Posted by Simon Perry on 1 December 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Yahoo, USA, Search
Yahoo has published their “Year in Review,” covering search over 2008.
They’re keen to point out that it isn’t just what the top 10 searches were, but Top 10s of lots of catagories.
Beyond the Top 10s there’s also some analysis of what those things could have meant.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 25 November 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, USA, Industry Trends, Computer-Centric
When you’re sitting at home or at work, tapping away in your Web browser, you hardly ever consider where your request queries are being dealth with.
Sure they’re runing on a computer _somewhere_ on the Internet, perhaps in a data centre, but do you really know what goes on behind making that machine run?
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 11 November 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, Mobile, Portable
Motorola suffer a double face slap as the RAZR loses its crown and Samsung become the top mobile vendor.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 4 November 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, Cellular, Industry Trends
Smartphones used to be the preserve of a tech-savvy niche and appointment-juggling business folks shuffling between vital meetings, but feature packed handsets have now hit the mainstream.
According the ‘Mobile Market View’ study published by The Kelsey Group, no less than 18.9% of mobile consumers in the United States are now strutting the streets sporting smartphones, […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 October 2008 | Tagged as: Government, USA, UK, Legal
Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon’s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long.
This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon’s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 12 September 2008 | Tagged as: Environmental, USA, UK
Pace, UK suppliers of digital TV products, have become the first company to receive an award under the new Energy Star Program.
Energy Star is voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 September 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Macintosh, Gadgets, Apple, UK, USA, Gaming
Mike is at the London end of the Apple announcement today, bashing away LIVE as things happen.
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Government, Europe, USA, UK, Legal
We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted.
The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the United […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, USA, Legal
Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston’s transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
You might have thought that in the ‘land of the free,’ forbidding free speech is the kind of thing that could never happen. Thank goodness […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Sports, Video Services, USA
When I was in Beijing last year there was a lot of talk of the current Olympic being the first ‘Broadband Olympics.’
It appear that for one US broadcaster, NBC, it’s becoming true.
The number of people accessing their Olympic coverage are highly impressive. After a week of the Games, NBC have had 25 million unique visitors […]
