Posted by Simon Perry on 20 August 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Regulation, Networking
Indi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause.
Net Neutrality
We’ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now.
We think it’s essential that the Internet is free and open. It’s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that travels over […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: Orange, UK, Broadband, Mobile, Networking
The battle for Mobile Broadband is heating up in the UK.
At the weekend, Orange launched their latest offer to try and entice UK must-have-data freaks onto their network.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: UK, P2P, Legal
An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks.
The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May.
Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 plus costs […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: TV related, UK, PVR/DVR
Just when you think that there’s hope for humanity, that mankind has escaped the slavery that is television, a survey turns up that tells you the complete opposite.
Published today, a study of 2,00 UK digital TV viewers reports that some of the supposedly tech savvy generation Y (16-24 year olds) are still choosing watching TV […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 August 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, UK, Mobile, Cellular
Twitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.
While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 12 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Europe, USA, UK, Legal
You’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July.
He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges.
He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for the next […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 August 2008 | Tagged as: UK, DAB
Supermarket offers the smallest and cheapest personal DAB player.
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 August 2008 | Tagged as: Skype, UK
What do you do if you’ve sold your business for X billion dollars?
Well if you’re Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazza fame, you share a passion with other Tech billionaires, like Oracle’s Larry Ellison - Sailing.
If you’ve got large bundles of cash in your pockets, you don’t just get any old boat and hope that […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 August 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Google, Search
Search engine giant continues to eat up UK market share.
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 August 2008 | Tagged as: YouTube, Revenue raising, Europe, UK, Legal
YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly […]
