Category: Internet

I’ve played around quite a bit with VOIP but thus far, I’ve not really embraced it. A while back I mentioned that I’d seen Tesco selling cheapish phones accompanying their own VOIP service. Today I crossed over to the darkside and went into Tesco where I noticed a sign that suggested that the phones had…

Just like playground crazes of yesterday and favourite toys that nobody can get hold of at Christmas, we are now forever likely to be stuck with knowing about the latest flavour-of-the-month social website. The latest of these is Bebo.com, which The Guardian reported the other day, as muscling in on MySpace. No, I hadn’t heard…

Here’s an interesting post (via Waxy) about YouTube from someone who’s fed up of having his videos deleted because they’re copyright. To be honest, I’m not surprised, and the author probably has no real grounds to complain. These video services are treading a very fine line, and frankly are lawsuits waiting to happen if they’re…

Well I had a very scary experience over the last 24 hours. No, not going through the pain that is watching Arsenal scrape through a very tricky tie to go through to the Champions’ League Final in Paris on May 17 (any offers of tickets most welcome). I went through an upgrade process to get…

What is it about some companies that means that even the smallest new product launch or enhancement generates widespread coverage in the media? This week is an excellent case in point. Apple have announced some price cuts for their iPod Shuffles and the introduction of a 1GB iPod Nano. Lovely. Meanwhile Google’s upgraded their Google…

I’m sure that all that needs to be said has already been said about Google’s decision to censor their own offering. I suppose I find it sad that even one of the biggest companies on the planet with unparralleled power in the supply of information, still feels that it needs to bend over and do…

According to a report from Continental Research, as published in Campaign magazine, one in ten adults watches television on the internet. Really? Already? Maybe “has watched”, but “watches” implies they do it regularly. Unless you want to catch up on last night’s Newsnight, or are engaged in downloading via bittorrent (both reasonably marginal activities still),…

This is great news. I’ve obviously applied, but we’ll have to wait and see.

I seem to be getting a surprising amount of Russian spam in my Gmail account at the moment. And when I say Russian spam, I mean spam that’s actually in Cyrillic text. Very strange.

So it seems that the record industry in the UK lost £650m in the last two year due to piracy. No it didn’t. The “shortfall” identified by TNS would simply not have been spent at all. I don’t doubt that the music was downloaded but that’s not the same as “losing money”. It’s money that…

There’s been much discussion in recent days about the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) announcing that more money is being spent on the internet than is on radio. I must admit to being a little untrusting of this information and I’m not sure that like is being compared with like. And I don’t just say that…

Trade magazine Media Week emailed me to complete one of those online surveys, the results of which are obviously going to form the basis of a future article. At the end of the survey it explained that I’d be entered into a free prize draw to win a holiday which was partly sponsored by Formula…