The Office for National Statistics this week released a report indicating that 45% of internet users have used a mobile phone to access the internet, but that 21% don’t have complete confidence in their ability to protect their personal data. The Internet Access – Households and Individuals report reveals that 6 million more people used [...]
Category Archives: Internet News
Daily has teamed up with Offficial, a specialist mobile application investment fund, to bring you FundedApps. It’s a revolutionary iPhone and Android app that gives you the opportunity to develop your ideas into your own mobile phone apps and bring them to market – and therefore, potentially to make your fortune. It’s free to download [...]
2011
Jul
21
Social networks are an increasing part of our lives, as the news that Google+ is fast approaching 20 million users just three weeks after launch suggests. From photo services like Flickr to everybody-loves-to-hate-it Facebook, the details of what we get up to in our private lives are increasingly available online. So what sort of impression [...]
2011
Jun
22
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week approved plans to increase considerably the number of generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) – of which there are current 22, including .com, .net and .org – from next year. The move is a massive shake-up for the domain name system. Under the new system, [...]
2011
Jun
16
Search giant Google’s been at it again with the time-saving developments. This week, they’ve expanded on Google Instant with the development of Instant Pages. The idea behind it is to prerender the top search result in the background, so that when you do click the link the page loads immediately. Google says it will prerender [...]
2011
Jun
8
In case you hadn’t noticed (and if you’re anything like me, your Twitter timeline will have made it completely impossible to avoid!), beautiful gadget house Apple are in 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference mode at the moment. While those of us that quite fancy an iPhone 5 will apparently have to wait a little longer, Apple [...]
2010
Nov
17
When I joined it the best part of a decade ago the talk in the web hosting industry was all about how every business needed a website in order to take advantage of the then still emerging online retail market. We were looking at a market in which many small to medium sized businesses didn’t [...]
2010
Nov
11
Discussions about social media in the wider, non-marketing or non-technical press, tend to be somewhat dismissive, regarding it as a fad and as a source of banal trivialities. Frankly, if I hear another person announcing that Twitter must be rubbish because no-one wants to read what someone else had for lunch, I might just throw [...]
It’s music to the ears of those of us in the internet industry – despite the recent economic situation, the United Kingdom’s e-commerce industry is still extremely healthy. A recent report announces that the internet as a whole is worth £100 billion to the UK economy, according to the Guardian, with much of that driven [...]
If you’ve performed a search on Google lately (and, well, who hasn’t?), you might have noticed that it yesterday launched one of the biggest changes to their search function in years. Ladies and gents, welcome to Google Instant. You need to be logged in to a Google account to see it, but if you are, [...]
