Category: Internet
Facebook and YouTube line-up digital election debates with Party leaders
The leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties will all be taking part in online debates in the run up to this year's general election. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will answer questions asked by the…
O2 voted favourite British broadband provider
A poll carried out by www.broadband-expert.co.uk has revealed O2 to be Britian's favourite broadband provider. Over 100,000 broadband users voted in the poll, with 6,676 giving O2 the highest average satisfaction rating of 77%. View the full list of results…
Battery-friendly hardware-accelerated Flash on the way, but will it ever make it to the iPad?
Adobe Systems have announced that a release candidate version of their latest Flash plug-in is now available. Adobe claim that the 10.1 release candidate for Windows, Mac, and Linux will significantly reduce the amount of resources needed to power the…
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch applauds the iPad, defends paywalls, slams Google (again)
Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation chairman and massively rich media-maestro, has once again attacked Google in defence of his plans for paywalls on his news sites. "We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking…
Met Office now on mobile – though you could try looking up at the sky
Given the Met Office's frankly lamentable performance predicting the weather recently you have to question what's the point in launching a mobile version of their weather service. Frankly, you would probably get a better prediction looking up rather than down…
Metropolitan Police to monitor internet café users in new terrorism crackdown
Police are trialling a new anti-terrorism measure in which owners of internet cafés are asked to monitor the content their customers access. Any suspicious behaviour pertaining to violent extremism is asked to be passed on to the Metropolitan Police for…
New Toshiba UX600 LED TV features built-in Wi-Fi
Toshiba have just announced a brand spanking new LED backlit TV. Available in 40, 46 and 55 inch models, the UX600 sets itself apart from the crowd thanks to its built in Wi-Fi adaptor. As this is a so-called "connected…
.xxx domain names still being considered
Websites with a .xxx suffix are still being considered by the Global Internet Oversight Agency, new reports have shown. Talks are still taking place to discuss what the potential benefits of introducing the new domains could bring to the internet….
Over 7,000 UK school kids set to battle it out in head-to-head online quiz
Primary school children up and down the country are today battling it out in an online head-to-head quiz to find which will be crowned Britain's Brainiest School. 7,213 children aged 8 and 9 in 374 primary schools will take part…
Virgin Media aiming to launch 100 Mbps broadband service in the UK
Virgin Media are setting in motion plans to roll out a 100Mbps broadband service across the UK. Beginning with 50Mbps trails in the Berkshire village of Woolhampton, as many as one million homes could be set to benefit from the…
