Category Archives: Tech
Kodak to cease making digital cameras
Eastman Kodak, a company founded 133 years ago and synonymous with photography, is to stop making digital cameras, video cameras and digital picture frames.
Dutch court rules against Apple
A Dutch appeals court has rejected Apple’s claim that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringes its design rights and follows a ruling last year in which a judge threw out Apple’s call for an injunction against its rival’s tablet in … Continue reading
Google+ hits 90 million members
Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, announced that Google+ now has 90 million members, although no mention was made of how many of these are actually active on a regular basis. Since launch, more than one million Google+ Pages have been … Continue reading
Loads more Facebook apps
Facebook is adding more than sixty new applications to let users share such things as photos, travel or fashion via their profiles, or Timeline as it is now known. Users can already share such things as the music they are … Continue reading
Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo!
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, has resigned from its board. Yang founded the company in 1995 with David Filo and was its chief executive from June 2007 until January 2009.
Netflix launches in UK and Ireland
The movie and TV streaming service Netflix has launched in the UK and Ireland, although it is set to face stiff competition from online rivals, including Amazon-owned Lovefilm.
Facebook under attack
Facebook has taken measures to stop the spread of a new variety of malicious software that has so far managed to steal the login details from 45,000 users, most of them located in the UK and France.
Blackberry continues to lose market share
BlackBerry continues to lose market share in the United States, down more than three per cent, from 19.7 per cent to 16.6 per cent in the three months to the end of November as users defect to Android or iPhone. … Continue reading
Getting connected
A report by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, shows that more than 100 million European Union citizens have never been online. In the UK, Martha Lane Fox has been given the task of getting the 8.7 million adults in the … Continue reading
Trying to get people up to date
From January 2012, Internet Explorer users will be automatically updated to the latest version of the browser as Microsoft starts a project to update millions of machines to, amongst other things, improve online security.
Twitter redesign
Twitter is the latest social media platform to ring out the changes and has unveiled a new design which allows users to have a more detailed profile page and greater visibility of conversations between tweeters, giving a more similar feel … Continue reading
End of Gowalla is nigh
Facebook has announced it is hiring the co-founders and other developers of Gowalla, one of the location-based “check-in” social networks. As a result, it is expected that Gowalla will close in 2012. Facebook is also opening a software engineering centre … Continue reading
Taking the proverbial
Boredom? Can’t even imagine anyone whose just supped ten pints spending enough time to get bored, let alone anyone else! There has to be one place you can safely go to get away from ads! Toilet gaming technology targets urinal … Continue reading
YouTube revamped
YouTube is the latest Google product to undergo a significant facelift, Gmail, Docs and others having already been updated. The YouTube changes are the most comprehensive since the service began. Looks pretty good. Unfortunately, those who customised their pages, colour-wise … Continue reading
Buzz on its way out
Google Buzz, an ill-fated attempt to rival Twitter, is on its way out but users will be able to keep all their posts if they so wish. In some respects one has to admire Google for not being afraid to … Continue reading
Free wifi trial in central London
Nokia has switched on a trial of a free wi-fi service in central London which will continue until the end of the year. If the two-month trial is deemed a success, the Finnish company plans to turn it into a … Continue reading
Sony buys full control of Sony Ericsson
Sony has bought full control of mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson from Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson, agreeing to buy 50% of the firm for 1.1bn euros to make the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony. The transaction … Continue reading