This Month
August 2008
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
Year Archive
View Article  Students who cheated their way into business school will be expelled

Thousands of business-school students in Britain and abroad are being investigated for cheating. In the latest scandal to hit the ...   more »

View Article  Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker, loses appeal over US extradition

A British man accused of the biggest military computer hack in history is facing extradition after losing his last-ditch appeal ...   more »

View Article  Amazon takes on eBay with PayPal rival
A new online service will allow retailers to offer customers one-click payment by selling via Amazon's website   more »
View Article  Google power 'less than thought' as eBay starts boycott

There was encouraging news for the growing army of Google-haters yesterday when a leading internet advertising researcher suggested that the ...   more »

View Article  Amazon launches music download service to challenge iTunes
Amazon MP3, which will offer songs without copy protection for as little as 89c, is likely present a threat to iTunes, analysts say   more »
View Article  The 100-year-olds who use Wikipedia and Google
Three in every hundred centenarians have used the online encyclopaedia, and four times that number use the web   more »
View Article  Overbooked: airlines face a web rebellion
Technology is giving airline passengers the power to organise resistance to irritating practices as overbooking   more »
View Article  Nintendo profits touch $1bn on Wii phenomenon

Nintendo, the Japanese gaming giant, has more than $1 billion (£500 million) of net profit in the first three months ...   more »

View Article  Internet users to pay £30 annual 'licence fee' to download music

Internet users face being charged an annual "licence fee" of £30 to download music as part of a new crackdown ...   more »

View Article  Parents to be punished for children’s net piracy

Parents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms ...   more »

View Article  Asprox computer virus infects key government and consumer websites

Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, ...   more »

View Article  Sharp fall in profits increases pressure on Yahoo!

Pressure on Yahoo! to complete a deal with a rival such as Microsoft increased last night after the internet search ...   more »

View Article  Millionaire Gary Dean silences gossips by putting divorce deal online

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

View Article  Activist Carl Icahn wins Yahoo! seats in boardroom battle

Yahoo! today settled its acrimonious battle with billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who will join the US internet search giant ...   more »

View Article  Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks

On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text messages. It was a quiet day but, ...   more »

View Article  Crocs, The Basement, The Woman, The Fortune!!!!!
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 »
View Article  Amazon uses all its might to wage price war against publisher

A price war is raging between a powerful online bookseller and a leading publisher, with authors caught in the crossfire ...   more »

View Article  Google UK not immune to economic downturn

Google UK not immune to economic downturn

Google's UK turnover fell in the second quarter, its first decline since it ...   more »

View Article  How the Google generation thinks differently
Digital-age kids process information differently from parents. Our writer admits misjudging how her son was learning   more »
View Article  Microsoft: we'll keep 'chipping away' at Google
An overhaul of Live Search is the software giant's latest attempt to catch Google, the runaway leader in online services   more »
View Article  Yahoo! rises on reports that Microsoft deal is near

Microsoft and Yahoo! were in intensive talks last night over securing a takeover agreement that would dissuade the software giant ...   more »

View Article  This is the man to thank when you get a call back
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 »
View Article  Identity Fraud is up 70% in a year (archive)

The number of people hit by identity fraud has soared by almost 70 per cent in a year.  Methods of ...   more »

View Article  Mobile Web Rates Fall In Price War (Archive)

Mobile phone firms have slashed Internet access costs in a new price war.  The cheapest deal fo rht service, which ...   more »

View Article  Stop blocking the internet, Olympics committee tells China

China’s Great Firewall must be lifted during the Olympic Games to ensure free access to the rest of the world. ...   more »

View Article  Google Earth showed protesters way to conquer parliament

Demonstrators revealed yesterday that they had used Google Earth to plot their protest on the roof of the Houses of ...   more »

View Article  US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects
US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects   more »
View Article  The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop

Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by ...   more »

View Article  18-year-old hacker convicted in New Zealand
The teenager allegedly led a criminal gang that used malicious software to infect 1.3 million computers worldwide   more »
View Article  Microsoft’s vow to open up fails to impress EU regulators

Microsoft yesterday announced that it is to share more information about its products and technology with competitors, but its move ...   more »

View Article  Mum, get out of my Facebook: half of parents have turned into online spies

Parents who are desperate to find out what their children are up to in their spare time are joining networking ...   more »

View Article  Millions of Facebook users ‘leave themselves open to identity theft’

Millions of members of the social networking site Facebook are allowing strangers access to their personal information, making them vulnerable ...   more »

View Article  Facebook: The bluffer’s guide

Forced to sign up by repeated friend requests? Avoid Facebook faux pas with our five easy rules


In the last ...   more »

View Article  Who's pressing your buttons on Facebook?

