Rumours abound in the US suggest that Yahoo is the subject of a takeover bid from a number of private equity companies. As a result Yahoo’s share price has increased by approximately 6% suggesting that the rumours do have some substance with private equity firm KKR as well as media giant AOL. Since AOL’s merger Read News…
Yahoo In Takeover Bid?
November 11th, 2010 by Geoff
Protect Yourself from – ‘Laptop Thigh’
October 7th, 2010 by Geoff
Health experts have announced that there have been a growing number of cases of ‘Laptop Thigh’ in the UK. Whilst called a laptop, users are being urged to take special care when using them for long periods of time due to the effects of being exposed to high temperatures for a number of hours. ‘Laptop Read News…
Blackberry Unleashes Rival to iPad
September 30th, 2010 by Geoff
After much anticipation the latest offering to the ‘tablet’ industry was unveiled in San Francisco. The ‘Playbook’ – one of the first business focused products in the industry – is considered by many to be a smart move based on the success of Research In Motion’s (RIM) ‘Blackberry’ device in the business sector. The Playbook Read News…
Prepare For ‘Google Instant’ Launch
September 9th, 2010 by Geoff
Internet giant Google has launched the latest of its search engine services this week in the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Russia and USA. ‘Google Instant’ presents users with predicted search results based on the individual letters users type into its search bar. Sources at Google claim this represents a quantum leap in search. On average Read News…
Unlimited Data – End of an Era?
July 2nd, 2010 by Geoff
The launch of Apple’s iPhone 4 also marks the end of unlimited smartphone data plans from major UK mobile phone companies. O2 – formerly Apple’s exclusive UK partner for the iPhone, has introduced a monthly cap of up to 1GB (gigabyte) for data on new contracts. This mirrors a similar recent move by rival Vodafone, Read News…
O2 network scraps unlimited data for smartphones
June 15th, 2010 by Geoff
Mobile phone network O2 has announced that it is to scrap unlimited data downloads for smartphone customers. New customers to O2 and existing customers looking to upgrade will have their usage capped at between 500 Megabytes (MB) and one gigabyte (GB) depending on their monthly tariff. Analysts branded this as “inevitable” as more and more Read News…
User Internet Increase In The UK
May 24th, 2010 by Geoff
A recent investigation has discovered that use of the internet in the United Kingdom has increased by 65% over the past three years, with one of the major increase being in time invested in viewing news online. As reported in the research by UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM) people spent the equivalent of 37 million Read News…
