Exposed: NHS caught sharing users’ health concerns with Facebook
The popular NHS Choices health website has been exposed automatically ‘tracking’ all Facebook users that visit, according to new research.
Right to reply: ‘Net Neutrality’- A new digital divide in the making?
In a speech this week, Ed Vaizey, minister for Culture, Communications, and Creative Industries, set out the government’s vision on ‘Net Neutrality’. He outlined three principles: openness, transparency and freedom to invest and innovate. Thinkbroadband takes a closer look at the prospect of a two-tier internet.
Top 10 online video sites: US
175 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 15.1 hours per viewer, according to new data.
Right to reply: Microsoft try to beat Google at its own Game with Bing Android app
Digital experts Queryclick.com says Microsoft are brave to step into Google’s Android territory, but it’s a risk that could pay off.
Two speed internet? Govt. mulls charging bandwidth-hogging sites
Popular streaming sites such as the BBC, Youtube and LoveFilm could be forced to pay for the data traffic they generate under plans floated by the Government culture minister yesterday.
Google Googles: Mobile pics converted into web ads via product recognition
Google is running a test on its Google’s photo recognition tool, that will display adverts to users based on pictures taken by their smartphone cameras.
AVG teams with Google to boost anti-virus search
AVG Technologies has struck an agreement with Google to boost the search functionality of the firm’s anti-virus software.
Facebook’s new ‘social inbox’: Will it make email obsolete?
Facebook has launched a next-generation online messaging service that gives the user a Facebook.com email addresses, in a move seen as a shot across the bow of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Google hikes pay to stop staff defections to Facebook
Google has given all of its 23,000 employees a pay hike, in a bid to stem defections to rival technology companies such as Facebook, according to a report.
Facebook overtakes eBay as third most valuable US web firm
Facebook is now worth more than eBay in terms of privately held stock, making it the third- largest US internet business, and fueling speculation that the social network could sell shares to the public in the not-to-distant future.