband, by feeding the cables through the sewers and drains, have been bounced around, but finally a decision has been made. The first place to benefit from being connected to a network that is capable of obtaining speeds of up to 100 Mbps, is going to be the town of Bournemouth which is situation on the south coast. The work will ...



May 7, 2008

Force.com Investment Challenge announced

by Janet Harris
Salesforce.com, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) specialist, and venture capital firm, Eden Ventures, have announced the £1 million Force.com Investment Challenge. The challenge, which is a UK first, aims to encourage independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop SaaS applications on the Force.com Platform. Force.com is the world’s first Platform as a Service (PaaS). It allows developers to create business applications on-demand and without software, enabling companies to quickly translate their ideas ...



Talisma® Corporation announces email management tool

by Grant Draper


Talisma® Corporation  announces email management tool
Talisma® Corporation , has announced its cost effective email management tool which is said to manage large volumes of email, reduce reponse times, while still increasing a personal and accurate response. Talisma® Corporation will be helping Park Retail, who have up to 2,000 incoming emails a month, on a on going basis, with customer service management, within the email ...



Atheros communications GPS Systems

by Grant Draper

Atheros communications GPS Systems
Atheros communications will be introducing a hardware and software combination of Radio-on-Chip for GPS systems, which identifies mobile phones, Personal Navigation Devices and Personal Media Players. The GPS receiver is single chip using an ORION V3.0 software suite. This will now allow technology such as mobile phones and Navigation systems, to incorporate advanced features, and products from Atheros communications will be launched, mid ...



Great Ideas, SalsaDynasty Social Networking

by Grant Draper
Entertainment Company i.d.e.a.s., which did a half hearted launch of SalsaDynasty.com innovation in Febuary, has announced the official launch of its exclusive salsa store, with retailers all over the world, on May 16th, for its debut in June 2008. SalsaDynasty allows social networking users to share and upload files including videos, instructional videos, and personal profiles, as well as exclusive access for articles, picture galleries, school directories, and calendar ...



Mobile broadband needs to improve

by David Allen
The coverage of 3G throughout the country is being put under the microscope once more, with claims that the 3G signals cannot work properly inside buildings. By doing this it is believed that the whole aspect of mobile broadband will become more appealing. This comes from the research firm In-Stat, who are claiming that this is the biggest challenge that faces 3G at the moment. While there is only a ...



BBC gets success at the Webbys

by David Allen
The Webby Awards are quite prestigious these days, and to take the one that is voted for by the public has to be one of the best, as there can be no talk of loyalties and preferences when there are juries involved. This year's awards will be given out in New York this June, and the BBC will be there to pick up a total of three awards. The ...



May 6, 2008

BT to introduce Blackberry style phone

by David Allen
It has been some time since BT left the mobile communications sector in favour of concentrating on what they do best. But tomorrow will see BT announcing that they are back in the mobile business with the launch of their new Blackberry style PDA which will enable the user to access email and mobile internet. BT has watched their old division, O2, really take on the telecommunications sector; they ...



Mobile broadband prices slashed by 3

by David Allen
As the mobile broadband price war heats up, 3 have stepped in with some severe price cuts, with their existing customers being able to get a 2.8 Mbps mobile broadband connection for the low price of just £5 per month. The Broadband Lite service as it is known, will give the user a limit of 1 Gb of downloads and a free Huawei E169G HSDPA dongle, provided the user ...



UK Beats USA in broadband

by David Allen
In a recent survey it has been found that the UK beats the USA when it comes to broadband. The research comes from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The UK came in 13th out of the 30 countries on the list, with the USA coming in at 15th however the study was based on a basic scoring system and took into consideration the penetration rate, download speed ...



May 2, 2008

PAYG mobile broadband dongle prices cut

by David Allen
The pay as you go mobile broadband supplier 3, have made a conscious effort to attack the market by going in with some really aggressive price cuts for the hardware. The mobile broadband dongles which were originally costing around £100 are now priced at just £50, a nice fifty per cent price cut. However it is not just the pay as you go customers who are going to benefit ...



Unlimited mobile internet access from Vodafone

by David Allen
There has been so much hassle created by the mobile phone packages that allowed internet access that something really needed to be done about it. Now Vodafone have become the first mobile phone company to offer their customers unlimited internet access within their monthly service package. Of course when they say unlimited, what they really mean to say is that the service is “limited unlimited” so instead of ...