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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 »
Monday, August 20

Voice over Internet (VOIP) - Skype blames outage on user reboot
by
Miles
on Mon 20 Aug 2007 11:31 PM BST
Skype, the world's leader in internet telephony services, experienced an outage which affected millions of its customers. Jonathan Richards, The ... more »

Social Networking - MYSPACE Album Success
by
Miles
on Mon 20 Aug 2007 11:25 PM BST

Here is a nice story about how social networking can come to some good. I remember reading an article months ... more »
Tuesday, August 14

Social Networking - Millions of Facebook Users 'leave themselves open to identity theft'
by
Miles
on Tue 14 Aug 2007 07:06 AM BST
Just wanted to post this before I head out the door to work. I've also thought about something else. What ... more »
Monday, August 13

Social Networking - Girl sues porn firm over pic
by
Miles
on Mon 13 Aug 2007 10:52 PM BST
Quite a horrific articile about an infringement on a girl's cival liberties.... I wish Miss Cotton well in her struggle... ... more »
Sunday, August 12

Mobile - Man gets thumbs surgically "whittled" for better iPhone use
by
Miles
on Sun 12 Aug 2007 09:30 PM BST
Sorry I just had to post this ...... for all those people that take ages to reply to a text ... more »

Internet is becoming as lawless as the Wild West, report peers
by
Miles
on Sun 12 Aug 2007 09:28 PM BST
The Times has recently written an article about how unlawful the internet has become. Banks are been hit by phishing ... more »
Thursday, August 9

Online Advertising - Its in the Game.
by
Miles
on Thu 09 Aug 2007 04:39 PM BST
Sitting in Manchester airport waiting for my flight home I decided that I'd have a look at some of the ... more »
Monday, August 6

Social Networking - Facebook row spurs COI to pull web adverts
by
Miles
on Mon 06 Aug 2007 11:39 PM BST
With Facebook losing two of its major advertises due to conflict of interests the Central Office for Information has released ... more »

Social Networking - Gays Banned on Facebook
by
Miles
on Mon 06 Aug 2007 11:02 PM BST
This blog may appear that I'm bashing Facebook. That is not the case at all and I will report ... more »
Saturday, August 4

Mobile Advertising - Mobile Ad firm Silverback to buy French rival in £1m deal
by
Miles
on Sat 04 Aug 2007 05:26 PM BST
Mobile advertising group SilverBack Media will today annouce the $2m (£1m) acquisition of French rival FollowCom which will help make ... more »
Friday, August 3

Social Networking - Facebook ads over BNP link
by
Miles
on Fri 03 Aug 2007 08:59 PM BST
Following yesterday's post of how Facebook is been used for positive means, the next day in another London evening newspaper ... more »
Thursday, August 2

Google to develop own mobile handset!
by
Miles
on Thu 02 Aug 2007 11:03 PM BST
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 »

Social Networking - "Help find my burgler victim begs FaceBook"
by
Miles
on Thu 02 Aug 2007 10:28 PM BST
Read something interesting on the train home today - a woman had her flat robbed by an individual masquerading as ... more »
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