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UK police is putting crime on the map. Quite literally, the British Home Office has launched an updated version of the very popular Police.uk which provides even more data than before and at a greater detail.Officials also say they plan to expand on the idea even more, making the site a hub for any information and da... |
28 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Amazon has been given the go-ahead to take over The Book Depository. The online retailer made its intentions clear last July when it said it plans to acquire the book seller. Now, UK regulators, the Office of Fair Trading, have announced that they do not oppose the acquisition. The main reason behind their... |
26 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012. This comes after plenty of rumors and speculation about a European assault by Netflix. The company hasn't confirmed other launches, but they are coming soon as well.The company has now announced that its first two European markets wi... |
24 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Flash drives don't often get most recognized for their security capabilities, but this is precisely what happened to the Eclypt Nano, which ViaSat UK just released.Portable storage devices are very handy things, but they aren't precisely very widespread among government agencies and some corporations.That ... |
17 October 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Google is a technology company at heart, but, as it is evident with YouTube, it can make a decent media company as well. Still, when people think of online movies, they think of Netflix, they think of Amazon, they think of LoveFilm in Europe, but rarely of Google and YouTube.
But Google is moving to change that, i... |
7 October 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Several single-letter domain names were up for grabs in the UK, auctioned off by Nominet, which oversees the country's internet infrastructure. But most of the domains available didn't fetch large sums, the average selling price was £39,000, or $60,700 (€45,300).
What's more, Google was o... |
3 October 2011
09:53 GMT |
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White Space spectrum, a portion of the radio frequencies spectrum that has become unused now that TV broadcasters have switched to digital transmissions in many countries, holds a lot of promise for wireless networks.Any free spectrum could be a boost for mobile communication channels, which are rather crowded in mos... |
1 September 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Google TV is not getting much love these days, but it's still pretty much alive. Google is working on the so-called Google TV 2.0 and the platform is getting a reboot soon. In fact, Google is so confident in its TV platform that it plans on offering it in more places, expanding into Europe.
Speaking at the Ed... |
29 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Sony's PlayStation 3 has been doing really well in Europe and its native Japan, dominating its opponents in recent months, but, at least according to the company's new European boss, Jim Ryan, things are bit more complicated in the UK.
Sony has beaten rivals in traditional markets like Europe or Asia by ... |
29 August 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it is transitioning its search engine to Bing in several more countries, this time in key European markets. Yahoo has been switching over to Bing in more and more countries, after it started with the US and Canada a year ago.
"We are now ready to transition Yahoo! organic search results (t... |
2 August 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Netflix is clearly expanding beyond its home market. It has said that much itself, when it revealed that it might launch in 43 new countries, in Latin America, concomitantly. But Netflix isn't stopping here, there are new rumors indicating that it's hitting European shores in early 2012, in Spain and the UK... |
16 July 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Google is dominating search worldwide, with only a few exceptions. But even as it has an over 90 percent market share in some places, it's still growing. Case in point is the UK, where Google managed to get 92 percent of the searches in June.
Google has been doing great in the UK for quite a while now, but it... |
13 July 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to write for the new UK branch of famous online newspaper Huffington Post.Launched today July 6th 2011, Huffington Post UK is the newest branch in the Huffington Post network, which span over the US and Canada until now.Besides Tony Blair, Huffington Post UK ... |
6 July 2011
12:17 GMT |
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The fight against online piracy, at the expense of personal freedoms, continues unabashed. The Motion Picture Association, a trade-group representing major Hollywood studios, is trying to make 'history' by asking the British High Court to force BT, the largest ISP in the UK, to block a website it says is a ... |
27 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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A bunch of very attractive domain names are becoming available in the UK as Nominet, the country's internet registry, has opened up applications for bids. As expected, the one-letter and two-letter domain names have attracted quite a lot of interest and are expected to fetch a fair bit of money.Among the compani... |
9 June 2011
10:58 GMT |
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A lawsuit involving Twitter is causing a lot of fuss in the UK and elsewhere, since Twitter revealed account details and private data of a Twitter account holder to the authorities. The main concerns is that this puts a dampen on free speech online, however, Twitter acted in full compliance of the law and, like in th... |
30 May 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Despite all of the fuss in the UK over the so-called "super injunctions," court orders that block the press from reporting on the more intimate indiscretions of public persons, and Twitter, the company is still planning to move to London, as it has been for quite some time now, and, in fact, has started moving employ... |
23 May 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Authorities in the United Kingdom hope to lead through the power of example. The nation has just become the first ever to adopt its own greenhouse gas emission cuts, at a time when other countries are still bickering over insignificant aspects of adopting such a measure themselves.The cut that has now become legally-... |
17 May 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Vevo, the music video site venture, is finally crossing the Atlantic and being launched in the UK, more than a year after hitting the US. Brits will now get access to the entire catalogue via the Vevo website not only through YouTube. The site also boasts that it will strive to offer content and an experience catered... |
26 April 2011
10:45 GMT |
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After slashing the price of the PlayStation Portable, more specifically the PSP-3000 version, in North America, Sony has now announced that the price of the portable console will also be cut in Europe by 24 percent.
