Facebook passes one billion users mark
Facebook now has more than one billion people using it every month the company has announced.The company said that those billion users were to date…
Bogus drug websites raided
A global raid on the sale of fake and unlicensed medicines by websites has found £6.5 million of drugs.UK drug officials took part in a…
ICO data watchdog starts cookie crackdown
Websites which do not comply with new red tape on collecting cookie data from online customers will be contacted within weeks by the Information Commissioner’s…
Apple Maps frustration- Tim Cook apologises
Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook has published an apology following criticism caused by it’s switch to a new maps system.Tim Cook acknowledged that users had…
Libraries to get digital transformation
The UK government is looking at ways to transform libraries and make the borrowing of ebooks more commonplace.Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has asked publisher William…
Asos sees big increase in online sales
The online fashion retailer Asos saw a big increase in demand from US customers- which helped sales to grow 31% in the three months to…
Sales of digital fiction book soar Publishers Association says
A huge increase in the value of digital book sales in the UK has been announced by the Publishers Association (PA).The value of digital fiction…
Chip and pin credit card weakness exposed by Cambridge researchers
Chip and pin credit card payment machines could effectively be cloned by exploiting a security flaw claim researchers.Credit cards were found to be open to…
Apple iPhone 5 launched with 4G capability
Apple has launched a new iPhone 5 smartphone which is 4G enabled at an event in San Francisco.The device’s new size allows it to display…
EU threatens personal health data security
Doctors leaders warn that changes to EU data protection rules could put existing patient confidentiality safeguards at risk.EC (European Commission) draft proposals on the processing…