The Facebook phenomenon has 62m people hooked, from famous faces to nobodies. Twenty-four million British adults have signed up to ...   more »

View Article  Is Facebook finally losing its glow?

After months of explosive growth, the number of people visiting Facebook fell for the first time last month


Facebook, the ...   more »

View Article  Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service
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 »
View Article  Microsoft challenges Google’s dominance with $50m deal to buy Multimap website

Microsoft has agreed to buy Multimap, the privately owned British company that is snapping at the heels of Google, the ...   more »

View Article  Software Distribution & Microsoft: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the ...   more »

View Article  Corporate Internet Responsibility: Microsoft closes pro-anorexia websites

Microsoft has abruptly closed down four “pro-anorexia” websites in Spain following a complaint that they were endangering the lives of ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - "Gathering of the world's geeks"
The chief executives of Facebook, MySpace, eBay and Viacom, among others, are gathering to discuss the future of 'web 2.0'   more »
View Article  Social Networking - Britain's '11 minutes a day' Facebook habit
Britons spend an average of 5.8 hours a month on social networking sites — nearly twice that of any other European country   more »
View Article  Mobile - Skype in deal with 3 to offer free mobile telephone calls in the UK

The attack on the mobile phone market from some of the internet’s biggest names is escalating, with Skype planning to ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - "Social shopping sites prepare an attack on the high street"
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 »
View Article  Social Networking - One in Four children meets and internet stranger

Scary article from John  Higginson from Metro (London's daily free newspaper).  Now I've reported on some of the good aspects ...   more »

View Article  IPHONE - who wants a 300 page bill?

 

Well everyone is raging about the new iPhone and how fantastic it is.  Web Analytics Guru, Eric Peterson, has ...   more »

View Article  Technology - Blackberrys now been used to help British Bobbies on patrol.

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

View Article  Voice over Internet (VOIP) - Skype blames outage on user reboot

Skype, the world's leader in internet telephony services, experienced an outage which affected millions of its customers.  Jonathan Richards, The ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - MYSPACE Album Success

Here is a nice story about how social networking can come to some good.  I remember reading an article months ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - Millions of Facebook Users 'leave themselves open to identity theft'

Just wanted to post this before I head out the door to work.  I've also thought about something else.  What ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - Girl sues porn firm over pic

Quite a horrific articile about an infringement on a girl's cival liberties.... I wish Miss Cotton well in her struggle...  ...   more »

View Article  Mobile - Man gets thumbs surgically "whittled" for better iPhone use

Sorry I just had to post this ...... for all those people that take ages to reply to a text ...   more »

View Article  Internet is becoming as lawless as the Wild West, report peers

The Times has recently written an article about how unlawful the internet has become.  Banks are been hit by phishing ...   more »

View Article  Online Advertising - Its in the Game.

Sitting in Manchester airport waiting for my flight home I decided that I'd have a look at some of the ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - Facebook row spurs COI to pull web adverts

With Facebook losing two of its major advertises due to conflict of interests the Central Office for Information has released ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - Gays Banned on Facebook

This blog may appear that I'm bashing Facebook.  That is not the case at all and I will report ...   more »

View Article  Mobile Advertising - Mobile Ad firm Silverback to buy French rival in £1m deal

Mobile advertising group SilverBack Media will today annouce the $2m (£1m) acquisition of French rival FollowCom which will help make ...   more »

View Article  Social Networking - Facebook ads over BNP link

Following yesterday's post of how Facebook is been used for positive means, the next day in another London evening newspaper ...   more »

View Article  Google to develop own mobile handset!
Interesting article from the Times' journalist Elizabeth Judge (telecoms correspondant) - some may say that Google is out for world domination - who says they are right?   more »
View Article  Social Networking - "Help find my burgler victim begs FaceBook"

Read something interesting on the train home today - a woman had her flat robbed by an individual masquerading as ...   more »