David Cameron has recently proposed the development of an ‘East London Tech City’, which will encompass the Olympic Park, to become the global centre of technological innovation. The initiative is intended to create private sector jobs and fuel growth in the economy. Andy Budd, Managing director of Clearleft, argues why a more open-scale plan will … [Read more…]
Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’, a contactless mobile payment service which allows consumers to make purchases on the high street using their mobile phone for the first time.
Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’, a contactless mobile payment service which allows consumers to make purchases on the high street using their mobile phone for the first time.
Spotify has launched an app letting users synchronise playlists and songs bought through its music streaming service with Apple’s iPod.
Sony has said there is no evidence that credit cards have been stolen from customers using its online service, despite claims that a list of 2.2 million cards are already on sale on the black market. The company has also confirmed its separate Sony Online Entertainment PC games network was hit by another cyber attack, … [Read more…]
Sony has finally admitted that account details, logins and online IDs for 77 million registered Sony PlayStation Network users have been compromised, following a hacker attack that has brought the whole gaming network down for over a week.
Social music gaming company MXP4 has begun testing Bopler Games, a social music gaming application for Facebook.
Spotify is cutting the amount of free music it allows users to listen to in half, from 20 hours to just 10, as the Swedish firm attempts to make its popular music streaming service profitable.
Google has acquired Canadian mobile application developer PushLife, as the search giant looks to boost content on its Android mobile operating system.
The amount of mobile data traffic generated by Smartphones, Featurephones and Tablets will exceed 14,000 Petabytes by 2015, equivalent to 18 billion movie downloads or 3 trillion music tracks, according to new figures.