Sony has been trying to make its PSP more attractive these days, especially since the Next Generati... |
11 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A specialty doctor has recently weighed in on the possible side effects caused by the use of the new Nintendo 3DS handheld console, which have been causing plenty of debates in the last few weeks.
Ever since the launch of the Nintendo 3DS handheld, the console has been linked with numerous reports about it causing... |
7 April 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Owners of Nintendo Wii consoles aren't using the devices all that much, at least according to a new survey released in the UK.
According to Myvouchercodes, the website that commissioned the survey, it seems that Wii owners have forgotten about their console and aren't using it like they did when it first... |
11 March 2011
03:15 GMT |
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The chief scientist of the UK government, Sir John Beddington, said recently that the third world and developing countries cannot afford blocking the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on ethical and moral grounds, given the state the world is in. While avoiding to acknowledge the validity of the argument... |
24 January 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Google has revealed that all of the Street View data illegally, though inadvertently, the company says, collected from unprotected WiFi networks in the UK has now been deleted, as per instructions from the UK Information Commissioner's Office. The data took longer than anticipated to delete, but all UK data is n... |
20 December 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Twitter is currently looking to expand its team globally and is looking to set up an office in Europe with London as one of the main candidates. The site wants to establish a sales team for the region to start selling its advertising products in Europe. Twitter representatives met with the British Prime Minister and ... |
13 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in the UK earlier this morning after he surrendered to the Metropolitan police. An international arrest warrant was issued in his name via the Interpol. He was charged with one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape in Sweden.Th... |
7 December 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Google has been given the go-ahead to delete the personal WiFi data it collected with its Street View cars in the UK. The company was investigated twice by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and found guilty of breaching the privacy of UK citizens by storing emails, passwords and other sensitive data... |
19 November 2010
10:46 GMT |
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UK's Information Commissioner has found Google guilty of breaching the British Data Protection Act with its Street View cars which collected personal data from open WiFi networks. The government, however, will not issue any penalties, but it will request a written guarantee from Google that this won't happe... |
3 November 2010
10:49 GMT |
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A new report commissioned by Google and conducted by Boston Consulting tries to describe how important the web is to the UK economy. The report, titled Connected Kingdom, showed that the internet drives as much as £100 billion for the economy while being the sector with the fastest growth."The United Kingdom ha... |
26 October 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Authorities in the UK are now contemplating imposing hefty fines for the company, even though the investigation into the matter was completed in the country a few months back. Authorities in charge of privacy issues are sure fast to make inflammatory public statements or actions, though it's a bit strange that t... |
25 October 2010
05:10 GMT |
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A new study, funded by DONG Energy (UK) Ltd. and Ikon Science Ltd. and presented today at a conference on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in London, concluded that oil recovery in the North Sea, using CO2, could worth £150 billion ($ 240 billion) and become the next... |
14 October 2010
09:20 GMT |
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A new research published in the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) journal Animal Conservation, shows that the common British frog (Rana temporaria) populations are dramatically decreasing because of Ranavirus infections.This research gathered data from the public by the Frog Mortality Project and Froglife, an... |
8 October 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that MSN Music in the United Kingdom will be part of the Zune music community, once it is released in the UK, next month.The main reason is that the two services complete one another so this is only a natural decision, reports neowin.Microsoft says that “MSN Music will create links in it... |
29 September 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Facebook Places has just been launched in the UK. Having been in testing for a period, enabling some UK residents to check into locations, the location feature is now available to everyone. Facebook Places enables users to mark their presence at a location, be it a bar, restaurant, museum, workplace or anything else.... |
17 September 2010
05:21 GMT |
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In what could be likened to a “brute force” approach to characterizing the traits of new photonic metamaterials, researchers are now using combinatorial chemistry to discover materials that could underlie the technology of tomorrow. A team of engineers in the United Kingdom has recently developed a way of... |
7 September 2010
03:45 GMT |
