Banking giants HSBC have demonstrated the benefits of ‘going green’ in the office, by saving over one million dollars worth of electricity in a new initiative to support environmental effectiveness. The organisation supplied software within its international network to switch off PCs automatically over evenings and weekends. (more…)

As some point in the next week, social networking giants Facebook will be achieving a major milestone, when the number of users for the site hits 500 million. (more…)

The new Apple 32GB iPhone 4 details have now been released for pre-order, for those eager Apple fans looking to secure the latest gadget from the technology giants. It is now possible to reserve the device through an Apple store in the US, or arrange for it to be delivered to a home address in June. (more…)

The global economic crisis has affected many of us in the last couple of years, it has even sunk its economy killing claws into the internet. The online advertising industry was hit hard in 2009, research from IDC (Interactive Data Corp) reports that after having three dismal quarters in 2009 the online ad sector ended the year strongly. (more…)

The theory that sex sells has never been disproved, many of the most visited sites on the internet that do not have any affiliation to searching or social networking have something to do with sex. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that the domain name ‘Sex.com’ is the most expensive in internet history. Well, get your chequebooks out because it is going up for auction. (more…)

Despite the global economic downturn causing mass panic as we plunge into recession the ever reliable internet has been quietly going about its business and making some very good progress at the same time. (more…)

Google have announced that they are going to use their Gmail service to take on Twitter by adding a ‘status update’ capability to it. Much like the popular social networking site Twitter, Google is attempting to provide the ever increasing users of their e-mailing service with the ability to give up to the minute updates on whatever it is they are doing in their lives at the precise moment. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

GCHQ, the organisation which collates the UK’s intelligence data, has launched a recruitment campaign on Xbox Live to target what it calls ‘quick thinking 18 to 34 year-olds’. Through its use of banners, video clips and static advertisements, the campaign highlights some of the key roles within GCHQ that it hopes will appeal to gamers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that mainly consists of IT and technical roles. (more…)

James Harding, the Editor in chief of the Times newspaper, has revealed that his publication’s online arm, Times Online will begin charging for access to content in Spring 2010. According to Harding the prospective payment model will include two different methods of payment, a 24 hour pass, and a subscription model. Details are still sketchy but the one day pass is expected to cost about as much as a copy of the print edition which currently stands at 90p. (more…)

A limited roll-out of the BBC’s iPlayer service will begin on free satellite TV provider, Freesat at the end of this month, with a full service scheduled to be launched at the start of next year. The new service will allow people to access the full iPlayer site through their TVs rather than their computers. (more…)

The Guardian newspaper emailed around half a million of its users this weekend to alert them to the fact that the Guardian Jobs website site was subjected to what they have called ‘a sophisticated and deliberate attack’. The Jobs arm of the guardian boasts about 10 million new unique users per year, many of whom upload personal information and CVs, so any hack is a very serious breach indeed. However, the Guardian claim to have stopped ‘the hack was stopped before it was completed’. (more…)

Daniel Elk, one of the men behind internet radio service, Spotify has drawn attention to the continuing difficulties of making money from online music by hitting out at the perception that popular online music companies should be making money immediately. (more…)