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Tuesday, December 9

Crew sacked over Facebook posts
by
Miles
on Tue 09 Dec 2008 11:33 PM GMT
Thirteen cabin crew staff have been sacked by Virgin Atlantic over their use of a social networking website, it has ... more »

Facebook users hit by virus
by
Miles
on Tue 09 Dec 2008 11:30 PM GMT
Facebook users hit by virus |
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Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold ... more »
Wednesday, November 5

Can technology spin loose from the downward spiral?
by
Miles
on Wed 05 Nov 2008 01:47 AM GMT
Tech industry cycles have often spun upwards even as the rest of the economy slips into recession. Will 2008 prove an exception? more »

Google and Yahoo! revise ad deal terms
by
Miles
on Wed 05 Nov 2008 12:52 AM GMT
The new plan comes as the two online-advertising giants face mounting pressure to ditch or revise the pact by regulators more »
Tuesday, November 4

Google caught up in row over gay marriage vote
by
Miles
on Tue 04 Nov 2008 05:23 PM GMT
Google has become embroiled in a row about gay marriage after opponents of same-sex unions in California used the search ... more »
Sunday, November 2

Gordon Brown says government cannot ensure data safety
by
Miles
on Sun 02 Nov 2008 09:56 PM GMT

Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the ... more »
Sunday, October 26

eBay buyer faces libel action after leaving negative feedback
by
Miles
on Sun 26 Oct 2008 09:57 AM GMT
A man is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction website ... more »
Wednesday, October 22

Yahoo! axes 1500 jobs as profits fall 64%
by
Miles
on Wed 22 Oct 2008 02:19 PM BST
Yahoo!, the online search engine, is to slash 10 per cent of its workforce in a move to cut costs ... more »
Saturday, October 18

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones
by
Miles
on Sat 18 Oct 2008 11:51 PM BST
Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans ... more »

Internet phone calls are crippling fight against terrorism
by
Miles
on Sat 18 Oct 2008 11:49 PM BST
The huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, ... more »
Wednesday, September 24

IP address timebomb
by
Miles
on Wed 24 Sep 2008 07:03 PM BST
IP addresses are as crucial to websites as street addresses are for businesses but some network engineers predict that we will run out of them in two years. What is the solution? more »

Father of the internet: 'web is running out of addresses'
by
Miles
on Wed 24 Sep 2008 06:59 PM BST
The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, ... more »
Tuesday, September 23

Google phone - the first review
by
Miles
on Tue 23 Sep 2008 10:27 PM BST
Mousetrap blog: A $250,000 snub for the Google phone
The T-Mobile G1 is great. The iPhone is better.
Google’s ... more »
Tuesday, September 2

Ex-Google staff launch rival search engine, Cuil
by
Miles
on Tue 02 Sep 2008 10:47 PM BST
A group of former Google employees is hoping to outmanouvre their old boss by developing a rival search engine they ... more »

Google takes on Microsoft with browser
by
Miles
on Tue 02 Sep 2008 10:23 PM BST
Google will today launch its own web browser called Google Chrome in another expansion by the search giant into the ... more »

Will bookworms get their teeth into the Sony Reader?
by
Miles
on Tue 02 Sep 2008 10:17 PM BST
Outside the British Library the slim volume in my hands could mark the beginning of the end for slim volumes. ... more »

Nokia takes on Apple with 'all you can eat' music
by
Miles
on Tue 02 Sep 2008 10:11 PM BST
A phone that lets owners download an unlimited number of tracks and keep them indefinitely aims to rein in the iPod more »
Saturday, August 2

Students who cheated their way into business school will be expelled
by
Miles
on Sat 02 Aug 2008 09:19 AM BST
Thousands of business-school students in Britain and abroad are being investigated for cheating. In the latest scandal to hit the ... more »
Wednesday, July 30

Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker, loses appeal over US extradition
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:39 PM BST
A British man accused of the biggest military computer hack in history is facing extradition after losing his last-ditch appeal ... more »

Amazon takes on eBay with PayPal rival
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:32 PM BST
A new online service will allow retailers to offer customers one-click payment by selling via Amazon's website more »

Google power 'less than thought' as eBay starts boycott
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:29 PM BST
There was encouraging news for the growing army of Google-haters yesterday when a leading internet advertising researcher suggested that the ... more »

Amazon launches music download service to challenge iTunes
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:25 PM BST
Amazon MP3, which will offer songs without copy protection for as little as 89c, is likely present a threat to iTunes, analysts say more »

