News stories from May 2008
59 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10
- Ofcom checks 'grid' charges
- 30 May 2008
- Regulator, Ofcom, is checking the amount charged by BT to companies using its telecoms grid.BT owns the majority of the country's copper telecoms cables and has allowed other firms, such as Talk Talk ...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Yang: Yahoo! not under siege
- 30 May 2008
- Jerry Yang, chief executive officer of Yahoo!, has insisted the company is not under siege.It was reported he told the All Things Digital conference yesterday he remained the right person to lead the ...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Zuckerberg's book opens
- 29 May 2008
- Mark Zuckerberg's social networking site, Facebook, has said it will announce an open-source project for its developer platform, internet tech blog, TechCrunch, reported.The site has previously said t...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Dell found guilty of fraud
- 28 May 2008
- Computer manufacturer, Dell, has been found guilty of fraud by a court in the US, it has been reported.The Albany County Supreme Court also decided it was responsible for false advertising, deceptive ...
- Category: E-commerce,
- 'Woolies' gets web revamp
- 28 May 2008
- Retailer Woolworths has redesigned its online download store and withdrawn from selling CDs in shops.Its new internet venture replaces an earlier site, which was limited to selling only music."Di...
- Category: E-commerce,
- EU targets IPv6
- 27 May 2008
- The European Union (EU) has set its members targets to adopt new internet protocols.It announced by 2012, 25 per cent of EU industry, public authorities and households should use the next generation i...
- Category: Web Design,
- Virtual worlds: Kids powerful alternative to TV
- 27 May 2008
- For children, online virtual worlds are an interactive alternative to TV, new research has shown.A study conducted for the BBC assessed how kids used its Adventure Rock online space."Virtual worl...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- No escaping virtualisation charges
- 27 May 2008
- There is no way to escape Microsoft's virtualisation software charges, a leading analyst has said.According to Forrester Research, firms are stuck with paying licence fees for running software on virt...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Online pic searches now automated
- 27 May 2008
- New image recognition software has been developed, which can identify online pictures.An international team has revealed an image can be identified by 256 to 1,024 bits of data.Led by Antonio Torralba...
- Category: Search Engines,
- Google worries UK entrepreneurs
- 27 May 2008
- Google's dominance is worrying UK's web entrepreneurs, new research has revealed.When polled at the Founders Forum, by YouGov, big name internet personalities registered their concerns - 44 per cent s...
- Category: Search Engines,
