Tag: internet
Google Earth brings 3D mapping to browsers
Google has just announced the release of the Google Earth API and browser plug-in. Essentially it’s offering the same functionality as Google Maps, but with the added excitement of being 3D. It hasn’t exactly led to a huge graphical improvement yet though.
Yahoo bides for time to prevent shareholder revolt
Yahoo has postponed its annual shareholder meeting from July 3rd to some point later in the month. This is believed to be designed to give Yahoo’s board the chance to prepare itself in the face of mounting rebellion from shareholders…
Super-duper-fast broadband to surge from Bournemouth's sewers
Bournemouth has been selected as the first UK town to get super-fast fibre network installed in its sewers. Fibre firm H20 is planning to extend its service from businesses and the Council to ordinary consumers. Work on the network will start in the next six months.
Around 88,000 homes will be given access to up to 100Mbps internet service meaning that they will be free to watch Eastenders on iPlayer all day long without fear of anyone whinging about Fair Usage policies…
Microsoft steps away from Yahoo bid, but the courtship continues
While we at Shiny we’re taking our Bank Holiday Monday, donning flip-flops and sipping cocktails in the balmy May weather, Microsoft and Yahoo had a bit more of a stressful weekend. As promised, Microsoft came to a conclusion about its bid to buy out the company and decided to give up and walk away from the 3 month long negotiations…
Microsoft still umming and arring over Yahoo bid, decision expected today
A takeover of Yahoo would be the biggest acquisition in Microsoft’s history and it isn’t about to rush in willy-nilly. Of course, the Redmond giant happily gobbles up smaller companies without batting an eye-lid – the monster corporation probably already ate three before its power-brunch this morning.
However, Yahoo’s refusal of its $41.8bn (£21bn) bid and the passing of the April 26th deadline means that Microsoft has to give up and walk away, increase its offer or start getting hostile…
Ofcom: the BBC should not fund ISP's network upgrades
Our faith in all that is just and fair was restored by Ofcom today when the battle between content providers, most notably the BBC’s iPlayer, and UK Internet Service Providers reached Parliament…
40% of Europeans don't use the internet at all
Good god, what do they do instead?
The gap between the likes of us (in the UK, online for 16 hours a day, every day, to the detriment of our health and sanity) and them (in Bulgaria, haven’t even got the internet) is vast, so vast that a whopping 40% of people in the EU simply don’t use the internet at all…
Hackers can exploit ISPs quest for cash by spoofing non-existent web sites
For a while now, some Internet Service Providers have been taking advantage of unused domain names and subdomains in order to make some cash by displaying advertising when someone types in a non-existent web site address.
A recent study by IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky proves there’s a security flaw that could let malicious hackers set up authentic-looking web sites in order to fool Web users…
Lonelygirl15 creators to launch online TV-studio-cum-social-networking site
Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, better known as the duo behind online viral phenomenon, Lonelygirl15, have secured a $5m investment to create their own independent online studio. Beckett and Goodfried say they have been offered money from major media companies, but have opted to go independent so that they can continue to do things their own way…
Coffee Republic offers "free" Wi-Fi, so long as you remain caffeinated
Coffee Republic claims that it’s the UK’s first coffee chain to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access to its customers — the emphasis being on customers.
Forget about squatting outside one of their outlets and sneaking free Net time, because you have to buy something from them first…
