Internet is the future for TV
TV execs in the US have been conducting a few experiments recently in order to find a new audience for their programming. They have noticed that viewing figures from the traditional source the television, are falling and in some cases are worrying low.
The problem that faces commercial TV is the fact that it is driven [...]
Torrent Spy closes down
It was not that long when Torrent Spy was the most visited Bit Torrent site in the world. But all that changed a little over a year ago when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) obtained a ruling from a Federal Judge. This ruling would have meant that Torrent Spy would have to have [...]
March 14, 2008AOL to buy BeBo
America’s favourite internet service provider AOL is looking to buy the social networking site, Bebo for a figure of $850 million. This will give AOL access to the forty million or so members of the site. But Bebo is one of the largest social networking sites in the UK and will offer a buyer a [...]
March 12, 2008Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
No site is safe, is bad for business
Chinese hackers are claiming that no site is safe, which is not very good for businesses that use the internet for a good part of the revenues. These hackers are very quiet and shy people who are organised in groups with the sole purpose of the getting into secure websites.
The fact that these groups are [...]
The world’s youngest billionaire
We all knew that as soon as the social networking site Facebook, got a huge infusion of cash that the founder Mark Zuckerberg was made for life. But quite where he stood in the league of the world’s richest people was not known until the publication of the Forbes magazine’s list of the World’s Billionaires.
The [...]
Email abuse can damage your wealth
It seems that if you are in the habit of accessing your emails or taking a quick peep at what happening on your favourite social networking site while at work, then you could find yourself getting into deep trouble with your employers.
As in a recent survey of over 300 companies of all sizes in [...]
EU puts $22 million into filesharing
Peer to peer filesharing has been given the thumbs up by the European Union as a new project named P2P-Next has been given $22 million from the EU and another $6 million from other European partners to develop the new system.
Surprisingly one of the more famous names who will be taking part in the project [...]
Businesses sending passwords over net
Can there be anything worse than signing up to service which requires you to create a username and password, only to get a welcome email back saying “Thanks for signing up etc” and there for all to see is your username and password?
Well a lot businesses and organisations do this and it is only when [...]
Pirate Bay turns over $3 million per year
In the first attack on the Pirate Bay, the Swedish government has opened up with all guns blazing in order to sink the Pirates before they can slip anchor.
The first passing shot is the fact that the government believes that the Pirate Bay have been making around three million dollars a year in profits. This [...]
Google unhappy with Microsoft/Yahoo deal
It was inevitable that at some stage a partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo would be going ahead, however what was not clear was how this would happen. But the cat is out of the bag now and Yahoo will be going under the very large umbrella that is known as the Microsoft organisation.
Almost immediately after [...]
Pirate Bay safe even if they lose
Despite having been charged and if found guilty spending some time away, the founders of The Pirate Bay have pledged that the site will remain operational regardless of where the founders are.
They have made plans just in case thing do not go very well for them, as they might do considering the size of the [...]
Filmmakers ask to be pirated
While the major film companies spend more money on trying to prevent the pirating of their products than the most of the films total budgets at the Sundance festival have, they must be pulling their hair out when it turns out that no films from the 2007 festival have been pirated at all.
Its not that [...]
Do Google and FaceBook have too much data?
It is a frustrating fact that whenever a person wants to sign up for an account with almost any social networking site or even an email account these days, that the information required by the service varies from the simple username and password to your entire life story. But should you decide to leave the [...]
January 22, 2008Text order to Pizza Hut
In the States it is possible to text a pizza, which is great, but maybe not always the most practical way of ordering something, especially as sometimes the text messages do not arrive that quickly, however what this does show is that there are businesses out there which are happy to embrace the new technology [...]
January 17, 2008Microsoft develops the software spy
Developing a super spying piece of software that will be able to spy on workers is the super sized software company Microsoft; this will be able to monitor employees as they go about their daily working routine. They have even gone as far to apply for a patent which will protect it from being copied.
The [...]
Digg to fix ads
It would seem that Digg have been receiving some complaints about their the current ads, some may be play sounds and other have moving images, whatever the type of ad the users don’t like them and have told the Digg management.
So luckily for the users, Digg have made the right decision and will be moving [...]
Netflix producing set top box
The film rental company is said to be producing a set top box which will allow user to stream films and other programming directly into the TV.
There was some talk of this device a while ago but nothing really materialised but it seems a partnership with electronics giant LG the actual details of the device [...]
Digg for sale
It has been the talk for some time that the social voting site Digg would be either sold or taken into a larger group, but there has never been any real substance behind all of these claims, but now it would seem that the owners of the site has put a price tag on Digg, [...]
December 14, 2007BT caps business broadband
Some BT broadband users are finding that they are being capped for their use, despite having an unlimited usage.
But apparently it seems this does apply, as some users are seeing their connection speeds falling from 800 kbps to 50-100 kbps, but after contacting the service dept, who simply say that there must be a fault [...]