News stories from March 2008
55 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10
- BT reveals high-speed towns
- 31 March 2008
- BT has claimed 82 towns will benefit from its latest internet network by the end of April, Computer Shopper has reported.The telecoms company will switch on exchanges to its next-generation 21CN netwo...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- HK tycoon doubles his Facebook stake
- 31 March 2008
- Hong Kong tycoon, Li Ka-Shing, has doubled his stake in social networking site Facebook, it has been reported.Mr Ka-Shing has invested a further $60 million (£30 million), which brings his to...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Yahoo! launches ladies' site
- 31 March 2008
- Yahoo! has launched Shine, a website just for women.It features syndicated content from Conde Nast and Hearst Corp publications and its current leader is The 100 Unsexiest Men 2008.Amy Iorio, vice pre...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Google fights shareholders opposing censorship
- 28 March 2008
- Google's board is fighting a shareholder proposal to ban internet censorship, Computer World has reported.In a statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the internet giant said i...
- Category: Search Engines,
- UN evicts record number of "cybersquatters"
- 28 March 2008
- A UN agency has evicted a record number of "cybersquatters" after complaints reached new highs.The world intellectual property organisation's arbitration and mediation centre received 2,156 ...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Graphics can "get in the way"
- 28 March 2008
- Website graphics get in the way if they are badly framed, new research has revealed.It found that images can act as gateways or barriers depending on how they are used.Rick Tobin, director of research...
- Category: Web Design,
- Teens now read online
- 27 March 2008
- One in four teenagers does their reading online, a new study has revealed.The report, entitled Read Up, Fed Up, showed that young people are increasingly using the internet to find material and are no...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- ISPs 'can't keep up'
- 27 March 2008
- UK internet service providers (ISPs) are having difficulty keeping up with popular demand for a new generation of media player, according to an industry commentator.Michael Phillips of Broadband Choic...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Shakespeare: As you like it
- 27 March 2008
- The works of Shakespeare, in their original quarto format will be digitised and published online for web users to enjoy.The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, together with the Folger Shakespeare...
- Category: Web Design,
- Business worried about SNS security
- 27 March 2008
- Companies are increasingly worried about what is being said about them on social networking sites, new security research has revealed.The 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey, conducted by Pricew...
- Category: Web 2.0,