The 100-year-olds who use Wikipedia and Google
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:23 PM BST
Three in every hundred centenarians have used the online encyclopaedia, and four times that number use the web more »

Overbooked: airlines face a web rebellion
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:19 PM BST
Technology is giving airline passengers the power to organise resistance to irritating practices as overbooking more »

Nintendo profits touch $1bn on Wii phenomenon
by
Miles
on Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:14 PM BST
Nintendo, the Japanese gaming giant, has more than $1 billion (£500 million) of net profit in the first three months ... more »
Thursday, July 24

Internet users to pay £30 annual 'licence fee' to download music
by
Miles
on Thu 24 Jul 2008 09:22 AM BST
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Internet users face being charged an annual "licence fee" of £30 to download music as part of a new crackdown ... more »

Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy
by
Miles
on Thu 24 Jul 2008 09:11 AM BST
Parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms ... more »
Wednesday, July 23

Asprox computer virus infects key government and consumer websites
by
Miles
on Wed 23 Jul 2008 03:28 PM BST
Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, ... more »

Sharp fall in profits increases pressure on Yahoo!
by
Miles
on Wed 23 Jul 2008 12:31 AM BST
Pressure on Yahoo! to complete a deal with a rival such as Microsoft increased last night after the internet search ... more »
Monday, July 21

Millionaire Gary Dean silences gossips by putting divorce deal online
by
Miles
on Mon 21 Jul 2008 09:25 PM BST

When a prominent businessman and friend of the stars divorced the mother of his four children, local gossips said that ... more »

Activist Carl Icahn wins Yahoo! seats in boardroom battle
by
Miles
on Mon 21 Jul 2008 09:18 PM BST
Yahoo! today settled its acrimonious battle with billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who will join the US internet search giant ... more »
Sunday, July 20

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks
by
Miles
on Sun 20 Jul 2008 08:40 AM BST
On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text messages. It was a quiet day but, ... more »
Saturday, July 19

Crocs, The Basement, The Woman, The Fortune!!!!!
by
Miles
on Sat 19 Jul 2008 05:34 PM BST
Whilst this is not web analytics based - I found this an interesting example of how simple things can develop into global successes - literally overnight... more »

Amazon uses all its might to wage price war against publisher
by
Miles
on Sat 19 Jul 2008 04:53 PM BST
A price war is raging between a powerful online bookseller and a leading publisher, with authors caught in the crossfire ... more »

Google UK not immune to economic downturn
by
Miles
on Sat 19 Jul 2008 04:50 PM BST
Google UK not immune to economic downturn
Google's UK turnover fell in the second quarter, its first decline since it ... more »
Wednesday, July 9

How the Google generation thinks differently
by
Miles
on Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:54 PM BST
Digital-age kids process information differently from parents. Our writer admits misjudging how her son was learning more »
Saturday, May 3

Microsoft: we'll keep 'chipping away' at Google
by
Miles
on Sat 03 May 2008 05:01 PM BST
An overhaul of Live Search is the software giant's latest attempt to catch Google, the runaway leader in online services more »

Yahoo! rises on reports that Microsoft deal is near
by
Miles
on Sat 03 May 2008 04:54 PM BST
Microsoft and Yahoo! were in intensive talks last night over securing a takeover agreement that would dissuade the software giant ... more »
Friday, April 11

This is the man to thank when you get a call back
by
Miles
on Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:44 PM BST
Everybody hates phoning a company and being put on hold - a billion calls a year are lost because we just hang up. Henrik Bang makes sure those companies ring us back. more »

Identity Fraud is up 70% in a year (archive)
by
Miles
on Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:17 PM BST
The number of people hit by identity fraud has soared by almost 70 per cent in a year. Methods of ... more »

Mobile Web Rates Fall In Price War (Archive)
by
Miles
on Fri 11 Apr 2008 10:09 PM BST
Mobile phone firms have slashed Internet access costs in a new price war. The cheapest deal fo rht service, which ... more »
Wednesday, April 2

Stop blocking the internet, Olympics committee tells China
by
Miles
on Wed 02 Apr 2008 12:08 AM BST
China’s Great Firewall must be lifted during the Olympic Games to ensure free
access to the rest of the world.
... more »

Google Earth showed protesters way to conquer parliament
by
Miles
on Wed 02 Apr 2008 12:00 AM BST
Demonstrators revealed yesterday that they had used Google Earth to plot their
protest on the roof of the Houses of ... more »
Tuesday, April 1

