It is rare to hear that anything associated with Google or YouTube is unsuccessful, but the companies first foray into the world of online movie rental did not do as well as they may have forecast. Read the rest of this entry »

Social networking site Facebook has boasted that its mini-game known as Farmville has more users than the whole of Twitter. Farmville, an add-on application that was not even created by Facebook apparently lists more than 70 million users a month. Read the rest of this entry »

Not for the first time in history the British Government is in opposition to the opinion of the French and German governments. Don’t worry, this isn’t about territory or foreign policy, this is about Microsoft’s leading web browser Internet Explorer. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so 6pm arrived on the 27th January and all of us tech geeks sat at our computers eagerly awaiting the next technological master stroke from Apple to be revealed.
Low and behold Steve Jobs (Apple Chief Executive) strolls onto the stage to deliver his keynote address and unveils what can only at first glance be described as a giant iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy 6th Birthday Facebook! I know, I was thinking the same thing, six years already? Time sure does fly when you’re having fun, or when you spend hours on end tagging photos and updating your status. As a sort of celebratory present to us and itself the good people at Facebook have updated the homepage design yet again. It seems that the concept of ‘if it isn’t broken don’t fix it’ is completely lost on the Facebook team as they habitually change the way we use the website just as soon as we’ve all gotten used to the last set of changes. Read the rest of this entry »

So, it is official, the internet really is a depressing place to be (kind of). A group of British psychologists thought that they would take it upon themselves to research whether there was a link between excessive internet use and depression. Read the rest of this entry »

The French government have joined their German counterparts in recommending that citizens don’t use Internet Explorer. The government issued a statement today, two days after Germany, warning French people to avoid all versions of the browser, both statements appear to have been prompted by the online posting of the malicious code implicated in the recent attacks on Google, to which IE6 is thought to be particularly vulnerable. Read the rest of this entry »

Good news everybody, the tech recession is over. That’s according to industry analysts, Forrester who predict that technology spending in the US will grow by 6.6% this year taking it up to $568 billion. If this proves to be the case the upturn is predicted to have a knock-on effect across the world, particularly in the UK, the country whose economy matches the US system most closely.
Forrester are predicting 11.2% growth in Western and Central Europe whilst Pacific Asia and Latin America are also expected to do nicely with 7.8 and 7.8% growth respectively expected. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, deep breath everyone, here comes another Apple rumour. Usual provisos apply, your own discretion is required – this thing is full of anonymous sources and a very healthy dose of conjecture and may very well be the work of an Apple PR engaging in the dark art of leaking, or just plain made up. I don’t know, but it seems plausible enough to be worth talking about nevertheless. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite recently going public about his belief that privacy is no longer a ‘social norm,’ Mark Zuckerburg has made a move to placate the sizeable wing of Facebook users that are less than pleased with his website’s privacy and security arrangements. Virus protection company, McAfee have launched a partnership with Facebook in order to provide users with six months of McAfee protection absolutely free and a discount subscription after that. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Zuckerburg has poured petrol on the fires of the Facebook privacy debate by stating privacy is no longer a ‘social norm’. The comments came at the crunchie awards, a San Francisco ceremony that recognises technological achievement. Read the rest of this entry »

Almost since the launch of the BBC’s industry leading iPlayer portal, technology insiders have been predicting that the system would eventually be installed in TVs. Though few thought that it would happen quite this soon. Samsung have announced that the BBC iPlayer will be one of the first apps to be installed on their new range of televisions, with the first ones being rolled out as early as this year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Google Suggest function, that generates a list of search queries you might be looking for as you type in a search, has generated some controversy this week, after Google were accused of programming it to favour Islam over other religions. Read the rest of this entry »

In November last year BBC Director General, Mark Thompson confirmed the BBC.co.uk will not be safe from cost cutting measures to be rolled out across the corporation in the coming years, earmarking 2012 for the start of the roll-back across the corporations online services. Now however, it seems that the cuts could be brought forward, with the BBC’s online activities expected to be a major part of the BBC strategic review – a report that is set to be published before the next general election. Read the rest of this entry »