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The economic crisis managed to put a strain even on seemingly unstoppable sectors like online advertising or commerce. While advertising has been recovering for the past year, it looks like online shopping is making a comeback as well with sales growing 18 percent year-over-year in July in the UK. Sales hit a record ... |
20 August 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, announce that the town will soon become the host to the new National Composite Center (NCC), a facility dedicated to composites research and manufacture.The endeavor is a collaboration between South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) and the Univ... |
19 August 2010
10:24 GMT |
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UK broadcaster Five is on its way of becoming the first TV station to make its programs available on Facebook. The two companies have come to an agreement which will bring Five’s TV-on-demand player to the social network.Under the deal, according to NewMediaAge, Facebook users will be able ... |
11 August 2010
09:31 GMT |
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Facebook’s growth seems unstoppable, or at least it seemed, as a new report by analytics company Hitwise shows that even the giant social network can reach a ceiling. Facebook was the second most visited website in the UK in July and the first in terms of page views. Yet, its share of the total number of page v... |
9 August 2010
11:40 GMT |
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Kindle’s future, as a device, is anyone’s guess, but the Kindle Store’s success is undeniable. Amazon is selling more e-books than hardcovers at this point the sales are booming. The company has now opened up a Kindle Store in the UK offering a number of e-books comparable to that in the US version ... |
6 August 2010
08:42 GMT |
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Ever since the time of Benjamin Franklin, kites have been used as scientific equipments in a variety of simple and complex tasks. This has been owed to the fact that they are inexpensive to operate, and also capable of carrying a fair amount of sensing equipment given sufficient wind to lift it up. Sensors are even t... |
28 July 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Cube-shaped satellites will be developed and launched to low-Earth orbit, the UK Space Agency announced. These satellites are possibly smaller than a computer and they will allow scientists to develop and test the latest space technology at low costs and very rapidly, according to David Williams, UK Space Agency chi... |
28 July 2010
05:51 GMT |
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According to recent investigations, it would appear that only a small percentage of children in the United Kingdom have sufficiently-high levels of physical activity to qualify as healthy according to existing standards. Scientists believer that one of the main reasons why this happens is because children tend not to... |
21 July 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Raoul Moat has become somewhat of a household name in the UK for the past few weeks after going on a shooting spree and evading the police for a week. He shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend, killed her new boyfriend and shot a police officer. He was eventually cornered by the police and shot himself to avoid capture. ... |
15 July 2010
10:44 GMT |
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On-demand music streaming is a great way to listen to the music you like anywhere you like, anywhere you have an Internet connection, at least. For some, it has replaced the places where people would usually discover new music, the radio. But there is a trade off, sometimes you want more than just music. At least, th... |
13 July 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Facebook is about to become safer for teenagers with the deployment of a Panic Button app. At least that’s the hope of the UK government agency the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop). Facebook users will be able to install an app which will give them quick access to help resources provided b... |
12 July 2010
05:10 GMT |
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The UK government is teaming up with Facebook in an effort by the authorities to connect with the British citizens as part of the Spending Challenge program. The challenge is setup to provide people a direct avenue to suggest cost saving measures to the cash-strapped government. Facebook has set up the spending chall... |
9 July 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Online auctions, made popular by eBay, have opened the door to a new way of selling everything from your iPhone 3GS, while you stand in line for the new iPhone 4, to your mom’s old car. Unfortunately, it also opened the door to shadier characters looking for a fast way to make some money. Today, an UK man was f... |
5 July 2010
09:23 GMT |
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Google is very happy to give out its products for free, but it never does so without the potential for revenue in there somewhere. Google Maps is a great tool for a lot of things and the best thing about it is that it’s free. And now, in the UK at least, it has gotten even better with the addition of real-estat... |
17 June 2010
09:49 GMT |
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In the UK, social networks have now become more popular than search engines. At least, that’s what the analytics firm Hitwise is claiming. Its stats show that, during the previous month, visits to social networks were more numerous than to search engines, albeit by a small margin.
“Social networks now r... |
8 June 2010
12:41 GMT |
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