Amazon profits beat Wall Street forecasts
Amazon has announced better than expected profits after the world’s largest retailer cut its costs and boosted sales of its Kindle tablet and digital products.Amazon…
Olympic officials wake up to the Online World
Olympic officials have woken up to the real online world and admitted that their ban on spectators posting videos and images on websites will be…
Apple’s profits up 91% in first quarter
Apple Inc announced yesterday that its net profit came in at £7.2 billion ($11.6 billion), up from £3.75 billion ($6 billion) in the same period…
UK leads the digital world- is your business winning online sales?
The UK leads the world in most indicators of digital capability- with the internet contributing more to our GDP than to that of any other…
Dangers of the Internet- quarter of women buy wrong medicines online
One in four women buy wrong medication after misdiagnosing themselves on the internet according to online research. Women with embarrassing medical problems are misdiagnosing themselves…
World Wide Web inventor warns against websites controlling your data
Further to our last post about Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaking to the Guardian examining how companies and technological developments are challenging the principles of openness…
Tim Berners-Lee wants governments to stop snooping bills
Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that it was moves by governments to control or spy on the internet that ‘keep him up most at night’. The…
Oracle and Google’s legal copyright trial begins over Java
Oracle claims that Google has violated several of its Java patents and copyrights- with the copyright trial in San Francisco starting today.It is one of…
Online advertising rapidily increases in the UK
UK businesses spent £4.78 billion on all forms of online advertising in the UK in 2011, with a 14.4% year-on-year growth the biggest surge since…
We live in interesting times
This week has seen the news that sales of games have overtaken those of films- which themselves have overtaken those of music in the UK-…