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Feb 2011 |
Many Brits consider home broadband, online shopping and Google as the innovations they liked the most over the last ten years, the latest consumer survey has revealed.
According to The Foundations survey over 2000 UK consumers, broadband was voted the best innovation for it helped people to do lots of things more quickly, more effectively and with a lot less effort, from shopping to dating to finding stuff out.
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Feb 2011 |
Phone companies and mobile operators are racing against companies including Google Inc. and Visa Inc. over the future of mobile payments, Bloomberg reports.
Companies such as Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA are hoping to get in on the emerging near-field communication payment systems, which will allow people to make payments at markets with a swipe of their mobile phones.
These companies lost out on the applications market to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
Deutsche Telekom is considering the ... |
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Feb 2011 |
Wi-Fi and mobile phone radio network speeds could double after scientists showed radio is able to send and receive over the same frequency at the same time.
The technology would overcome the problem best exemplified by pilots having to say "over" each time they take turns in talking over radio, but it could also be applied to wireless data networks, scientists at Stanford University said.
"Textbooks say you can't do it," said Philip Levis, assistant professor of computer science and electrical enginee... |
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Feb 2011 |
Konrad von Finckenstein, the head of Canadas telecom regulator, believes that Internet bandwidth should be treated like any other utility and that Canadians should pay for what they use.
"All ISPs advertise their rates, bandwidth caps and the additional usage charges that apply," the chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) testified before politicians on Parliament Hill Thursday. "Consumers can shop around for the plan that best meet their needs. Internet servic... |
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Jan 2011 |
A glitch on Apple's iPhone has stopped its built-in alarm clock going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year.
Angry bloggers and tweeters complained that they had been late for work, and were risking missing planes and trains.
Apple has acknowledged the problem and says it will be fixed by 3 January.
The reason has not been given but the glitch appears to affect single alarm settings on the iPhone 4 and earlier models with software updates.
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Dec 2010 |
Skype received a booting from China today, the same day the company announced the addition of video calling to its iPhone app (and iPad and iPod Touch). The ban says that only China Telecom and China Unicom are allowed to operate VoIP services in the country--all private carriers are now deemed illegal.
The Chinese government has announced that any VoIP service administered outside of China Telecom and China Unicom are now deemed illegal, effectively making Skype and other VoIP services banned from use i... |
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Dec 2010 |
Millions of people around the globe have been hit by an outage at the popular internet phone service Skype.
Users as far afield as Japan, Europe and the US have all reported problems.
The company which prides itself on providing relatively reliable service last suffered a major outage in 2007.
"We take outages like this really seriously and apologise for the inconvenience users are having," Tony Bates, Skype chief executive officer told BBC News.
"Right now it looks like clients are coming on an... |
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Dec 2010 |
Google TV is apparently encountering a bit of static that has resulted in a programming change.
A number of TV manufacturers have been expected to unveil new Internet-ready TVs at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. But Google has asked them to delay those plans so it can overhaul the Google TV software, according to a New York Times report that cited people familiar with the company's plans.
Google representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Dec 2010 |
Twitter Inc. said its valued at USD3.7 billion after receiving a USD200 million round of funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The company also added two directors to its board, Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo said in a blog post. Twitter spokesman Matt Graves provided the valuation in an e-mailed statement.
Twitter, which has more than 175 million users, can use the funds to hire more people for its advertising service, which got began earlier this year. The San F... |
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Dec 2010 |
Taking yet another step in the ongoing process of upgrading its photo-sharing service, Facebook announced Thursday that it will soon enable facial-recognition technology--meaning that when members upload photographs and are encouraged to "tag" their friends, they will be able to choose from a list of suggestions.
Thanks to its treasure trove of user photos that have already been tagged, not to mention personal profile photos, Facebook has built up a huge base of data for gauging exactly who's in what pho... |
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Dec 2010 |
Google has delayed a much anticipated branded laptop powered by its Chrome operating system until next year.
Instead of a Chrome OS device for general release, Google announced a pilot programme aimed at people who "live on the web".
Chrome OS is Google's boldest bid yet to erode Microsoft's market dominance with Windows software.
Google has already gone after one of Microsoft's cash cows, Office, with Google Docs.
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Dec 2010 |
Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.
Carried out by computer science researchers at UC San Diego the study found 485 sites exploiting the bug.
The flaw gives sites access to all the other sites that user has visited. Many use it to target ads or see if users are patronising rivals.
The researchers said their work showed a need for better defences against history tracking.
The bug exploits the way that many browsers hand... |
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Dec 2010 |
Only a tiny percentage of UK homes have super-fast broadband and mobile speeds are slow compared to other nations, Ofcom has revealed.
In its annual International Communications Market report, the regulator said more needed to be done on fixed and mobile broadband.
Less than 1 percent of UK homes have super-fast broadband, compared to over a third of Japanese consumers.
Next-generation mobile services have yet to roll out in the UK.
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Dec 2010 |
Google has said it will tweak its search service in an attempt to tackle online piracy, following lobbying by the music industry.
The search giant will implement four changes, including the removal of words that are associated with piracy from appearing in its autocomplete feature.
However, it will not prevent sites that host illegal copyright material from appearing in its search results.
The music industry said the measures did not go far enough.
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Dec 2010 |
We may get to check out Google's long-anticipated entry into the digital-book sales market before the end of the year.
Google Editions, which was announced in spring and expected to launch in summer, is expected to be available in the U.S. by the end of the month, Google spokeswoman Jeannie Hornung told CNET today. In September, Hornung talked with CNET about some of the difficulties in launching the ambitious project, saying, "The real answer is, we'll launch the service when it's ready."
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