US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects
by
Miles
on Tue 01 Apr 2008 11:57 PM BST
US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects more »

The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop
by
Miles
on Tue 01 Apr 2008 11:55 PM BST
Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of
being “sniffed” out by ... more »

18-year-old hacker convicted in New Zealand
by
Miles
on Tue 01 Apr 2008 01:39 PM BST
The teenager allegedly led a criminal gang that used malicious software to infect 1.3 million computers worldwide more »
Friday, February 22

Microsoft’s vow to open up fails to impress EU regulators
by
Miles
on Fri 22 Feb 2008 09:45 AM GMT
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is to share more information about its
products and technology with competitors, but its move ... more »
Thursday, February 21

Mum, get out of my Facebook: half of parents have turned into online spies
by
Miles
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:50 PM GMT
Parents who are desperate to find out what their children are up to in their
spare time are joining networking ... more »

Millions of Facebook users ‘leave themselves open to identity theft’
by
Miles
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:44 PM GMT
Millions of members of the social networking site Facebook are allowing
strangers access to their personal information, making them vulnerable ... more »

Facebook: The bluffer’s guide
by
Miles
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:41 PM GMT

Forced to sign up by repeated friend requests? Avoid Facebook faux pas with our five easy rules
In the last ... more »

Who's pressing your buttons on Facebook?
by
Miles
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:34 PM GMT
The Facebook
phenomenon has 62m people hooked, from famous faces to nobodies.
Twenty-four million British adults have signed up to ... more »

Is Facebook finally losing its glow?
by
Miles
on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:31 PM GMT
After months of explosive growth, the number of people visiting Facebook fell for the first time last month
Facebook, the ... more »
Monday, December 17

Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service
by
Miles
on Mon 17 Dec 2007 08:52 PM GMT
Google is to go head-to-head with Wikipedia, the web’s largest
reference work, in a clash of two of the internet’s ... more »

Microsoft challenges Google’s dominance with $50m deal to buy Multimap website
by
Miles
on Mon 17 Dec 2007 08:38 PM GMT
Microsoft has agreed to buy Multimap, the privately owned British company that
is snapping at the heels of Google, the ... more »
Friday, November 23

Software Distribution & Microsoft: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by
Miles
on Fri 23 Nov 2007 03:31 PM GMT
The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft
for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the ... more »
Wednesday, November 21

Corporate Internet Responsibility: Microsoft closes pro-anorexia websites
by
Miles
on Wed 21 Nov 2007 08:31 PM GMT
Microsoft has abruptly closed down four “pro-anorexia” websites in
Spain following a complaint that they were endangering the lives of
... more »
Sunday, October 14

Social Networking - "Gathering of the world's geeks"
by
Miles
on Sun 14 Oct 2007 01:32 AM BST
The chief executives of Facebook, MySpace, eBay and Viacom, among others, are gathering to discuss the future of 'web 2.0' more »

Social Networking - Britain's '11 minutes a day' Facebook habit
by
Miles
on Sun 14 Oct 2007 12:34 AM BST
Britons spend an average of 5.8 hours a month on social networking sites — nearly twice that of any other European country more »

Mobile - Skype in deal with 3 to offer free mobile telephone calls in the UK
by
Miles
on Sun 14 Oct 2007 12:32 AM BST
The attack on the mobile phone market from some of the internet’s biggest names is escalating, with Skype planning to ... more »
Friday, October 12

Social Networking - "Social shopping sites prepare an attack on the high street"
by
Miles
on Fri 12 Oct 2007 11:28 PM BST
For all the talk of a consumer spending slowdown triggered by increased economic uncertainty, Britain's online shopping market is set to continue booming over the next year. More consumer than ever before are supplementing high street shopping more »
Monday, September 3

Social Networking - One in Four children meets and internet stranger
by
Miles
on Mon 03 Sep 2007 11:07 PM BST
Scary article from John Higginson from Metro (London's daily free newspaper). Now I've reported on some of the good aspects ... more »

IPHONE - who wants a 300 page bill?
by
Miles
on Mon 03 Sep 2007 10:41 PM BST
 
Well everyone is raging about the new iPhone and how fantastic it is. Web Analytics Guru, Eric Peterson, has ... more »

Technology - Blackberrys now been used to help British Bobbies on patrol.
by
Miles
on Mon 03 Sep 2007 10:33 PM BST

Marcus Leroux has written an interesting piece about how the blackberry handsets are been used to report / record crimes. ... more »
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